General Chat

Cheers Gwen.

My mother threw my first layette away when they moved in the late sixties and what I was most upset about was she also chucked my dad's little leather slippers with pompoms on, He didn't know she had until I was looking for them.

Re my Avatar:
Well I did have red hair once, but like me it's faded and has streaks of white hear and there. One of the hairdressers at the salon asked me if I had colours put through it. I have never ever put a colour of any sort through my hair. I'd like to say it grew old gracefully like me but there is nothing graceful about me.

This was the nicest one I could find of Persephone on the net.

We will look forward to a pic from you Marie.

Persie

BIT THICK TODAY
HOW COME I CANT SEE THE FIRST 36 PAGES

MARIE
THATS MY PICTURE I WAS A COUPLE OF MONTHS OLD,,AND I STILL HAVETHE DRESS IN A BOX 61 YEARS
,REAL VINTAGE LIKE ME

Hello all ,
Cow Girl ,I for one, are never offended by what anyone say's, I just thing it's lovely to see you all posting.Please do pop in again it's been so long since we have heard from you. Have you heard from Merle the Pearl?

Joy I like your Photo,Lovely smile.You obviously live in Kent they tell me it is a lovely place.
Dizz, is that you as a baby?and you are right I like Perisephone's Picture very Old world.
What about Sir Tones Picture !!! Woo Woo a large Red Roo
I have a picture in Mind but I havent had the time to scan & post.I am waiting for BADGER to put his on.
I think he is off on another little break,I do hope you are well Fred and also your good wife.
Mary where are you Cooee I am still waiting for you to call in and have a coffee ;-) ;-) I hope that all is well and that your husband is ok :-)

<3 I must leave as I have more washing to hang and I am off to the doctor to have a flu injection :O later to-day LOL :D
Take care watch the bug's :-( :-(

Love & Hugs,
Marie



<3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 :-)

"This is a lovely thread by the way even tho I don't come here often."

Ditto :-)

PERSEPHONE
I LOVE YOUR PICTURE <3

LOL Cowgirl

I am just a Rimu amongst the Wattlers and wondered what had happened.

This is a lovely thread by the way even tho I don't come here often.

Persie xx :-)

my sincere and heartfelt apologies to any and all Wattlers i may have upset with my (now) deleted post. I was just trying to be as open as possible with as many Wattlers as possible and only succeded in confusing and upsetting people.
will go and stand in the corner for a while
sorry Tony, Mary and others :S

well that works, I haven't managed the 'researching names' very well, but I'll fix it up later.
PS, Marie, The boys did like their piece about their grandfather. Later that day their father told me some more about his dad, and how the war had affected him greatly. very sad

hi , I'm still trying to find my way around too. I dont like the little pics, so testing with this post to see whether you get them regardless.

nice and sunny, I'm back on the mulch pile xox

Evening All, Im still trying to find my way around the new setup.Boo Hoo, this old girl doesnt like change....lol :D

Downloaded new version of Firefox last night, grrrr, supposed to be faster, But I dont think it is.. :P

I have some Hales in my tree... back in the 1700s

They "haled" from Bekesbourne'

Sadly no Sadds.

I have so many Ancestors from Kent, they go back to the 1400s. Didn't get out much.

Persie ;-)

You are sounding a lot better Marie..

After yesterdays absolute weather from hell - buckets of it belted down. We have had a sunny warm day here today. It's a nightmare all this chopping and changing of clothes to suit the weather. Went out the other morning - it was cold - all wrapped up and then the sun came out and had to start stripping off and go for a cold drink.
I could have downed a schooner or two of what that Kangaroo is drinking.

Persie :-)

Hello to you all,
The weather is also very cold here, my toes are frozen :S
I had my 72 nd birthday yesterday had a lovely day despite the sleet and rain I went to lunch with my 2 best pals, then had Dinner with Kathleen and family also Barbara and her 2 girls lots of cuddles :D.

Still very cold here to-day the sun is trying to poke ;-) his nose through.I have been working flat out on the Hayward reunionI managed to buy the name tags yesterday ,I will come up with something fancy to put in them. <3

I am having terrible trouble with the Renes Reunited site .If I manage to get the site when I click on., to what I want, the green line takes for ever & then stops dead in the middle to where i want to go.
I have tried clicking the refresh at the top of the page but the same thing keeps happening.
I have been trying to get on to the boards for over an hour and this post is my first success, It is so frustrating, Grrrr. :-(
Stay well
hugs Marie

Hi Persie.

Strange why anyone would want to smuggle a Kiwi out of N.Z.!!

Not as if its going to blend in with other native animals in Russia...lol



Tony :-)

I was a bit of a dummy - I went to go on a thread and entered the realms of genealogy chat instead of general and wondered why I couldn't find it.

That genealogy one is a real amalgamated one now!! I used to always look at tips and records office - sometimes there would be a NZ question in the records office.

And ... a little brown kiwi has somehow ended up in Russia.... tottering around a park there. Not bad going since they can't fly only like the dark really and didn't have a passport. He is not a bird that people usually try to smuggle out of our country.

Persie xx

Hi Marie.

Yes, looking forward to our yearly holiday to Thailand.
There are 16 of us going in my own immeadiate family, and it appears to be growing each year :-)
When we first went over 3 years ago ( Phuket )there were only 6 of us, but our numbers have grown. :-)
Sorry to hear you have a viral infection......take care <3


Dizzi. Yes, i think we have researched our HALES before.
My lot are my greats. Mary Hales 1813 is my 2x great grandmother and bapt in Earls Colne, Essex........daughter of Bernard Hales and Susanna SADD

Joy ( Kentish maid ) and myself have been looking for a blood connection between our SADD family name for sometime now. Some of her SADD family came to Aussie as well.

Winter in Oz is on its way, and this morning we had ice on the car roofs for the first time and a temp of 8c at 8-00am this morning.......so the heating is on at night now. 10-30 at the moment we are 11c........but at the least the sun is out and defrosting my body... :S :D

Av a good un

Tony * who hates the cold and probably wouldnt survive in the U.K in winter*....lolol

TONY
I SEE YOU HAVE HALES ON YOUR RESEARCH
MINE ARE ORIGINALY FROM CORK.
AND IM RESEARCHING MCCARTHY FOR FRIENDS.

OPPS SORRY HI FOLKS SORRY FOR BEING SO RUDE

Hello Tony,
Lucky bugger off to the warm north , while I freeze my butt off in Bathurst .

Laurie off to Qld, I hope you have a great time, but dont spoil those Grandkids too much or you may not get invited back,LOL

Well folks I haven't been well for the past 10 days I have a viral Infection and it is taking me some time to get rid of it.I am no good until after lunch I spend most of the morning coughing and spitting , and then can only do a little bit of work.
I can report that the 4 frosts we have had has wiped out any Summer Veggies I had left.
Badger seems like your weather is improving it is good to hear. I also did a month's suger ration on Sunday,I was supposed to go to brunch with my 2 girls and their familys for mothersday but I wasn't up to the task so they brought me back a nice coffee and a cheese with chocolate pieces , there goes all the sugar allocation for a month, oh well it was very nice.
I must away as I have a phone call to make
Love & Hugs to you all
Marie.

Researching :- John O'Brien bc 1847 from Castlehaven Cork Ireland, Annie Moloney bc 1847 Wesr Meath, bc 1820 John Moloney Meath, Mary Brennan bc 1820 Meath Ireland

Evening :-) and morning to those oop the other end of the planet..lol

Loz. Yes ta, i did find where my "tips" thread and "Records" threads were.....they are amalgamated into the"Genealogy chat" forum.

I had to nudge them up to see which board they were on... :-)


Still trying to work out where everything has been moved to,but it appears Chat and General are now one forum, so the board will move very quickly now. "Trying to find" board is now "Find Ancestors"....but i'm sure we will get used to it as we have for the last 7-8 years of changes since iv'e been a member.

Tis 7:30 pm in Melbourne, and just waiting for the Footy to come on tele at 8:30..........a quick nick up to the local Chinese restaurant for some take-away, as her and me are on our pat malone to-night, and its cheaper on me wallet if the kids are not here.... ;-) ;-) :D

Wishing all a great weekend.....and only circ.100 sleeps to go till i get to taste my Red,Green, and Yellow Thai curries again ..lol

Av a good un.

Tony "The Bush Kangaroo".... :D