This photograph was originally going to be used as a hint for January squares, but then I spotted Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge, also known as CMMC and realised my shot, taken only last week near us, was actually even more perfect for Cee.


On the 4th Wednesday of the month CMMC is all about letters, and this month the letters are R and S. So here I am telephoning telegrams to Cee from Longstock, a Hampshire hamlet a few miles from Winchester. And as for Squares, well you will have to wait until the 30th for the reveal!
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I sure hope your week has been great so far.
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Awwww thank you Cee 😊 and yes having a good one despite the fishbone!!
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You are welcome. 😀 😀
It’s pretty much confirmed Chris and I had covid. It is also too late to get a positive on a test. I’ve been in contact with my doctor and the county health. All they recommend is get rest and keep doing what we are doing.
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Hope recovery continues to go okay. Thank goodness you’ve had a mild(ish) version xxx
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Love this! So nostalgic! Looking forward to knowing the squares reveal! Hmmm! 🙂
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Not long to go now!
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🙂
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Goodness, that’s a blast from the past. Our children wouldn’t even know what a telegram was.
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Not sure my stepdaughters would be that sure either!
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My aunt recently presented me with the telegram my dad sent her when I was born! I think mum probably still has al their wedding telegrams too.
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How fabulous 😍 I think they’re amazing the way they’ve survived
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I remember the days of travel and searching for a telephone exchange to phone home.. 😉
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Lives have changed so much over the last 40 years!
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That’s a fabulous find. I remember sending a telegram to my parents in England from South Africa when my first child was born. It came out as Roban so they thought the baby must be Robin. It was meant to be Rohan. Gosh, life was so very different then. Sending blue airmail letters and having to wait at least a fortnight before you got a reply. And telephoning them was totally out of the question unless a real emergency. Maybe that’s one reason why I cope with isolation so well.
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Ooh the days of sending blue airmail, so much has changed in such a short space of time!
And you’re probably right. I’m sure our Portuguese sojurns of weeks of just the two of us has meant we’re ticking along here xxx
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PS do you ever call Rohan Robin?!!
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Never. But we do have a Robyn in the family.
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A fabulous find! 🙂 🙂 I’m not in any hurry for skwares, unless someone buys me a laptop for Christmas.
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Oh dear! Can’t you go and get one yourself, or is that a too big a kwestion?!!!
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Much too big, early bird! You ok? 🙂 🙂
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Apart from a fishbone incident me 🙂, how about you?
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Unpleasant! Lisa found herself at A & E yesterday, having something removed from inside her eyelid. How it got there, noone knows. 😦 I’m ok, thanks. Two farewell dinners in the next 2 days then back to the kwiet life 🙂
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Oh the poor thing. Glad they found it.
Enjoy your dinners xx
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I did receive your telegram 😀 I adore your telegrams sign. What a great idea for this week. I actually think I like the color version best. It shows the aging sign better 😀 😀
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I think you’re right, the colours are rather fabulous
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Very good!
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thank you 🙂
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😊
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A great find, Becky and I love it in black and white. I remember receiving a telegram from my parents. It was like the mobile phone of the days. I was at uni and hadn’t phoned home for a while and got a telegram asking if I was still alive!
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Oh how fabulous 😍 do you still have it? I have a few my grandfather sent, and just love them
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I remember sending telegrams to weddings we couldn’t attend in person…
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They were such a thing for weddings weren’t they 🥰
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And the fun part of it was to convey your message in minimum words… 😃
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My Dad started in the Post Office as a Telegram Boy 🙂
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How fabulous . . . . must have felt quite special going to people’s houses but also I suspect sad at times
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Sometimes the news wouldn’t that good that’s for sure
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Must have been horrible during the wars
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He may have done some in WW2, He also knew Morse Code so he would have been a transcriber plus was from a small town so would have known almost everyone.
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What stories he must have had to share
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But never did really. He was a quiet gentle man
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We were only talking about telegrams the other day. When did they stop? We couldn’t remember. And you certainly won’t. Far too young!
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Stopped in 1982! I don’t recall them but do recall a few people complaining at my brother’s wedding a few years later that there were no telegrams to read out! And I have telegrams in my family history box 🙂
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Telegrams at weddings! I’d quite forgotten. They were quite a ‘thing’.
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I have a few from my parents wedding. Lovely to still have
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Gosh, your family sound worse hoarders than me!
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but they’re so little!
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I know. But it all adds up. I’ve recently had to Take A Grip. And I don’t like it.
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Then don’t do it!
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I know. But I did. And regret it.
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Sending hugs xxx
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And to you too. Still limping? xx
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Limping? No that’s sorted, struggling though to eat and talk!
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They were indeed!
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