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Dear All

Hello

My name is Elizabeth. I have wanted to do family research for over 20 years.

In 2008, I finally started on my family tree and so became hooked.

I live in South England, way east around London. I am not posh, very ordinary.

Yes, family, assorted saucepan lids as well. My age is a guarded secret.  Under the Geneva Convention, usage is sometimes required on here, I give name, rank and number only!

I have an interest in films, music, nature and like seeing people contented.

I sometimes add a post here and there. I have been known to give advice but I work 'the scenes'.

There are some very supportive people on here and excellent researchers who help others.

Take care all
Very best wishes
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Hello Everyone, just popped on to say hello to you all. Ann this is lovely thread, everyone is nice and friendly and pleasant. I've been with GR for about 4years, but have only added to threads for just over a year. I mainly add to Mo in Kent and Just Jeans thread, which is a thread like this, friendly and welcoming, and of course sometimes to Ann's Scrapbooking and Crafts thread, and sometimes to Daffs thread.

Persephone, NZ isn't the only place that's having the silly season on TV. It's just the same here in frozen Britain, nothing much to watch, except for the odd programme and lots of repeats.I don't think I've spoken to you before, it's nice to 'speak' to you.

Kathleen, I don't think I have spoken to you before either, so ' hello it's nice to speak to you'. My son lives not too far away from you, about half a mile away from the M4, very convenient for Heathrow. Glad to hear the good news about your daughter, I hope she will continue as she is now, and that the cancer will never return.

Mummo, how is your husband? I hope he is continuing to improve, and that everything will be in place so that he can return home this coming week. Are you managing to get to the hospital alright with the snow and ice about? Please give him my best wishes.

Ann, I've never seen Slumdog Millionnaire, haven't really fancied it. You''ll have to let us know if you manage to get into the TV film with sub titles.
How is the weather down with you. We've had a bit more snow here in Derbyshire, and we have very cold easterly wind blowing.

Hello to both Theresa and Sylvia, nice to speak to you both.

I hope Sylvia enjoyed her birthday and that the weather was good for them.

Speak to all soon.

Love, Sallie.

Hi Sallie, good to meet you.

Hi Elizabeth, good to hear from you to.

I think that we may have "met" on other threads.

Hello all, how lovely to see so many posts since I was last on here. I have just been watching 'so you think you can dance' and In it to win it' the only lottery programme that I watch.

Kathleen so pleased for your daughter, here's hoping for continued good reports and a good result in two+ years time.

Elizabeth, thank you for your input and welcome to you, we have spoken before of course.

Mummo, you go careful with clearing the ice, you don't want to put your back out now.

Jean (mon) Hope you keep any snow up your way and don't send it down here to us.

Theresa, pleased that this time the R & Ride ran, and that youw ere able to get out for a while.

Sallie, If I remember to watch it again I will let you know. weather has not been too bad today, too icy to step outside the door but no cold wind so far and no snow today, some sun which melted most of the ice on the car.

Mo, good evening, good to see you on here, I wouldn't dare say youw ere a gas bag. Threads like this thrive on people who love to chat.

Sylvia, I hope that you enjoyed your trip to Vanvouver Island.. Are you still getting over the Celebrations?

Hi Ann and everyone


It did take me some time to get over the celebrations :))))

We had a lovely dinner out on Thursday ..................... there were 7 of us, we've been friends for between 38 and 43+ years. So, we can chatter away, everyone knows where we are coming from ..... and we can even be controversial and no-one gets upset :))


Then one of the couples had us all round on Friday night for another dinner, with everyone except us contributing something to the meal.


The ferries were the emptiest that I think I have ever seen ...... but this is the January doldrums, when people stay home and try to pay off the Christmas bills!



It is now raining hard, and is soooooooooo warm. It was expected to get to at least 12C today.



This is not good.


The Winter Olympics start 4 weeks tomorrow!


Warm weather means no snow on the local mountains


Most of the outdoor events are in a place called Whistler, about 1 hour + north of Vancouver, and should be OK. But the "newer" snow sports such as snowboarding and ski cross are on the mountains across the harbour ................ two of the sites on those mountains have closed their ski slopes down today because of snow melt, and the third may do the same tomorrow..



Hopefully, the temperatures will drop after this week ....................... machines can make snow when temperatures are below about 1C



Well, I wasn't in favour of having the Games in the first place .............. but we really don't need the embarrassment that would be caused if there was no snow!




sylvia

HI Sallie - nice to meet you. Our silly season extends to beyond the television. Our motorways are also fraught with problems and I have just been reading in the papers about how many accidents tourits have here. They are not given enough instructions - just told to keep left. We have no speed limits above 100 but one chap from Europe was clocked at doing 150. Some forget/ cross the median strip and drive on the wrong side causing collisions. One chap could not fathom the round about system so waited till it was clear and then drove around it the wrong way. We have had Japanese drive straight over the top of them in the direction they are heading.

We stay in Auckland - but over Christmas and New Year there is a mass exodus to places south and north - all our beaches are full up with campers. Then when they are due back at work they all seem to travel at the same time and the motor way becomes a slow moving carpark.

This thread is doing well Ann and Sylvia I am looking forward to watching the ice-skating at the Winter Olympics - everyone seems to tune in for them here.

Some of you I have come across on other threads as I hop about all over the place appearing when the rest of the world is sleeping except LIz... she is nearly always around as she does not go to bed till around 5am British time.

Take care all
Hope it is getting warmer for you people on the other side.

Norma/Perse

Hi everybody,

I've just been catching up on all the posts,it still feels like a "feel-good" thread where everyone is sharing everyday details of their lives.We (OH and I),went to Echuca/Moama on the border of Victoria and New South Wales last Wed. to stay with my sister-in-law and brother-in-law on their farm.We had a lovely time,in spite of the terrible heat,one day it was 47
degrees C there,and after we left yesterday it would have reached 50!! It
was a day of Total Fire Ban-no fires allowed to be lit in the open in the state of Victoria-and was classed as Catastrophic Code Red-a really
dangerous day for fires,like Black Sat. last year,when people lost their lives,houses,pets and livestock,and many native animals perished also.
I read about the snow everywhere in the UK and Europe,and wish that we could have some!! It might cool us down a bit! I haven't been able to post because I haven't been near a computer.I hope that the weather improves for you all,and that life gets back to normal for you once again.

Perse/Norma,you are wise to visit Melbourne in September,it's a nice time to come.Melbourne is a beautiful city,generally friendly,in spite of what you may read or hear on the news reports lately.I would love to visit NZ,I will one day. The South Island interests me mainly.

Sylvia (in Canada) ,my daughter spent about 3 months in Vancouver when she was 18,and loved it.I've never been there though.

It is nice to read this thread,and to see more people joining in and posting.Well done,Ann, for starting it.


Best wishes, Margot.

Margot,
OH and I went to Echuca about 5 years ago when visiting son and family in Melbourne.We didn't stay with them but at Kyneton bushland Resort,so it wasn't too far to travel up to Echuca.What a lovely quaint place!We went on a paddle steamer up the Murray river.
We have booked son and family in for a holiday (Easter)at Capri Waters on the Murray as they have had a bad time with my D.i.l's health,and with our timeshare points that we can't use as OH is now housebound,they might as well use it.Had quite a time to get it as it is so popular.
Happy memories!

Brenda x

Hi Perse, glad you are enjoying chatting on here, good to bring our worlds together. You drive on the same side as us don't you? Roundabouts can be confusing when they are the 'wrong way' I find it strange when we are in Tenerife and Lanzarote going anti clockwise.
Margot, you really don't want to wish this snow on yourself. It is pretty when it falls and is soft but so dangerous when it freezes, our accident departments in hospitals are full with people with broken limbs from falling on the ice. There is no money for gritting paths and if the shopkeeper clears his path and somebody subsequently slips and breaks something the vulture no win no pay solicitors are there making claims for them and the poor shopkeeper can have to pay out thousands. I hate this compensation culture that we have. Most people our age just choose to stay home.

On a lighter note we have just booked a week in Jersey in August to celebrate our Golden wedding so something to look forward to.

Hi everyone,

I'm a newbie too and just wanted to say hello.

Joined GR 2 years back but didn't get very far but last month I decided to give it another go and must say I am getting quite obsessive about researching my family. I think its great to be able to join in on these posts and read what's going on in everybody elses lives, especially as everybody seems so friendly.
Just a little of mine: I live in East Yorkshire in a small seaside town and will be 60 this year but swear I'm only 40 really (must have been a mixup with my registration). I have four sons and have been happily married for nearly 39 years. I used to breed and show Jack Russells and still have a couple of dogs. Well thats it for now, hope to chat with you again soon.

Hello Christine and welcome. It is so nice to 'meet' new people on here and I am pleased that you have posted. strange how they got all those dates wrong on our birth certificates isn't it? I am 69 going on 49!!

I think I am going crazy, I could have sworn I added on here sometime ago, but maybe I didnt submit....doh.... I love this thread and tthe other one .....lol....
lovely meeting new friends, and no upsets either....I am generally known as Just Jean ....74 yrs old, 1 daughter, 1 grandson, and oh reffered to as J on here...made lots of very good friends on G.R. thankfully not a lot of enemies
hobbies include scrapbooks,cards, photography, not as good as Anns though....lol.....

Jean x

Don't put yourself down Jean!!

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Hi everyone


We have spent a lot of time in Australia .................. a year in the mid-70s when OH was on sabbatical leave, then 3 or 4 long trips since then. We were in Echuca in September 2006, went up there from Bendigo to meet a contact from Friends Reunited. Met him for coffee, then had lunch with him, walked around the old town, and drove back to Bendigo! My cousins took me there in February 2000 ... and we had a lovely trip on one of the river boats.

We hope to have another visit in 2011.


Only 1 month to go before the Opening Ceremonies of the Winter Games .

......... temperature yesterday in Vancouver 13.4C

Temperature earlier today 13C ...... but it is cooling down!!

Both are records for the date.



sylvia
xxxx

It doesn't seem possible that your weather is so much warmer than ours Sylvia.

Ann

it's warmer here than in Florida!


Doesn't seem possible to us either ...... our normal is between 0 and +6C daytime.

You will pay Sylvia, you will pay!!