Genealogy Chat

lol! Glad you put that mirror away. At 10 to 5 in the morning, I don't want to look in a mirror either.

Have you got up early or going to bed late? Merry

Got up at 4.30. I did get 3 hrs sleep. Up late fixing a computer problem. Tip........never eat a combination of pringles and choccy after midnight. I feel totally ill. ;-(((

I think my daughter takes after my husband's Nan. Known as 'Big Nan' to all her grandkids, she was 6 foot tall. Daughter at 11 years old is 5 foot 6 1/2..........and growing rapidly....just 1/2 inch to catch me up. She might have made a supermodel only she got my tree trunk legs, the sort with no ankles, and my Dad's big squishy nose.

We have a picture of my dad's paternal grandparents. If you cover Grannys hair at the sides, my dad is the spitting image - and she doesn't look like a lady you'd want to meet down a dark alley! Helen (not the same Helen as above)

My sis has the squashed nose that all the Horstead/Steers seem to have - I have a bloody great concorde of a job - mother used to refer to it as aqualine but its not - its fat and big - all the Dixons have it along with elephantine ear lobes.

Did any of us actually get any good bits or do we all look like we've escaped from a House of Horrors? I'll start, I quite like my........ errmm.....eermmm....wrists???

I would like my eyes - except that one of them tends to have a view of its own when I'm tired....

I look like no-one on earth.

Im quite happy about my mouth - its like Dads, big and fatish lips which may stop me getting the old witch thin lipped look as I approach retirement age.

No fear, Sue......wouldn't want to crash everyones computers! Merry

When my dad died, my brother and I were going through the old photos and found one, circa 1880, of a beautiful young woman. On the back my dad had pencilled 'Edith? Pamela?' (Thanks, Dad) My brother said 'ooh, she looks like you' couldnt see it myself, being quite a few years away from being either beautiful or young. She now hangs on my living room wall and if I stare squinty at her, I can see - my youngest daughter. My oldest daughter. Hair for three out of the four of us (bushy, curly and thick). AND - please dont tell anyone this - if I stare long enough, I can make her mouth move and she talks to me. I just wish I knew who she was! I look like my 2 x GGM, tall, miserable and with frizzy hair. I do not, thank god, look anything like either of my GMs - one thin, bitter and twisted with a face like a bag of spanners, the other fat, squat and vacuous. But I can see BOTH of these women in my daughters, fleetingly and not all of a piece. I inherited the Holden temper, famous throughout history for screaming hysterically and getting purple in the face. Fortunately I did not inherit the grudge-bearing (my memory's not good enough, lol). Totally missed out on the considerable artistic talent in the family, but have a love of good music from my GF, who was an opera singer. Unfortunately my singing talents exist only in my head, once they leave my mouth they are not a talent. I wonder who the ancestor was who gave me a sense of humour - it wasnt a recent one, all my relatives thought that if you were laughing you must be up to no good (ah, well, maybe they were right) Olde Crone

Gawd I avoid having my photo done like it may take my soul from me. I was ok til about 45 since then I cant even look in the mirror at the hairdressers.

I dont really know what I look like these days, some old woman keeps jumping in front of me every time I try to look in the mirror. Olde Crone

Have to say.. was feeling a tad moody (family stuff) but you've got me laughing!! I have developed this annoying habit on BENDING SHOES to make sure they're soft and flexible , my Daughter is mortified that i keep doing it...on reflextion SO AM I...Its something my Mum always did,and I would only be allowed a pair of shoes if they passed the BENDY test !!! ahhhhhh! Janine

I spent ages smoothing out paper bags, carrier bags etc, then carefully putting them in a drawer and then throw them away some six months later! I save old sheets to cut down into pillowcases (I have yet to make a pillow case). I find myself fingering clothes in shops and saying to anyone in earshot 'shoddy rubbish'. Just like my mum. Olde Crone

Old Crone, the same mad old woman keeps appearing in shop windows when I walk by and of course it cant be my reflection because I am a slim 28 year old with smooth skin - not a middle aged lump.

I also have the carrier bags...well you never know when they will come in handy, I also have the plastic container for all the things i intend to freeze and never do. most without a lid!!! And why am I collecting packets of sugar when out buying a cofee....I hate suger !!!!!!!! Janine

If anyone's really desperate to see a picture of me (although trust me, it's better not to), there's one on http://www.circularchess(.)co(.)uk/2005tournament.htm.

For a second there I thought Olde Crone was my relation as my g-granny used to horde brown paper, string, paper bags etc etc, but the difference was, she didn't throw the items away six months later! Michael, I'm afraid you are TOO YOUNG for us to want to look at your photo!! (If you are the Michael who said he was only five at the 1991 census??).........it would be too upsetting! LOL Merry