Genealogy Chat

Coffee time.

Anyone know anything about BlueMountain ecards?? I've received an email but no sender is showing. I've opened it but have to download a flash player and am reluctant................Frank sweetie, tekkie help required please.

Popping off again. Cx.

Cynthia

For what it's worth my advice is that if no sender is showing 'Bounce' it. More than likely a scam. Try 123 e-cards if you want one.

Jeanie

Cynthia - DON'T OPEN IT

Glad to hear your S i L is better & on the mend Susan

Just heard at work we are moving desks again - instead of the nice view - we are back in the dungeon again - never mind - we should be in the main building in October.

Hope the roast was ok Susan.

I love all the old films my mum was a film buff - so I grew up with them. Stewart Granger still has the sparkle for me. I loved Colin Firth in Mama Mia - but Laurence Olivier has to be Mr Darcy with Greer Garson. I like Sean Connery now he is older & still think Roger Moore & Pierce Brosnan as 007 for me. I do not like the new one - no sense of humour whatsoever - so grumpy.

I met Paul Newman & James Garner a long time ago and those eyes really were that blue. I loved the films but he wasn't my sort of hero. I like Liam Neeson as a rugged sort & love listening to Richard Burton - he was a wonderful actor and the voice.

Anyone seen "The Wild Geese" Richard Harris was a fantastic actor as well and James Mason but he will always be the baddie in my view. I liked John Mills but not for his looks.

If we are looking at todays actors on screen - no I don't think any really appeal - sorry Jeanie I am not a Johnny Depp fan - I liked Willy Wonker but not the Pirate films.

If you look at actors on TV only well it has to be
Yannick Bisson, Scott Bakula, David James Elliott (in his white uniform) - Mark Harmon & David Boreanaz just to name a few. Getting all hot under the collar now.

Sylvia just a few more for you to google and spend some time on - its such a pain all my shows have finished at once - Fringe - Bones - NCIS - Murdock Mysteries - its not fair & they leave you on a cliff hanger as well

Well have to go back to work & try & pack up some of my stuff - sniff sniff - have the most fantastic bruises - my poor arm is black & blue from elbow to half way down - if you look under the grazes & I have a very large multi coloured bruise on my rump.

Reece - hope your OH is back to normal soon

Anyone heard from Evelyn????????????????????

See you all soon - Take care now

Tabitha

Must confess I was thinking of UK stars at the time but yes Paul Newman was at the top of my list. Those blue eyes could melt you. James Garner wasn't bad either. Lucky you meeting them.
Still think Johnny Depp without all the makeup is stunning. It's definitely Colin Firth as Mr. D'Arcy for me. Local boy made good!

Well, afraid your TV list goes right over my head except for Mark Harmon and he does nothing for me.

Sorry to hear you are multi-coloured. Quite nice on a dress but not on the skin (unless it's makeup of course).

Hope everyone else doing OK. They are, no doubt, doing their good works elsewhere.

J
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Hi everyone



I wasn't googling to remember their names ........... I was googling to find their autobiographies! Crikey ... some of them led very different lives from what we believed at the time!!



Cynthia ............... my daughter sends me Blue Mountain cards all the time, and I have never had a problem with them. I've also had them from other friends

HOWEVER, the email saying that you have got one does usually say the name of the sender ....... although the sender may just have forgotten to fill in the correct box.

This is what my last one says before opening:-
(date)
To: Mum (email address)
From: J, M, & M (email address)


It came with the following heading, which showed in my email inbox:-

eCard from BlueMountain.com
xxxxxx, xxxxxx, & xxxxxx has sent you an eCard (date) 15 KB


It is a reputable company for sending email cards, and you have to download the player because they usually have music and "movement" with them (like Jacquie Lawson cards).

You can open the card and read it without having the Flash player.

The difference is that I think Blue Mountain is free, and Jacquie requires that one pays about £10 a year for unlimited card sending.



take care everyone


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Cynthia,

Flashplayer is for animations etc which is what will be on your card.
Only thing that bothers me about the e-mail is that it doesn't mention a name.
Don't use any offered Flash site just to be safe as below is the website for Flashplayer if you want to download it .

Copy & paste this into your adress bar.

http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/

Below is what it says on BlueMountain site ...........

BlueMountain.com Ecard Emails
Subject Line (Sender's name) has sent you an ecard from BlueMountain.com.
Reminders to pickup your ecard will have the following subject lines:
Reminder: Your ecard from (Sender's Name) is waiting for you at BlueMountain.com
Don't forget: Your ecard from (Sender's Name) is waiting for you at BlueMountain.com!

I just tried to join up and it knocked me back as I wouldn't allow it's cookies....................

Hi again Sylvia

Telly addict time over for now. I was only telling you the ones I thought rather handsome. I've got several show biz type autobiographies on my book shelves and agree they can be really eye opening. Mind you, have found out not to take what David Niven says in his as gospel. Most of the time it was all made up to sell the books I've discovered.

Very glad to hear about BlueMountain cards. Seems like Tabitha and I were getting our knickers in a twist over nothing. Oh, am I allowed to say that on here?

Nice to see you again Frank. Hopefully you've decided keep an eye on us more regularly.

J
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Frank! Are you okay? [runs in with cold compresses etc.] It can't be very funny being knocked back by a blue mountain. [helps him to his feet again] there, there, take it easy for a while my friend.

Thanks for all the advice....there is no sender's name that I can see and I have received similar cards before. I won't open the flash thingey.




Now then Frank, Sylvia and the rest have had their say about their favourite male film stars.......who was/is your pin up then? Don't tell me........ Marlene Dietrich? Greta Garbo? Lucille Ball? Or are you going to go all modern on us?



How's Evelyn I wonder?

Going for a browse around I think.

Night dear friends. Cx.

Maybe Jane Russell? No, probably before your time Frank.

Here was a "funny". Obviously just my sense of humour - it didn't raise a smile so I'm editing it out.

Goodnight to you all.

With regard to filmstars etc, I served lots of them in my eight years as a waiter at The Gleneagles Hotel and it's very interesting to see them in public and then in private.
The very best were Bing Crosby, Eric Sykes, Sir Sean Connery & his wife Micheline, Robert Stack ( The original Untouchables).
They were famous but also very kind and down to earth sort of people .

At a Pro Am golf tournament in the mid 70s, Bing Crosby approached the hotel reception to change some currency and was mobbed by well wishers and autograph hunters.
The cashier (my wife) offered to take him into a side office to conduct his business in peace but he declined and proceeded to sign books etc and chat away with all those around him............you have to remember he was around 73 years old at the time.

A regular at the hotel, Sean Connery was having a cocktail party in his suite and with one hour to go he phoned us up to let us know the room still had his breakfast table uncleared !!
Mad panic and much grovelling to get it all prepared in time and we made it but Mr Connery could not have been nicer about it, passing it off as "things that happen"

Not so good........Jimmy Tarbuck who decided to start his routine to a packed room before we had served coffee and waylaid us all by shouting at us to just serve the coffee and stop spoiling the gags.............very cheap gag.....funny or not ??

I tend to look for nice people rather than nice looking people ;))

Cynthia darling, thanks for the first aid.

Marlene Dietrich? Greta Garbo? Lucille Ball?...what age do you think I am......I'm only 56 years old ;)

P.S Sci-fi is fab................

we stayed in the same hotel in Leningrad with Elizabeth Taylor in 1975


one evening she got on the elevator we were on

No make-up, wearing a white towelling robe and a white towel twisted round her head



she was absolutely gorgeous!!!!!


and none of the 4 of us in the elevator said a word to her!


She got out on floor 2 and went to the Tea Bar


we all carried on to the ground floor and went to the Bar!



she was in Leningrad making a film The Blue Bird, based on Maeterlinck's L'Oiseau Bleu




s
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Hi Folks

Never been in a lift with a famous film star. Wow. Think I would have been speechless as well. Who was that said "wish you were"?:-)

Have been getting more than the usual number of scam e-mails over the last couple of weeks. Probably why I got so anxious about the Blue Mountain one. Read my cv, undelivered packages and would you like loads of money are the ones coming in currently. Haven't had one purporting to be from a Bank lately but no doubt one of those will be arriving soon.

Jeanie
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K******s now unknotted - Much more comfortable - except for the bruise

Thanks for the update - will look at the blue mountain ones as well - i love the Jackie Lawson lot.

We move to the dungeon on thursday - boo hoo sobs uncontrolably

I love Sci-fi too Quantum Leap - Angel - Buffy - Star treck new generation - Voyager - Twilight Zone - Invisible Man (new one) - Martian chronicles - Fringe - Dead Zone - won't bore you anymore (I know I have forgotten some)

I wish they would repeat the martian chroinicals - would love it on DVD - I only have it on VHS.

Well just a quick visit - I wish a lot of the old TV shows were on Sky - much better than some of the things we have on TV theses days,

Take care all

Well, some of you do rub shoulders with the rich and famous don't you??? Have never met a film star but have met HM, does that count???


I get a fair amount of the scam mails too Jeannie but I just delete them. Some look very convincing though, so it's no wonder people get fooled by them.


Noooooo to sci fi.......give me a good murder/detective any day. Not keen on musicals either.


Well, had a busy day at the volunteers desk today. Took one lady up to delivery suite and was just hoping she wasn't going to produce on the way!! I was very relieved to get her through the door up there.


Soon be on the school run, so back later. Cx

Not 'the HM' surely Cynthia? Count! Of course, how could we possibly beat that, eh? Don't know what Frank will say though!

David Attenborough is my best (though he isn't a film star!) I would say, and the dear OH met his brother Dickie but then he has met all kinds of famous people! We were once in a lift with Lloyd Bridges and his wife and yes, we did have a conversation - about the National Gallery! That is where we all were!

Finished the saga of the ceiling that fell down today - carpet cleaned and looking like new again and stairs and hall carpet as well! We are walking on it (when necessary)in blue plastic slipon bags(?) type slippers until it dries.

Tried to do some gardening by planting some foxgloves from the trays OH grew from seed. Managed about a dozen then had to give up so will have another go tomorrow.

OH has to go to Barts tomorrow to have a blood platelet transfusion and will be there all day. He is making progress once again I'm pleased to say.

I've enjoyed reading about your favourites from the film world - yes, I liked Stewart Grainger and Gregory Peck, too. I'm not mad about the James Bond films but OH liked them and the books by Ian Fleming.

Well its 'cup of tea' time so must away.

Love,

R

Cynthia,

The Queen...............bows head in deference ;)

Well we were already with the white gloves as HM was due in for dinner but she had to cancel so we ended up with Charles instead !

Over the years I saw lots of famous faces and probably my one regret was never getting any autographs..........it just wasn't the done thing in those days and your feet would not have touched the ground, if you had tried to get them.

What's wrong with musicals, they're great and sci-fi...who hoo.

Favourite film has to be "It's a Wonderful Life".........we even have the DVD!

Brazil playing now so see you all later.

Hi everyone


we have 3 levels of cable tv .......... mainly because OH wanted to watch international rugby and the best site for that was in Level 3. He's watched rugby about 5 times in the last 5 years!

Each level has multi stations ...... I think I have access to about 50 TV stations. I could also buy a digital box which would allow me to access about 100 more!


We watch the 6:00 pm news on a local station for an hour, have a quick look at 7:00 pm at The National from Toronto, watch a little bit (30 seconds to 15 minutes, depending) on CNN, and a little bit (as previously) of BBC World. Usually turn the tv off by 7:30 pm!


Problem is ......... I cannot be bothered wading my way through all those stations on the daily time table in the TV Guide to find the ONE gem that might be on at 8 or 9 or 10 pm!



This has been our habit for about the last 6 or 7 years

........ in fact the last time I watched a series faithfully was JAG, which I really enjoyed.

I used to watch British Antiques Roadshow religiously ........... but I now have no idea when it is on, or which station is carrying it this week!




Got an email this morning ................ J has booked the tickets for their trip out this summer.

All arrive on July 19, M defends his thesis on August 5, then returns home on August 6 (so he can have peace on quiet to make any necessary changes), J and baby stay on until August 20. During this time, she will also get M's thesis + corrections submitted to the university by the deadline of August 16.

They're planning a very low-key visit, but will spend time with family friends on the Island




s
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You can stop bowing now Frank. Yes, it was HM and a fantastic day it was too. She is so tiny but the charisma is unbelievable. When she entered through the enormous doors of whichever room we were in, the whole room fell silent and the atmosphere was electric. Tingle time.


So glad to hear that OH is doing well again Reece and I like the idea of you plodding around in blue plastic bags...what fun. My OH has a thing about foxgloves too - can't really see the attraction myself but, each to their own I suppose.


Like you, Sylvia, I can't be bothered ploughing through the tv guide so just watch whatever OH has on and work away on here. Sometimes we just settle for a dvd because there's nothing we want to watch at the time.


Well, done all my messages for tonight so will just browse around for a while. Feeling peckish too.....now, what shall I have??

Well! I've had my breakfast now! What's happened to everyone?

Going to drop OH off as he is helping someone out and then on to a colleague's funeral if we aren't too late.

Beautiful morning here - the sky is wildly streaked with vapour trails - don't remember seeing so many at once - where is everyone going?

Back later. Cx

Hi Everyone

I have been shopping all day .

I took the Mother In Law out again today ,this time we went down South of Busselton ,she wanted to check out some more Rose places .
The one we went to the otherday did not have the Roses she wanted,it was a lovely day ....sunny for most of it but rain is on the way back in.

I really do not know where she gets her energy at 90 yrs she can run rings around me.

It is the end of the financial year 30 th June so it is that dreaded Tax time again .
I am not looking forward to doing the books .....it takes me ages to do them.

I am quite tired tonight,already have my electric blanket on,they say we have 5c tonight.

I have not rubbed shoulders with anyone special,wished I had but I don't know what I would say,I would more than likely put my foot in my mouth.

Gone With The Wind is my favorite all time movie,Clark Gable is a hunk of of man or was I should say.
I have the movie and watch it every couple of years,also An Affair to Remmenber,Cary Grant came from Bristol.
Sort of my neck of the woods when I lived In the UK.

Anyway I am off to bed,staying home tomorrow,must get some housework done.

Love to everyone
Suex