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Breakfast is ready


Tea, coffee, juices


Cold cereals:-
Corn Flakes, Triple Berry Oatmeal Crisp, AllBran, Honey Bunches of Oats


Hot cereal:-
Porridge, Instant Hot Oatmeal with Cranberry & Ginger


In the warmer:-

bacon, turkey sausages, potato pancakes, frittata, mushrooms, black pudding, Maple baked beans, fried bread


Pancakes, Maple syrup, Blueberry Fruit Syrup, Lemon Yoghurt


Toast, Danish, croissants, crumpets, lemon and nut muffins

Jams, jellies, 3 fruit marmalade, marmite, peanut butter




Have a good day!




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Hi Sylvia,

I could not see anything either. Never mind...

Hope everyone is well, it's freezing cold today and I wish I was on holidays! :-) :-) :-)

Hope everyone has had nice Mother's Day. I spent mine visiting in laws and then my mum. <3

Hi Grace

and was it a nice Mother's Day?


It was Mother's Day here ....... but my one and only lives about 6000 km away (still the same country), so had to make do with a phone call.


The weather wasn't too bad ..... chilly for the month of May though! We haven't really warmed up yet. I do hope the warm weather comes soon!!

just thinking of going to bed!



s
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Oh it was okay, the sun came out and it was nice for a little bit, then it poured...!

One of those days I would have liked to hide inside and curl up and read a book, but anyway it's nice for the grandparents to see my girl, (she is the last of 10 on my mum's side and the only one on my partner's side) so they always get a kick out fo seeing her.

Other than that it was washing, vacuming,...all the normal things I do anyway.

You must miss your daughter very much. It's nice that she was able to call and chat. Do you skype or anything like that to stay in touch?

No, we haven't bothered doing Skype yet.

She's lived over there since she married in 1999, but they had their first (and probably only!) child last year, so Skype is becoming more intriguing.

Her husband is supposed to be checking out the best one to get ..... but he's very busy, he's head of departent in a high school


Yes, I do miss her, but we really can't complain, because we left the UK to come here, and left OH's parents behind. My mother was dead, and my father died 3 years after we came here.



s
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It's good that with the internet people can be far away and still close now isn't it.

Do you have a grandson or a granddaughter? I think my girl will be the only grandchild on one side as nether he nor his brother ever want/ed children, so when we had her, she was a suprise!

off to bed now


see you all later



s
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Grace

it's a little boy, born in March last year

..... to be honest, he's the first boy I've ever had anything to do with! My brother only had girls, and OH's sister had 2 girls and 1 boy, but we didn't see them all that much when the boy was small.


and I'm pretty certain he will be the only one. She's 37 now, and had quite a rough time in various ways.



see you tomorrow night :))



s
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Have a good night's sleep Sylvia... :-)

Good morning everyone!

Just called in for my lovely breakfast - Thank you Sylvia Xxx

I must say, those lemon and nut muffins were particularly delicious <3

A lovely sunny day here - I hope you all have the same.

Dea x

Chomping muffins as we speak! Thanks Sylvs......you do us proud.


A lovely sunny day here too Dea......must raid the wash basket.


Can't be bothered much about the dilly dally thing to be honest. Much as I enjoy being on the 'other side', the improvements on here have mean I keep coming back.


Hanging around today waiting to see if a boiler repair man calls at my daughter's before she goes to work. If not, I'll be on duty... :-(



My Taylor lot....or rather OH's, seem to have originated in Scotland and moved down to Liverpool. Mind you, isn't Taylor the 5th most common surname in Britain?

ja...x - I hope you enjoy chasing those unusual middle names.....knowing you though, you'll find them in a shake of a cat's whisker ;-)



See you later ~~~~~~~

Hi Ja....x

Re 'your' Taylors!

You appear to be chasing back to a John Taylor (Tailor by trade) born c 1823 and married to Ann ?

Do you know if he had a brother Joseph (married to Elizabeth), born in Worcestershire c 1816 who was an Artist, as he appears to have passed the middle name Sprague down through his family too.

Interesting?

Dea x

I hav'nt got that far with it yet Dea....just pushed that branch to one side for the last year.

I knew two of the Edward Sprague's were theirs as they were on the census's and have confirmed the first one born 1848 died 1849 is theirs aswell as he was a twin with the eldest daughter Jane it seems

I think Ann's maiden name maybe Howells what do you think? married Worcester 1846

ja...x

It's a 'possible' Ja....x, but there are other 'possibles to.

It does look good though as there is an Ann Howells on 1841 and her father is a Cordwainer so that would tie in with her occupation as a boot binder, but her age is a few years out and you would need more proof that that.

1841 England Census
about Ann Howells Name: Ann Howells
Age: 14
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1827
Gender: Female
Where born: Worcestershire, England

Civil parish: St Peter
Hundred: Worcester
County/Island: Worcestershire
Country: England

Registration district: Worcester
Sub-registration district: Worcester South
Neighbors: View others on page
Piece: 1209
Book: 15
Folio: 6
Page Number: 21
Household Members: Name Age
Ann Howells 14

+ these - not showing on transcription:

Thomas Howells abt 1806 Worcestershire, England St Peter, Worcestershire
Mary Howells abt 1806 Worcestershire, England St Peter, Worcestershire
Ann Howells abt 1827 Worcestershire, England St Peter, Worcestershire
Caroline Howells abt 1832 Worcestershire, England St Peter, Worcestershire
Mary Ann Howells abt 1835 Worcestershire, England St Peter, Worcestershire
Elizabeth Howells abt 1838 St Peter, Worcestershire
Martha Howells abt 1840 St Peter, Worcestershire

Father is a cordwainer. - last 2 children not born in Worcestershire.

Source Citation: Class: HO107; Piece 1209; Book: 15; Civil Parish: St Peter; County: Worcestershire; Enumeration District: 1; Folio: 6; Page: 21; Line: 3; GSU roll: 464215.

Dea x

Yeah thats the census I saw and the area is about right St Peter Worcestershire I suppose I could get the gt grandmothers birth cert...I have managed so far with only getting one and that was her sons my garandads

ja...x

Dea.....get the kettle on hun bun......

...........Im on the way home :-)

Assam at the ready Ginns! (plus a few little nibblies, of course).

Dea Xxx

Who is Gt. Grandmother Ja....x ?

Dea x

There is no need to give me any info on her I have all that Louisa Emma Taylor 1861

I probably wont go back any further as parish records are of no interest to me...bit of a real guessing game then

If you want something to do you can see if you can find Martha after 1871 please

Name: Martha Taylor
Age: 18
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1853
Relation: Daughter
Father's name: John Taylor
Mother's name: Ann Taylor
Gender: Female
Where born: St Martins, Worcestershire, England
Civil parish: St James Clerkenwell
Ecclesiastical parish: St James
County/Island: London
Country: England
Registration district: Holborn
Sub-registration district: St James Clerkenwell
ED, institution, or vessel: 1
Household schedule number: 117
Piece: 379
Folio: 16
Page Number: 26
Household Members: Name Age
John Taylor 48
Ann Taylor 47
Jane Taylor 22
Emily A Taylor 20
Martha Taylor 18 >>>>>17/2/1852 born
Matilda Taylor 17
Joseph Taylor 16
Amelia Taylor 12
Edward Taylor 10
Emma Taylor 9
Maria Taylor 6
Alice Taylor 4


ja...x

Can't see her in 1881 Ja....x - I will take another look later.

OOOOhhh -It's gorn all black here - the storm is coming !!!

Dea x