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Dear oh dear! It sounds as though we ought to buy a large bottle of camphorated oil for all our suffering friends. :-D :-D

Do hope you all get better very soon. <3


Our decorations are down and I am glad to be back to normal - as Sue says, whatever normal is!!


I have been very busy today what with one thing and another. The weather is just dreadful and I had to go out in it tonight....yuk. I got back home only to discover that my daughter had left her keys in my car and she had gone to a meeting :-S

I resignedly got back into the car and took them to her !


Just watching a super programme about Queen Mary - very enlightening it is too.


Take care all. Love. Cx <3

Happy New Year friends - Christmas passed me by - I had the most awful cold which is still with me and am doing a lot of coughing! The family did come and the grandaughters loved their presents and played very happily.

The decorator is back today refurbishing the conservatory and cloak room and then I hope that will be all for awhile.

Thank you all for your good wishes for birthday and Christmas, too.

All best wishes and love.

Reece

Hi Everyone

I am finally back to normal what ever that is .

We had a few reallies drop in over the New Year but they have all gone back to Perth.

Very happy to hear you all had a good one,I am cleaning my fridge out at present so many left overs I don't know what to do with it all,I hate throwing food away but really I did just buy to much again.

Anne my resolution is to loose some weight but I said that last year as well.

I just want life back to normal now so tomorrow I am off to pay some much needed bills that have waited longer than they should have,nice to see you all back again ,lets hope this year is a more peaceful one for the World than 2011.

Check back later
Suex <3

Hugs to Evelyn <3

hello

ann i am with you on the ****** fed up already i think it will end in distaster

old i can sympathise with the cold mine will not go away :-|

it is geyying colder but sunny ere

sylvia sounds like anice new year

cynthia i hope you have recoverd after all the birthdays

kiwi you always make me think of my freind that lives inthe bay of plenty we have been freinds since we wee 3 and a harf years old she went ouy there when we were 16 wish i had gone as well now :-(

<3 to evelyn

happy new year

sally w :-D

Well sort of blue sky here - at least I have the day off - was working yesterday. We had horrid werather yesterday & fireworks at 04:50 saved me setting my alarm clock.

Lovely to see so many friends on the thread

Hope everyone is fit & ready for the New Year.

Any New Year resolutions?

Expect all we will get over here now is hype over the b**** Olympics.

Do you think I can emigrate for the summer - my office is going over the top - they have even employed a special person to generate interest in the games & things people can do in London - to generate more work for us. eg special events we can get people to pay to go to .

I will be surprised if I have any hair left by my birthday.

Will try & pop back in later if I get the chance.

Promise not to moan about the dreaded events again.

Take care all :-) :-D <3

hmmmmmmmm, Old

That's a problem! I've done a quick look and can't see anything!



We had a very quiet evening. OH cooked a chicken, while I made the sage and onion stuffing, and he also made casseroled sweet potatoes, and an asparagus/ broccoli mix. We ate about 7 pm, then did our own thing until it was time to watch the tv.


problem was ............. there didn't seem to be anything televised from Vancouver


We could watch Times Square, New York (3 hours earlier than us) ....... but then we found one of the local stations in Seattle, just south of us, had a major show on. Lots of fireworks, entertainment, etc.



We then slept in until 10:15 am this morning, which would be about 6:15 pm your time

We never sleep that late!!

I admit that I didn't go to bed until about 2:45 am (got involved in a tricky genealogical question on GR), but we had not drunk a lot. I had nothing 'cos alcohol doesn't like me, and OH had 2 glasses of wine.

He went to bed about 12:45 am



It is quite a pleasant day here ......... sunny and cloudy, but chilly.




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HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE

Have been suffering from a truly awful cold for the last 3 days - stayed up last night for the fireworks on the Thames - love fireworks and magic, so really a child at heart.

My resolutions for this year include making a note of any info I consider relevant to my tree. This is an obvious thing to do, but I haven't always done this in the past and I am regretting it now.

I have noted that my 5 x Gt Grandfather's first wife Ann Crow was buried in St Gregory, Sudbury, Suffolk on October 17 1772. I have NOT noted from where I obtained this info.

Having trawled Family Search and other options I cannot find the source.
If anyone could assist it would cheer me up and reinforce my resolution for 2012.

Cheers

Arthur

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE
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I wish you all that you wish for yourselves .......... and may 2012 be a very good year for all of us.



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who still has to wait 9 hours before midnight arrives :-D

hello

happy new year to everyone :-D

love sally w

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Wishing all the lovely folk on here a Very Happy, Healthy and Peaceful New Year.

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Hello everyone, good to know that everyone enjoyed their Christmas.

Evelyn nice to see you back.



Sylvia, glad to know that you and OH are home safely and that you had a lovely Christmas with all your friends.



Sue, cold and damp here today in our corner of SE Derbyshire. I've forgotten what a lovely warm sunny day is like....it seems so long since we had one.


Hello to everyone else on this thread,hope you are all well.


Wishing you all a very Happy, Healthy and Prosperous New Year.

Hope that 2012 will be a good year for you all.


Love, Sallie.x

Wishing you all a very Happy & Peaceful New Year

No idea what is install for us all in the New Year - however I hope it sorts itself out for us all & give us all good things

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Hi Everyone

Sylvia happy to hear you had a wonderful Christmas.

I was very good too with the food and drink but tonight we have a New Years Eve party to go to next door so I do not have very far to go home and seeing as I have been very good to myself I think I may have a few drinks tonight.

It is a long Holiday over Christmas and I am always very glad it is over nearly !

It has cooled down a bit today around the 30c mark and it is a bit humid,Oh is back to work Monday.

Robert I hope you did not drink that 40yr old Scotch all by yourself,anyway Happy belated birthday.

We start taking all the lights down tomorrow and all the decorations inside ,I will be able to get all the furnisher back in its correct places then.

I am off outside in my garden now,just a few weeds to come out .

Wishhing alll my friends a

<3 <3 <3 VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR <3 <3 <3

Suex :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)

Hi everyone
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We had a lovely Christmas .......... went to stay with our friends, 6 people for dinner (or rather mid-afternoon meal :-) ), ate just about the right amount, drank just about the right amount, good conversation, and lots of laughs!


It's lovely to see that Evelyn posted on here


and Robert ........ belated Happy Birthday to you xxx


and so nice to see Josie back again.


Then the regulars who keep this thread going ........ Sue, Anne, and Cyn



Looking forward to see what Old has to say on his return


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This is such an exhausting week..............Christmas, daughter's birthday, daughter in law's birthday and New Year. I would quite happily hibernate until it is all over....... :-)


The family have just gone home after celebrating her birthday and I am shattered.

Will speak soon. Love. Cx.

Those Temps sound absolutely lovely, NOT!!

Am glad our temps here have been 20-23c nice and warm not to hot.
It's a good thing you have a pool Susan,

We had the most amazing weather for Christmas, starting the day before Christmas Eve right through till this Wednesday we had blue skies and sunshine, not a single cloud or raindrop and barley a breeze,

have not experienced weather like this since I was a child, normally it's overcast, raining and very humid here at Christmas.

However yesterday NZ got hit by a massive Rain Front and it is not due to clear till Monday. So now very wet, stuck inside Playing in my Tree [Family not Christmas :-D ]

Wishing you all a Happy New Year catch all in 2012 Josie <3 <3 <3 :-) :-) :-)

Hi Everyone

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas with your families.

It is very hot here I don't think any of you would like it,I never get into my own pool but this year I did and was very thankful I had one to get into.

Two days of 39c and it catches up with you ,today we have 30c but it is a little humid as there are believe it or not we have a few showers around.

We are not doing anything for New Years this year just to tired to be bothered really.

I am clearing out the fridge today so many left overs in there.

As usual we bought way to much food,Oh well I won't have to food shop this week .

Pop back in tonight.
Suex <3

Hello everyone, you all seem cheerful :-D


Hope you had a lovely birthday Robert - it must be difficult having a birthday on Christmas Day. My daughter's is on Friday and that's hard enough.


Lazing in the sun does sound so odd but, it was very mild on Christmas Day here. We sat in my son's conservatory for the lunch and had to draw the blinds and open the windows because it was so warm!! My OH even took his jumper off - something he rarely does :-S


Am trying to get organised for my daughter's birthday now - have a feeling a takeaway is what will happen :-D


Take care all. Back soon. Cx

Robert if you need any help to finish off the bottle of 40 Yr old single malt - my husband would very happily make the journey "up North" & share your shell if offered.

Very peacefull time we had as well - back at work tomorrow - never mind it was nice to have a few days off.

Josie - Wanganui thats where the Benefield family arrived back in the late 1800's - somewhere my OH badly wants to visit as they were his direct ancestors.

Here's hoping we can win the lotto in 2012 - we badly need a miracle to sort ourselves out.

Josie - I hope you find a job early in 2012 too.

Will try & pop in again tomorrow

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Hi Everyone

We had a fairly hectic day but so glad Boxing day is here to get over it all.

Happy to hear you all had a great day and it is lovely to see Evelyn back with us .

Watching the Cricket at the moment so will check back in tonight,enjoy the rest of the holidays.

Josie sorry but I did eat to much as usual.

Robert My OH also a Robert would love to help you get rid of that 40 yr old Whisky.

Suex :-) :-) :-) <3 <3 <3