General Chat

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.

Hi Elizabeth, good to hear from you to.

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

Hi Sallie, good to meet you.

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.

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
xx

It was snowing here and then the sun came out and melted some of it, temperature now is -4.0 outside, warmer than it has been. Stayed in and spent £140 on shopping via internet! When the goods will arrive is anyones guess!.

Haven't ventured out since Tuesday because our roads are just too slippery.
Ours is quite a busy road, used as a short cut from the main road to the trading estate, the airport or the London road but all drivers are going very slowly as it has not been gritted and is very icy. Even youngsters are treading very warily and my son who walked to our local shops this afternoon fell 4 times. Earlier he drove into Staines and managed to fall once, he said all the traffic is moving slowly. Our local council does not seem to have done much gritting anywhere. Am beginning to suffer a bit from "cabin fever" I don't like not being able to go out.

Our rubbish bin had frozen shut so I could not open it, son went out and managed to free the lid, he decided to clear the frozen snow but halfway through it started to snow again - he felt that was a good excuse to give up.

Have now run out of bird food, yesterday I counted 30 birds on the ground feeding from the left over spag bol, oatmeal, nuts and suet I had trown out. There were another 8 on the clothes line two on each of three feeders and two queueing - three trees in the next garden were full of birds waiting their turn . It was amazing, wish I could identify more of them (no more paraqueets though). A marauding dark tabby cat disturbed them once - chased him off and fortunately he didn't come back so the birds had time to finish most of what was there.

Just looked out and the snow seems to have stopped for the moment.

My daughter saw her Oncologist, though she still has to have a scan they say all looks good so far. She will not have her 5 year check until the end of this year and will not get the all clear for another 2 years after that. I think that is because of the type of cancer she had (likely to return). So a good start to the year, hope it is the same for everyone else.

Kathleen

OK I may look at it again and see if it is better watching with the TV sub titles rather than the DVD.

Have been shopping this morning with the Ring & Ride, a wonderful doot to door service.

I anow a little while we were out, and has snowed again since. Has stopped now, and we have got some blue sky.

I have a small front garden and no drive> Also got a bag of salt by the front door. Will use the salt if the snow melts and then refreezes before disappearing. I don't like ice.

Have now looked up the films in the weekly Ra---/----s.

Slumdog is on C4 on Wednesday at 9.00pm Will try to remember to watch it and let you know what I think

Huffs and puffs my way on to this thread to say "hello"
just been clearing the thick ice off my drive way must be at least 3-4 inches thick..............lovely when it comes down as snow ,not funny when it turns to ice. I think l will be suffering with my back later......ouch, lol.
I hope everyone is ok, speak soon, x

There is a welcome to Newbies thread on Chat so I thought it a good idea to nudge this up in case they also want somewhere on Gen to chat.

Thanks Theresa for that info I didn't know any of it.

Thank you Persy, I will try and stay glossy and not get dull.

Sylvia, I don't know why I didn't like it, it seemed to be disjointed with flash backs all the time, noisy and a bit violent, not really my type of film.

Hi Ann
Have not seen the film 'Slumdog Millionaire' but I have read the book it was based on and it's very very funny.
Even thought provoking.

Have passed it onto my sister.
Think the title was Q & A.

Worth a read.

Regards Sylvia

We are having the silly season on Television here in NZ so there is not a lot to look at.

I am mostly on here when everyone else isn't - with being 13 hours ahead of the Brits and 2 to 4 - 5 hrs ahead of the Aussies - I am ready for lunch when the Brits are going to bed and the Aussies are just arriving.

The only person I can vouch for that will be on here is Liz - as she is around till 5am British time. It is good as I often get to read all her new posts.

Have just been away for a couple of days - we went to Raglan (feel free to get out your Atlases - please don't use an American Airlines map as according to them NZ is not there) It is a surfies delight - not my cup of tea - I would fall off before even attempting to stand up. We only went as we had not been out there for about 20years.... and it was a bit like "see the tree, how big its grown" - become another café township, where there was once a milkbar and a couple of shops now there are restaurants and craft shops etc. So we ended up in staying the night at Kihikihi where there are still only a few shops.

Townships in NZ seem to want to have an icon - in Ohakune - where they grown carrots there is a big carrot. Another place has a statue of a Weta and Kihikihi has a cicada - we nearly missed it. When I was a child the only one I can ever remember seeing was a Bottle of Lemon & Paeroa in a township called Paeroa - everyone had to have their photo taken beside it.

Oh and Ann you will always be Glossy!!!

Ann, I think that the salt had come from Droitwich it came over the Malvern Hills to Herefordshire and South Wales. Wyche Cutting was dug in 1840.
The salt was used mainly to preserve meat.

Slumdog Millionaire .. I think that it is on the box next week sometime. Saw it advertised tonight (Thursday) but didn't take in all the information. Will check the Radio Times later.

I just spent an hour trying to get into Slumdog Millionnaire. I gave up in the end, it was a christmas present. The sub titles were rubbish, sometimes there sometimes not and only a sentence, it was noisy and confusing, didn't like it at all so I gave up.

Has anyone seen and enjoyed it?

Where did the salt come from then and where was it going did it say?

Have a good birthday on Vancouver Island Sylvia, enjoy yourself catrching up with friends.

Ann, had a quick google before eating my baked potato The salt trail came trgough Wyche Cutting. Apparently wyche as in Droitwich means salt.

It is seeing all thr snow and hearing about the shortage of salt and grit that tweaked something in my memory banks.

There are some great pictures on Google (but without any snow).

Ooh Theresa I don't know, will have to look that up.

Sylvia have a lovely break, we will miss you. Enjoy your birthday.
Maggie you have obviously been making the most of your time, I did do a scrap book page but am ashamed to say I wasted a lot of time on these boards.

Hi everyone

I will be away from tomorrow until Saturday ....... we're going to visit friends on Vancouver Island. The weather might even be pleasant!