General Chat

Hi Diane,
Hope you had a good day - warm enough?
Enjoy X Factor, hope you get the result you want,
speak to you later,

Tec

Hi Tec
Yes I'm warm now that I'm home, hasn't it been cold today and tonight is going to get colder, as for the X Factor, I'd like Joe to win but if it is Stacey I won't mind that either, mind you she need's to keep her mouth shut a bit more as some-time's she can get on your nerve's lol, though I think it may be nerves a lot of the time. May the best person win, though I think they all have a future who-ever win's, they are all good.

Diane

Hello Tec and Diane,

Not long now Diane - your count down is a bit like Cape Canaveral in reverse instead of 5 4 3 2 1 we have lift off - you will be able to have 5 4 3 2 1 and have lie down.

Tec when you said this yesterday I thought how apt an Immaculate Mac very clever:
"I will in future have the garment dry cleaned before returning it, so that you can appear on stage imMACulate."

My parents, my grandfather and I would go and visit two sisters (maiden Aunts) - cousins of my grandfathers- quite often on a Sunday afternoon. They used to have scones with jam and I was given these stale chocolate biscuits - I am sure they just sat there till our next visit. My parents did not drive and so after my grandfather died in 1964 we no longer visited them and now I wish we had found a way. One of the sisters lived on till about 1975 and what an amazing history she had - I just thought they lived on this little farmlet and kept more or less to themselves. It was not till I started doing genealogy that I found that she was a union leader for goodness sake in the rag trade - and had gained her own piece of notoriety having a page in one of the volumes of "New Zealand Biographies" of important/ well known personna. My mother used to often quote still waters grow deep - and in this case how true.

Sunny day today - we had rain yesterday morning just enough to annoy one - as soon as it finished we were left with a sticky hot day. And I can now start the mower... No Linda he shall not mow the lawn in his pyjamas - might start a new trend tho.

Perse>>>

Good evening every one.

Not long now Diane. Of course you will wake up early as usual, but as the week wears on, you will start to sleep later, just in time to have to get up for work again. So unfair!

Perse, it is amazing what you find out when you start to delve into the tree. It is also really annoying that you can't go back in time and talk to them to find out what they were actually up to. I would love to talk to my mothers side who kept going backwards and forwards to Australia from the 1840's. Eventually they set up a wood yard in Geelong and used the money to build a Methodist Chapel back in the UK. Unfortunately my mum was descended from one of the weavers who stayed put,so no money in that branch!

Tec, I did knuckle down. all the presents are wrapped and labelled, which is a chore out of the way. I still need to go through them and beautify them, adding fancy bows and ribbons etc, just as I am sure you do when you wrap your gifts lol

Well, Perse and Diane - I'm here! Doesn't look like anyone else is around yet - but I'll say good evening and good morning to you both - although it must be getting on for lunch time where you are Perse.

Another lovely but hot day coming up here. Wish we could send you some of it Diane. Oh! but you won't even feel the cold soon - you will be wrapped up snug as a bug in a rug - and not having to go to work!

Oops! We did it again Linda. Posted together. Good evening to you, too!

Good evening Linda and afternoon or morning Perse
Yes I like that Perse 5 4 3 2 1 lie down lol
Yor right Linda will probably do just that first day but will turn back over and fall asleep till about 9 o'clock, OOH heaven

Diane

Hi Berona you did it again and sneeked in while I was posting lol
You can send me some of that sunshine on Thursday hun when I spend the whole day in Liverpool town centre doing my Christmas shopping.

Diane

Hello Berona, I hope that you have a nice relaxing day planned in that heat.

Diane if you are looking forward to shopping, you can do some for me as well

Before I forget, i am going AWOL again.

We are off to the Lakes for a couple or days r&r, plus last minute panic shopping of course.We won't set off until late morning and will be back on Tuesday.

Good morning evening to all

A stinker of a day yesterday. Forecast top of 31C. I walked over to see the start of the toy run, it was already 34c and that was at 9.30 am. We eventually hit 37 and it is forecast hotter today.

We are not feeling very Christmasssy this year: we haven't even put the tree up yet. Pressies have been purchased but cards not yet sent!

On the plus side, we are down to our last few square metres of grass which we are leaving for the time being to give us a firm surface whilst weerect the gazebo

Allan

Linda, hve a great time.

I envy you........I love the Lake District. We'd go every year when we lived in Manchester and when I was at High School there was always an Easter Camp there that I never missed!

Allan

Linda I would if I had another pair of arm's but will have to ring son up when I'm nearly done to help me with mine lol. I love it in the Lake's, were about are you going, I used to go quite a lot about 17yrs ago with friend's at weekend's and stay in a old school in a place called Finswaite (sp ) can't spell it but if you read it as it is you will probably now were I mean lol

Diane

Thanks Allan, I think that it is going to be slightly cooler than where you are lol.

I love the Lakes in the autumn, but by now all the fallen leaves will have turned slushy.

I am not going camping! Nice hotels are more in my line now.

We are going to Ullswater Diane, the hotel is on the side of the lake, but at this time of the year,the log fires sound more inviting than the lawns rolling down to the lake.

I have most of my pressies Diane, but the three main outstanding ones are all for me. I hate shopping for men.

Maybe Allan can shed a male insight here and tell me what to buy for men with beards, who don't go in for toiletries nd don't read much.

Linda - that sounds like a really nice place where you are going. Hope you enjoy yourselves....Yes, hotels are the way to go as we get older...once we can indulge oursleves - and of course, more fitting for us finishing school girls eh?

Gone are the days of travelling around by 'thumb'. I did that a long time ago and had no problems getting lifts with friendly, decent people. If I tried it to-day, they would probably keep going and use their mobiles to call for an ambulance for me! I wouldn't recommend it to young people either - not now.

Linda, If he's a handyman or DIY person, a gift voucher from a Hardware Shop.

We are doing that for our son. He has just purchase a unit with a fair sized garden and is after some gardening tools. As we are noy sure what he is precisely after, a voucher will allow him to make his own choice of type and quality.

We have found over the years that Gift Vouchers as presents for adults are always welcome


Allan

Good morning Berona,

Ah the good old days of easy travel. Been there, done that

Allan

Sounds very Yeats - Linda hears lake waters lapping with low sounds by the shore. Think Melvyn Bragg wrote a book on walks around the Lake District, not sure whether we have it but that may be as close as I will get.

But you never know!! Hope you have a very enjoyable time on your AWOL - I too no longer pitch a tent - it was great when the children were young and we would take these two umbrella tents. We spent one night at Tauranga at a camping ground by the waters edge and it was a real stormy night every one evacuated their tents and slept in the big recreation room. Our tents stayed dry and secure and we did not even pin them down. Others could not believe it when we appeared in the morning all dry - the rain water ran under the tent floor and we had slept all through them and their havoc.

Hello Allan and Berona
Not lunch time yet just coming up to 11am and I have been in the kitchen doing scrambled eggs with bacon in it for brunch and now am in here with my coffee. All very civilized.

P xx

Hi Everyone, Linda, Diane, Perse, Berona,

Sunday afternoons for me as a boy were mostly spent visiting my paternal grandparents. My grandfather was a huge influence in my early life, and a great mentor. He had a fascinating life, and I never tired of listening. I also enjoyed visiting a Great Aunt, she had lived in India throughout the 20s and 30s. Her husband had been a Colonel in the Indian Army . Her house was packed with interesting artefacts from India, and she told wonderful tales of life in India at the time of the British Raj.
My maternal grandfather died when I was five yrs old, so I never knew him. He was apparently something of a rebel, and an eccentric, and lived in the world of art and theatre. I would have loved to have known him, a very colourful character by all accounts.

Tec