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Still sane Dea...cough

Owww Ginns - Has you got a cough then ???

You need to get someone to rub your chest and back with 'goose grease' -My grandad used to swear by that !!

Get well soon :D :D

Dea Xxx ;-)

It's VERY nite nite time all my lickle friends!!!!!!!!!

Hope you all had, or will have, a very lovely day !!

Dea <3

Did anyone see my post about the suggeston of a 'flat world' so there would be no time differences?

It would make life SO much easier !!!

Nite nite all, (Or good morning/afternoon!!)

Dea Xxx

Night Dea....sleep tight.





Wonder what Sylvs has been buying.......? Not that I'm curious of course....lol




Nearly bedtime for me too.



No kids tomorrow............... wonder what I'll get up to??

Just popped in to say night-night, hope you all have nice dreams.

Gins - not surprised you've got a cough going round half dressed ......

What a lot of chat.... lot of it about moi and the impotence (importance) of vegemite in one's diet. Not that awful sticky yicky icky gooey phffttt marmite. But before Vegemite we had a product called Maxivite which was the same type of spread. My Grandfather was a "Commercial Traveller" now known as a sales rep for a company that sold jellies, peanut butter, dressings, puddings etc and so we had free maxavite.

Explanation: Board name Persephone - goddess of the underworld and NZ is just about as far under as it can get. Some maps of the world eg old atlas globes do not have us there at all.

I originaly could not go with my real name as someone else has that then I thought I would go with Elvira but someone had that as well. So now I am Persie.... and yes I did have a PM from someone thanking me for my help and telling me I was a very nice man. I think then I used Percy...

But then Upstairs Downstairs new series has a Lady Persie Towyn so I adopted that format and Tec from Wales says that the place should really be Twywn. You can see a video of her/my activity on youtube and that should clear up all doubts regarding my potency.

It is my morning tea time and am off to make a plunger of coffee so anyone still awake is more than welcome...

Persie

Dea maybe Mr Jones would be happy to do the Goose grease application for Ginns I am too far away to help

R

Glad you explained Persie

I mean that Gins is meant to be educated and did'nt know that you were a Godess tut tut,

It helped for me having a mum that was into all that stuff also.

Vegimite yuk Many years ago I went to Oz for a holiday stayed with a Oz born cousin and his wife, They decided to give us a good ole British Roast dinner but used vegimite for the gravy which was a nasty lump of goohy stuff on the plate.


Anyone know what site you use for civilian war deaths found this couple in my tree both died in march 1941 in West Ham...so looks likely

ja...x

My gravy is the real thing Jax... Though I can make Bisto Gravy for him sometimes.

They have outback tours in Oz - they boil the billy for a cup of tea and serve vegemite sandwiches and Lamingtons.

I actually love Aussie tucker (not lamingtons though) down in Tasmania they make curried scallop pies. They have pie shops that sell all sorts and one of my favourites was a cauliflower mornay. I am a bit of a Rick Stein in that I love all the shell fish varieties.... we have a fair few ourselves.

Persie

Hi everyone, hope you are all having a nice day.

jax, I like vegemite but only a little bit on toast. My mum overdosed me on vegemite sandwiches for school all the time. Now because my mum was born in 1936 and there were all teh food shortages due to the war, she has a thing where if you can spread TWICE the amount of butter on a slice of bread, you should. Yuck.

So we'd have sandwiches full of globs of butter and thick vegemite. :P

Yuck gravy with vegemite, I make the real thing too.

Hope Sylvia is having fun shopping! Lol sorry about my whinging yesterday I had a horrible headache that wouldn't go away, went to the dr on the way home and have a sinus infection. Still have a headache but hopefully the medication will kick in soon.

Lady Kira thanks for your memories of London through your mum. I guess there are lot's of people on here who would have memories of living through, or their family having lived through such a traumatic time.

When I was in London my partner and I ended up at the Imperial War Museum which was fantastic, only you could spend more than one day there easily!
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So are you are in NZ Persie? sure thats what I read earlier

Which part? not been there but have a friend in Auckland

Not into any fishy things I'm affraid...love the look of it but just do not like the taste

ja...x

I was born in Auckland - traveled well like a good wine- and still live in Auckland but we are planning to move end of next year hopefully to a spot called Cambridge. I have a daughter in Wellington and one in Auckland - us moving to Cambridge will put us a bit closer to Wellington and knock a bit off the journey.
Aucklanders are known by anyone South as Jafas.... which means just another f***ing. Aucklander.

Persie

Hi all
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bought quite a few things .... but nothing exciting, or even interesting!



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re the war


I lived up North, near Manchester, and one of my earliest memories (as I think I have said before) is sitting on the basement stairs, under the main floor beam of the main floor, and screaming my little head off, as my grandmother tried to calm me.


That was the night a bomb fell on a row of houses a few blocks away. There was a wedding party in one of the hosues, and several people were killed. I think about 10 people were killed in total


On our street, every house had all their windows blown out, except for ours. Dad had worked down in London at the very beginning of the war and had been told by his landlady down there to go round and unlatch all windows as soon as he heard the sirens go ...... that allowed the window to move within the frame, and helped to prevent them breaking.


The bomb was dropped by a German plane allegedly trying to bomb Manchester, but for some reason he couldn't get there, so he dropped his bomb where he could.





About 3 years ago, they found an unexploded WW2 bomb under a playing field of a school in another part of my home town.






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Must have been very frighening for a young child. My mum was born in 1939 but she has never really mentioned her childhood in that way although she stayed in London throughout the war. My dad was born in 1936 and he was evacuated with his mum to somewhere or other but I dont think it was for long.

Very difficult starting my tree on my mums side because she did'nt really know much about her grandparents..she knew her mums parents (well met them a few times) but could'nt give me any names and her dads parents had died long before she was born

ja,,,x

Hi Sylvia,

I would have been screaming my head off as well! This book I'm reading touches briefly on Manchester but not to a great extent. I'd imagine as a child it must have felt a very unsafe precarious world.

It must be that generation, my step father was in WW2 and rarely talks about what happened. Only in the last year or so has he started to say little things.

Jax, that would be hard. Same for me on my dad's side. He died when I was young and I can follow the emigration records for him back and forth to Scotland and Australia.

Apparently my grandmother and grandfather were both born in Scotland and emigrated to Australia. My dad was born and my grandmother did not liek Australia so they went home. They came back to Australia and for some unknown reason (and I can't imagine why anyone would) they decided to go back and live in England in the first year of WW2. Of course they were then stuck there for the duration with 4 small boys.

But they have passed on now as has everyone on that side, so no one to ask anything sadly. no photo's or memories.

We have no photos of my mums side re her parents although my nan is in my parents wedding photo's grandad did'nt go because he lent his shoes to his son lol.

I know my dad has quite a few photos that he inherited from his mother who was a bit of a hoarder and we will go through them soon. He gave me one recently he knew it was his grandparents and some of their children but he could'nt name them ...but because of me doing this tree he now has all the names and roughly when it was taken, so as long as he can tell me who is who in these old family wedding photos we should get somewhere with dates.

Not got any scottish ancestors but they dont look easy to trace but at least your death certs have more info on them to find the parents ect.

ja...x

Hi Jax, that will be great for you to see the photos.

The Scottish nes have been quite good (to a point). i've been able to track most of them easily. To tell the truth I have had the most difficult with the 1911 census - trying to find people on that in certain Counties.

Yes it is good the amount of information they provide, as are the Australian ones (all dependant on who the informant was of course!)

Breakfast is ready


Tea, coffee, juices


Cold cereals:-
Corn Flakes, Raisin & Almond Oatmeal Crisp, Raisin Bran, MultiGrain Cheerios, Vector


Hot cereal:-
Porridge, Maple Nut Instant Oatmeal, Red River Cereal


In the warmer:-

bacon, sausage patties, turkey sausages, chef's potatoes, frittata, boiled eggs, grilled tomatoes, fried bread


Buttermilk Dollar Pancakes, French toast, Maple syrup, Cherry Fruit Syrup


Toast, Danish, croissants, crumpets, barm cakes


Jams, jellies, Ginger marmalade, marmite, peanut butter, vegemite




Enjoy






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