General Chat

I don't think we have met in person Ann but our paths may have crossed at some point here on Genes. I've been a member for over 10 years and have contacted so many people that it's possible I may of made contact with you. I've noticed that one of the surnames you are researching is matching one of mine, so you never know.

How wonderful Huia, I can imagine you jumping around with excitement, I was exactly the same a few years ago when I finally found some information for one of my OH's relatives in New Zealand, so I know how you feel. He was born in the UK so I was very lucky to have found him, I would of never thought of looking in New Zealand for him and only came across him travelling there by chance.
I'm so pleased for you, do you know who the people in the photo are now?

Happy birthday to Mo's daughter, hope she has a wonderful 50th

I'm off to wrap up my Mother-in-laws birthday present now, we are giving it to her tomorrow as OH has to work on her birthday. We don't live by each other so visiting can be a bit of a problem with the long hours my OH works.
See you all later Gill

Coooee my lovelies, welcome to Just Jeans thread Gill, you will probably notice that some of us already post on the friendlies thread LOL it's a small world.

Just had a wonderful day with my cousin Trisha, who is over from OZ, visiting us rellies who she has never met.
My jaw is aching, from so much chatting. My goodness she is such a great lady, and does not look her age at all.
She had so much news about our family, who were evacuated from Hong Kong, when it was invaded by the Japanese.
They were supposed to stay in Australia for six weeks, but it ended up as a lot longer.
And of how my grandfather, and her father were interned in a prison of war camp for many years, by the Japanese.
Enough enough,thats it for tonight girls, I am shattered, and I have another day to look forwards tomorrow, before Trihsa flies of to Poland for a week on Friday. Oh boy she is a real live wire.
Night Night my friends, hugs Mo xxx

Coooee my lovelies, welcome to Just Jeans thread Gill, you will probably notice that some of us already post on the friendlies thread LOL it's a small world.

Just had a wonderful day with my cousin Trisha, who is over from OZ, visiting us rellies who she has never met.
My jaw is aching, from so much chatting. My goodness she is such a great lady, and does not look her age at all.
She had so much news about our family, who were evacuated from Hong Kong, when it was invaded by the Japanese.
They were supposed to stay in Australia for six weeks, but it ended up as a lot longer.
And of how my grandfather, and her father were interned in a prison of war camp for many years, by the Japanese.
Enough enough,thats it for tonight girls, I am shattered, and I have another day to look forwards tomorrow, before Trihsa flies of to Poland for a week on Friday. Oh boy she is a real live wire.
Night Night my friends, hugs Mo xxx

Hi Mo, and everyone

Lovely to see you posting, Saliie. I hope you continue to improve little by little xxxx



we're back from our train trip.

It was great fun ................ apart from the 10 hour delay getting into Toronto on the first leg, which led to us having to be put on a bus to Montreal. Normally the train company would have put us up in Toronto and re-scheduled us onto a Montreal train the next day, but there were no hotel rooms available ........... a Madonna concert, a big ice hockey game, and another big sporting event.

It took 6 hours to get to Montreal, we walked in to the lobby of the Fairmont hotel at 4:15 AM. Naturally they had let our room for that night go, but they managed to find another one for us. We fell into bed at 4:30 am, slept for 4 hours, then got up and had breakfast, and continued with our day!

Still, we managed to do everything that we wanted to do. And we saw the autumnal colours on the Prairies and in northern Ontario ............. along with huge skeins of geese flying south. There must have been 200 or more in those skeins.

Hi there Sylvia, good to have you back.
What a shame about the hold up though, but it didn't spoil the total time away did it, thank the lord.
Oooh, watching the geese fly over must have been awesome. I am not sure when the birds here fly south for the winter,I just hope they hurry up, as I am fed up of putting the washing out, just for them to use it as a toilet, and wipe their little botties on it, yuk dirty bird.
Seeing the birds roosting up on the roofs and t.v ariels, is fine thats something I love to do, it's just the mess on the washing I don't like.

We have been travelling around different churches today, showing my cousin the churches that our forebears were married in.
One in particular was very very helpful, she showed Tricia the marriage certificate, on the computer, even though we already had the certs ourselves. One church is over seven hundred years old.
It was so funny at one venue, we were searching round for an entrance, when suddenly a door opened, and we were admitted, only to find it was ladies day, and they were practising christmas carols, so we had disturbed them, only to find we could not find an exit after photo's were taken, and tombs looked at, so we had to disturb them again, I don't think we were very popular by the end of out visit.
My cousin is a little gadabout, she is off to Poland tomorrow, then onto Germany arriving home at the end of the month.
Tomorrow is going to be a busy day for us, we have our daughters 50th birthday party to cater for, she thinks we are going out for a meal, oh boy I think I shall be full from the smells of the cooking, I just hope our daughter has a heavy lunch or she will be starving when she arrives at the surprise do

Bye for now girls, and just a quick ((((((((((HUGS for our Sallie))))))))))))).

Bit of a bad start to your trip Sylvia, glad it all came good in the end though.

Hope the party goes well today Mo for your daughter's birthday, she will be surprised won't she? You're going to have a busy time before hand, sorting out the food.

It sounds like you've had a good time with your Australian relatives. They do get around a lot don't they?

Hello my darlinks, how are we all today.
Just a quick message from one worn out ol gel.
Yesterday was a great success, re our daugthers surprise party. We thought our daughter was going to pass out with the shock of it all.
But family, friends, and work colleagues all turned up for her, even her old friend who has lived in France for 15 years came over just to celebrate with her.
It was a long tiring day, but oh so worth it.
I started cooking at 7 a.m, and we left the party at midnight last night, oh boy today we have just chilled out doing as little as possible.
I must say bye for now, got to do some dinner for us....no peace for the wicked.

Sounds like the party was a great success Mo, you certainly had a long day didn't you? How nice for her friend from France to be there, I bet your daughter was thrilled.

Hello everyone, just to let you know I won't be posting for a few days, but should be able to post by Friday.
Hugs to all, Mo xxx

Hi everyone I Am BACK trying to catch up all the reading, hello to Baker Gill nice to meet you , hope we can chat some more, well my lovely friends it has been and still is a very traumatic time for J and myself, still unpacking all the boxes, but I sadly get very tired and am unable to stand any length of time, still hoping that will improve... Sallie so pleased to hear from you its made my day, hope the family are ok and that you are improving daily....
I will read some more of the thread later , time for a nap methinks,

take care one and all love and hugs Jean xx <3 <3 <3 <3

Welcome back Jean, it will all come together in its own time so don't fret about tak9ing your time. Anyway I am pleased that you are back on line.

Sallie, I missed your post back there as I was not always able to get on line while in Lanzarote. It is so good to see that you manged a post. I hope your cousin is feeling better now and not in so much pain. Come back and chat when you feel able to, we miss you and think of you <3 <3

Mo, hope all is ok with you and that you will be back on here soon.

We had a very turbulent flight hole yesterday, it was very windy and the plane was tossed around a bit. We landed at Luton at midnight, the luggage took hald an hour to come off and then it took us over 2 hours to drive home. We got home at 3am this morning so you can imagine how we feel now. T did very well driving so late at night when we were tired, we don't drive at night much at all. It was surprisinf how many cars there were on the road as well as lorries, that time of the morning.

Hi everyone

Jean ......... welcome back :-D Don't worry about it taking time to unpack.


Mo ...... hope all is well with you and Rory.


It is Voting Day here .................. we're hoping that it will result in a MAJOR change in government

Thank you Sylvia, I am still trying to read the thread and catch up with all the news,
hope you are both well and refreshed after your holiday...

Ann it sounded a hard drive home for you both , hope the holiday was a good one for you all. no doubt we will here about it once you some spare time ...

Mo , do you never stop!!! a woman of your age should rest more, you will never be able to throw the darts ;-) ;-) ;-) how is Roly hope all is well with him....and of course you too my lickle friend :-D :-D :-D

nearly sorted the craft stuff as usual too much stuff :-D :-D :-D :-D
but where to put it all thats the problem....

love to all our friends over the water, take care everyone ,

thank you all for the lovely cardsI have agreat display now,

love and hugs Jean xxx <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

Happy Birthday for tommorow Mo have a great day.

Love Jean and Jeff xxx

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Happy Birthday, Mo xxx

Nudging for Mo <3 <3 <3

Nudging for Mo <3 <3 <3

Hello my darlinks,
Did you miss me...we have been up to Clacton for a few days, oh my word, I am sooo pleased we came back a day early, what a dump the camp site was.
I don't know if any of you watched a programme, about the people of Jaywick.
Well our campsite was situated just beyond there, and we were afraid we were going to get mugged, even in from inside our car. My god what a place.
The whole campsite that consisted of over 250 caravans, was inhabited by just nine families, who arrived the same day we did.
There was NOTHING open, apart from the little shop. Nowhere to buy a meal, no entertainment laid on, when I say everything was shut down, that's no exageration.
Monday and Tuesday were lovely weatherwise,but Tuesday night and Wednesday, it chucked it down with rain, so this morning we decided to come home today rather than tomorrow.
Why does it always happen to us I wonder, we are starting to think we should not bother to go away again.

Thank you all for the birthday wishes, and lovely cards. We went out for a very nice meal tonight, to celebrate.
The washing machine is on it's second load, how do we make so much washing in just four days.

Ann, sorry to hear that you got held up, and the turbulent flight home. But I bet you all had a wonderful time whilst you were away. I trust you and T and the family enjoyed it.

Hi there Sylvia, we are both fine thank you.
How did the voting day go ? Did the party you were hoping to win get on ?

Jean my lickle darlink, how good to see you back online.
Don't rush your unpacking, take it slowly one day at a time, just don't go falling over the boxes, we don't want you laid up again.
Does J like your new abode ? I bet it will take a little getting used to for both of you, but I'm sure you will settle soon. You are bound to miss D's company though.
Love to you both sweetheart.

Has anyone heard from our Sallie lately, I do hope she is o.k.

Hi to our newbie Gill, hopefully she will pop in soon.

Well girls I will say night night god bless. Hugs to all, Mo xxx

Hi Mo

sorry to hear you had such a bad time at the camp.

The summer I left school, I worked as a maid/cum do-it-all at a private hotel in Frinton, not far from Clacton. A group of us would to go into Clacton for the late shows during their Jazz Festival ......... we saw Humphrey Lyttleton, Johnny Dankworth and Cleo Laine, and others.

It was a magical summer!

My best friend was at Clacton Training College that same time ...... she said Clacton was a dump in the winter :-)


YES ............... we threw out Stephen Harper and the Conservatives! 10 years of taking Canada to the far right will be over on November 4th when Justin Trudeau is sworn in as PM of a majority Liberal goverment.

He's the son of Pierre Elliott Trudeau who was PM when we came to Canada .... people loved or hated PET, no half way, but he certainly did a lot of good for the country. You may possibly remember his name from 1968 to around 1984.

We're now all hoping that JT can achieve at least half of what he has promised.

It's the first time Canada has ever had a father son "dynasty". Justin was actually born and spent a large part of his childhood in the PM's residence in Ottawa.

Morning all, Mo it sounds a terrible place, but the meal out was better for you, we had decided to not go away as often before my tumble, now its like being on a holiday here, J is coming round to calling it home, he is doing a stirling job of looking after me doing very well with the cooking, what a gem he is... I finally emptied the last of the boxes, only to find we have a box missing, I had labelled it "bits and bobs" nowhere to be seen , it was done right at the last minute before we left, gooodness knows where it is, we will get onto the removal firm and also ask here if there is any sign of it....
I am hoping to get my hair done at my usual hairdressers this afternoon , and hoping I can manage , just a blow wave if I do ok I will have a perm, the crarers wash my hair now I am still waiting to have a chair and hand rail for the shower, so having to make do with a strip wash everyday, luckily Sally my helper is great and will do all that I cant manage at present.......

I was wondering if our Sallie is ok, I think she will do what she can when she can, I had a lovely card from her a couple of days ago.we will keep her close in our hearts I am sure. <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

hope all our friends are ok here and abroad.

Take care love Jean xxx