General Chat

I am good ,fair to middling thank you Emma and thank you <3

By the way lovely thread Madge :-)

Hiya Madge, how are you keeping :-D <3

Sharron I was a No1 fan of Fred, so BC would have to get behind me
to get to him...do so miss your daily update on him :-D <3

BC would tell you she loved a bit of eye candy, well us older ladies
do. ;-) :-D

Sadly Sharon the great unwashed Seamus of the seaman's mission and Bert her Latin dancing partner was the 2 great loves of her life ;-)


Howaboutyer Emma <3

Emma, how dare you besmirch the memory of the woman who was so nearly my step mother?!

Surely she had eyes only for Fred!

BC, Daff and Rose were my first contact with genes,
I built up the courage to talk to these ladies and had many
a good laugh with BC.
BC could take the banter and we would delight in talking
about some actors we drooled over seeing on TV, at one
point I called her a Cougar, she loved that :-D :-D

Happy memories :-)

I have met Gwynne in Kent she is lovely, when I have met people in the past at Meets I am often surprised when people will refer to something I had post on here and be like " eh excuse me" :D


I do so hope people showed you kindness whilst you was caring for Fred and certainly after his passing if people can show kindness at a time like that they should have no place in the human race. I shall never forget that one member was fighting a losing battle with cancer and had a stickie thread and someone objected and a member of GR admin removed it, the outcry and outrage on here it was quickly reinstated, how someone in the right mind ( that person was certainly not in the right mind) would want a stickie support removed is beyond me :-|

I have just had to look at my picture to see when I joined. It was January 2004 but I didn't post for a long time but when I did I seem to remember somebody called 'Grampa Jim', who lived in Gosport, didn't like me much.

It was during the time I was Fred's carer that I really made the most use of this site, the late Wend, kept me cheerful through a few leaking catheters and , for reasons I have never understood, you were all SO kind to me when and after he died. I am still thanking you for that.

I took Wend to the Isle of Wight when Uzzi was clearing out her mother's bungalow and, believe me, Wend needed chaperoning!

Now I am looking forward to meeting up with the lovely Gwynne in Kent again and also Florence in October.

As for Eldrick, well, our hopes are that we will eventually both be in Namibia at the same time.

Happy Birthday David.s good lady have a lovely day xx I joined in 2009 & was introduced to OZ thread by Allan so many people have gone off since those days I know folks are on FB but never ventured on there .sometimes it does get boring same post but suppose people up & down the country & abroad its a way of staying in touch I have had help with family history & found a cousin hadn't spoke to for years ,so its a good site in some ways Remembering the lovely friends passed now quite a few since I joined Barbara <3

A bit like when BC and Mau used to find their way to the Green door of the seaman's mission :-)

I first joined GR in March 2006 I only used to read the tips board and then found the courage to post. I then began to read general and there was always an air of they knew something you didn't. One set of people arguing with another set I logged in one day and WW3 was in full swing the insults flying back and forth left me sat at my PC opened mouthed. My first post was on the lines of would anyone else like to share my popcorn? As I did not have a board name I post in my own full real name, unknown to me at the time one of Waring fractions was called Hayley and I began to get PM's asking if I was her. Luckily my lack of grammar and ability to spell actually stood in my favor.


Happy birthday to Mrs David <3

I miss BC too Madge. I also had visions of her, before I met her, what a lovely sassy lady she was. <3

I also miss the Auntie Motie thread. Sadly she went out one day to do her Good Works, and never came back. ;-) ;-)

It's like a substitute for "pen pals" only much faster :-D

It's my wife's birthday today <3

Aww Madge, thank you <3

*Blushes* :-D

I've been a member since April 2004, but I didn't spend much time on General Chat in the early days. I posted only on Genealogy Chat and Finding Ancestors.

The reason was as follows ......

..... in my first venture on this Board, I was accused of being a reincarnation of someone called Sylvia, who was "nasty" .......... hence why I added "in Canada" to my name.

...... on my next visit a few days later, I got involved in some sort of discussion on Canada along with Janey C ................ and got accused of being her posting under another name! That was merely because we were arguing on the same side.

I didn't like the nastiness that I got, so I didn't even look on GC until many years later.

DorothyG Yes that is true time moves on , the help and advice I have received on here is priceless I will always be in their debt.Yeah so am I Sharon I am thinking of deleting him for being boring and needy :-D :-D :-D :-D

I am Facebook friends with Eldrick.

Oh yes many have left - started happening waaay back - there was a lot of upset from time to time. I joined in 2004 - so I doubt there’s many from that era.
We did have a few good Meet-ups, to put faces to names - they were great occasions.

... but times move on ....

But I do have many to be grateful to, who helped me to get started and I really appreciate that :-)

I am thinking Glenda Joan but am probably getting mixed up with someone else, Lemon Nelly was her Aunt something to do with the Aunt calling on her way from work to use the loo and shouting " I am just squeezing me Lemon Nelly " or something on them lines

“Strump” - couldn’t think of the name!
I don’t do Facebook - so please do give her my best wishes: :-)