In a message dated 12/09/2005 21:45:20 GMT Standard Time, olive.cookson@btinternet.com writes: Can you speak other languages apart from English now, or is all this forgotten? I can still speak French but my vocabularly kind of stopped at age 15, but my gran only spoke in Flemish when she was annoyed with my Granddad, must have instinctly known that most of this was not for my ears. I put my little brother in a cement mixer once, good job he was found pretty quickly. I was very much in trouble that day. In fact, I was very much in trouble a lot. My baby brother was a nerdy little swot. Still is and now runs his own computer company....perhaps i should have tried harder. Gay Gay J Oliver, Stalybridge, Cheshire www.members.aol.com/victoroly/genealogy.htm www.members.aol.com/gayjoliver/Tameside.htm _www.fhsc.org.uk/fhsc/dukinfield.htm_ (http://www.fhsc.org.uk/fhsc/dukinfield.htm) _www.tamesidehistoryforum.org.uk_ (http://www.tamesidehistoryforum.org.uk/)