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I must take issue here, Hayley is not ancient! She is a pretty, lively lady who doesnt look much older than thirty to me.
Mick, not much i dont remember about goat-keeping. Used to milk three before i went to work in the morning. Mischeivious , funny and playful creatures that they are. If you like them, I know I would like meeting you!

This is a lovely, fascinating thread. I have been in contact with lots of GR folks, but only met one face-to-face, which was a lovely experience (Hi,Carole) in Niagara Falls.
I am Mary, age 67 (in spots - much younger in others LOL). Been married twice, the first lasted 16 years to the day and basically happened because of differing coping skills r/t 3 kids, 2 girls and a boy, each with special needs. I will always care about their father. Second marriage was supposed to help the kids and me - but didn't work out that way - 2 step-daughters from that relationship. Lasted 10 years technically but . . . enough said.
I retired last year as a Registered nurse after 43 years working in varied areas of nursing. Premature babies, obstetrics, gynaecology, floating to all depts, office nursing, orthopaedics and finally geriatrics, one of my reasons for leaving after 22 years was that I felt I was fitting in too well and expected to be offered a bed before long. LOL.
I love creative cooking (a polite way of saying "clean out the frig"), baking, reading, family history and knitting - currently working on a carpenter clown pattern from the Jean Greenhowe collection.
My 2 daughters live with me, M is gently challenged and C is divorced and mother to 4 children, all of whom also live with us. The children range from 10 to 14 y/o and two have aautism and seizures. They add what might be called spice to my life LOL. Then there are the animals , as if it wasn't already a zoo of sorts LOL. Two large labradoodles who are autism service dogs, one rambunctious year-old American eskimo crossed with Australian blue heeler, plus a black cat and some fish.
I was born in Cardiff but live in Canada, having emigrated with my parents and brother at the age of 7 yrs.
I have been working on my family tree since 1973, some lines are so much easier than others!! Fortunately for me, my grandmother was also very interested in her family tree and left behind loads of notes to start me off - or to confuse me!!.
Pleasure to meet you all.
Mary

I'm Jill

I was born and raised in London (mainly saaf east) but now live in Kent.

Was married once - have one son.

Now live with Mr Grumpy. He's not so bad - he does most of the cooking (and shopping and housework). I work full time; he is "retired". When it's my turn to cook we have beans on toast or we go out to eat.

I am younger than Hayley and Mick - who are both such fibbers! I am 54. Hayley is ANCIENT and Mick is probably getting on a bit too ... 21, blonde, good looking - yeah, in his dreams!!

Been doing the family tree(s) since 1978. Thank heavens I started asking questions before my parents died ... I also do a One Name Study. And I write and perform some of my (mad) poetry. Oh, and did I mention I work full time? (thank the Lord for Mr Grumpy - couldn't do it without him!)

Jill

Hi Jean - you can have a garden or you can have a goat - the two are mutually exclusive! lol

xxxx mick

Mick, now I have seen your picture, what a handsome goat, by the way, I am trying to work out how we can keep one again in this pocket handkerchief of a garden! Now, if OH turned his turning shed into a goatshed, and we kept the fodder in the wood shed, and got a neighbour to take her for a walk on a lead .................. Then i could offer manure for the gardens in exchange for veg for her............ I wonder!

Hi everyone, what a nice thread.

I am a few days shy of 54 and also in few days I will have been married 33 years!! We've no children but the pets made up for that! I was born in Essex but now live in Nottinghamshire, near Sherwood Forest, and I have worked as a Signaller for over 20 years

Over the years we've had a number of different pets but mainly dogs, a GSD, Alaskan Malamute and for the past 18 years we've had Rough Collies. The one in the photo was rescued back by his breeders and we took him on, he's not called 'The Wimp' for nothing, he's now 12 and his 'wife' is 11. We also had Colourpoint Longhairs [I do seem to like hairy animals!!!] which we showed and we bred one that was the best Tortie-point 2 years running!

As well as doing our family histories I have also traced the dogs lines back, and when we had the cats I did thiers too!! I also do Cross-stitch, mainly my own designs, I read a lot, potter around in the garden and play around editing my oh photos..........sometimes I even get chance to sit down and do nothing at all, but not often as I normally have a grooming brush in my hand :-D

Hi I'm Yvonne and I originally come from Kent but now live in Hertfordshire with husband and son. Been married for 21 years
Also have a dog called Saffie and a horse called Ami, I love all things horsey :-)
I work part time in a local primary school looking after the children in the lunch time, I also work for a toy retailer.

I met a lovely bunch of people on the last London meet in Victoria and had a great time

Mick love your profile pic you handsome devil! :-D

I'm Val and live in North Hertfordshire, originally from Finchley, North London. I'm 62 and have two grown up children and one grandchild (who is 23). Divorced from children's father many years ago and have been with my OH for 34 years, although we have never married (once bitten etc.). Worked in Market Research for 28 years until I took early retirement four years ago. Now help OH with his business. Hobbies are reading, gardening and family history. Have only met one person from here when we had a 'mini' meet a couple of years ago.

My name is mick and I live in the bush. I am 21 years old, tall, blond and handsome, and built like a brick outhouse. My mother is from Suffolk and my father is from Kent. I of course, was born in God's Own Country.
I have lots of kids but no children.

And Susan, if you could send me your bank account details, I have this friend in Nigeria........


xxxxxx mick

lol! and heres us thinking about breeding ours just once and keeping one!
;-)
great thread by the way :-D
andrea
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oh thanks sue,its so nice to see positive posts.and i hope the thread helps .
psalms so nice to hear you have a lovely lab(or black lab was like yours)but oh my god ,charlie is a pain.x :-D

Hi again Suzzane!
My lab is a girl and shes 3.. really dark choc! love her to bits..shes our first dog and shes like the baby of the family..so loving..always got to have her paw or head on us when were all relaxing..shes sooo gentle xx
her name is Tahlia...meaning gift from God..she sure is!
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This is a lovely thread, Suzanne :-)

Sue x

JEAN.
we are both nurses.i didnt know that ,and we also share a passion for reading.
I used to think that being married for almost 31yrs was some sort of a record,but after reading some posts i realise im only on the honeymoon period.50yrs, 56yrs,45yrs havebeen posted,well done all of you.
looking farward to talking to you again jean. :-)

thank you all so much for your ery interesting posts.
Bill thank you foryour comments. :-D
GINA what an interesting early life you had travelling theworld with your family,doesany one place stick in yourmemory?thank you forposting. :-)
ELAINE you are the same age as my mum and sound as energetic as she is,i also love labs, i usedto have a black one who we lost 2yrs ago age 14.
we now have a very naughty 2yr old yellow lab called charlie.
thank you for your support of this thread. :-)
SHIRLEY thanksfor your post,my brother lived in kent for several yrs while serving as a prison officer in south london(belmarsh)what a lovely part of the country it is. :-)
CAZ i love yorkshire,my aunt had large farmhouse in keithley (dont know if ive spelt that right)when i was a child, andour family used to travel from liverpool(not far)every wkend to stay with her.
wealso share a love of books and family history. :-)
ANDEA.i also love animals, but now the kidsare grown up we only have one at at a time,weve had rabbits,guinea pigs,a white rat,cats and of course dogs,but thank god its only one dog now,no more cleaning hutches out for me.ive also been happily married for nearly 31yrs(married at 16)and im also still loved up(great isnt it) :-)
thanks foryour posts,overall most people havesupported it,im not being nosey i just like to know who im talking to,so please keep posting. :-D

Im Andrea, im 41 live outskirts Derbyshire. married 19 yrs knew hubby six weeks when we got engaged! married 14 months later and had first child 9 months !later..were still loved up lol...,have two daughters 18 and 16..... a,choc lab shes 3,... two rabbits....,four guinea pigs and a hamster!
i love animals as you may of guessed :-)
my fave hobbies are reading and cooking. im christened c of e but becoming a Catholic...and have a huge family on my side :-)
regards
Andea aka Andie

I,m Shirley aged 74 going on 30 !! lol. born on SE london but living in Kent since 1967 although i was a London Evacuee to Kent in 1939. Married to Michael for 54 years. One daughter. two grandchildren ,4 grt grandchildren , one cat and one tortoise who is over 50 years old!!.
Been researching family history since 2001 and now at parish records that aren't that easy to access as most of the family originated in Essex AND paternal grandparents were German so very difficult to find any records for their ancestry.

Hi, I am Elaine aged 72 going on 30. I am fine so long as I don't look in a mirror. I work at a school have been there 43 years. Took in and cared for sick and injured birds and wildlife for twenty years as well because I am an ex vet nurse. Have been married 53 years issue 2 sons and a daughter. Live in South Yorks. Love travelling with my sister to foreign parts, have 2 dogs or should I say am owned by 2 dogs. Hey this is great as we all like to have an idea of the people who have helped us so much. Elaine. :-D

I am retired, hubby and myself have four children and eight grandchildren.

My father was a professional soldier - have lived in Asia, Africa and now Europe.

I have been to Gene's reunited meetings, one in Reading and one in Bodmin - some years back.

Lovely helpful people on here.

My name is Jean. I have been married to Philip for almost 56 yrs. We had one son who died 10yrs ago at the age of42. We have always had animals, presently two cats. I was an army nurse, then a civilian nurse, a shop assistant in various shops, a smallholder, and a few other jobs. I like knitting, crossstitch, reading is my biggest passion, get through three books a week usually. Retired from nursing at 52 from ill health and am now frailer than I like. Have met several GR members and am now great friends with Jude and Vic. They are so much younger , they keep me up to date. I post on the Wales thread and they are all lovely people, Sandie I have met, a pretty and lively person.