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Heaven Scent
13-03-2008, 10:31 PM
What is the largest Ethnic Group in Cheshire? can anyone guess? - I know the answer!!!!!!!!!!!

Celine;) ;)

Trouble
13-03-2008, 10:32 PM
pass?:idea:

manjay
13-03-2008, 10:32 PM
Not sure! but as a Cestrian would be interested in the answer

amanda xx

jo hawkins
13-03-2008, 10:33 PM
sorry havent got a clue

Jo

ma7ie
13-03-2008, 10:35 PM
Nope don't know.

angeldelight
13-03-2008, 10:35 PM
Havent got a clue

Angel xx

Trouble
13-03-2008, 10:36 PM
is it the EGC (ethnic group of:laughing: :laughing: cheshire)

ma7ie
13-03-2008, 10:42 PM
Is this a trick question :huh:

angeldelight
13-03-2008, 10:47 PM
I have no idea Marie haha

Do we win a prize Celine


Hmmmm


Chinese?

Asian

Irish

...

Trouble
13-03-2008, 10:49 PM
i hope you havent gone to bed and left us all in suspence:panic:

ma7ie
13-03-2008, 10:50 PM
It's very posh in Cheshire isn't it?

angeldelight
13-03-2008, 10:50 PM
Maybe if we go through them all one of us will get the correct answer haha

xx

ma7ie
13-03-2008, 10:52 PM
Eskimos?;)

Trouble
13-03-2008, 10:52 PM
polish

russian

turkish

slovacian

:idea:

angeldelight
13-03-2008, 10:53 PM
I think Celine has gone for a cuppa or something or other ha

xx

ma7ie
13-03-2008, 10:54 PM
Pygmies?:)

Trouble
13-03-2008, 10:54 PM
i think so we need to look it up on the internet before she comes back

but it made me laugh what ever it is so thank you:clapping:

Trouble
13-03-2008, 10:55 PM
Pygmies?:)

are you looking these up on the internet:laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

angeldelight
13-03-2008, 10:55 PM
French

Spanish

Irish

American

angeldelight
13-03-2008, 10:56 PM
Yeah Marie are you cheating haha

xx

Trouble
13-03-2008, 10:56 PM
i bet their foreign:laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

angeldelight
13-03-2008, 10:57 PM
Celine was posting a really long reply on another thread

CELINE where are you ?

xx

ma7ie
13-03-2008, 10:58 PM
zulu warriors?

angeldelight
13-03-2008, 10:59 PM
Hahaha

Are you getting bored now Marie?

Trouble
13-03-2008, 11:00 PM
cats?

ive lost the plot now please tell us

angeldelight
13-03-2008, 11:01 PM
Yeah ive lost the plot too

xx

ma7ie
13-03-2008, 11:01 PM
Jedi knights?

ma7ie
13-03-2008, 11:02 PM
Klingons?;)

ma7ie
13-03-2008, 11:03 PM
Gnomes?:D :laughing:

Trouble
13-03-2008, 11:03 PM
:ROFL1: mazie youve cheered my night and day up:laughing:

ma7ie
13-03-2008, 11:05 PM
Hobbits?:laughing:

angeldelight
13-03-2008, 11:05 PM
Celine what is the answer ?

ma7ie
13-03-2008, 11:07 PM
Daleks?

Cybermen?

angeldelight
13-03-2008, 11:08 PM
Im going to call you " mad marie "

xx

ma7ie
13-03-2008, 11:09 PM
I could go on but I'm getting fed up of waiting now :D

Trouble
13-03-2008, 11:09 PM
cheese

doughnuts

angeldelight
13-03-2008, 11:10 PM
CHOCOLATE YUM

XX

Trouble
13-03-2008, 11:11 PM
youve got choc on the brain

but sounds nice:laughing:

angeldelight
13-03-2008, 11:12 PM
Its not on the brain

Its in my mouth !!!! Then my tum !!!!

Yummy

xx

ma7ie
13-03-2008, 11:12 PM
Maybe it's Jelly babies.

manjay
13-03-2008, 11:13 PM
I fear it is probably someting much less exciting like White British!

amanda xx

Trouble
13-03-2008, 11:14 PM
ive pm her as i was supposed to be hoovering and tidying up for tomorrow:eek:

angeldelight
13-03-2008, 11:15 PM
haha good thinking

xx

angeldelight
13-03-2008, 11:41 PM
We are just chatting amongst ourselves now Celine about food of course haha

We have got side tracked a little waiting for you to come back

Angel xx

Twinkles
13-03-2008, 11:45 PM
Come on Celine I need to know before I go to bed http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys/sleep009.gif (http://www.freesmileys.org)

Annie_T
14-03-2008, 12:00 AM
oh .. erm white

..... Christians

dunno

miffy
14-03-2008, 07:14 AM
Not sure! but as a Cestrian would be interested in the answer

amanda xx

Err what's a Cestrian????

I don't know the answer and I've just read through 3 pages of posts

and........................

I STILL don't know the answer!

Come on Celine tell us

Miffy xx

button68
14-03-2008, 07:22 AM
It's very posh in Cheshire isn't it?

VERY posh!! I live on the Wirral which is like a ghetto in comparison with Cheshire :laughing:

buildingblocks
14-03-2008, 07:24 AM
Footballers

sarah707
14-03-2008, 07:49 AM
Well I live here and I don't know either.... I would have said white British but I am wondering if it's a trick question...


Or maybe Celine doesn't know and that's why she's asking us :idea:

Heaven Scent
14-03-2008, 08:04 AM
Wow what a response I must give you all a reference stating what a great interest you all have in celebrating diversity.

Well whoever said footballers had a very good guess I'd imagine that that is probably the second largest group closely followed by lots of rich people who have nothing better to do than sit outside cafes catching their deaths in the middle of winter.

The answer is........................



Wait for it .........................




Its really quite boreing but I think rather surprising bearing in mind my comments above....................




Gypsies and Travellers


Who includes them in their multi cultural resources?

I have found one website last night with some nice stuff and I'm going to try to add the link now.

No can't do it Its not in my favourites.

Will look for it later and will post it, I'm off to do breakfast and do the school run now and then I'm going to nip into town to raid The Works - their website is down at the moment and will be up and running in April again.


By the way who has read my really long post on another thread? I'll be asking questions later!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By way of consolation I didn't go to bed and leave you all guessing I was on here for hours but via my e-mail and then I was up until after 3.00am tidying up and sorting out loads of paperwork and resources etc.



Thank you to those of you who pm'd me I get so excited when I see I have one but I just couldn't make head not tail of angels and I tried to add her to my buddy list and it prompted me to do but I didn't suceed!

Heaven Scent
14-03-2008, 08:09 AM
Sarah I think the poles out weigh the british at this stage but I am in no position to comment as my nation are everywhere. The eastern Europeans are all over Ireland now and its no different to what the Irish had to do as recently as the early 1990's due to a sheer lack of work in Ireland.

Celine

miffy
14-03-2008, 08:10 AM
I'd never have guessed that

Happy bargain hunting

Miffy xx

angeldelight
14-03-2008, 08:11 AM
Thank god you told us at long last haha

You could not make head or tale of my message - oh well I talk a load of rubbish most of the time anyway and I was tired haha

Thanks for clearing it up you gave us a laugh anyway

Angel xx

ma7ie
14-03-2008, 08:12 AM
I wasn't even close :(

Heaven Scent
14-03-2008, 08:23 AM
Angel it was just a grid giving your details but no comments I did understand the contents of the grid just not the purpose of you sending it to me last night but don't worry because the sheet rush of excitement of opening a pm outweighs all that its like when I have a delivery man call to the door with my freebies - and opening christmas cards and birthday cards etc - sad I know. I have to contain myself and look all cool when signing for my parcels and then as soon as I close the door I'm like a child I could burst with excitement. It might be that despite the fact that as families went in 1960's and 1970's Dublin we were considered to be quite comfortable because we had a phone and all the neighbours used to use it to both receive and make calls and my dad always had a reasonably new car- but we as kids never had much only got presents at christmas and for our birthdays I remember once we had a child staying with us for a holiday (- a cousin or somone) and my mum took us to town (that wasn't the treat we went nearly every day) but on that one occasion she bought us both a book in Woolworths - I remember it to this day it was a Ladybird book and was called 'The Green Umbrella' I can still vividly see the illustrations. I always wanted a Ladybird book because they reminded me of story time in school - a time in the day when we didn't have to be frightened of the teachers. So you could say I'm a 46yr old big baby!!!!!!!!!!!!

Celine

ma7ie
14-03-2008, 08:32 AM
take a look at this link on Jedi Knightshttp://www.vexen.co.uk/UK/religion.html#Jedi

I wonder if we'll have to provide resources for them?:huh:

sarah707
14-03-2008, 08:34 AM
Gypsies and travellers! Oh for goodness sake!

While I am trying to be very multicultural in everything I do, how on earth am I going to plan for that!?! :eek:

angeldelight
14-03-2008, 08:34 AM
You have made me laugh Celine

I dont think you actually opened my message

I sent you a message asking where you were and hope you are ok etc

Hahaha you have made me laugh

I sent you no grid !!!!

Angel xx

angeldelight
14-03-2008, 08:35 AM
When you go into your private messages if you click on the persons name then yes you do get their details come up

If you click on the subject line then you will be able to read the message

Angel xx

Heaven Scent
14-03-2008, 11:47 AM
Hey what do you think ofsted would say if they came and we were doing a topic on religions and Satanists was the religion of the week = we'd be embracing a diverse community - Where do we draw the line in all of this?

The Gypsies and Travellers were brought to my attention as an ethnic group whilst on a course entitled begin at the beginning. I was aware that there were a large number of gypsies living in Middlewich and they had begun to migrate towards Sandbach and taking up a settled life just before I moved to Congleton but I just never thought of them as an ethnic group. I think I hve a problem segregating people into different groups because I grew up living in a white country where almost everyone was Catholic and almost everyone was quite poor and a great many of us had to emigrate to make a living or to improve our standard of living we are more tolerant and accepting of people who have had to do the same and because no one would have come to Ireland to look for work and therefore take jobs away from the Irish no other ethnic group has been a threat to us. The only ones who were ever a threat to us in the reasonably recent past were the english at the time of the famine and as generations have come and gone and there are no longer any suffering living survivors it has been forgiven and forgotten and that was different to having lots of immigerants creating ghettos in your neighbourhood etc.

I bet that those who are not seeking lower paid jobs do now feel threatened by all the eastern europeans who are coming in an taking all of those jobs and now perhaps racism could hit Ireland in a big way. - lets wait and see.

I had to say I was very surprised by the huge emphasis on inclusion in Manchester when I moved there in 1987. I felt it was stating the obvious and that by going on about it all the time it was making matters worse but now I realise what a problem there had been I do feel that as time is going by we are getting too hung up and the english are at risk of losing their own identity. Take for example St Patricks day it gives me a lovely warm feeling to see so many people here making a big effort to celebrate it - when I came in 1987 the same effort wasn't made but still today there is very little effort made to celebrate St. Georges day which I find very sad. Yes it is important to embrace all of the cultures of the people living in the country but lets not forget the culture of the country does this make sense to anyone else? Since they started selling St Georges day cards a couple of years ago I always buy them for my husband and children because I make a thing of St Patricks day which reminds me now the children are all having a nap I need to pop up to my loft and find my Paddys day decorations - the few I have!

So sorry for the rant but I love a good debate.

Celine

oakie dokie
14-03-2008, 11:50 AM
the word you should be using is itinerants. just to be politically correct.

angeldelight
14-03-2008, 11:52 AM
Hahaha Hazel that did make me laugh


An itinerant is a person who travels from place to place with no real home.

Very correct


Angel xx

oakie dokie
14-03-2008, 11:54 AM
well you no what its like if we do not use the correct words or terminology:panic:

hazelx:laughing:

angeldelight
14-03-2008, 11:55 AM
I do indeed Hazel

Still it made me laugh

Angel xx

oakie dokie
14-03-2008, 12:00 PM
i probably am the worst offender but i know this one from when i was a special constable and its one i remember oh and Inuit.:laughing:

hazelx

angeldelight
14-03-2008, 12:02 PM
I always forget that you were a special Hazel

How long did you do it and why did you give up - did you enjoy it ?

Angel xx

Trouble
14-03-2008, 07:08 PM
we ll im pleased the answer is finally their i went to bed thinking about it!!!
i have to say i laughed more last night than i did all day yesterday so thanks for the question and thanks to those who made me laugh

i have gypsy in my blood, probably why i aways have itchy feet and feel the need to travel!!!!!!!!!:laughing:

oakie dokie
14-03-2008, 07:25 PM
i was a special constable for 9 years and i loved it. i had all good intentions of joining the regulars but i always put myself down and thought i would never pass the test. i gave up because i met my husband and my daughter was 18 months old and they wanted me to cover 10pm till early hours in the morning. sorry i just could not do these hours. i was a plain clothes store detective in kendals, Manchester, i loved this job and i was very good at it, very good! i could tell you all a tale or 2. but at heart I'm a family person and always put my family first and not my career. that is why i feel guilty for spending time on here and why im not usually on in the evenings. i did like the social life as well as a special, iv been out with 1 or 2 bobbys.

i can remember the night i learned the word itinerant, i was on the beat and it was bl..... freezing we had gone to search for somewhere warm. ( the back of the indian takeway, up the steps, they led you to a flat roof, we warmed are hands in the big metal chimney that came from the takaway and smelled the aromas of garlick coming from it, and the conversation came round to the itinerants that were parked up at tescos carpark. there you go a little story!:laughing: enjoy

hazelx

angeldelight
14-03-2008, 07:40 PM
ooooooh that is a nice story Hazel

I know what you mean about the family thing I am the same the only reason I get on here in the evenings is cause Hubby does nights

But whenever he is around or its the weekend I just pop on - although im always logged on

You was a special for a long time though well done

Angel xx

manjay
14-03-2008, 07:41 PM
Err what's a Cestrian????

I don't know the answer and I've just read through 3 pages of posts

Miffy xx

Someone born in Chester

amanda xx

miffy
14-03-2008, 09:23 PM
Thank you Amanda

Miffy xx

sarah707
14-03-2008, 11:33 PM
I am still shocked by the answer... :eek: