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Beau Peep Notice Board => Outpourings => Topic started by: Roger Kettle on November 15, 2014, 09:24:28 PM
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I was standing at the bus stop today and chatting with a woman. She is a great grandmother. Now, that in itself is not particularly interesting. What IS interesting is that there were two other people standing there, waiting for a bus. They were her parents.
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You'll talk to anybody, you.
I'm trying to work out the logistics of that. Using my own family as an example: My late sister, bless her, was a young mother, (16) in 1975, and let's say her daughter was 15 when she had little Brodie in 1990 and let's say Brodie became a father seventeen years later in 2007 . . .
Yes, my sister could easily have been a great grandmother by now, and HER mum (my mum) is still going strong at 77.
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That's remarkable, Malky! She must have been about 12 when she had you then?
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Well I'm 58, so (taking into account our birthdays) she was 18. Considering she was around the age many young women were having babies post-war, and stayed married despite the ups and downs, she and my dad set a great example for us kids that virtually none of us followed.
I wasn't too bad - a dad by the advanced age of 24 (3 kids, divorced twice)
Liz - 16 (7 kids by two marriages, divorced twice)
Cathy - 16 (3 kids, divorced)
Clive - 22 (2, divorced)
David - 15 (6 or seven, we're not sure. Divorced twice)
Ian - 19 (4 kids divorced, happily remarried)
Helen - 16 (6 kids, divorced twice).
There are a couple of "stragglers", i.e. born out of wedlock, so to speak, but we are all in contact via Facebook, isn't that sweet?
As my dad always used to say: The McGookins were never the kind of family that laid in bed all day doing nothing.
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As my dad always used to say: The McGookins were never the kind of family that laid in bed all day doing nothing.
;D ;D ;D Best post ever!
Why, I feel practically naive!
Tarqs - 24 (four by two, twice divorced... and probably not finished yet....)
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Brilliant! ;D ;D ;D
No wonder you moved to Australia Malky, Christmas must have cost you a fortune.
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Actually I consider myself a UK resident these days. I have one son in Bristol and two in Brisbane, and my heart lies in the UK. Despite Brisbane just hosting the G20 conference, it's still a small country town, by British standards. A delightful, sunny, hot and humid and very pleasant town, where not much really happens.
I've always said Queensland attracts a certain type of person. I'm not it. Though it's great if you love mosquitoes and sweating.
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Ya, sorry about our Canadian Prime Minister.
There is a lot of internet talk these days about the advantages of young marriages and having babies early.