Genealogy Chat

Hi everyone,
I am glad that I am not the only one having trouble with Genes. I had the same problem, Susan, getting on to this thread. I am also having trouble accessing my tree through Internet Explorer. I will be really glad when I can get myself a completely new computer.
I have got a feeling that the problemas we are having is due to the fact that Windows XP is no longer supported by Microsoft. If that is true I don't know, but it could be a logical reason.

I wish you girls would stop talking about chocolate, it is very tempting to indulge, but I am trying to lose a bit of "belly".

It has been very welcome to see a bit of sunshine so far this week, and I am really glad that it has got a bit warmer of late, I hate the winter. I feel like doing a Bruce Forsyth and spending six months here in the UK and six months in Australia with my sister. Oh! it is so nice to dream.

I hope everyone is well, and that all colds and viruses are gone and that those with sunstroke are now feeling a bit cooler.

Regards,
John

hello all

susan that is the same reason I have not been on here and I tried going up in tens and hey presto :-D

oh the chocs I had to look mmmm and you know I should not mmmmm

Robert I am glad the warmer wheather has brought you out or was it the choc mmmm

Arthur what a lovely holiday
I have looked on ancestry and can not find the laflin nicholls marrage again I came across it while looking for some thing else

choc mmmmmmmmm

how these grangchildren age where do the years go my oldest will be 16 in sept

hope you are all well

sally w <3 it just started raining :-(

Hi Everyone

Is it me or is everyone having trouble getting into this thread.
I had to do it by going 10 pages at a time ,all I get when i try to go to page 177 is the error page .
IT has be doing that to me a lot so I just give up in the end and go one doing my Tree.

I have done a lot of my tree of late ,all I have collected now has to be put into my tree so I cross my fingers every time I try that .

Robert it is nice to see you pop in every now and then,I hope your dear wife is doing well,i do not envy your weather over there.

We have just got our first rains and it was so good to see after out long hot humid Summer,over here when the first rains com we all go out side to stand in it,we look stupid really but we are just so happy to see rain.

My computer went all hay wire on me the other day ,I could not figure out what was wrong but I did find it in the end .
Updates from Windows the previous night had changed the date and time of my computer back to Jan 1st 2002 ...I did not even have a computer back then...very strange ,the only reason I figured it out was the clock on the screen was about 30 min slow and it is normally spot on.

Something to watch for in the future .

Making chocolate crackles today,the Grt Granddaughter is one tomorrow so we are having a party...where has this year gone?

Dark chocolate is the best and add rum and raisins to the mix Yum!.

Adding to my tree tonight so may pop in again ...if I can get in that is .

Off to send another message to Genes....getting sick of that too they should have everything running good by now you would think.

Love to you all <3 <3 <3
Suex :-D

Hello all........it's certainly been quiet on here hasn't it? I guess we are all busy about our lives.

I have been here and there and doing a lot of work helping a friend with her tree....I'm so slow at it though...not like our speedy Sylvs. My granddaughter will be 15 on Sunday so hope to go up there at some stage. Can't believe how fast the time has gone.


There's been lots of discussions on here about the death of Mrs Thatcher - very divisive it has been too.


Arthur, good to know that you are back home safely. Your holiday sounds absolutely idyllic......all that lovely sunshine......sigh. Bet the kittens were glad to see you home :-)


Nice to see the Ven Robert again too........~~~~~~waving madly.......hope you are well in your little shell. ;-)


Please don't mention dark chocolate ginger - I could eat a whole box - just love it!


Take care everyone.........Cx <3 <3

Back from Greece having had a wonderful time - everyone was so friendly. My friend Melvyn speaks good Greek and this helped to make the holiday even more special.
We had to visit government offices to obtain a permit to collect and found the officials really helpful - one even delivered the permit to our hotel!! Can't imagine that happening here.
Weather was excellent on the whole, althought the middle Sunday was dire with monsoon rain. We sat and drank coffee and observed the natives - we were in the rural north and people came to our hotel dressed in their Sunday best to meet and greet.
On our last day we travelled in the mountains and came across a remarkable sight. An Albanian goatherd who in addition to a large herd of goats, looked after a pack of dogs. There were 25 in all and he had given each a name. They ranged from a very large old dog to about six puppies (I estimate about 6 months old). He spoke Greek and we asked about the dogs. All looked healthy and were very friendly - after being initially suspicious of us, one of the females rolled on her back and allowed my friend to tickle her stomach. Another dog wanted to be picked up by my other friend. We spent about an hour in glorious sunshine with these wonderful animals and their devoted owner.
I also enjoyed having dinner with a Greek family. Melvyn had chanced to meet someone who ran an English school when he and other friends were looking for a cafe for a coffee. Matoula showed them where to go and joined them for a coffee. From this chance encounter a real friendship has developed and he has since stayed with the family. While Melvyn visited the school and talked to the students, my other friend and I went up to the snowline and enjoyed sunshine and flowers.

Collected my cats this morning. Apparently they were the stars of the cattery with everyone wanting to take them home. They really enjoy meeting people.

I hope the weather is going to improve as I need to mow the lawn and tifdy up the garden. forecast is not exactly encouraging.

Lovely to have you pop in on us Robert

We had sea mist this morning & loads of rain last night

Sylvia - dark chocolate ginger - I can let you have the website of a wonderful chocolate maker - he does Amazing goodies - I know the owner & his partner really well - we do a lot of business with them

If you ever need to send a very special Gift – they are quite expensive & they will do non alcohol ones too if you ask them

http://www.demarquette.co.uk/

Was invited to one of their new range chocolate tasting parties - totally out of this world and some of them when eaten with Champagne to wash it down – well
Words cannot describe it


Well better go off & surf the boards

Take care all

Hello Robert


nice to see you.

Hope you and your wife are both keeping well.

We're now having April weather here ............... pouring rain this morning, sun shining now at noon!

Bit quiet on here recently - hope everyone is recovering from the poor weather and that summer will soon be with us.

I don't post on here very often but I do watch with interest what everyone is saying.

Hi Sue,


and everyone



well, not much is happening here!


The weather is grey, drizzly, and there is a chilly wind!



Hope that Arthur is having a great time hunting flowers :-D



Take care everyone




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I would Sylvia - my mum loved that - or stem ginger in syrup - we always has a jar at Christmas - i still buy one - just for old times & tend to use it in cooking now. Its a remiminder of good times too.

Went to the in-laws yesterday - so trying to catch up now

Couple of hours in the office & then home

The sun is shining - not quite so cold so always makes you feel better

Take care all

Hi Sue, and everyone


no-one gives me Easter eggs ............... they're very good, they know I can't eat them, so they don't tempt me!


Mid you, I wouldn't say no to a bag of dark chocolate covered ginger, which I can eat.


but no-one offers me that!





take care everyone




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Hi everyone :-D

John, what lovely news - you sound so proud of your brand new gt. granddaughter. Hope you get to see her soon...


Greece! It sounds wonderful Arthur. Have a brilliant holiday and come back safe.


Anne, I thought you arranged holidays, not all those exciting events....sounds like good fun to be honest. Now I know where to come when I want to come up with something different.... :-D


So glad you had a good time with your sister Sue and I can imagine how sad you must have been to see her leave. Never mind, in this day and age it is so easy to keep in touch what with Skype etc. We could do with some of your sunshine over here - believe me!


I've got a lot of Easter eggs to eat too........ so I've decided to eat them as quickly as I can and then I can get back to trying to lose weight....sounds like a good plan to me :-D :-D

It's been half term round here so my daughter has been off work for 2 weeks. That means that I tend to go out with her in the afternoons and I am worn out!! Roll on schooltime.... :-D :-D

Take care everyone Cx <3 <3 <3

Hi Everyone

Happy belated Easter to you all.

My Sister has been and gone ,she is now back in the UK with all your cold weather but we did send her back with a sun tan.

We had a wonderful time together but it is so hard to say goodbye again as usual I cried when she left.

Our weather is starting to cool a little so it was not to hot for her.

Evelyn I am so sorry for the passing of your brother we are all thinking of you.

We have so many Easter eggs to eat ,I can see I am going to put on a few kilo's.

Busy washing and striping beds at present ...won't be long and i will be ready for our next lot of visitors one being my Brother.....at least here the washing dries in no time

:-D

Check in tonight ...see the clocks have gone back in time over there so must remember that.

Suex <3 <3 <3

Have a wonderful time Arthur - Safe journey

I will be taking the kittens - really should now be called cats as they are larger than my old cat ever was - to the cattery. in a few hours. A new experience for them and it will be interesting to see how they react so soon after being able to explore my front and rear gardens. They have been very good and do come when I call. They are happy to return through the cat flap, but 'need' me to open it for them to go out - that will have to stop!

I am going with two friends to northern Greece to look for flowers. Hope it is a lot warmer than here.

On Friday last I was meant to go down to Swindon to see my brther and his family. Planned arrival was 12.30. By 12.30 I had only reached the new Service Station on the M25 at Cobham!!!! The traffic was horrendous yet did not get a mention on the radio. I phoned them and said I was going back home. The tailback was still 7 miles and counting. The radio still did not mention the hold up! They did say it was expected that 17 million people would be travelling on Good Friday - half must have been on the southern route of the M25!

Congratulations John - How lovely & a very special time of year - a time for new beginnings

No frost last night - on Sunday morning we had nearly 2 inches of Ice on the car & it stayed icy till gone 11am & the grass was white & sparkly in the sun.

Hard to believe 15 years ago i was planning my wedding and now look at us. It would have been nice to go away somewhere for the week in June - but finances wont allow - who knows something good may turn up for us soon.

hope you all had a wonderful Easter

Take care all

Hi everyone, and a very Happy Easter to you all.
Believe it or not we are now in British Summer Time, What a joke, it is just about 0degrees centigrade here in Essex at the moment with a very hard frost forecast for tomorrow morning. I am sure glad that I am off work for the Easter holidays for the next two weeks. Hopefully it will be a bit warmer when I go back.

Had some lovely news on Thursday 14th March, a brand new Great Grandaughter, "Faith Ali". Her poor mum just about got to the hospital in Maldon before she was born. It was only thirty five minutes from the time her waters broke till the time that the baby was born. This is now my third great grandchild and I am over the moon. I have not been able to see her yet as I have had a very miserable viral infection for what seems like ages now, and I don't want to pass it on to her.

I sincerely hope everyone is keeping well,
Regards,
John :-)

Happy Easter Everyone

Cynthia - thought you knew where i worked

Its a very large US company - - the office is 24 hours 365 days a year - with clients all over the world.

My area look after the Elite & we do anything & everything they ask for as long as its legal moral & ethical. From arranging holidays to large parties & events - to Breakfast meetings/ladies who lunch or dinner for 2 to 50 - arraning hair appointments, spa treatments, babysitting - tours & day trips - from the usual to unusual. You name it i Have probably tried to arrange it or book it.

For instance this morning someone called in looking for a Violin shop in Oxford who could repair a valuable Violin for a concert tomorrow.

Just shout if you want to know anything unusual.

Some of the more stupid things were - arrange a private visit with the Pope & the queen (at different times) - Organise a helicopter to hover over the stadium for the opening of the Olympics last year - arrange for a lifesize plastic farm yard to be set up in someones garden for a party.

We get some very strange requests for 40th birthday parites - let alone childrens parties.

Oh well must go - trying to finish off some research

Take care all & enjoy the lovely sunny day - even if it is quite cold.

Happy Easter to everyone ! <3


Glad your OH is getting better Sally and that you don't have any more traumas.


Anne......hope you got up at the right time........6am is a very early start... :-S

I'm surprised you have to work today as I know it is the law that large shops have to remain closed on Easter Day - do you work in a small place then? :-S


It's been a busy week what with one thing and another but I love Easter and it's so worth all the busyness. :-D

Hope you are all keeping well...... love, Cx <3 <3

Glad your OH is on the mend Sally - they should leave emergency numbers alone

If it aint broke dont mend it

Fingers crossed things will get a lot better for you both

blinking cold here today - we had to over ride the heating

Clocks go forward tonight - i am at work at 6am tomorrow - so early to bed tonight