crystal ball 🔮 🙂

leeCal
leeCal Community member Posts: 7,537 Championing
if you could know just one thing about the future or the past what would you choose?

And perhaps why? 🙂
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  • leeCal
    leeCal Community member Posts: 7,537 Championing
    I find that sad @woodbine, commiserations.
  • leeCal
    leeCal Community member Posts: 7,537 Championing
    I think I’d like to know the next set of winning lottery numbers. 😃

    why? Because I’d have such fun giving away oodles of cash to various people both family and organisations. What fun that would be eh
  • janer1967
    janer1967 Community member Posts: 21,922 Championing
    I would like to know if my cataract surgery will make an improvement to my sight 
  • leeCal
    leeCal Community member Posts: 7,537 Championing
    I really hope it does @janer1967, a friend of mine found that it worked very well. Here’s hoping. 
  • Sandy_123
    Sandy_123 Scope Member Posts: 56,646 Championing
    I know this sounds morbid but I'd like to know the date of my death so I can plan for it,
  • leeCal
    leeCal Community member Posts: 7,537 Championing
    Ha ha @Sandy_123, that does sound morbid but someone I know would agree with you, his idea is to have spent his last pound on the day before! 
  • Sandy_123
    Sandy_123 Scope Member Posts: 56,646 Championing
    Sorry but it would be practical. What would he spend his last pound on? 
  • leeCal
    leeCal Community member Posts: 7,537 Championing
    I don’t know @Sandy_123,   though I gave up smoking several years ago if I were him I’d buy a nice cheroot, don’t know if they cost a pound though. 
  • Sandy_123
    Sandy_123 Scope Member Posts: 56,646 Championing
    I had to Google that lol. Not familiar with cigars. I'm sure some1 would donate one in e change for his pound lol
  • Lisatho11987777
    Lisatho11987777 Scope Member Posts: 5,874 Championing
    I would like to know if life is going to get any easier  for me 
  • Biblioklept
    Biblioklept Community member Posts: 5,232 Championing
    leeCal said:
    I think I’d like to know the next set of winning lottery numbers. 😃

    why? Because I’d have such fun giving away oodles of cash to various people both family and organisations. What fun that would be eh

    Winning lottery numbers for sure :blush:
    Although knowing how I am, I'd know the numbers and still forget to play :D 
  • SueHeath
    SueHeath Community member Posts: 12,388 Championing
    Yep Lottery numbers for me also - sooooo many people would benefit - that made me laugh @Biblioklept x
  • 66Mustang
    66Mustang Community member Posts: 14,985 Championing
    I don’t like the idea of knowing the date of my death although I do agree it would be practical.

    I like the idea of spending my last pound before I die because I’m not planning on having children to leave an inheritance to. That said hopefully my younger brother will still be around so he could have it, or, I may have nieces or nephews.

    I’d like to know if or when I’ll be living away from home and if or how I’ll cope on my own without people helping me.
  • leeCal
    leeCal Community member Posts: 7,537 Championing
    edited June 2022
    I’ve thought of two other things I’d like to know now, but that would be cheating, wouldn’t it?

    well it’s my thread so:
    just after the Second World War my dad was married at the time and he adopted someone from an orphanage, I’d like to know why . One year later his home help became pregnant with his child and my mother (the home help) change her name by deed poll to match his and his wife’s. They all then took a boat to New Zealand and lived there, but that was the last time his wife was seen until she turned up to divorce him eight years later. I’d like to know why my mother (the home help) changed her name?

    all the above was kept secret not told to me and we have found out things by checking even going to Kew.
  • SueHeath
    SueHeath Community member Posts: 12,388 Championing
    This sounds very interesting @leecal name change is easy to answer, i know about some of the things you've said about in past threads. Have you got any other brothers or sisters not adopted ones ? Your father sounds like they had money as well for that era. I would be interested as to what you could find out from Kew. Are you looking into your family history or were you told all this  by other family members ?
  • leeCal
    leeCal Community member Posts: 7,537 Championing
    edited June 2022
    @SueHeath Yes I had another sister about a year after they (he and his wife) adopted one girl he and my mum had another girl themselves. They were older than me, I came last and I was ok because by then he and the home help (my mum) had got married ...just! 

    My dad also changed his name by deed poll too following my mum changing hers , so then they both had the same surname as his wife! All very confusing I’m sure. 

    Actually its helping me writing it down like this. My eldest son is tracing the family tree and so far it’s looking quite good. Except for his fiat wife , she just disappears. Of course they are all passed on now. 

    When my mother was ninety two two I asked her about things and she told me in no uncertain terms that it was none of my business. So I got nothing from her. its a family mystery.
  • Sandy_123
    Sandy_123 Scope Member Posts: 56,646 Championing
    edited June 2022
    @leecal I'd love to do a family tree, yours sounds intresting, its a shame your mom wouldn't tell you, but I think  from your moms era people didn't, they kept family secrets well hidden. 
    I was told after my parents died that I was the product of an affair, but the person who told me won't say no more, frustrating. I'm tempted to join the DNA data base
  • leeCal
    leeCal Community member Posts: 7,537 Championing
    @Sandy_123 yes. I really like that program ‘who do you think you are?’ On tv where they trace back a very long time celebrities trees. Fascinating stuff. 🙂
  • Sandy_123
    Sandy_123 Scope Member Posts: 56,646 Championing
    Oh I love that programme, also Stacey dooley on BBC iplayer does 1 simular and that's a good watch, they put dna into the data base and track down people, highly reconmend
  • leeCal
    leeCal Community member Posts: 7,537 Championing
    edited June 2022
    You say you were a product of an affair of the heart, at least Love was involved even if it was only temporary. It would be nice to know more wouldn’t it @Sandy_123.

    my mum told my wife I was a mistake ☹️ Never mind, I’m over it now ha ha.

    i like ‘long lost family’ too, quite a tear jerker often.