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CHRONICLES OF NUTLODGE

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+++DetEcTive+++ Report 10 Apr 2011 09:45

Rum, Whisky or Gin?? Of course you have to be different and have an animal spirit LOL

AuntySherlock

AuntySherlock Report 10 Apr 2011 12:33

DET Re the A free two weeks. I am still in my free trial and I can see USA records. I have never been able to do this before so the total package must be available from the start of the subscription.

Mazfromnorf

Mazfromnorf Report 10 Apr 2011 15:57

big jug of homemade lemonade or ginger beer placed on table with bucket of ice very refreshing .help yourselves .Its lovely here again I have just cut the grass around the builders stuff it looks a lot better now for a few weeks still got some weeding to do but .that can wait

YG

YG Report 10 Apr 2011 17:38

I'm here too!! Just about!! Spent two whole days, more or less, doing the garden. Now have a broken back (well it feels as though it is broken!!)

Boy oh boy, do I ache!! I really need a man to be doing this stuff!! It is getting harder, so I guess I will have to resort to paying someone eventually!

Still need to weed under the hawthorn, so I will look as though I have been self harming by the time I've done it! It always gets my upper arm!!

Got dinner in the oven now, so am going to rest up for the evening.

I'm still on for Peterborough; like DET, just need meet time and possible return time as I would really like to book a seat coming home!!

LaGooner

LaGooner Report 10 Apr 2011 20:10

Evening all, I ache like hell too LOL. Only just come in and eaten now collapsed on the sofa LOL. I did loads to the pond and for a change I did not slip in !!!.

YG

YG Report 10 Apr 2011 20:39

Boo LG!! Have you fallen asleep!! I'm thinking of going soon, I am so weary lol!! This old age lark isn't very funny!

AuntySherlock

AuntySherlock Report 10 Apr 2011 22:12

And here am I bright eye and busytailed on this chilly autumn morning. No one to talk to. Oh well I suppose I'd better get ready for work work.

Have decided to restructure my fh research area. Since I've put in bookcases and shelves and changed the room around I find I can not reach some of my info without climbing on a chair or the desk.

So printer needs to go up one on the shelf. Records I am working on need to come down to the desk and spare paper and folders need to go up to the second shelf.

Well goodnight to all of you. Sleep well and by the way we are of course having a "royal wedding" soiree at Nut Lodge, aren't we??!!!

LaGooner

LaGooner Report 10 Apr 2011 23:37

, yes Yg I did nod off for a while but then went up my tree again completing some more records. I really do think we should celebrate the Royal Wedding although the Killer Queen is still waiting for her invitation LOL LOL ,
Sounds like you are going to be busy Aunty.


I am off to bed now as I am nodding as I type. Nite nite all.

+++DetEcTive+++

+++DetEcTive+++ Report 11 Apr 2011 07:41

Morning all - Maz must have over slept as no missive from her! Big clear up day today as Eldest&Co are coming to stay for B&B tomorrow. Hadn't thought about a Wedding party - it seems to be passing us by.

Oh, how I'd like a dedicated study - lucky AS.

Off to check train times for PB.

+++DetEcTive+++

+++DetEcTive+++ Report 11 Apr 2011 07:53

Right then - trains seems to be v frequent. Allowing time to get to London

Outward from London arriving PB
1115, 1138, 1152 (or later ones)

Homeward from PB dept
1600, 1632, 1649, 1732, ......... could get a later train but what is there to do in PB once the shopping hours are over?



Pauline $(*-*)$

Pauline $(*-*)$ Report 11 Apr 2011 11:07


Hi everybody, it does seem strange not having Maz open up the lodge early in the morning.

If I had a study I probably wouldn't use it because I like to see what's going on with hubby and son, I'm far too nosey to be in a different room to them.

AuntySherlock

AuntySherlock Report 11 Apr 2011 12:47

Strewth I am in such a mess. I wish I had never left this *!@@!* family history research. I have lost track of where I was and each time I look at a piece of paper I can't make up my mind whether I need to keep it or not. The wastepaper basket is overflowing but I keep looking at it wondering if I should search through it again just in case I've thrown out a treasure. At least I've found the paperwork I need to start on again.

I have found heaps of certificates I ordered while looking for grandfather Hill. One in particular caught my eye because it looks like exactly the info I needed. However why did I not think that when I received it eight months ago. goodness only knows.

My computer room. Our house has three bedrooms and there is only myself OH and Spot. I am quite pleased to have a room which I have filled with bookcases, a filing cabinet, desk, chair etc etc. It keeps this stuff in one place and out of sight.

Oh dear LG haven't you received your RW invitation yet. I thought they sent them out weeks ago. Must be held up in the post somehow.

Well you are probably all in bed by now so I'll send you some insults you can use when you are up and on the go tomorrow. Seen some of them before but good for a giggle.

Glorious insults from an era when cleverness with words was valued, before a great portion of the English language got boiled down to 4-letter words or the waving of middle fingers.

The exchange between Churchill & Lady Astor:
She: If you were my husband I'd give you poison.
He: If you were my wife, I'd drink it.

A member of Parliament to Disraeli:
"Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease."
"That depends, Sir," said Disraeli, "whether I embrace your policies or your mistress."

"He had delusions of adequacy."
- Walter Kerr

"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."
- Winston Churchill

"A modest little person, with much to be modest about."
- Winston Churchill

"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure."
- Clarence Darrow


"He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary."
- William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway)

"Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?"
- Ernest Hemingway (about William Faulkner)




"Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time reading it."
- Moses Hades

"He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know."
- Abraham Lincoln

"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it."
- Mark Twain

"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends."
- Oscar Wilde




"I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend. If you have one."
- George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill

"Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second... If there is one."
- Winston Churchill, in response.




"I feel so miserable without you; it's almost like having you here."
- Stephen Bishop

"He is a self-made man and worships his creator."
- John Bright

"I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial."
- Irvin S. Cobb

"He is not only dull himself, he is the cause of dullness in others."
- Samuel Johnson

"He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up."
- Paul Keating

"There's nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won't cure."
- Jack E. Leonard

"He has the attention span of a lightning bolt."
- Robert Redford

"They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge."
- Thomas Brackett Reed

"In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily."
- Charles, Count Talleyrand

"He loves nature in spite of what it did to him."
- Forrest Tucker

"Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?"
- Mark Twain

"His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork."
- Mae West

"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go."
- Oscar Wilde

"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts...
For support rather than illumination."
- Andrew Lang (1844- 1912)

"He has Van Gogh's ear for music."
- Billy Wilder

"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it."
- Groucho Marx


Mazfromnorf

Mazfromnorf Report 11 Apr 2011 14:10

morning all well it was at 4.30 while i was packing the house away again .and I tried to get on the internet but it was on a go slow so gave up all is going on here I have a house full of men again and one lady who is a sparky
The cooker has arrrived and is going in the bathroom is no more even the floorboards are up .so i am in a corner with the cat typing away .

AuntySherlock

AuntySherlock Report 11 Apr 2011 14:11

She's the Killer Queen, no one else around to be
Worst jokes you will ever see
Hopeless at family history,
Need raisin bread to fill her tummy!!

Nighty night!!

Mazfromnorf

Mazfromnorf Report 11 Apr 2011 14:16

hello aunty i am here just amid the dust and rubbish

AuntySherlock

AuntySherlock Report 11 Apr 2011 14:16

Hi Maz,

I'm trying to be Killer Queen around here. Glad there is someone else on this wavelength twas getting a bit lonely.

I've just typed a letter to someone who sent a letter to someone else in 2004 about two generations ago of my OHs family. Wadda ya reckon my chances of receiving a reply??!!

OK now I'm off to bed, after I eat my raisin toast. So you can sit on the throne and be KQ until someone comes and tips you off.

Edit. Just changed my mind about raisin toast. Think I'll have an apple instead. Oh sometimes I am such a good girl!!

Mazfromnorf

Mazfromnorf Report 11 Apr 2011 14:55

have a good sleep aunty i am doing homework some of which is repetitive
miracles have been known on here lol

+++DetEcTive+++

+++DetEcTive+++ Report 11 Apr 2011 17:17

Gosh - Aunty was late going to bed - hope she can get up in time for work in the morning (unless she is on half term).

Hm - the address. Try it and see. I wrote to an address found on a letter dated 1963 and got a reply. Mind you, I did cheat and check the ER - lol

Hope they leave you a usable Loo before they clock off Maz - wouldn't fancy having to go down the garden to a portaloo, or a bucket indoors.

We are absolutely shattered having cleaned from top to bottom but gave up at the kitchen. No stamina, that's our problem. Unless we get second wind this evening, it will have to wait until the morning.

Mazfromnorf

Mazfromnorf Report 11 Apr 2011 18:10

hi we have a loo downstairs lol

LaGooner

LaGooner Report 11 Apr 2011 18:31

Just sat down after a good clean through. I now feel like going to sleep LOL.