Genealogy Chat

Lovely to have you pop in on us Robert

We had sea mist this morning & loads of rain last night

Sylvia - dark chocolate ginger - I can let you have the website of a wonderful chocolate maker - he does Amazing goodies - I know the owner & his partner really well - we do a lot of business with them

If you ever need to send a very special Gift – they are quite expensive & they will do non alcohol ones too if you ask them

http://www.demarquette.co.uk/

Was invited to one of their new range chocolate tasting parties - totally out of this world and some of them when eaten with Champagne to wash it down – well
Words cannot describe it


Well better go off & surf the boards

Take care all

Hello Robert


nice to see you.

Hope you and your wife are both keeping well.

We're now having April weather here ............... pouring rain this morning, sun shining now at noon!

Bit quiet on here recently - hope everyone is recovering from the poor weather and that summer will soon be with us.

I don't post on here very often but I do watch with interest what everyone is saying.

Hi Sue,


and everyone



well, not much is happening here!


The weather is grey, drizzly, and there is a chilly wind!



Hope that Arthur is having a great time hunting flowers :-D



Take care everyone




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I would Sylvia - my mum loved that - or stem ginger in syrup - we always has a jar at Christmas - i still buy one - just for old times & tend to use it in cooking now. Its a remiminder of good times too.

Went to the in-laws yesterday - so trying to catch up now

Couple of hours in the office & then home

The sun is shining - not quite so cold so always makes you feel better

Take care all

Hi Sue, and everyone


no-one gives me Easter eggs ............... they're very good, they know I can't eat them, so they don't tempt me!


Mid you, I wouldn't say no to a bag of dark chocolate covered ginger, which I can eat.


but no-one offers me that!





take care everyone




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Hi everyone :-D

John, what lovely news - you sound so proud of your brand new gt. granddaughter. Hope you get to see her soon...


Greece! It sounds wonderful Arthur. Have a brilliant holiday and come back safe.


Anne, I thought you arranged holidays, not all those exciting events....sounds like good fun to be honest. Now I know where to come when I want to come up with something different.... :-D


So glad you had a good time with your sister Sue and I can imagine how sad you must have been to see her leave. Never mind, in this day and age it is so easy to keep in touch what with Skype etc. We could do with some of your sunshine over here - believe me!


I've got a lot of Easter eggs to eat too........ so I've decided to eat them as quickly as I can and then I can get back to trying to lose weight....sounds like a good plan to me :-D :-D

It's been half term round here so my daughter has been off work for 2 weeks. That means that I tend to go out with her in the afternoons and I am worn out!! Roll on schooltime.... :-D :-D

Take care everyone Cx <3 <3 <3

Hi Everyone

Happy belated Easter to you all.

My Sister has been and gone ,she is now back in the UK with all your cold weather but we did send her back with a sun tan.

We had a wonderful time together but it is so hard to say goodbye again as usual I cried when she left.

Our weather is starting to cool a little so it was not to hot for her.

Evelyn I am so sorry for the passing of your brother we are all thinking of you.

We have so many Easter eggs to eat ,I can see I am going to put on a few kilo's.

Busy washing and striping beds at present ...won't be long and i will be ready for our next lot of visitors one being my Brother.....at least here the washing dries in no time

:-D

Check in tonight ...see the clocks have gone back in time over there so must remember that.

Suex <3 <3 <3

Have a wonderful time Arthur - Safe journey

I will be taking the kittens - really should now be called cats as they are larger than my old cat ever was - to the cattery. in a few hours. A new experience for them and it will be interesting to see how they react so soon after being able to explore my front and rear gardens. They have been very good and do come when I call. They are happy to return through the cat flap, but 'need' me to open it for them to go out - that will have to stop!

I am going with two friends to northern Greece to look for flowers. Hope it is a lot warmer than here.

On Friday last I was meant to go down to Swindon to see my brther and his family. Planned arrival was 12.30. By 12.30 I had only reached the new Service Station on the M25 at Cobham!!!! The traffic was horrendous yet did not get a mention on the radio. I phoned them and said I was going back home. The tailback was still 7 miles and counting. The radio still did not mention the hold up! They did say it was expected that 17 million people would be travelling on Good Friday - half must have been on the southern route of the M25!

Congratulations John - How lovely & a very special time of year - a time for new beginnings

No frost last night - on Sunday morning we had nearly 2 inches of Ice on the car & it stayed icy till gone 11am & the grass was white & sparkly in the sun.

Hard to believe 15 years ago i was planning my wedding and now look at us. It would have been nice to go away somewhere for the week in June - but finances wont allow - who knows something good may turn up for us soon.

hope you all had a wonderful Easter

Take care all

Hi everyone, and a very Happy Easter to you all.
Believe it or not we are now in British Summer Time, What a joke, it is just about 0degrees centigrade here in Essex at the moment with a very hard frost forecast for tomorrow morning. I am sure glad that I am off work for the Easter holidays for the next two weeks. Hopefully it will be a bit warmer when I go back.

Had some lovely news on Thursday 14th March, a brand new Great Grandaughter, "Faith Ali". Her poor mum just about got to the hospital in Maldon before she was born. It was only thirty five minutes from the time her waters broke till the time that the baby was born. This is now my third great grandchild and I am over the moon. I have not been able to see her yet as I have had a very miserable viral infection for what seems like ages now, and I don't want to pass it on to her.

I sincerely hope everyone is keeping well,
Regards,
John :-)

Happy Easter Everyone

Cynthia - thought you knew where i worked

Its a very large US company - - the office is 24 hours 365 days a year - with clients all over the world.

My area look after the Elite & we do anything & everything they ask for as long as its legal moral & ethical. From arranging holidays to large parties & events - to Breakfast meetings/ladies who lunch or dinner for 2 to 50 - arraning hair appointments, spa treatments, babysitting - tours & day trips - from the usual to unusual. You name it i Have probably tried to arrange it or book it.

For instance this morning someone called in looking for a Violin shop in Oxford who could repair a valuable Violin for a concert tomorrow.

Just shout if you want to know anything unusual.

Some of the more stupid things were - arrange a private visit with the Pope & the queen (at different times) - Organise a helicopter to hover over the stadium for the opening of the Olympics last year - arrange for a lifesize plastic farm yard to be set up in someones garden for a party.

We get some very strange requests for 40th birthday parites - let alone childrens parties.

Oh well must go - trying to finish off some research

Take care all & enjoy the lovely sunny day - even if it is quite cold.

Happy Easter to everyone ! <3


Glad your OH is getting better Sally and that you don't have any more traumas.


Anne......hope you got up at the right time........6am is a very early start... :-S

I'm surprised you have to work today as I know it is the law that large shops have to remain closed on Easter Day - do you work in a small place then? :-S


It's been a busy week what with one thing and another but I love Easter and it's so worth all the busyness. :-D

Hope you are all keeping well...... love, Cx <3 <3

Glad your OH is on the mend Sally - they should leave emergency numbers alone

If it aint broke dont mend it

Fingers crossed things will get a lot better for you both

blinking cold here today - we had to over ride the heating

Clocks go forward tonight - i am at work at 6am tomorrow - so early to bed tonight

hello all

oh ie going on all right after a dodgy start

well our probs with an ambulance is the 111 number that lincolnshire has been trying out and the message is its not working

it is still very cold here with snow showers :-|

sally w <3

We had S*** again - didn't settle - but the sky looks busy & very grey

We may well get a white Easter

Feel like moving to Canada or Down Under

Hi Sue, and everyone


I almost hate to say this ................. but we are in a lovely spell of weather.

Sunny and warm, and set to continue until at least Tuesday

Peaceful Good Friday to one & all

I agree that the year is flying past.......much too fast for my liking.....but I would love Spring to arrive properly.



One of the neighbours helped me to clear our drive on Saturday morning so that I could get the car onto the road. The wind has been dreadful and caused so much drifting. We keep a planter in front of our garage door when it's windy because the door tends to rattle rather alarmingly.

On Sunday morning, I needed something from the garage but, could I move that planter??? Nope, it was iced firmly to the ground. I ended up using hot water and salt to shift it, so I am definitely sick of snow now :-(


Take care all......Cx <3