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At his best ... if he's actually a zombie.

Maybe that explains a lot ...

Here we are! Stephen Harper loves little kitties!

http://scrapetv.com/News/News%20Pages/Everyone%20Else/images/stephen-harper-kitten.jpg

Did you out there hear the furore a few years back when an Ontario tory sent out a press release describing the provincial Liberal leader as an Evil reptilian kitten-eater from another planet?

Tsk. When he's so obviously Norman Bates.

http://torontoist.com/attachments/toronto_karen/2007_01_23Perkinty.jpg

Just looked him up on Utube......Nah!....very pretty but.....If you don't want him......we have problems of our own LOL

Maybe a direct trade?

We didn't elect Stephen Harper!!! you know.

The right-wing cretins get 37.6% of the popular vote and all of a sudden he's Prime Minister ... again. Two years earlier they had 36.3%, same result. I like parliamentary democracy, but not the first-past-the-post voting system!

So I'd be very, very, very happy to trade our unelected PM for yours ...

Oh heavens to murgatroid. Now who's an idiot.

Joe Biden blondish fairly pleasant looking yankee currently vice president of USA. Hey I've just managed to learn to spell Barrack Obama (well that's near enough).

And I always thought Pierre Trudeau was Prime Minister of Canada. Did he retire or something. Oh doesn't time fly.

No he's dead. He was Prime Minister in the 70's. Died in 2000.
He was about 80 when he died.

Blonde hair? Arctic blonde maybe.

Edit . Just Googled he is 67 this year,

Have a question for the bright one.

Fathers name: George Whitney dob c. 1768 (note approx)
Mothers name: Catharine
Child's name: George Whitney chr 1799

Question: Catharine's maiden name/parents

1841 census has Catharine living with George and George and others at Castle St, St Mary, Shropshire.

Estimate date of marriage for Catharine and George between 1796-1799

Options from IGI - two. (1) named Catherine the other (2) Catharine

1. GEORGE WHITNEY - International Genealogical Index / BI
Gender: Male Marriage: 18 FEB 1794 Norton Canon, Hereford, England

2. GEORGE WHITNEY - International Genealogical Index / BI
Gender: Male Marriage: 28 DEC 1799 Middlewich, Cheshire, England

I am not going to pre-empt your answer by making assumptions. Did wonder about the localities. Not sure I have correct George Senior and correct dob.

Options please before I spend more of my money on certificates which will be used to wallpaper the dunny.

TYIAOYR

Morning everyone

Just to let you know, I had downed a full bottle of Red Wine last night and now have a huge hangover, for my sins

Sorry all for getting all hot and bothered over nothing, but I was in a really shitty mood, very upset and decided to take it out on you all.

I apologise to one and all unreservedly and hope you will accept.

Barbara.

Thank you. I have replied via the magic of electronic wizardry!!

Well LADYbarabara.
I would think that the other lot are just about surfacing,I have been listening to them snoring since 7 am ,so they should stop soon.

Bit of luck I didnt put my oar in and say what I thought of someone last night then and ran for the anderson shelter instead,or I would have been having to give out the sorries too!!

Must say that loud one was quite restrained with the tongue,wonders never cease.

Try white wine next time,it seems not to have so much of the aggression factor in it I find,and you are obviously a lightweight as it takes at least 3 bottles to get me that wound up over nothing.

Its not the alcohol that causes the hangover,its the waking up!

All I can add is that a certain Aunty Sherlock will have a large bucket of very old mole stew waiting balanced on top of the door of Nut Lodge for when she next walks in, the naughty Ozzer.

AND I want to know how she knows I snore. Very quietly, in a ladylike way. (Have been known to even wake myself up).

As for Miss Janey, I am catapaulting some disgusting old risotto, mixed with gelignite over to her Canadian location.

Lol :))))

Meriiiiiiiiiweather. Where are the Cyber Pets. Are you shirking your nanny duties.

Where are those cute little nessiemodo dragons. Don't tell me you put them in the sick bucket and knicker-elasticked them over to Canada.

That's not very sporting. Poor Janey won't know what to do with them. Those Canadians ride cows, roll cheeses downhill and actually like their prime ministers. She'll make mincemeat out of them.

I hope you haven't done irretrievable damage to our Canadian compatriots some of them knows their ways around research muddles, even with wooden spoons in their hands. (for stirring, in case you are uncomprehending as well as. .....a snorer..... oh dear, never mind).

I need a bath, my pants are wet.

Auntyyyyyyyyy, as if I would leave my little babies behind anywhere! The are with me all the time, now and follow their Nanny around everywhere. Firmly imprinted, I think. :)))) Wouldn't dream of letting that Miss Janey get her mitts on them.

Yes, dear, I do know what a wooden spoon does when it is in metaphorical employment. LOLOL

I should add that you have heard nothing sweeter than my snoring. wmsl

I have to report quite sadly that Rob Thomas and Orlando Bloom tripped over the bucket of mole stew whilst visiting Nut Lodge for afternoon tea. And with that little bon mot I will leave you to your evening while I go and practice my most refined snoring.

It is now 11am on a lovely sunny morning here in the real world, and here's me not at church. No.1 informs me it will rain before long. I just wandered down the path that winds through the little side garden around the linden tree, hoping to emerge alive before the exploding hostas and ferns and asters and violets grabbed my ankles and dragged me down for compost.

LadyB, that was as I figured, and I hope you are feeling better. As you may have noticed, I talk about my own troubles only if I can make light of them, but I know there are some troubles that cannot be made light of.

I have received a PM warning me to watch out for Aunty. What's all this genealogy brouhaha in a perfectly civilized chitchat thread then? In answer to "is it 1 or 2?" I say "purple". If there are two with the same names already, why not 3, or 7?

Was Orlando Bloom not a character in a Virginia Woolf novel? Or am I being just too literate here?

I campaigned for the Liberals when I was 16 and Trudeau was the Paul McCartney of the political world. By the time I turned 17 I'd seen the error of my childish ways and had joined the correct party. Yes, he's dead. His son Justin is being groomed now. I named Justin. The cook in the fast-food restaurant where I was working was musing about how they should call him Gimmick. I said no, Justin! It's English, it's French, it's classical, classically educated Trudeau's motto was "the just society". They never delivered my prize. Here; drool:

http://images.google.ca/images?hl=en&q=justin+trudeau&btnG=Search+Images&gbv=2

His mother Margaret Sinclair Trudeau (she who had an affair with the Rolling Stones) Kemper (that last husband was a shark real estate developer I once beat in court for slum landlord practices) was featured in our own Who Do You Think You Are. Her grx4 grfather was one of the guys who built Raffles hotel in Singapore.

I revoke my answer. "Purple" is not correct.

In 1841, mother Catherine, and George and Elizabeth, are not born in county, i.e. in Shropshire (G&E's eldest child is).

1851

Name: George Whitney
Age: 50
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1801
Relation: Head
Spouse's name: Elizth - born Badenham, Herefordshire
>> Where born: Weshbly, Herefordshire, England

Civil parish: Shrewsbury St Chad
Town: Shrewsbury
County/Island: Shropshire


So the Herefordshire one looks good.

You had better not have a thread going about this somewhere.

GEORGE WHITNEY
Christening: 11 SEP 1799 Weobley, Hereford, England
Father: GEORGE WHITNEY
Mother: CATHARINE
Batch No.: C139741

Only one in that batch with those parents.

GEORGE WHITNEY
Spouse: ELIZABETH SOUTH
Marriage: 12 MAY 1823 Stoke Prior, Hereford, England
Batch No.: M137271

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Edit.

aaaaaaaaaargh.

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards.asp?wci=thread&tk=1150777&px=7

If someone would pass me the wooden spoon, I have another use for it. One of my stock of 2x4s might be better.

Ouch, sounds painful, Janey. :)))

PS Aunty brings genealogy into every thread she lands on and she tries to give us all nasty tasks to carry out for her.

lol

I can offer the feather duster cane that my paternal nan used on us lot,rather worn,but still servicable,sadly devoid of feathers except for a few whisps.

Oh confounded strewth, blimey and guuuurgle.

It's bad enough being lambasted on one thread.

I can just about handle two.

But three??!!! There just has to be a limit.

I will be spending all my days apologizing and kowtowing to you mangy lot.

So I spread my unintelligence??!!!


Do you notice how I paragraph my sentences on this thread. I have wooden spoon marks on my botty to learn me to do it proper.

Expected another chastimement the other day for deleting a post on JCs thread.

Oh well must away. Have reeeeessearch work to do.