tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11026109.post457609952792037961..comments2023-10-30T11:13:57.380+01:00Comments on FRENCH FANCY MOVES TO CORNWALL: Old FriendsFrench Fancy...http://www.blogger.com/profile/04941577892849157015noreply@blogger.comBlogger38125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11026109.post-63990367086821761452009-04-01T23:16:00.000+02:002009-04-01T23:16:00.000+02:00True friends last a lifetime. Congrats the POTD Aw...True friends last a lifetime. Congrats the POTD Award from David's Authorblog. Great job!Cheffie-Momhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16568520021347503121noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11026109.post-32742558453766760232009-04-01T16:56:00.000+02:002009-04-01T16:56:00.000+02:00As someone said elsewhere in this comment box, tru...As someone said elsewhere in this comment box, true friendships have an invisible connection, formed by some mystical chemical that makes it unbreakable. It stretches, sometimes to a thread so fine as gossamer [I love that word] with a bit of elastic in it.<BR/><BR/>So glad that you got it back, that intimacy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11026109.post-14835990269648458042009-04-01T14:21:00.000+02:002009-04-01T14:21:00.000+02:00Mary Elizabeth - thanks for popping in. Missing fr...Mary Elizabeth - thanks for popping in. Missing friends is what I do a lot of out here in France and Skype, emails and Facebook do not really compensate. <BR/><BR/>introspection - hello and thanks. A shame about the estrangement but there are also bits of my family I have fallen out with - nobody too close though, odd cousins here and there - sometimes you just can't got on with relations.French Fancy...https://www.blogger.com/profile/04941577892849157015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11026109.post-2289528928070799962009-04-01T12:54:00.000+02:002009-04-01T12:54:00.000+02:00I am over from David's POTD. Congratulations. It's...I am over from David's POTD. Congratulations. <BR/>It's beautiful post. Reminds of the estrangement between my husband and my family. He just wont talk to them no matter what. <BR/>I wish he would see that we only have a Single life...!<BR/><BR/>I am glad you met up with your friend.<BR/>Cheers..!!introspectionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10820207734329529880noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11026109.post-50569234687776431832009-04-01T11:03:00.000+02:002009-04-01T11:03:00.000+02:00Thanks to god for the reconciliation!. Keep always...Thanks to god for the reconciliation!. Keep always in touch with her.<BR/>I moved from country -or best to say from Continent- 3month ago, and came here so…sooooo Down under, my best friend and I are still crying by skype every day wondering if we will keep always in touch.<BR/>…<BR/>Congrats for nomination of Post of the Day @David’s blog. <BR/>From <A HREF="http://nininewage.blogspot.com/" REL=Mary Elizabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08477136558266646460noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11026109.post-66072477484419751952009-03-27T12:59:00.000+01:002009-03-27T12:59:00.000+01:00ContemTroub - I bet she thinks about you as often ...ContemTroub - I bet she thinks about you as often as you do her. That's what the friend I blogged about told me anyway. Old best friends should always meet up later in life. I hope you manage to do the same.French Fancy...https://www.blogger.com/profile/04941577892849157015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11026109.post-41728499178379548192009-03-26T23:27:00.000+01:002009-03-26T23:27:00.000+01:00I do have a childhood friend whom I wish I could g...I do have a childhood friend whom I wish I could get in touch with again. I located her e-mail through the web and wrote her a few times when I started college; never got a reply. We lost touch after I moved away from our hometown when I was 9. We did keep up some letter-writing in the first year or two after I'd left (no e-mail at that time) but weren't consistent. She was the best playmate whenThis Ro(a)mantic Lifehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09324882155203905958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11026109.post-4369195926833428522009-03-26T16:03:00.000+01:002009-03-26T16:03:00.000+01:00That must have been so very rotten at the time tho...That must have been so very rotten at the time though - for her to go after him like that (how sexist am I to lay the blame at her feet - well, a bit higher up than her feet really). <BR/><BR/>Have you got over the holiday blues yet? Assuming you had them in the first place?French Fancy...https://www.blogger.com/profile/04941577892849157015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11026109.post-59916140483811452582009-03-26T15:06:00.000+01:002009-03-26T15:06:00.000+01:00I went through a stage of thinking that if you los...I went through a stage of thinking that if you lose touch with friends then you never had anything in common in the first place, etc etc.. Possibly true if you drift apart but I had a very good friend at school with whom I fell out badly (aged 17) when she slept with my First Boyfriend (we were on a breeeak!!). Got back in touch with her two years ago and realised that I'd forgotten how much she Lucy Fishwifehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12468092971495182126noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11026109.post-21773972826517226742009-03-26T14:30:00.000+01:002009-03-26T14:30:00.000+01:00BroTob - well spotted, eh? I'll try that site -it ...BroTob - well spotted, eh? <BR/><BR/>I'll try that site -it might just do the trick. There are two I'm searching for -one was my original gay best friend years ago and the other is a former very very close friend who moved away when she got married and we lost touch. Fingers crossed.<BR/><BR/>I agree with your last para. Things that grated or hurt at the time do dissipate and one is just left French Fancy...https://www.blogger.com/profile/04941577892849157015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11026109.post-61265435736663328902009-03-26T14:21:00.000+01:002009-03-26T14:21:00.000+01:00Thank you! Now I can stop wondering! If you haven'...Thank you! Now I can stop wondering! <BR/><BR/>If you haven't tried this site, its use of different search engines can be helpful http://websearch.about.com/od/peoplesearch/tp/free-people-search-engines.htm<BR/><BR/>It is usually inappropriate to go searching for old girlfriends/ boyfriends when you're happily married, but that's a shame. With time most of the angst and pain of the partings has Brother Tobiashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14298549883526952305noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11026109.post-77655234091748938302009-03-26T13:52:00.000+01:002009-03-26T13:52:00.000+01:00Re the fire in the kitchen - one of these posts ha...Re the fire in the kitchen - one of these posts has a very big clue - from someone who knows me very well indeed.French Fancy...https://www.blogger.com/profile/04941577892849157015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11026109.post-46697000344338700502009-03-26T13:51:00.000+01:002009-03-26T13:51:00.000+01:00claire - Isn't it funny (well weird) how people do...claire - Isn't it funny (well weird) how people do change so much -if they are weak and around horrible people they become horrible as well, they soak up nastiness like a sponge.<BR/><BR/>bindu - how lovely to still be friendly with people you knew from the age of 5. I've never heard of that before and it says a lot about you - you are so lovely that people did not want to lose your friendship<BRFrench Fancy...https://www.blogger.com/profile/04941577892849157015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11026109.post-42507318498235269982009-03-25T23:36:00.000+01:002009-03-25T23:36:00.000+01:00I was just thinking today that I have two former w...I was just thinking today that I have two former wives that I actually miss on occasion and wish I could in conscience connect with at times. No, not in that way. I am grateful that is in the past with them. But, they are part of my history and the good parts of my life with them are missed on occasion and I know I cannot get those good parts back.Ian Lidsterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14106994463366766471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11026109.post-7113437729434280752009-03-25T22:45:00.000+01:002009-03-25T22:45:00.000+01:00I'd love to get back in touch with my best friend ...I'd love to get back in touch with my best friend from school who moved to Australia with her Aussie husband about 15 years ago. The marriage broke down and so did she and after that she burned her bridges with all her UK friends and suddenly letters went unanswered, phonecalls never returned. I'm godmother to her son, who was 4 when I last saw him. Recently found him on Facebook and he's all The Accidental Authorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01146937745719946782noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11026109.post-11749478701269960402009-03-25T21:07:00.000+01:002009-03-25T21:07:00.000+01:00That's such a nice story! Glad to see the happy en...That's such a nice story! Glad to see the happy ending. I am in touch with all the close friends I ever had - right from when I was 5 years old! I have lost touch with some, but not because of any specific reason, and would love to get back in touch.binduhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13156291956967889455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11026109.post-25393119042442405182009-03-25T20:41:00.000+01:002009-03-25T20:41:00.000+01:00Yes and no. I had a friend right from primary scho...Yes and no. I had a friend right from primary school and we were inseperable until our mid teens. She went to a diffrent school then and changed in ways I didn't like. I no longer recognised her. And she had started copying everything I did or trying to go one better. I have never understood why because we had never had a competative relationship before then. It may have been those she fell in claire phttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16313963622279623204noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11026109.post-32656270761292421742009-03-25T20:03:00.000+01:002009-03-25T20:03:00.000+01:00TAF - who said he didn't mind? The Fire Brigade ce...TAF - who said he didn't mind? The Fire Brigade certainly did.<BR/><BR/>No names no packdrill (what on earth does that mean?)French Fancy...https://www.blogger.com/profile/04941577892849157015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11026109.post-5868167328650838582009-03-25T20:01:00.000+01:002009-03-25T20:01:00.000+01:00cheshire wife - I've cut down my christmas card li...cheshire wife - I've cut down my christmas card list to almost nothing these days - I think it happens to all.<BR/><BR/>ASD - it's very hard work maintaining regular contact with close friends - but, as you say, the thread is perpetual.<BR/><BR/>Mama - what a shame your mum and this lady drifted apart. I seem to be going through a real retrospective with my relationships - I think it's this French Fancy...https://www.blogger.com/profile/04941577892849157015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11026109.post-32962806367549987292009-03-25T19:56:00.000+01:002009-03-25T19:56:00.000+01:00A friend who doesn't mind you burning down his kit...A friend who doesn't mind you burning down his kitchen? Must be rich.<BR/><BR/>I could hazard a guess..... I think. Who has all his friends on the board of directors.... ....British....<BR/><BR/>Oooh tough one. <BR/><BR/>Pickle anyone?The Accidental Fanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15970315855759659754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11026109.post-66564160974313203772009-03-25T19:28:00.000+01:002009-03-25T19:28:00.000+01:00Very lovely post, FF. Good friends are like that...Very lovely post, FF. Good friends are like that - You can pick up where you left off even after years apart.<BR/><BR/>My BF is like that - We have had two periods where we have been sadly distanced by her mental health issues and she just shuts down... My door is always open for her.<BR/><BR/>And, a really good friend from College just got back in touch after around 6 years, while her son wasA Woman Of No Importancehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02194976046531063422noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11026109.post-21418725622173240072009-03-25T19:04:00.000+01:002009-03-25T19:04:00.000+01:00You've done what many have wanted to do. The mos...You've done what many have wanted to do. The most difficult of old friends to locate are women friends (not necessarily girl friends) because of the name change with marriage.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11026109.post-79147498246253483672009-03-25T18:52:00.000+01:002009-03-25T18:52:00.000+01:00I love happy endings, what a beautiful post FF, yo...I love happy endings, what a beautiful post FF, your mum sounds like she was a very lovely lady, you must miss her a lot, I keep in touch with a best friend of my mums even though my mum and her drifted apart, I don't really know why they but she's like an aunt to me really. Of course I want to know the burnt down kitchen story and who the very famous person was (whisper it to me, I promise not Kathyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02560097220928952579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11026109.post-23825241726793107132009-03-25T18:07:00.000+01:002009-03-25T18:07:00.000+01:00A lovely post about friendship. I'm at the moment ...A lovely post about friendship. I'm at the moment in the phase of drifting apart with a certain friend even though I love her. I don't think one can break one's relationship. It's like an invisible threat that is continuing all of our lives. We can only alter the relationship but one can't break it. But with some friendship, it's getting stronger but others are fading away like the paint on the A Super Dilettantehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02640893790909916004noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11026109.post-61510365947418744912009-03-25T17:51:00.000+01:002009-03-25T17:51:00.000+01:00I don't think that I have fallen out with anybody ...I don't think that I have fallen out with anybody except my brother and a succession of neighbours but I have noticed that I have fallen off some Christmas card lists. I am not sure why.cheshire wifehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13944869219641386387noreply@blogger.com