The John James & Josie Appreciation Thread (Part 203)

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dollydaydream81

29-08-2011

Evening all

, lovely seeing all the pics from the meet!
Muggins so glad the meeting with Laura and her half sister went well xx

cathy08

29-08-2011

Originally Posted by irishlaurels:
“Good post Cathy, proper David Bailey aren't you. Glad you had a good time”

Evening. Love taking photos. My dad was always taking them and it rubbed off on my sister and me.

Wendilums

29-08-2011

Originally Posted by cathy08:
“Evening peeps

Day 1

Drove down to Kircaldy to meet up with Peggy. Had a great time catching up over a cuppa and toasted teacake. All too soon I had to head off to the airport to meet Joyce.
Fight was ok but the pilot had to make a detour to avoid a huge stormcloud Arrived safely and took the DLR to get to our hotel. Got off at our stop but there was no one to ask for directions and no taxis to hop onto so "gung ho Cathlyn" took off in the direction I thought the hotel was in with poor Joyce following along. Luckliy I was right and arrived 5 minutes later.

Day 2

Was awoken by an aitcraft trying to land on the hotel roof and Phil tweeting to ask if the hotel was ok. She didn't believe me when I said she might need a shove up to reach her bed lol

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After breakfast Joyce visited the Themes Barrier Park which was next to the station

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At this point Joyce and I were a little naughty......oops We couldn't find the ticket machine and took the train without one. We tried at the next station but the machine wasn't working and eventually arrived at our destination ticketless

We passed some historic buildings on our way to the venue

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The National Maritime Museum

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The Queens House, National Maritime Museum

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The Royal Observatory

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Atmospheric view of the Royal Naval College with Canary Wharf in the distance

Arrived at the venue to be greeted by Wendy, Rosie, Lyn,Marion,Laura,Nickyjane, Kelly and Jan closely followed by Alma.

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The venue

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One of the views from the venue

Eventually "her maj" Phil arrived with Kirsty followed by Kay and Annette

Birthday celebrations, a raffle, lots of eating, some drinking and lots and lots of chatting ensued

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The cake

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Kirsty and Phil

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Kay

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Wendy

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Lyn and Rosie

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Alma,Jan,Marion & Laura

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Joyce

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Kay & Annette

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Laura & Kelly

Sadly the time passed too soon and gradually we had to say our goodbyes to those that we not staying overnight.

With the help of our lovely "taxi driver" Rob, we all got back to the hotel and continued our gossiping in Phil and Kirsty's mansion of a room until the wee small hours of the night.:yawn:

Day 3

We all gathered for breakfast and surprise, surprise still had plenty to chat about with Phil giving everyone goodbye cuddles even though we were going to be travelling part of the way into London with her

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Kirsty,Annette,Kay,Joyce and Phil outside the hotel

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Kirsty, Annette,Kay,Phil and me

We finally said our goodbyes to Kay and Annette at Canary Wharf whilst the rest of us continued into the centre of London where Kirsty and Phil alighted for the coaches back home.

Joyce and I had a mini tour of London before heading back to Canary Wharf for some retail browsing and hopping over to the O2 before collecting out cases and heading off to the airport

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Would love to have a look one of these

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I'd be lucky if I could afford this little pied a terre

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Big Ben

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London Eye

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Canary Wharf

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Canary Wharf

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O2 entrance

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Fantastic light

Joyce arrived in Edinburgh just before 11pm, said our goodbyes and headed back home. I eventually got in at 2am to an exhuberant welcome from my dogs

I'd like to thanks Kelly for all her hard work organising the get together and raising a tidy amount of money for charity. All the lovely ladies for their company, Paul and Rob for putting up with us and finally a great big hug to Joyce for being with me. I throughly enjoyed our weekend together and can't wait for the next one”

That fantastic camera of yours was put to good use. Thank you for all the lovely pics Cathy - though fairly short and sweet - it was lovely to meet you on Saturday

cathy08

29-08-2011

Originally Posted by muggins14:
“Just to let you all know as I know you are aware of it, Laura met her half-sister on Saturday at Butlins funfair, it must have been difficult for them both - a 16 year old attempting to find a bond with an 11 year old who is more of a 6 year old, but they were both very pleased and excited, although Laura seemed more interested in the rides.... she did lean over to me and whisper 'tell Emma that I like her and I love her' so I did, which made Emma teary - happy tears We spent a bit of time with them on Sunday too at their house, but they were busy getting ready for Emma to move down to Paington, where she'll be living with her aunt and going to college. We will all keep in touch, I was very happy with the whole situation and shall make sure I keep in touch with Emma on Laura's behalf.”

Glad to hear it went well Ali. Hope the weather was kind to you during your mini break x

MagStar10

29-08-2011

Originally Posted by irishlaurels:
“Good Evening Maggi. Welcome to the thread”

Thanks for the welcome, only took me about a year to join, bit of a techophobe and a slow typer

Pumpkin1

29-08-2011

Evening all, hope we are all ok and it was so lovely to meet the ones of you that I met. My highlight of the weekend has to be Phils face after Kellys channel hopping story! So funny I still laugh at it when I think about it!

Cathy, wheres the pouting pic, proper funny! xx

cathy08

29-08-2011

Originally Posted by Wendilums:
“That fantastic camera of yours was put to good use. Thank you for all the lovely pics Cathy - though fairly short and sweet - it was lovely to meet you on Saturday ”

Thanks Wendy. Same here. Not done a catch up...tooo tired:yawn: how is your Dad today? Did he miss you on Saturday?

irishlaurels

29-08-2011

Originally Posted by cathy08:
“Evening. Love taking photos. My dad was always taking them and it rubbed off on my sister and me. ”

He taught you well

Your post brought me back in time, I used to go out with a fella from Scotland and he came from Kircaldy, was famous for making lino.

(not him, Kircaldy)

hellzappopin

29-08-2011

Shield your eyes folks if you intend watching BBBOTS as I think Twatty Batty is on it tonight.

Christine x

irishlaurels

29-08-2011

Originally Posted by MagStar10:
“Thanks for the welcome, only took me about a year to join, bit of a techophobe and a slow typer ”

Oh I wouldn't worry...your not the only one

cathy08

29-08-2011

Originally Posted by Pumpkin1:
“Evening all, hope we are all ok and it was so lovely to meet the ones of you that I met. My highlight of the weekend has to be Phils face after Kellys channel hopping story! So funny I still laugh at it when I think about it!

Cathy, wheres the pouting pic, proper funny! xx”

Hi Kirsty. Lovely to meet you too and have to agree about Phil's face and what she thought was said lol.

I think its Joyce that has the pouting pic. Not sure if she is around tonight.

cathy08

29-08-2011

Originally Posted by irishlaurels:
“He taught you well Your post brought me back in time, I used to go out with a fella from Scotland and he came from Kircaldy, was famous for making lino. (not him, Kircaldy)”

lol. You never know Peggy or Crazychick might know him

Marylouise

29-08-2011

When Josie tweeted that her and Jamie are cool as cucumbers - could John have read that and thought she meant the other Jamie? Would he have known about Jamie Holy Moly?

It's just that his "I don't come on here much anymore" could have been him saying that he never saw her retweet of that tweet from the reuniter about Aquarians telling him that you need him which I still believe was meant for John.

I'm probably reading far to much into these tweets though

irishlaurels

29-08-2011

Originally Posted by cathy08:
“lol. You never know Peggy or Crazychick might know him ”

I'm gonna keep quite then

cathy08

29-08-2011

Originally Posted by MagStar10:
“Thanks for the welcome, only took me about a year to join, bit of a techophobe and a slow typer ”

Hi MagStar. Hello and welcome from me

Pumpkin1

29-08-2011

Originally Posted by cathy08:
“Hi Kirsty. Lovely to meet you too and have to agree about Phil's face and what she thought was said lol.

I think its Joyce that has the pouting pic. Not sure if she is around tonight.”

Oh ok, we will have to wait! xx

dollydaydream81

29-08-2011

My dad's from Kircaldy

lol

peggysue38

29-08-2011

Excellent photos Cathlyn!!

Glad all those who went to London had a great time!!

Gonna pick you and Irish up on your spelling!!

KIRKCALDY

There is a local poem that says when you were travelling on the train you always knew that you were approaching Kirkcaldy by the queer like smell generated by the linoleum factories!!

God knows what excuse the town has for the bad smell now that the factories have closed!!

Hope you're all well!!
Peggy
xXx

irishlaurels

29-08-2011

Originally Posted by dollydaydream81:
“My dad's from Kircaldy lol”

Oh god...this is getting worse....do I ask what's his name

dollydaydream81

29-08-2011

Originally Posted by irishlaurels:
“Oh god...this is getting worse....do I ask what's his name”

Lol he's a lot older so don't worry

irishlaurels

29-08-2011

Originally Posted by peggysue38:
“Excellent photos Cathlyn!!
Glad all those who went to London had a great time!!

Gonna pick you and Irish up on your spelling!!

KIRKCALDY

There is a local poem that says when you were travelling on the train you always knew that you were approaching Kirkcaldy by the queer like smell generated by the linoleum factories!!

God knows what excuse the town has for the bad smell now that the factories have closed!!

Hope you're all well!!
Peggy
xXx”

I was going to put the "K" in but I thought maybe I was getting it wrong as cathy was scottish

irishlaurels

29-08-2011

Originally Posted by dollydaydream81:
“Lol he's a lot older so don't worry xx”

A lot older than what

cathy08

29-08-2011

Oooooops blame me for the spelling. I'm going to claim tiredness for that

hellzappopin

29-08-2011

Did you contact This Morning regarding Laura special children programme and if so, did you hear back from them ?

Glad to hear you and Laura enjoyed your mini-break.

Christine x

MagStar10

29-08-2011

Originally Posted by cathy08:
“Hi MagStar. Hello and welcome from me x”

Thanks very much, ur pics of the meet are great, fair play to you all for travelling so far, glad everyone had a great time.

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