Genealogy Chat

Hellooooo, is it all still on then??? Is it all organised?? Sorry I've been shirking but I bought that special offer 25 quids worth of 1837 credits as a C present to myself and got kinda engrossed......... then ordered 3 certs as another C present to myself....... ladies, it's the only way to get what you really really want for C-mas.... go buy it yourself. This only works if you have a joint bank account, or other access to the other half's dosh. My mother (who despite being posted to wherever), is still on the phone bending my ear 1,000 times a day and is driving me doolalley. It's now going to be close run race to see which of us hits the Funny Farm first. Anyone here actually like Brussels? The green sort not the city. Bev x

Tent now put up in Bridgwater......A very RICH rellie was born here, so I'm hoping this will rub off on me??!! The huskies snow machine has run out of snow........I have had to buy an emergency supply of cotton wool and they are now sleeping on that........................ Bev, I agree, to buy yourself a present is the best way.....when I tell my mum what I would like she says, ''But I don't want to buy that''!! Jess, my mum had a power drill for her 80th! Guess you would approve? Hope you have brought your toolkit because the rivets between the two roof boxes are getting loose......don't want you and Bobbin to go missing......... Tomorrow we should get down to Plymouth and that's when the excitment begins....Where does Crone live????? Merry

Well, what I want, what I REALLY REALLY want for my C--present, and have wanted for the past five years and have NOT got is: Half a ton of sand and cement and about 50 paving slabs to make a patio. I put forward this idea eagerly, every time anyone asks me what I would like for Mother's Day/Easter/Birthday/C-mas. They look at me aghast and say 'I'm not buying you that (or any part of it)' and buy me chocolates and oven gloves instead. So, why b****y-well ask, then?

Drat - our patio consists of about 50 loose paving slabs which used to have sand and cement holding them down!! Could easily have brought you the 50 slabs - would obviously not have been able to transport Jess and Bobbin though............ Jess has brough THREE smelly carriers with her................Possibly old Tena's, but otherwise they are probably your C-mas pressie........wonder what it is?????? Merry

deffo approve merry - Crone I had fence panels for my birthday once and the year my parents bought my neice and nephew their cutie wendy house thingggy i had a matching grown up version called a shed!- One of those post jobs with a porch and laid my own 12' slab of concrete to put it on, Well, ran miles with the wheel barrow that day cos the cement truck delivered the concrete onto the front garden ...... Alan kept a very low profile that day ,, save trying to construct me a ramp thing to ease the step problem (didnt work, haulled it all up!) I;m keeping quiet about the contents of my carriers merry - its your christmas prezzie actually so would you mind kindly being more discrete? When we have finsihed playing that hunt the dead rellie game we could always bring the headstone back and lay them end to end...so if anyone gets there early send them down to the beach with your wheel barrow and get the foundations laid!!

Jess LOL! Years ago, I ferried about one million tons of sand from the front garden, through the teeny gap which made us a detached house, ha ha and into the back. Not wide enough for a wheelbarrow, so I had to do it two buckets at a time. Later in the week a neighbour caught me in the street: 'We didnt know your poor husband had heart problems' she said sympathetically. He didnt - well, other than being hard-hearted and totally bone idle. Like your idea of laying the gravestones as patio, what a talking point that would be when I host my candle-light summer barbies. Spent a few hours today trying my best to explain to an elderly friend, that when she gets a Water Bill with a CREDIT balance, she doesnt have to pay it. Are you sure? she says, suspiciously. Yes, I'm sure, look here, it says 'No payment required - for your information only' Yes, but that's what the last one said, and I had to pay that. Why did you have to pay it? Well, why would they send me a bill if they didnt want any money? Its for your records. I havent got any records. Well, never mind that, you don't pay it, ok, THEY owe YOU money, not the other way round - OK? (Silence) Then she says: Oh, don't worry about it, Il'l get my neighbour to pay it for me next time she's down the town. I despair! She is £150 in credit!

Welcome Ozi Bird and Pamela. (Pam, when you said, ''I have just finished a yule log etc etc'' I thought you meant you had just finished EATING all those things 'til I got to the end!! Latest Attendee's list: Crone Jess Bobbin Merry several huskies Bev Scott Tina Cheshire Pussy cat Macbev in Perth Ang Oop North/Dn South Fairy Smith Buttercup Fairy (not sure??) Gwyn Ding in Kent Reb Elf Billy the dog Wrinkly Grumpy Old Woman Woe in a Muddle Beryl the Peril Poppy Sue in Midlands Ozi Bird Pamela Ellis Crone, I am going to have to send my Father in Law over to you for a New Year break.......... He is like a Phd in getting confused, whilst your neighbour is only at the ''O'' Level stage........... Mum built her own patio and walls in the garden.....when she and dad were selling up, dad would never tell any prospective buyers that his wife did the work...........''Yes, we had this patio built last year.......'' LOL Merry

Ohh Narie-Louise;; it is been recorded and picled dont worry Babs

Do I want to be pickled? Would I prefer to just rot away slowly in one of Jess's carrier bags? Who knows. Then again, since you can preserve fruits by pickling them in gin etc, I think I will go for that route. However, I intend to try a new, up-to-date method. I shall not immerse myself in the gin. I shall immerse the gin in me. Starting now. Glug, glug, glug. Oi, Beryl and Woe. Listen up, if I miss the tide tonight and you have to set off without me, keep the poop deck clear and I will catch you up. Have bought several cases of baked beans in order to provide the additional thrust to get the necessary speed. See you soon. Tina

i am back home now, and have packed my shopping trolley. spare duct tape to stick my red bin bags together should i encounter high winds. (made by the honky brussell sprouts and carrots i shall be nibbling on the way). Spare red bin bags of course, some extra bits of red tinsel ncase anyone has forgotten their festive g string. I have even added some to the top of my 3 xtimes too big wellies for the journey. the hunt at mothers and mils was a total success....... i knew they wouldnt let us down (hence the shopping trolley). 3 tins of red salmon from c1972, lentils from before dates on packets, 2 tins prunes c1980, but hey they will be more effective because of the date i'm sure, 2 tins of custard (rust on tins and labels a bit stained) but will go lovely with the fruit cocktail someone else was bringing,lurking in back of fridge blue cheese with an authentic crust and fur. (not actually sure it was blue when it started off) a half bottle of sainsburys cheap whiskey (full now as i added some water to save on oc's. we have plenty of water in scotland.) i even found some old cheap cheap c crackers all wrinkled and crumpled but almost in tact. have some new ones from my tree at home as when i got back youngest child (17 in Jan) had removed snaps. logic being i had said 6 c crackers on tree now and 6 when we come back or else, and she only likes the banger bit in the middle, so she removed it, snapped it and left toys shell and hats intact. oh and great fortune prevails. visited an elderly aunt on way home who likes to bulk buy, so i was sure she would not miss the 2 multi packs of t rolls i snaffled under my coat. (just as well I am built to hide such items). I'm sure there was more .....i will dig in thetrolley and tell you later.

i'm sure i told you what i had snaffled from mothers in mils but it has not shown up

Jess, I hope the mushy peas produced a result today?? If not, they will help drive us on our way to Plymouth and the River Tamar and CORNWALL!!!! Sorry about this morning's porridge........The pack of wallpaper paste looked similar on a dark Bridgwater morning........ No ghost of rich rellie seen in Bridgwater :O(( Was hoping to find out why he didn't see fit to leave any of his fortunes to my branch of the tree????? Ah well.......Gee Up huskies.......... Merry

anyone notice the message counts getting smaller last nite it was 439 this morning its only 437 oh and of course this one strange that malc

Malcolm, I blame it on Merry's ghostly ancestors that she is dragging poor Jess to visit on their travels. Did any of them have dogs? Bobbin might like a ghostly companion. Tina

Bobbin is quite happy with the campanion she has thank you. Maybe it isnt her own shadow she is scared of after all - maybe she does have a ghostly friend! its cold in this roof box today - In glad i lined it with the sleeping back to snuggle in , my tummy got quite cold yesterday! Its a wierd feling this being tugged along in a horizontal position - feels a bit like Bob sleighing, except i cant see where i am going! I have pulled my hat down over my nose , because everytime merry goes over a bump , i am still going 'up' as the box come'down' and it isn't doing my nose a lot of good!!

guees you dont want to hear the words BOX ing day ever again jess lol

Quite Malcom! next time someone suggests i travel in the roof box to ANYWHERE i shall decline as politely as i can (not Bloody likely!)

So this is Plymouth Hoe, Ho Ho.....!!! Jess, have you got the directions for Crone's house?? I think she said it was near the thin bit of Cornwall, which means there's a way to go yet............ Is she lighting a homing beacon? Merry

Please forgive me for the interruption.......... but please remember you have to pay a toll soon. :-)

WHERE????????????????? Merry