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Val in SA

Do you have a system for the filing? This is a serious question and if anyone else would like to share their system I would be pleased to read it. I am hopelss at these tasks, as my employers have always said "I think outside the box" which has been very good in my career BUT is a D??n nuisance at other times.

All advice is welcome

Bridget

PS I think this is the 200th message!

Hello Bridget,

Not exactly! I have everything in acid-free plastic sleeves in Lever Arch Files at the moment, I have each person's certificates etc. together. I don't really know what else to do. Perhaps there is someone who could advise us.

200 messages - WOW!


Val in SA.

When I go back to UK I am going to buy these acid free sleeves.
I have set up the first five files for different family surnames, Ford, Cowley, Jukes. Dael and Fillmer.
Dael and Fillmer are the most difficult to find as Dael originates from Denmark and Fillmer from Germany in the 1800s.

I went into the garden a while ago to listen to the band music from town but it was too hot to saty there.
OH told me that the music woke him this morning at about 04.30 hrs but have to say I didn"t hear it, so it looks as if the Mayors plan has not worked completley.

Val in SA did you see the new recipes?

well going to do some more research now

Bye

Bridget

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Good morning Bridget,

Am I early this morning??

Seems as if it will be a nice day to-day. Our Ladies Fellowship Group is meeting at our new Policlinic this afternoon. We are going to be given a tour of the facilities which should be interesting, and then we will be having tea and cake at the tearoom. I am looking forward to that.

I have received my crossword puzzles from my friends in England so that will be what I will be doing to-day!!

I saw the fish recipes but we are not great fish eaters, we have a bit of fried fish and chips now and again.

Another nice SA wine is Spier.

Hope you all enjoy the day.


Val in SA.

Bridget,
I have a couple of places you can try for Danish and German relatives if you would like them.
Regards,
Frances

Good afternoon all, Frances I thought my OH was the only one who spent a lot of time flying (or trying to fly and land) various aircraft and helicopters. He is fine with the flying but not so good with landing so hope he never has to take over the controls of an aircraft!! We'd be going round in circles!

Keith, pleased to hear your good news - holidays here you come then??

Bridget, I have all my family history stuff in acid free holders in 2 ring binders. According to names, blue binders for paternal, red for maternal on my tree and Turquoise for maternal and green for paternal on OH's tree. General notes in one black and one purple binder.

Ann xx

Gosh Ann you are terribly organised. I have everything in binders but they all the same colour, black so have added the names on the outside. I am trying to do a separate resume of each family with added pictures of places and people if I have them, but I keep getting side-tracked.
Regards,
Frances
PS OH is quite good at landing aircraft, even think he could do it for real, well he has had enough practice (on the flight simulator, I mean). We had a flight in a helicopter when we were in Germany so now he is determined to master it. He actually hates flying for real!!!!

Just wrote a long reply, hit the wrong button and deleted it.

I am now sulking and going to have some lunch!!! I may even have a glass of wine....I will be back!

bridget

Good morning everyone I hope that it will be a wonderful day for you all!

Frances, I will send a PM with the names etc of the people I am trying to reseach in Germany and Copenhagen. Thank you for your offer.


Keith,
have you settled into your ne work place, do let us all know how you are doing, going to any more concerts?

Val in SA
How was your meeting, is it monthly and also which are your favourite types of crosswords.?
I like the cryptic crosswords but do not do many of them as OH is so fast at them that I become demoralised. He also does crosswords on line and really enjoys The Englsh Times crossworrds.

I am plodding on with the filing and have decided that simple is best and a folder for each family name.

I have a lot of certs to order and think that the cheapest way is to do this online...I shall have them sent to my sister or daughter and then they can forward the info by email, until I visit them again. The post here is AWFUL!
We do not have a delivery because we are up the mountain and we cannot rent a box in town because there are not enough...hence everything completed online!!!!

More info on the flying please. My regret in life is that I never learnt to fly...twice I thought i was going to..first husbvand worked for BA and they had a flying club...two months before I was due to start it closed and second time when we lived in Essex near to Epping Forest I was going to learn at the local flying club, but Black Monday took a hefty swipe at us so I couild not justify spending the saved money... Maybe I could have a go on line..eh eh. now that would be fun.

The mornings here are now very darlk until around 7am and the temps have certainly dropped, Autumn has arrived, although the trees all around are evergreen so we do not have those wonderful autmnal colours that one sees in the UK. I fact I miss the seasons, we seem to have Winter and Summer only,.

Which is your favourite season and why?

Well Jet and Joe are telling me it is time to feed them, I need my morning coffee and my quiet time, mood is better today, not sure what made my mood lower yesterday....



The Quiz last night was well attended and my team came second..the same team always win but we only meet for friendship and fun so no hard feelings...the two chaps are TV freaks and the score was 98%....of 8 rounds of 10 questions in each round.

Bye for now

hope to hear from you all today

Bridget

Hello Bridget,

Well done on the quiz last night, it sounds like fun. Is it a regular event.

We had some rain again last night but this morning the sun is shining.
If we don't have decent rain soon we will be having water restrictions again.

Our ladies meet monthly and we try to have a speaker or go on an outing.

The visit to the new Policlinic was very interesting, after seeing all the facilities we had tea and milk tart at the tearoom and had our meeting.
In an emergency we can now go straight to the Policlinic and not have to waste time getting to the nearest hospital which is about a l5 minuite drive from here.

I simply love cryptic crosswords, the one we have in our daily newspaper is from the Daily Telegraph. Then of course my friend sends me the puzzle from the Lady Magazine which is quite different to anything here.

Flying? My you are adventurous!!

My filing system is also quite simple a sleeve for each family member.

Have just returned from taking my husband to have a haircut, and he sure looks a whole lot better!!!

Well every body have a lovely day.


Val in SA.

Morning Bridget,
My OH doesn't fly for real he uses a flight simulator! (Microsoft 2004 with updates)
Weather today is a little cloudy but it is still warm and very pleasant. There is a nice gentle breeze, just my sort of weather. I hibernate when it is too hot.
I will PM you with the people you can contact re Denmark & Germany.
Regards
Frances
Apologies to Ann for adding an e to her name.

Hello Bridget, Thank you for inviting me to visit daily, but I don't do much to be able to fill in a daily record. I only go out for a drive once a week (to keep my car active so that I can rely on it to get me to the supermarket, fruit market, chemist, doctor, etc. I don't go anywhere else. When I go to visit my children, they usually come for me and bring me home again so that I won't have to drive (and I LOVE driving!!). Oh well - they mean well.

I can tell you that we are having good weather. Typical early Spring with temps around 21 to 23 and very little sign of rain. We had warmer weather than this during Winter, but that was unusual. I hope you are all having good weather wherever you are. There, see? That's all I can think of to say for now. Oh yes, my daughter came to see me to-day and we talked non-stop until she went home again. I'm sure that must be rivetting news for you! I'll try to do better next time.

Berona

Welcome to our thread.
There you see it wasn't as difficult as you thought and in fact if you read back most of us live pretty straight forward lives.
We discuss anything from what was on the news, what we have done in the house, the garden, friends and family visiting or not!

What cheers us up, what puts us in amood.

We even try to describe where we live and this is fun because it uses our baran, or in my case what little I have left, to describe what is going on around us.

For example, the weather, the plants which are growing or not, what we like about where we live, what we don not like about where we live, what has made us laugh, what has made us feel sad or angry...

.I am really looking forward to seeing you again sometime this week, and you will have to acknowledge this message if nothing else.!

So some questions,

Where do you live, in whch country, county, how long have you been there what do you like about it what do you not like about it etc etc.

bye for now

Bridget


PS you say that you like driving so tell us where you go or would like to go and why.

Thanks

Morning Bridget,
You haven't slept in have you?
Another lovely day here. Have done all the housework, hung out the washing, had my coffee so decided I would spend some time on the computer. Hot Matches have arrived......lots of Mary Unknowns..again!!!!
Enjoy the day
Frances.

Good afternoon everyone!

Well I think that today I have set a personal best for not writing until the afternoon!

Yes, I slept in this morning and didn't wake until 08.15...now that is really late for me but is part of my sleep pattern. I seem to sleep very few hours for around three months then simply have a long night 23.00 to 08.00ish and the off I go again.

We went shopping this morning around 09.30 for fresh veg and we also found some fresh milk which is luxury here.! Also bought some lovely freshly baked bread, which will have to be eaten today as it is without any preservaitves at all! Yummee.

We had an un expected visitor just as we finished putting everything away. As soon as OH realised who it was he moved downstairs and was not seen again until she left. I must say, I was not overjoyed either. Oh that does make me sound horrible, but she never comes by unless there is a problem.
This was so today...it is difficult because her husband does not come to Spain with her but it does become irksome when the only time you see someone is when they need their car towed or repaired, to use the computer for five minutes which becomes 2 hours, wants to change English money into Euors and can't use her card for soooo many reasons, wants OH or his friend to take her somewhere even though she drives and so and so on!!!
Today she refused the first offer for a coffe and I didn't offer again, then she sat and told me all the difficullties re her 3 properties here, how everyone tells lies, and could OH drive her about 30 kilometeres away, and wait for her while she did some business and then bring her back!

The answer was "NO, sorry but he has other arrangements" to which she replied "OH I will have to use all my petrol and I do not like driving that far".

A few minutes of rubbish talk and then I said had some important things to do on Computer and I would see her soon,. She took the hint and left.


Sorry folks , I just had to get that off my chest...We are well known in the area and would normally help anyone, give them a bed for the night if needed, have peoples family stay if they can't fit them all in, have helped local people if they need to go to doctor, clinic etc but sometimes one is simply "used" and this is what this lady does.

Oh my goodness I wonder what you will all think of me now.

It is a beautiful day here, the sun is shining temp around 30, also a slight breeze, Jet and Joe are sleeping on some cool tiles in the shade, OH is playing music, Jimmy Henderson is what he is into today, tommorow it could be classical as he has very wide rangeing likes and dislikes.

I have masses of ironing to do, and should do some housework so Frances you have put me to shame....housework or comp>>>>????

I must have a look at the culinary site as I am going to make a Pizza today and we will have that with salad and fresh bread,
I will see if there is anything which may inspire me for tomorrow. I have some loin of Pork for tomorrow and lots of veg all locally grown and therfore organic...

Also want to write trees that I can put on an email and send them to my brother in law. He asked me to try to do his family tree and everything fell into place so quickly.
I even had people who are his distant cousins contact me. He does not have a comp so will send everything to my niece.

I will pop back later to see if there are anymore entries today,

Bye for now

Bridget

A friendly hello Bridget,

What a beautiful day it is here to-day, just right for a stroll on the beach.

I think we probably all know someone like your visitor, and it is good to be able to get it off your chest.

We don't often have fish but yesterday my daughter brought us some lovely fried fish for lunch. At about 4 in the afternoon my husband had what can only be an allergic reaction to the fish. Needless to say we didn't have much sleep and off we went to our doctor this morning. After a cortisone injection and some more cream to rub on the weals and rash he is feeling more comfortable. We cannot understand this as he has eaten fish his whole life. Oh well...........

Much to my amazement the South Africans won their rugby match against New Zealand to-day, they always seem to fade in the second half. I must add that I am not really a rugby fan.

That's it for now.



Val in SA.

Bridget, You are just normal, we all know people like the person who came to your house.
Frances

Val and fracis

Thanks for telling me I am normal to know such a person,,,very re assuring.

Val, sorry to hear about the reaction your husband had, it is strange hoow we can suddenly develop these things. I expect it has put him off fish!

I have caught up with the ironing except for the bed linen, I will do that tomorrow.

The family just down the mountain from us ar having their annual family gathering,..I really enjoy listening to them all, it is like the house of Babel, French, Spanish, German, Italian and now and again a little English, the children seem to dip in and out of most of the conversations in any language. The tables have been brought out of the house and all set up with whit linen, and some flowers, the chairs are in place, and the decorations are up...now they have gone to have their siesta...

Will tell you more about it tomorrow.

Bye for now

Bridget

Good morning to everyone

Well I have just done it again, written a fairly long entry and then hit the wrong button and found myself back on my email page!! I have a feeling that someone is trying to tell me to be little more concise...

We had a good day yesterday and I feel very relaxed this morning. Despite the disco etc and the fireworks we have managed to have a good sleep until a short while ago. OH closed all the windows and shutters when we retired last night, simply to cut out the noise from down in town, and put all the fans on...Jet and Joe also settled then as they hate fire works, and Jet barks so loudly when he hears them...
Our neighbours party seemd to go well and it always surprises me how late even the youngest child stays up even when they are obviously fractious... however by 23.00hrs everything had been cleared away and only a few of the adults were still sitting enjoying the late evening.


Today the sky is a mix of colours from pale blue and light grey clouds to the west, pale blue with lots of fluffy clouds to the east, darker blue and very few clouds to the south but to the north the sky is spectacular. Pale grey fluffy clouds withe the sun shining through and in one sopot a huge Magenta or crimson colour sky through which the sun is shining...not sure what this means re the weather for today but it is wonderful to look at.

We haven't anything special planned for today but we will most likely go for a stroll after lunch, and call in o the English Bar so the OH can watch some football with his friends. As the bar closes at 18.00 hrs we will be home 10 minutes later.

I had my quiet time today before I came down here to the study/lounge and sent all my positive thoughts to those with worries or concerns and concentrated on those with family illnesses to cope with. I also wondered about those who live alone and sometimes feel lonely. Oh. I know that many people enjoy being alone and have a great time.

Val, did you manage to have a stroll on the beach yesterday..how far away from the beach are you? How is your husband today, I hope he has recovered from his reaction to the fish.?

Jet and Joe are letting me know that they want their breakfast, I can hear OH wandering around upstairs so it is time for me to sign off, but as usual I will peep in later today.

Enjoy the day everyone and if it is difficult at sometime, just share what you can with us and we will listen even if we cannot help...and I will add you to my quiet thinking time

Bye for now

Bridget

Good day Bridget and everyone,
Lovely mellow day today, the air is so soft. Quite cloudy though as yet none of it looks threatening. Have done my ironing too and believe it or not the linen basket is empty!!!
We have decided to have a roast chicken today with roast potatoes and broccoli...good to tell it is getting autumnal. We will then have it cold tomorrow with salad and then OH will make a soup which will last two days for lunch and all this from a Lidl chicken, certainly good value for money at 2.89euros.
Enjoy the day
Frances