CelticSoulSister

@CelticSoulSister (1640)

Southend-On-Sea, England • Age 70

Joined myLot 16 years ago

Just an aging female chocolate, movies, cats and music lover!

CelticSoulSister's Discussions

Sneezing after eating

CelticSoulSister @CelticSoulSister (1640) • Southend-On-Sea, England 16 Jun 08

Does anybody else get massive sneezing fits after eating a large meal? It's something which is happening to me now in middle-age. I've had a health check and there are no problems, and my doctor is very puzzled as he says...

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YouTube volume levels on some of the clips

CelticSoulSister @CelticSoulSister (1640) • Southend-On-Sea, England 27 May 08

Does anyone find that the volume levels on just a few of the YouTube video clips is very low? For instance, somebody put the whole movie, Vera Drake, onto YouTube in several parts. I'm sure a lot of people are very grateful to...

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Christmas in childhood

CelticSoulSister @CelticSoulSister (1640) • Southend-On-Sea, England 23 May 08

How did you and your family spend Christmas as a child? I have wonderful memories of Christmases in my very early childhood, when my family was still in one piece, and this was in the late 1950s. There seemed to be a much...

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What strange things have you seen when you unexpectedly walked in on someone?

CelticSoulSister @CelticSoulSister (1640) • Southend-On-Sea, England 22 May 08

The weirdest thing I saw was many, many years ago, I walked into my boss's office. His door was shut, and as usual I just walked in with a pile of finished work, without knocking first. He obviously didn't expect to be...

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What was your worst lesson at school?

CelticSoulSister @CelticSoulSister (1640) • Southend-On-Sea, England 21 May 08

For me it was maths. I never could get to grips with it, and even now, I still can't do long-division or understand the concept behind it. The other lesson, if you can call it a lesson, which I hated most was anything to do...

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Strange topics for posts on MyLot

CelticSoulSister @CelticSoulSister (1640) • Southend-On-Sea, England 19 May 08

What do you find the strangest topics that people talk about on MyLot? The ones I find most baffling are those where the person will ask the advice of others about things which are entirely down to personal taste and...

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Which non-living thing or place do you miss most from your childhood?

CelticSoulSister @CelticSoulSister (1640) • Southend-On-Sea, England 17 May 08

The place I miss most is The Kursaal fairground in Southend-on-Sea, (UK). I spent some very happy times in there as a young child. It was closed down in the early 1980s, demolished, and a housing estate was built on the site. I...

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Strangest phobias

CelticSoulSister @CelticSoulSister (1640) • Southend-On-Sea, England 17 May 08

What is the most bizarre phobia you have come across either in yourself, or in another person? I think the strangest one I have encountered is somebody who had a full-blown phobia of zips, ribbons/ties, shoelaces, buttons,...

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Encephalitis

CelticSoulSister @CelticSoulSister (1640) • Southend-On-Sea, England 16 May 08

Is there anyone out there who has suffered from encephalitis? If so, I'd love to hear from you. I had it when I was 4, and had a lucky escape in that I made a full and complete recovery. I'd love to hear from you and your...

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Worst lesson

CelticSoulSister @CelticSoulSister (1640) • Southend-On-Sea, England 16 May 08

What lesson did you hate most at school? I hated maths most of all, as I could never understand (and still can't!!!) what it was all about. I didn't like history either, but I think that's because of the way it was taught rather...

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Favourite milkshake flavour

CelticSoulSister @CelticSoulSister (1640) • Southend-On-Sea, England 16 May 08

Well....lol milkshake is part of life. What's your favourite flavour? Mine is, going back to my early childhood in the late 1950s, there was an ice cream bar in my home town that served heavenly pineapple-flavoured...

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Favourite Sayings

CelticSoulSister @CelticSoulSister (1640) • Southend-On-Sea, England 16 May 08

What is everybody's top 10 favourite sayings? Mine are....... 1. If it's not broken, don't fix it. 2. Life is just a bowl of cherries, so long as you spit out the pips. 3. Only the shallow know themselves (courtesy of...

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Blind Willie Johnson

CelticSoulSister @CelticSoulSister (1640) • Southend-On-Sea, England 15 May 08

Are there any true blues lovers out there? Any Blind Willie Johnson lovers? Of course he wasn't the only one, but he's the one who's touched my soul the most.

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Wasps...is there a deterrent?

CelticSoulSister @CelticSoulSister (1640) • Southend-On-Sea, England 4 May 08

I have a problem. I live in a fairly rural area of the UK surrounded by woodland, grass and flowers. One of my phobias in life is wasps and I can't seem to stop them flying in my windows in the summer when I have them open. I...

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Best sight ever

CelticSoulSister @CelticSoulSister (1640) • Southend-On-Sea, England 4 May 08

What's the best sight (scenery, landscapes, skyscapes, city-scapes etc.) you've ever seen? Mine was back in the early 1970s when I went to Spain for a holiday. On the side of the plane I was sitting and as we moved from the...

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British TV advertising slogans and jingles from the past

CelticSoulSister @CelticSoulSister (1640) • Southend-On-Sea, England 1 May 08

I think nothing can fling me back into the past, particularly my childhood like hearing a hymn we sung at school, or being reminded of old British TV ads during the 1950s and 1960s (maybe some from the 70s & 80s too). Here are a...

food and other products from the past

CelticSoulSister @CelticSoulSister (1640) • Southend-On-Sea, England 30 Apr 08

Who remembers these things which you can't buy in the UK any more? Coffee Crisp chocolate bar (from 1960s) Mikki Milk drink (from late 1950s/early 1960s) Norska toiletries (from late 1970s) Chipples crisp snack (from...

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