Divegirl's Story

[mrs_overall]

When Mr and Mrs Girl produced a daughter, they consulted a book of old Celtic names and eventually decided to call her Dive. She suffered years of torment at school as the correct pronunciation of her name was "Divvy".
The Girl family were scrap metal dealers and expected Dive to carry on the family business. Her parents were due to buy her her own horse and cart as an 18th birthday present when her life took an unexpected turn. After a lunchtime session in the pub, a drunken Dive was making her way home when she slipped and fell in the river Cess. She had a brief glimpse of the river bed and saw several car exhausts, a bike and a safe. She hurried home to tell her parents who immediately appointed Dive as the family member responsible for underwater scrap collection. She was hurriedly sent away to complete a course and for her 18th birthday received a wetsuit. She cobbled together a set of SCUBA equipment from an old Hoover Junior and various bits of tubing and car parts from the scrap yard. In the dead of night she scoured the bed of the river Cess and her finds contributed handsomely to the family coffers.
The day came when there was nothing left to retrieve, but as one door closed, another opened. Dive fashioned a rubber fin from an old car tyre, strapped it to her back and spent hours in the river just below the surface as The Previously Undiscovered River Cess Dolphin. Crowds came from far and wide hoping for a glimpse of the dolphin and threw coins into the river for luck.
As she was scrabbling on the river bed retrieving coins one day, her eyes grew wide as she came across a body shaped package, bound up with Post Office issue wrapping and tape.

[dickythecook]

A gripping start once again mrs_o

[mrs_overall]

Thanks Dicky. Soooo, while it is quiet, why not tell me all about yourself?

[murraymints]

and...??

[parkie]

I thought the pronunciation of Dive was because she came from Birmingham and was actually called Dave. (Did she marry a boy named Sue?)

[dickythecook]

I dare not do that mrs_o. You seem to have a way of worming out everybodies guilty secrets. I would hate to be found to have none at all. (Snorts of derision in the background). Tell me what you have gleaned with your palantir, and I promise I will tell you if you are right. dtc

[mrs_overall]

parkdale it is deffo pronounced Divvy.
You too could use this quiet spell to tell me about yourself.

Mauler - and what?????

[parkie]

From the looks of other histories on this site Mrs O I've led a very mundane life.
Born in London 1944. Midddle of three brothers. Emigrated to Australia at 18. Became homesick.
Returned to Blighty just before my 21st. Joined Police. Met future wife in Police Station. (She was also a PC). Proposed after 3 weeks. Now married 44 years. Three daughters. Three sons-in-law, two (gorgeous) granddaughters, step grandson and step granddaughter.
Spent last seventeen years of working life as a school caretaker. Now retired 3 years. Do occasional work for people, (gardening, carpentry etc).
Been a Christian 22 years.
Interests crosswords, puzzles, geanology, and AB.
There. Said it all.

[ttfn]

<<Thank goodness I am not on line - mrs_o has sigh kick powers>>

[mccfluff]

Mrs O - dickythecook is not a cook....

[mrs_overall]

Thanks parkdale. Do I have permission to do your story at some stage? I can't promise it will bear any resemblence to your real life

[mrs_overall]

Thanks fluff. You are on my list.

[parkie]

Go for it Mrs O. (Though I dread to think what you make of it).

[ttfn]

dicky/Mountbatten/Prince of Whales?

I am ahead of you there ...

[mrs_overall]

Ah, there you are ttfn. Watch this space.

[dickythecook]

Fluffy is right, I am Chef! Or I was until I semi-retired and decided to get away from the stress involved. Sadly, I missed the kitchen enviroment and so I went back into the catering world as a K.P. or sink pig as we are sometimes called. I also help train the younger chefs in Knife techniques and try to keep them clean. There you go mrs_o a little more info for your bulging files.

[starone]

These life stories will make a gripping book when they are all put together. Who would have thought there would be such a diversity of characters in Answerbank-on-the-wold. Another best-seller in the making Mrs.O.

[starone]

I see Dicky is an expert with knives Mrs. O.

[dickythecook]

ttfn, I like the Whale ref. I thought that pic summed up the way I was feeling at that moment. You know the sort of thing, you're out for a quiet scull when all of a sudden a country drops on your head. :-)

[dickythecook]

Starbuck, they don't call 8 fingers dicky for nothing!! LOL

[dickythecook]

Please note the two missing letters M and E. used to type those with the missing fingers.