General Chat

There isn't much work in the garden going on here either, but that is because it is so cold

Yes it is a Civia, good job you can remember

I just watched a very interesting family history TV programme. It followed the families of three sisters from a very poor part of London in the 1830's.

One was transported to Van Diemen's Land. Only two generations down her grandson and his brother became the prime minister and attorney general of Tasmania, the current generation are judges etc.

One sister was transported to Sydney, her descendents ended up in Newcastle, what you would call working class families

The last sister stayed in Shoreditch, all her descendents contineud to live in the poorer areas of London

It was very interesting and about different from the normal looking back type of programme

Hello :-)

Good to hear Tec is well :-)

The plant that Tec gave you is a clivia. I'm so pleased it is doing well.

I'm sick of our weather. It is hot and steamy day after day. The garden is largely neglected because it's too hot to do much work outside.

I've been spending my time back in WW1 ......... I offered to help someone with info on a guy who was born in the UK but served with the OZ forces. He was wounded but survived and was invalided back home ......... 78 pages of records. His life well documented ................ except he disappeared in 1923. Left work but didn't arrive home. News reports of that for several weeks, then nada

I've been trying to find his death but he just seems to have gone to that alien spaceship, while wife and children continued with their lives!

I think I have to call a halt and call it "a mysterious disappearance, has to be presumed dead by now" :-D


Good to hear that Tec is fine. The increased morphine will help, as long as it doesn't make him too woozy. Please give him my love when you next speak to him.

<3 <3 <3 Tec, in case you look in.




The Pineapple Express is running again .............. storm after storm rolling in from the Pacific bring rain, more rain, and more rain. We do get a few brief hours of cloudy but dry in between the storms.


Re teeth ............ it used to be common for parents to pay to have their daughters' teeth removed and dentures made before they got married. This was apparently so that any prospective suitor was assured that he would not be faced with any big bills. I gather this went on at least until the 1920s or 30s

My parents both wore dentures from a young age ..... I think from at least early in their marriage if not before.

I had a nice chat with Tec this afternoon. He is fine, having had his morphine increased quite a bit.

He has been sorting out his fish tank, putting new plants in and is having some new fish delivered later in the week to replace some which have died.

Last time Sue and I went to visit him, he gave me a cutting form one of his houseplants. Of course I have forgotten the name. I split it in two as it had a side branch coming off it. Both plants are thriving and take turns in flowering. They have large orange flowers which last for a long time. I have one on the hearth and keep the other in the study, but swap them over as they flower. I always think of our lovely time with him when I see it

I took an 86 year old gentleman to the dentists this morning to have a filling in a wisdom tooth replaced and the gums cleaned. He wasn't looking forward to it. His wife who came as well said that having all hers out when she was 21 was the best thing she has done. I am not so sure about that, but my if I last that long, I may agree with her as my back ones are starting to fail

I have been playing up my tree this evening. I have just added lots of records to my tree from the 1939 register.
One of the families had twelve children and they were all on the register as adults.

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and OH and I are doing very well, thank you

I don't live with Sylvia, but OH and I are well :-D

Good to hear that Tec is well.

Hope you and Sylvia are doing well.

I am crazy...at times. Life is more fun when you are.

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Oh, I read that as if you were crazy....on second thoughts :-D

No I'm here....things have been a bit crazy these days.

Ah there you are, I had given up on you

Cooooeeee!!

I had to go or a fasting blood test this morning, 8.40 am at the surgery :-(

I was pleased to get back for coffee and then breakfast in that order

It is a lovely sunny day, I have lots of housework to do, but I am trying to avoid it

Dydd Gwyl Dewi Hapus to Tec

I have just taken two ladies to the Alzheimer's day care centre, I have to pick them up again this afternoon. One was fine apart from saying "What would we do without cars" over and over again.
The other one really needed a minibus which takes wheelchairs. Her daughter puts her in the front of the car and the carers get her out at the other end. She was on the seat at a crazy angle, leaning over towards me. I don't think she knew much at all. Very sad, I hope I don't end up like that. Still the day care gives her family a break.

Tomorrow I have to take a chap to a four hour cancer treatment appointment , then take my usual lady shopping, it is all go

Dydd Gwyl Dewi Hapus to Tec

I have just taken two ladies to the Alzheimer's day care centre, I have to pick them up again this afternoon. One was fine apart from saying "What would we do without cars" over and over again.
The other one really needed a minibus which takes wheelchairs. Her daughter puts her in the front of the car and the carers get her out at the other end. She was on the seat at a crazy angle, leaning over towards me. I don't think she knew much at all. Very sad, I hope I don't end up like that. Still the day care gives her family a break.

oh dear!

That would be very awkward for him!


OH keeps trying to correct my Welsh pronunciation ....... Welsh was actually his first language because his maternal grandmother lived with them and took care of him, especially after 1940 when his Dad went into the Navy and his mother had to run the pharmacy and shop on her own.

Nain used to take him to meet her Welsh relatives on Crewe station, as a good midway meeting point.

Mum and Nain then had to make sure that OH was speaking and understanding English for when his Dad came home.

He's forgotten how to talk in Welsh now, of course, but he still knows how to pronounce the written word.


I'm a heathen Lancashire lass :-D

I spoke to Tec this afternoon, he is fine. Now safe after last week when he woke up dangling out of the bed with his head on the floor. Poor thing, it was funny when he recounted the tale afterwards, but not so at the time. Anyway he has now bought some rails, so he is safe and sound.

He gave me aa Welsh lesson, so I could pronounce Llanyre, but I have forgotten it now

It is freezing here, it is supposed to get warmer tomorrow, but that means it is going to rain, so you can't win :-(

In the English counties I mostly research in, I know all the villages, so when I look at search results things leap out at me, but the Welsh names may as well be on the moon as far asI am concerned