I have twice posted about Pat's visit, but wasted my time as I was spammeds.

I'm writing under a different name to see if this ploy gets me past the Spam. I have a feeling that if one person posts too much, their input is eventually considered Spam. We'll see if this works.

Pat was with us for a few days. It was nice to see her, and she is looking terrific I have to say. We mostly shopped - well, she did - I accompanied her like a lady-in-waiting, holding garments, advising on colours, looking after her handbag, etc. She did buy quite a few bits and then wondered how she was going to get them back to Co Clare. However, we bundled her and her suitcase onto the train and she has arrived back safely. Her daughter accompanied here to Lisburn and then she and and old friend from school headed to the Antrim Coast for a few days. They travelled back together and apparently both had a good holiday. Let's see if this goes, Agatha.

Good on you Aggie It worked ! Not just a pretty face ! Regards Ted

Ted, Pat and I were in your niece's hair salon on Saturday. She's a lovely girl, very like the Rooneys and why wouldn't she be. I love her tattoos; she suits them on her arms, but not everyone would. In fact, she has them right down her spine too - oooooh, I wonder was it sore getting them done? We'll have to think about getting a tattoo as well. Wonder where I would get one done? Let's have all your ideas. Maybe a nice, wee one on my shoulder would be nice - a heart? a bird? a dancing shoe?

Tattoos are debatable, on a young girl they look attractive, even sexy, but young girls ( and boys )whether they want to or not, if they are lucky turn into old ladies ( and gents ) and then does not look so sexy.
donald

Hi Aggie ! There's no doubt she is a very outgoing person and I am sure if asked she would both suggest and maybe even encourage you on your choice and position as to were it would personally suit you , Hope Pat and yourself were pleased with your hairdo? I thought the one David Dimbleby had done on his shoulder was ample I do hope if you carry on with it you will give us a flash of it ! but then the forum does not publish photo's any more which is a pity really as I always enjoyed the input , however if you decide please have a photo taken and leave it in Chocolate and it will be forwarded to me then I will put it on Facebook? Of course with your permission, Go on Bring it on ?
Regards Ted

Ted, you never know - stranger things have happened than me getting a tattoo in my later years. Donald, I used to think like you - what about when these young people get old and wrinkly and they have to go into hospital with their tattoos. The things is the doctors will all have tattoos as well by that time, so it won't matter.

Talking about Tattoos, I sat in Tatooist's shops all over the world and watched my friends get them but I never would??, I just didn't like them in fact I was on one ship where there was only one other guy besides myself who didn't have a tattoo.

One time in Hong Kong I along with a bunch of other guys of my ship the Australian Frigate HMAS Murchison was living it up in the Fleet Club in the lounge bar when some American sailors joined us, one of them was already half bombed and it turned out they had just visited Australia and at the same time as the Oueen and Duke, this one guy got carried away about all the fuss and ceremonies connected with the Queen's visit and how stupid he thought it all was. "Well" we made sure he had more booze than he could handle and finally passed out, a couple of my Australian shipmates carried him out and across the road to a Tatooist's shop and had Tatooed right across his chest "God Save the Queen". I would have give months pay to have seen that guy's face in the morning. Mauri

Mauri, I hope that guy didn't live on the Falls Road in Belfast. My father had tattoos on his arms and legs. I wish now I had looked at them. In fact, I never, ever examined them. You didn't do that in those days, not a girl anyhow. I only saw whatever was on view. I just remember one was a dagger; I'm sure he had a cross somewhere too. He had a fair number, all part of being in the army at that time. They were in two different colours as well.

Ann,

I remember My Father's tattoos, the dagger, a heart pierced with an arrow, a dagger, his Army badge etc & others I forget.

Crossing the Border they got us through many check points when the soldiers stopped us, as they recognised his tattoos from the various countries of the war. They always saluted Dad so there must have been a sign there.

So they come in useful sometimes, tho' I hate them on girls & too many on men.

Pat

Me too Pat, I see more and more young girls with their arms or back of the neck covered in tattoos, I think it is repulsive myself. Mauri

Mauri & Pat, we are the older generation now. We're probably repeating what our parents or grandparents would have said when Teddy boys and girls appeared, when Elvis gyrated his pelvis, miniskirts - I could go on. It's the latest fashion, that's all. We're a different generation. That's the way it goes.