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Well...all the talk about food and then nothing!

What have you been doing all day, very quiet indeed

I have completed my course today and and now the really hard work starts....assignments :-(

Hi all

I see there are a lot of pointless RR's on Find Ancestors this afternoon

ja...x

I had to scroll down the page so much I thought we had been deleted!

RR's pa-the-tic

True ja...x - wonder what's going on? They are just ordinary posts...very strange. Never know what's going to happen next on here.


Been busy today and have re-organised 2 kitchen cupboards...feeling quite good about it too! Cleared out some cookwear and crockery we no longer use so it can be washed and taken to the Hospice shop.

A very exciting day Cyns

Can anyone help this lady please I do not have much experiance with GRO ect

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards.page/board/ancestors/thread/1270611

the death is on ancestry but not freebmd and GRO say they have no record of it.

when I looked at the others on the page I noticed the ones in the same qtr and area were also missing from freebmd

ja...x

I'm no use at that ja...x soz.

Wonder where Dea is?


Can't believe how light it is outside.....is it the longest day today? Feels like it with the amount of work I've got through!!

If you had new curtains you would not notice the light :-D

Hi all, hope that you are well.

Have had my head buried in old newspapers from some small country towns, and have founds lots of articles about people in my tree surviving horse falls, not surviving snake bites, measles, witnessing a death or two, visiting relatives, travelling on goods trains, making overland journeys with broken legs, winning prizes at children's pantomines, early widowhood, disputes over wills, heart attacks whilst droving bullocks....

LOL just shows what a busy life people led back in the period I am looking at 1870 - 1952, but what is nice is that there is such a sense of family connection. There were lots of shared events with extended family members, visits, testamonials etc :-)

Makes MY life very very tame in comparison!

:-D

I have found lots like that as well in our Papers Past Grace re my ancestry.
Our BMD is a bit hit and miss... my grandfather's birth is not recorded because he was born miles from anywhere, but his death is there... his sister had me flummoxed I had her birth, knew she did not marry but her death is not there unless they have made an atrocious spelling error and I have searched every possible spelling (I think) and then one day I found her death mentioned in her church news and how they had lost this lovely piano player as well. She died in 1933 so it should be in BMD.... but I was so pleased to have that gap filled... I got quite excited and had to pass it on.
We have a lot of drownings... they were so blimming adventurous the kids had no fear re jumping in the river. ...no snake bites LOL.

On my other side of my family my great grandparents were heading out one door and the Maori warriors were heading in the other during the Maori wars... They survived but he eventually got killed when in Auckland.. he was on the pedestrian crossing heading off to church and a minister from another church who was late for his sermon bowled him over. I have all the newspaper clippings of the event and court case.

Persie

It makes interesting reading diesn't it!

i was really suprised to find so much on tehm all as they all lived or managed remote (and I mean remote) cattle and sheep farms in northern Queensland. You should read the journey's some of tehm had to make when they were injured..one in particular had been bucked off his horse into a tree and then the horse fell on him. The article said he was in a "degree of pain" with several leg bones protruding through his skin. It took him 3 days to be transported to a hospital, and the articles states that as the tracks were unmade, the patient felt every jolt. (I reckon I would too!)

I love the way everything was described though, so you can sometimes picture things very clearly. The weather, what people wore...there is one sad accident when a father and son were on a long cattle drive and the father had gone out of his way to rescue a frightened horse. When the horse was all calmed down and safely tethered, he then collapsed and died. His son then rode for two days to find help, hoping that his father would be alive. In the articles they refer to the father being of a great advanced age..he was 63 which I guess was a decent age for the 1920's...

I too have found that I just can't find some people in the BMD's maybe because of the remoteness. Only one drowning in my lot, but I bet they had lots of run in's with spiders and snakes out in the heavy bush areas...yuck!

Mornin all.....just checking who's doing breakfast today?

Hi Grace and Persie,

Those old newspapers are fascinating aren't they?

I have only found one such wonderful article on one of my family members who was getting married to a lady - they were both 'quite mature' and my relative was the lady's 4th husband but apparently her 3rd was very recently deceased and the 'locals' thought it shameful that she was re-marrying so soon after his death.

It describes in wonderful detail what she wore and how she walked to church following a donkey which was also 'attired' for the wedding.

A crowd gathered and shouted and heckled as they approached the curch - lots of police arrived to control the crowds and they managed to get into the Church but the vicar refused to marry them because of the angry crowds outside and ushered them straight out of the back door and they had to return quietly the following day to get married.

The bride was oblivious and thought the crowds were there to cheer the bride and groom as she was so popular :-D

You have spurred me on to look for more articles now, though I probably won't find anything more.

Dea x

Good morning all,

Breakfast is served......... - We are 'informal' today - You can come and eat it in your 'jimmy jams' if you wish !

Tea, coffee, juices.

Selection of cold cereals

Porridge .......... bubbling on the hob.

Cold platters of various hams and cheeses.
Freshly baked hot bread rolls, croissants and danish pastries
Gluten-free rolls + crackers.
Fresh fuits, yoghurts.

Fresh 'country bread' lightly toasted and drizzled with olive oil, rubbed with garlic and tomato
Toast, crumpets, bagels, served with dairy butter, various jams, jellies, and marmite.


In the warmers:
Crispy bacon, sausages, grilled tomatoes and mushrooms, black pudding, scrambled eggs, poached egg, fried bread.

Apple + cinnamon muffins, sultana scones


Enjoy.............

Dea Xxx

Hi Ginns,

What is today's 'assignment' then?

When do you get a day off? :-D You must be shattered with all this work!

Dea x

First assignment....Inclusive Learning and the second is Managing Behaviours

There is other work but I already have that done, Schemes of Work and Lesson Plans.....the other sudents are new to this so they have all that to do too....guess who's phone number they have!

It's a good refresher and I needed to update my CPD and she was an excellent teacher so made it very interesting

I am pooped but at least now I am out of the class I can get on with other things....like earning a living!!!!

I am sure that you will be only too happy to help out the other Students Ginns - perhaps you should charge them a 'Consultancy Fee' ? ;-)

Dea x

They couldnt afford me Dea Dea ;-)

Managing Behaviours eh??? hmmmmmmmm.

Well Dea that was very nice and Fans will be pleased that there are gluten free rolls, marmite and cheese, do you think you can toss her a raw onion while your at it.

I have just had roast prime rib for my dinner so will follow that with an apple and cinnamon muffin & have grabbed a danish for him. I will sit here and look out Cynthia's window.

He couldn't understand yesterday that I had to be home in the early evening to see to breakfast. :-D

.... Grace we have one poisonous spider of our own that are not around much and we seem to have acquired one of those Australian ones. But whilst you may have snakes and spiders and up north the crocs, you have such wonderful colourful birds flying around. Our cockatoos, galahs, lorikeets etc are nearly all caged... and the Tasmanian Devils, wombats and all the little roos like pademelons etc and the quolls and my favourite the platypus... I have such a lovely time when I am over there.

Persie

Here I am Dea, in my dressing gown and munching away. Thank you dear Dea. It's a lovely breakfast.


I loved those old stories - why can't I find anything like that about my lot? Maybe I haven't looked. :-(


Our Janey has a thread about drownings which I'm sure she would love you both to add to. If you're interested, let me know cos I've got it in my threads somewhere and I'll have a rootle through for you.


Maybe you should both start an 'interesting deaths' thread ;-)


Did you read about those riots in Vancouver - what dreadful behaviour! From a distance it looked like a case of bad losers! Hope our Sylvs got away okay.


Love the fact that Gins is doing a course on Managing Behaviours! Plenty of practice on here for her then hahahahaha