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Having a few gay posters hardly makes this a gay website.
Missed this, sorry.
San Francisco has a smaller proportion of gays to non gays, so why is it universally known as the gay city? People here seem to think this thread is a knock against gays, but its not.
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The day that a person's sexual orientation won't matter in society, I'll lose my online identity because there won't be anyone out there to shock.
Fixed. Just for you MrFun, I don't see gays in general making their gayness a never ending, in your face part of their identity. My point is saying that is to counterpoint your statement, and that's all.
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San Francisco has a smaller proportion of gays to non gays, so why is it universally known as the gay city? People here seem to think this thread is a knock against gays, but its not.
Not me, I hasten to add. Can I be so bold as to recommend a few entertainments for the young 'uns that date way back to my childhood and have also been tested on my nieces and nephews ?
One of the best things about the likes of these is the fact that they aren't relentlessly trying to sell you things- so you should be free from pestering when you're out and about.
Wish I'd had a pool like that when I was growing up.... or lived near the sea. Ah well....
Vive la liberte. Noor Inayat Khan, Dachau.
...patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. Edith Cavell, 1915
Not me, I hasten to add. Can I be so bold as to recommend a few entertainments for the young 'uns that date way back to my childhood and have also been tested on my nieces and nephews ?
One of the best things about the likes of these is the fact that they aren't relentlessly trying to sell you things- so you should be free from pestering when you're out and about.
Wish I'd had a pool like that when I was growing up.... or lived near the sea. Ah well....
Thanks for the links Molly. They have online favorites like Tutitu which teach stuff too. We watch ABCs like 'Toonbo', hope that's right. Search 'Toonbo ABC' on youtube and you'll get there. Action packed ABCs that Augustine likes. He's 3 but maybe 2 in his mind. Came home from his tribal mountain existence with pneumonia and worms. He was dying actually. His little body was trying to get nutrition to fight the pneumonia but the worms got it first and his brain didn't get much so he's back a year maybe. So, three hospitals later and a list of antibiotics as long as my arm and he's okay. We hope that he can catch up with his development. Communication is a real issue right now, mostly just noises, but not all. I imagine he's giving back to the world what he gets, a series of nonsensical noises. So we watch pretty basic videos at this stage and hope for the best. He is a very happy kid though, for all he has endured.
I grew up in New Jersey with no pool as well, far from it. I built this place with childhood in mind. These local kids have no chance of ever going to a park as a child. We have parties with lots of kids, the more the better. A condition of coming to the party is bringing the kids. Can't wait for the water slide, its all planned out, pipes and wires in place just set in limestone and buried in concrete waiting for the day we can commit the funds. Kids are going to love that!
Built for fun...
Center left is the launch point for the coming water slide. The bit with the balusters and blue bubble tile railing. All that will be torn out and the tile removed exposing pipes and electric which are just waiting on the day.
See the potted plants in the pool? Each is sitting on a full on post with metal bars, solid poured concrete. A third is buried in the pool itself and that contains a pipe which will deliver water from the pool up to the slide. So, a triangle of posts can be built which the slide will go around. It starts at the top of the spiral stairs post, just to the left there's a section of floor which is there to set the launch point on. There is a pipe there which goes down to the pump room. So, slide down the slide into the pool, swim over to the spiral stairs and climb them, get in the slide and slide to the pool...repeat, repeat, repeat.
There's another possible plan if I can get away with it, taking the slide past the posts and out over the ocean and back around to the upper pool. That would be really spendy involving at least 2 additional posts build in the ocean. That means getting an okay from the government officials too, I doubt that will happen. But, it would be my preferred choice.
They linger longest- even the bad ones. I can still vividly recall contracting measles. Very unpleasant....
I'm hugely impressed with your aqua park. For a boy who had pneumonia and parasites, he seems to be flourishing.
Very well done sir- consider me an unabashed fan.
(hope you don't blush too much.... )
Right back at you on the fan bit, enjoy the insight and humor of your posts and the phasing is always clever.
Lets see, in his 3 years Augustine has had the aforementioned worms and pneumonia. While recovering he got typhoid and after that its chicken pox. He has asthma and has to use an inhaler sometimes. Doc says that will pass when he's 7 maybe. Busy kid! He's got one thing going for him, his sister loves him. She looks after him when were busy and he follows her around copying her play. Quite a team...we took them both so they could be together.
Its really a two way street though, the joy these little monsters have brought into our lives is incalculable.
The aforementioned ice cream. Shown here with Dot, their cousin.
I volunteer every day (except Sundays, Sam and Anna are Christians) at an African owned and run charity, which helps young people here and in Africa- so what you have done for those children brings a very big smile to my face, and I'm not ashamed to say, a certain amount of moisture to my cynical eyes.
On the dvd/entertainment front, the little chap might like these too :
Unofficial website on "Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons" the 1967 TV series from Gerry Anderson, in Supermarionation, containing a bundle of information on the series itself, characters, crafts, equipment, episode listing, fan fiction pages, links, etc.
I volunteer every day (except Sundays, Sam and Anna are Christians) at an African owned and run charity, which helps young people here and in Africa- so what you have done for those children brings a very big smile to my face, and I'm not ashamed to say, a certain amount of moisture to my cynical eyes.
On the dvd/entertainment front, the little chap might like these too :
Unofficial website on "Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons" the 1967 TV series from Gerry Anderson, in Supermarionation, containing a bundle of information on the series itself, characters, crafts, equipment, episode listing, fan fiction pages, links, etc.
When I was a little older than Augustine, I came to love the Banana Splits and The Tomfoolery Show too...
You are changing lives Molly. Volunteering every day takes commitment and a big heart. Back before this forum went down the toilet the folks here built a home for a poor family known as 'The Apolyton House' in the next town, Jagna. Those were great days. Most of the folks who contributed have left this place. Glad you're here.
Those vids are going to make Augustine smile. He has a strong attraction for anything vehicular. Cars etc are known to children here as "boom boom" so since I usually drive I'm "Tatay Boom Boom". We got him little toy cars to play with but he'll drive anything. An empty soda can and vroom vroom noises while he pushes it along the ground and absolutely studies the way it moves is the order of the day. Not sure about reincarnation but if there is such a thing Augustine used to be a race car driver. So, I'm showing him these vids of yours first thing Molly, he'll luv em!
You like the children pics so I'll add some. Dolores and I like taking pics of them if you hadn't noticed.
Augustine looking sweet and innocent but this location is above the pool. I'm forever pulling his toys out, little comedian loves to throw stuff in the pool. Not valued boom booms but Chinese Lego knock offs. Perfect for getting stuck in the pool vac and driving Tatay nuts trying to get them out.
Abby cooks Tatay breakfast. Every morning she makes a combination of ice cream, pizza, boboy (pork), soda pop and birthday cake. She's a really good cook. Zkribbler bought her a mini kitchen set and sometimes she uses that. This day it was a stack of paper.
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I never attended kindergarten alas. Straight to infant school which I was very much looking forward to- no tears from me. I can still remember my first teacher, Mrs. Callaghan.
We used to bring flowers for the classroom when we were little- mine were usually bluebells as they grew in the front garden. The perfumes of a florist's shop evoke happy memories to this day...
More for Augustine :
Gerry Anderson's 'U.F.O.' which I hugely enjoyed.
http://ufoseries.com/ The very attractive young (Eurasian) woman is Ayshea Brough. She was a singer, actor and presenter of her own television show which although aimed at younger people, for some reason had a lot of older male admirers... go figure.
Crystal Tipps and Alistair is a 70’s children’s TV cartoon made by Q3 London. She is a young woman who lives in a country cottage with her pet dog Alistair, who is very talented. The page includes a History of the programme, Story of the Show, Video Intro, Characters, Images, DVDs, T-Shirts and Episode Guide.
Vive la liberte. Noor Inayat Khan, Dachau.
...patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. Edith Cavell, 1915
Abby is watching Mr Bean vids but I tried the others on Augustine and can report that...I enjoyed them more than he did. Great stuff Molly! I remember watching these things on the tube as a kid in the early 60s, does that sound about right? Thunderbirds...used to be a favorite, forgotten in the chaff of life, thanks!
Augustine is 3 but in his mind he's 2. Just wanted to go play, totally unimpressed. That is to say get into stuff he has no business being in, but doing so with charming good humor, and driving us to distraction.
Whereas I will be following those links at the end of those vids and enjoying every minute.
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Abby is watching Mr Bean vids but I tried the others on Augustine and can report that...I enjoyed them more than he did. Great stuff Molly! I remember watching these things on the tube as a kid in the early 60s, does that sound about right? Thunderbirds...used to be a favorite, forgotten in the chaff of life, thanks!
Whereas I will be following those links at the end of those vids and enjoying every minute.
Yes, Gerry Anderson's career kicked off in the 40s/50s in films but his television career began in the early 60s. I can remember watching 'Fireball XL5' and 'Stingray' on black and white television (same with Dr. Who) and being enthralled. Naturally I grew up to be a fan of science fiction too...
We didn't get much in the way of American children's television in my youth, but in the early 70s we did get things like the cartoons of the Osmonds, the Jackson Five, Scooby Doo and so on. Oh and we did of course get the Adam West 'Batman'....
I built this place with childhood in mind. These local kids have no chance of ever going to a park as a child. We have parties with lots of kids, the more the better. A condition of coming to the party is bringing the kids. Can't wait for the water slide, its all planned out, pipes and wires in place just set in limestone and buried in concrete waiting for the day we can commit the funds. Kids are going to love that! 
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Volunteering every day takes commitment and a big heart. Back before this forum went down the toilet the folks here built a home for a poor family known as 'The Apolyton House' in the next town, Jagna. Those were great days. 
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