AUNTIE JENNIE

TO-DAY WOULD HAVE BEEN MY AUNTIE JENNIE'S   ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTEENTH BIRTHDAY. AND I STILL HAVE THE CLOCK WHICH I INHERITED FROM HER

JUST SEEN TO_DAY

Denial is not just a river in Egypt  !!!

TO-DAY

TO-DAY, HAD HE STILL BEEN ALIVE MY FATHER LAWRENCE CRAVEN WOULD HAVE BEEN ONE HUNDRED & ELEVEN YEARS OLD HE ALWAYS SAID THAT HE WAS BORN IN WENSLEY BANK WEST BUT HIS BIRTH CERTIFICATE TELLS THAT HE WAS BORN IN ALBERT STREET BUT WHAT IS CERTAIN IS THAT HE WAS BORN IN CLAYTON, A DISTRICT OF BRADFORD. 
FOR HIS WORK HE WAS THE MAN FROM THE PRUDENTIAL. LATER HE BECAME DISTRICT MANAGER FOR PART OF BRADFORD SOUTH. IN CHARGE OF 6 AGENTS EACH HAD TO BE AUDITED TWICE A YEAR ONCE AT OUR HOME AND ONCE AT THIER OWN HOME   THE NAMES OF THE AGENTS WHO I REMEMBER ARE GEORGE BENSON, HARRY TUCKLEY, EDMUND MINKLEY JOHN HARRISON, DICK LAMB & I CANT REMEMBER THE NAME OF THE OTHER ONE   HIS MILITARY SERVICE AFTER THE WAR WAS IN GERMANY & COPENHAGEN , HIS ARMY NUMBER WAS 
14661222, YET ANOTHER NUMBER DIVISBLE BY THREE. TO-DAY IS ALSO THE NINTH BIRTHDAY OF THE GRANDDAUGHTER OF A GOOD FRIEND OF MINE 

NICE VERSE

ON THE BREASTS OF A BARMAID FROM HALE, WAS TATOOOD THE PRICE OF BROWN ALE, FOR THE SAKE OF THE BLIND, ON HER BEHIND WAS THE SAME INFORMATION IN BRAILLE

FURTHER REGARDING JANE

MY LOVELY NIECE JANE SINGH DULAY SADLY PASSED AWAY OVERNIGHT WEDNESDAY 25th NOVEMBER THURSDAY 26th SHE DIED AT HOME ALONE SHE WAS ONLY 53 years old The funeral is at Nabwood Crematorium Monday 14th December 11.30 am Family undertakers, Samson Bairstow & sons, Queensbury, The same company who arranged the funeral for my parents Minister Rev. Celia Midgley our joint Pastor at our chapel. After the funeral we are going to the Airdale Heiffer at Riddlesden 

YESTERDAY

YESTERDAY MY YOUNGEST NIECE JANE SINGH DULAY AFTER MANY YEARS OF TURMOIL HAS NOW PASSED AWAY

TODAY

TO-DAY IS THE FIVE HUNDRED AND FORTY SIXTH BIRTHDAY OF THE SIKH
LEADER GURU NANAK

TOMORROW

TOMORROW I AN GOING TO A MEETING IN SHEFFIELD. THE MEETING IS TO DISCUS AS FAR AS UNITARIANS ARE CONCERNED
"MAKING CHANGE HAPPEN" FROM VISION INTO ACTION  THE MEETING IS TO BE HELD IN UPPER CHAPEL NORFOLK STREET SHEFFIELD S12JD. IT WILL MEAN LEAVING BRIGHOUSE AT 8.00AM IN THE MORNING AND CATCHING THE TRAIN INTO SHEFFIELD. AFTER ARRIVING IN SHEFFIELD I WILL CATCH THE FREE TRAM TO NORFOLK STREET. WHILST I AM THERE I WILL NEED TO FIND SOMEONE TO LEAD OUR WORSHIP AT PEPPER HILL ON
SUNDAY 21st FEBRUARY & SUNDAY 19th JUNE 

ELEVENTH OF NOVEMBER

NOT ONLY WAS WEDNESDAY ARMISICE DAY IT WAS ALSO FULL MOON AND THE 83rd BIRTHDAY OF MY FAVOURITE AUNTY RAFFELLA KITCHEN AND ALSO THE 76TH BIRTHDAY OF THE PERSON WHO TAUGHT ME TO BE NONJUDGEMENTAL NO LESSER PERSON THAN REV. ERNEST WILLIAM SUNDERLAND BAKER

JANES PPARTNER & CARER

MISCHIEF NIGHT

Traditionally especially in Yorkshire, the 4th of November is mischief night, The best bit of mischief which we ever play in my childhood, was when door had snecks, More correctly known as Suffolk Latches. To gain entry you used to have to press your thumb on brass Finger piece. Our trick was to firstly put a drawing pin onto the sneck and then surround it with horse manure, As sure as eggs are eggs, the poor person trying to gain entry would firstly press his or her finger on the latch. When the pin pricked his or her finger   they would put it straight in their mouths, horse muck & all

TO-DAY, 23rd October

10 tears ago my youngest grandson Henry Joseph Craven was born Henry now lives with his family in Scotland, He is addicted to reading anything he can get hold , Sometimes when I speak to him, I find him difficult to understand since he speaks quite gently & with a Scottish Accent

49 Years ago today I got married to my first wife Pam Craven, I was 27 & she was 22, We were the last people to be married at Chapel Lane Unitarian

Chapel in the centre of Bradford Before it was demolished  The wedding was at 4.00pm, My best man was Gay old Uncle Alex Morris, One of his favourite Sayings was, "If you should ere to any excess, let it be t'ords gentleness" One of my wife's bridesmaids was my niece Diane Craven , Now Hudson whose birthday is the day after to-morrow.  The reception was at the Windmill Pub in Wibsey After which we flew to London on our way to Rome & Capri for our honeymoon, Harold Wilson would only let us take £60 out of the country and we ran out of money. On to India, Jagatdal on the banks of the river Hoogley, The beginning of a two year contact with Woolcombers of India limited

WEDNESDAY 19th August 2015

For about six weeks now I have been suffering from what was originally described as a respiratory infection. In the past three weeks, I have had three courses of Antibiotics and not  really much improved. Yesterday & rang my Dr. Dr. Sophie Kaye of Church Lane surgery Brighouse & she suggested that I take no more antibiotics and go to the Calderdale Royal Hospital and have a chest x-ray which I did. The technician told me that the results would be sent to my Doctors surgery in 1 weeks time. In the mean time I continue to cough & splutter and carry on taking anything other than Antibiotics . Nothing to do with the above, but the other day I heard a nice Quotable Quote . Why is your brain like a parachute . Because it is quite useless unless you keep it open

FIVE WEEKS

For the past five weeks, I have been a highly productive phlegm producing factory

YESTERDAY

YESTERDAY WAS 28th JULY 2015, HAD MY MOTHER EDITH CRAVEN NE RIMMINGTON BEEN ALIVE IT WOULD HAVE BEEN HER 110TH BIRTHDAY. ON MONDAY MORNING THIS WEEK MY WIFE SHEILA WENT INTO HOSPITAL FOR A HIP RELACEMENT. Revd. JOHN MIDGLEY SAYS THAT WHEN SHE IS BETTER WE WILL ALL HAVE TO SAY "HIP HIP HURAY" . YESTERDAY I WENT TWICE TO MY DOCTORS SURGERY AT CHURCH LANE SURGERY IN BRIGHOUSE. JUST AFTER I GOT OUT OF BED I STARTED TO PRODUCE & CHOKE ON COPIOUS QUANTITIES OF GREENISH GREY PHLEGM. DR PAUL CHAMBERS DIGNOSED A RESPIRATORY INFECTION. HIS ADVICE WAS NOT TO GO TO HOSPITAL IN CASE I SPREAD THE INFECTION, HIS ADVICE WAS TO TKE THE ANTIBIOTICS AND STAY AT HOM AND KEEP WARM. THIS MEANDS THAT I CANNOT GO TO SEE SHEILA IN THE HOSPITAL . At 5.00 pm HAD MY HALF YEARLY DIABETIC & GENERAL HEALTH CHECK WITH NURSE JANINE SUMNER A MOST CAPABLE PRACTITIONER. RESULTS<
CHOLESTEROL 3.3      LIVER & KIDNEY FUNCTIONS FINE
BLOOD SUGAR LEVELS EXCELLENT AS WAS MY BLOODPRESSURE.

HAPPY DAYS

           HENRY JOSEPH & TOBY DANIEL CALL TO SEE THEIR GRANDMA
         & GRANDDAD CRAVEN

SAYING

IT IS SAID THAT WHAT HAPPENS ON ST SWITHINS DAY HAPPENS AGAIN FOR THE NEXT FORTY DAYS & FORTY NIGHTS, GOODNESS HELP THE BRIDES 

TOMORROW

Tomorrow is St.Swithin's Day It will be just 86 years since my mother & father were married @ Dirkhill Primitive Methodist Chapel. It will also be 54 years since Gillian Stanbury married Trevor Gamble Gillian & Trevor were maried at St. Oswald's Church in Southfield Road. The thing which I remember most was that in the middle of the day the sky turned black and the weather was so bad that Hailstones larger than Golfballs fell from the sky It was if you believe in them an omen . Trevor although he was a father to Deborah turned out to be Gay. Gillian's Mother Aunty Edith Stanbury outlived three husbands 
and died at the ripe old age of 99 & three Quarters 

MY MOTHER BEFORE SHE WAS MARRIED

NICE ONE FROM ERNEST BAKER

There's nothing worse than a doctor's Receptionist who insists that you tell her what is wrong with you, in a room full of other patients ..................
A 75-year-old man walked into a crowded waiting room and approached the desk. The receptionist said, " Yes Sir, what are you seeing the the doctor for to-day ?"
"There is something wrong with my Dick" he replied. 
The recetionist became irritated and said "You shouldn't come into a crowded waiting room saing things like that".
"Why not said the man, you asked her what was wrong and I told you" he said.
The receptionist replied ; "now youve caused some embarrassment in this room full of patients. You should have said that there is something wrong with you ear or something and discussed the problem with your doctor in private."
The man replied,"You shouldn't ask people questions in a room full of strangers if the answer could embarrass anyone.
The man then walked out, waited several minutes and then re-entered
The receptionist smiled smugly and asked "Yes ??."
There is something wrong with my ear he said,
The receptionist nodded approvingly and smiled, knowing that he had taken her advice." And what is wrong with your ear Sir  ?
"I can't piss out of it" he relied
The wating room errupted in laughter .

MESSAGE FROM BRENDA KINGHAM

"DO YOU BELIEVE IN LIFE AFTER DEATH ?" THE BOSS ASKED ONE OF HIS NEW EMPLOYEES. "YES SIR," THE NEW EMPLOYEE REPLIED.
"WELL THEN THAT MAKES EVERYTHING JUST FINE," THE BOSS WENT ON. "AFTER YOU LEFT EARLY YESTERDAY TO GO TO YOUR GRANMOTHERS FUNERAL, SHE STOPPED IN TO SEE YOU"

TO-DAY

TO-day I have been reminded of Elizabeth Ann Terry, now Elizabeth Ann Taylor. She used to say that she had an Aunt Myrt.
I assume that this is short for Myrtle. I wonder how many girls first names refer to either flowers or Plant Life. The obvious ones that come to mind are Daisy, Rose, Heather, Fern, Lily, May(Blossom)
Albert Kiburns wife was called Jonquill which sadly he shortened to Jonkers How many more can you think off?       


ROY & ELIZABETH ANN TAYLOR

TODAY

TODAY IS AUNTIE PAULINE'S SEVENTY SIXTH BIRTHDAY, HAPPY BIRTHDAY AUNTIE PAULINE 

INNER PEACE ( WITH APOLOGIES TO RUDYARD KIPLING) EX EWSBaker

IF YOU CAN START THE DAY WITHOUT CAFFEINE, IF YOU CAN BE CHEERFUL, IGNORING ACHES & PAINS, IF YOU CAN RESIST COMPLAINING & BORING PEOPLE WITH YOUR TROUBLE, IF YOU CAN EAT THE SAME FOOD EVERY DAY, AND BE GRATEFUL FOR IT, IF YOU CAN UNDERSTAND WHEN YOUR LOVED ONES ARE TOO BUSY TO GIVE YOU ANY TIME, IF YOU CAN TAKE CRITICISM AND BLAME WITHOUT RESENTMENT, IF YOU CAN CONTROL TENSION WITHOUT MEDICAL HELP, IF YOU CAN RELAX WITHOUT ALCOHOL, IF YOU CAN SLEEP WITHOUT THE AID OF PILLS ETC,

THEN YOU ARE

PROBABLY

THE FAMILY DOG

TO_DAY

JUST 31 YEARS AGO THIS VERY DAY,SHEILA & I WERE MARRIED AT THE CENTRAL METHODIST CHURCH IN BRIGHOUSE, WE WERE THE FIRST PEOPLE TO BE MARRIED THERE AFTER ALL THE METHODIST CHURCHES IN THE BRIGHOUSE AREA COMBINED TO MAKE JUST ONE, THE MINISTER WHO MARRIED US WAS THE REV. LESLIE GREGORY. 

       
                                   CLEVER PLAY ON WORDS

BRIGHOUSE FOOD & WINE FESTIVAL

                                                   RIDING ON A DONKEY

REV JEFFREY BOWES TAKES THE SERVICE AT PEPPER HILL

              BRENDA REVILL WITH REV JEFFREY BOWES

VIEW OF GEOFF'S TREE FROM OUR BEDROOM WINDOW

                                                I AM NOT SURE OF THE VARIETY

                                             

PICTURES OF TOBY & HENRY MY GRANDCHILDREN

TOBY GETS HIS 11th BIRTHDAY PRESENTS, HENRY AT 9 YEARS OLD LOVES TO READ AS MUCH AS HE POSSIBLY CAN

MIDDLE PICTURE SHOWS TOMMY WITH BROTHER THEO SHERRIFF

FIRST BIRTHDAY OF OUR GREAT GRANDSON TOMMY FILBY

FIRST BIRTHDAY OUR GREAT GRANDSON
                            TOMMY FILBY

THESE ARE OUR GRANDCHILDREN & 1 GREATGRANDCHILD

WHAT A WONDERFUL FAMILY

MY GRANDCHILDREN

T

THIS IS TOBY GETTING HIS 11th BIRTHDAY PRESENT 

INFORMATION FROM ROBIN WHITELEY

IF YOU BUY A BOTTLE OF WINE FOR £4.99
£2.83 IS GOING STRAIGHT TO THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER £1.40 IS PROFIT FOR THE RETAILER 60P IS THE COST OF SHIPPING THE VALUE OF THE ACTUAL WINE IS ONLY £0.16p

TODAY

TODAY IS TOBY DANIEL'S MY GRANDSON'S 11th BIRTHDAY
TOMORROW HIS MUM LIZZIE IS BRINGING TOBY & HENRY JOSEPH TO VISIT US ALL THE WAY FROM BONNY SCOTLAND

AUNTIE PAULINE TOBY ANDY SHEILA HENRY AND GRANDDAD DAVID TAKEN BY LIZZIE

HOPKINSONS BEER & WINECIRCLE

This is Paul Henson. In the same class as Andy Craven at Primary School. One of the best brewers we know and father of a 21 yr old son & a twenty year old Daughter 

U3A LUNCHEON CLUB

   WHAT USED TO BE CALLED FISH &                                     FINURKS

MESSAGE FROM BRENDA KINGHAM

Jesus goes to the jobcentre for a job. The interviewer asks what he can do. I am a carpenter said Jesus. 

Thats great says the interviewer we have 2 jobs. One in jerusalem which pays £400 and one in Salford which pays £200 which one would you prefer

Jesus thinks for a minute, and chooses the one in Salford. Why did you choose that one said the interviewer.

Jesus tells him that the last time he was in Jerusalem they hammered me with Tax 

BOOKS FOR HENRY WHEN ITS TOBYS BIRTHDAY

books for henry when its tobys Birthday

PHOENIX WINE LOVERS

                                          ROBIN         STEVEN     FLOSS

                     BRUCE            MAUREEN     JULIETTE      

                     JOAN   LEYLAND  STEPH   MARGARET  

THEY MIGHT SELL GOOD MEAT BUT THEY CAN'T SPELL

POSH & NOT POSH

Scintillate scintillate  globe vivific, Fain would I ponder thy nature specific, Loftily perched in the ether capricious , strongly resembling a gem carbonaceous.
otherwise
Twinkle Twinkle little star, How I wonder what you are, Up above the world so high, Like a diamond in the sky but  as my Brother used to say Like a Teapot in the sky .

TRUTH IS STRANGER THAN FICTION

For about four years I have known a young man, member of Northern Craft Brewers & latterly a member of Hopkinsons Beer & wine Circle. I have just known him as PAUL. At the last meeting of Hops wine circle, I firstly asked him where he came from, and secondly asked his last name.  He said he came from Longroyd just a stones throw away from where I used to live first time round, and that his surname is HENSON. As we got talking it transpired that he was in the same class as my son Andy Craven at Woodhouse school. His partner Vanessa has told me that he actually remembers coming to our house at 33 Lyndhurst Road An incredible coincidence 

YESTERDAY 1st March Was St Davids Day

ST DAVID IS THE PATRON SAINT OF WALES. A GOOD STORY ABOUT WALES,
ONE WELSHMAN SAID TO THE OTHER
"I HAVE BEEN TO THE PICTURES" "WHAT WAS THE FILM ASKS HIS FRIEND ?"
"MOBY DICK" WAS THE REPLY  "DON'T LIKE SEX FILMS SAYS THE SECOND MAN. FIRST MAN SAYS "IT'S NOT A SEX FILM , IT'S ABOUT WHALES" . SECOND MAN SAYS  "I DON'T LIKE WELSHMEN EITHER"   hA hA hA

LES FLEURS DANS NOTRE JARDIN

PICTURES TAKEN WITH NEW CAMERA FROM STEPHEN LORD

SHELF & NORTHOWRAM WINE & HOMEBREW CIRCLE

Christine, Rose, Pauline Aris, David Aris, Bruce Heath, Auntie Pauline, Sheila & Joan Varley.  I won first prize in White Dry, & third Prize in Red Dry, The joke being that there were only three bottles in the red dry 

table in our lounge back picture late brother Arthur Dudley Craven front picture David at Janes wedding, middle picture our wedding day 

FLOWERS FOR SHEILA FROM PEPPER HILL UNITARIAN CHAPEL  AFTER HER ACCIDENT

A GROUP OF FRIENDS

OUR YOUNGEST GRANDSON

IN ORDER,  AUNTY PAULINE, HENRY, ANDY, SHEILA, TOBY & GRANDDAD DAVID

PANCAKE TUESDAY

WE ALWAYS USED TO SAY, PANCAKE TUESDAY'S A VERY HAPPY DAY, IF YOU DON'T GIVE US HOLIDAY, WE'LL ALL RUN AWAY

 OUR GOOD FRIENDS, ADRIAN ABEL & MARY

WE ARE ALL BORN IGNORANT BUT ONE MUST WORK HARD TO BE STUPID 

HOUR OF NEED

IN OUR HOURS OF NEED, GEMMA & MARK
HAVE KINDLY COME TO DO OUR SPRING CLEANING 

JANE SINGH DULAY

I have been over to jane's house to-day. I had heard that someone had knocked the front door down and done a robbery. However what really happened was that someone had reported her missing to the police, when in fact she was still in Airedale hospital. Jane is now home. She is drinking a bottle of 5% abv Strongbow cider every day. but apparently has given up smoking.  

LANCE MURGATROYD'S PICTURE OF A SOMNOLENT DAVID

OH  SLEEP IT IS A GENTLE THING BELOVED FROM POLE TO POLE

Rev Bill Darlison

Ren Bill Darlison with stole showing 8 Different Religions Which ones do you recognise Top left Unitarian, Top right Christian, Third down left Muslim, Bottom left the Yin & the Yan Bot sure of the others

STRANGE TIMES

Yesterday 6th January 2015. It is just 24 years to the day since our family tragedy occurred. My late Brother Arthur Dudley Craven a very successful business man. He had spent the Christmas period surrounded by his family. One the 12th day of Christmas he took down the Christmas tree, and went to dispose of it in Ilkley. After disposal he drove his car to Thruscross Reservoir, filled his expensive sheep skin coat pockets with heavy stones and walked out into freezing water. News was on the television Police divers went to search for his body. In  the event it was never found until they drained the reservoir in April. Yesterday this year his daughter Jane S

Singh Dulay was discharged from Hospital Above is a picture of our mother Edith Craven, Nee Rimmington