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I love that war time report of yours Mr Jones.

I have my father's pay book with the army, and he always had a payment made to his mum... he was very good to his mother, who died before I was born. He looked after her and his six siblings from when his dad died when he was 13/14.

Interesting what I find in our Papers Past, someone asked me to look up a marriage re her female ancestor.. and what had happened.to her. I found a court case on him where he had married a second woman without divorcing the first one and the second wife was in tears and the first wife (ancestor) was comforting her.... it was also stated that he had ads in the paper for friendship with view to matrimony in another town in NZ.... busy bloke. He managed to serve in the army he had an alias but that may have been because his original surname was German. It was over 20 years before her marriage was dissolved.

I have found out so many strange things re this family... like something out of the movies. Thank goodness my correspondent has a sense of humour.


Persie

Now, Jonesey....you being a wordsmith, I could do with your help

I have a 4 minute max speech to give to a graduation group. There are four tutors all speaking about their own students and of course mine were the best!

I know how to present of course (ace tutor in the UK!) but have you any words that can make them laugh and cry out of pride.....They have come so far and some really struggled, but they all got through

Delivering it on Friday :-D :-D

good morning everyone


Breakfast is ready


Tea, coffee, juices


Cold cereals:-
Corn Flakes, Triple Berry Oatmeal Crisp, Maple Buckwheat Flakes, Alpen,


Hot cereal:-
Porridge



In the warmer:-

Canadian back bacon, turkey sausages, cheesy potato patties, broccoli and mushroom omelette, ham and cheese omelette, grilled tomatoes, grilled mushrooms, Maple baked beans, fried bread


Spinach quiche, bacon quiche tarts, broccoli and cheddar quiche,


Tourtiere, Jamaican beef patties, bbq’d pork steak, Vietnamese spring rolls (vegetarian) with sesame dip, Greek chicken casserole, ratatouille (vegetarian)


Buttermilk Dollar Pancakes, Maple syrup


Vanilla Bean Youghurt


Toast (sourdough, rye, white, whole grain, 100% brown, Hovis, gluten free), Danish, barm cakes


Muffins -- cranberry & orange muffins, morning glory muffins, blueberry muffins


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




enjoy!




s
xxx

Good morning Sylvia,

SO pleased to see you!

Grand-daughter came for a sleep over last night so I was up bright and early (Well, EARLY anyway) ;-)

Will take a little portion for her too, if I may, though I will have to cook her egg for her as she has to have them cooked in 'Granny's special way' :-D

Off to do some 'playing' now! - Will see you all later.

Thanks Sylvs,

Dea x <3

Gin,

Whilst I am flattered to be thought of as a word-smith and to be invited to become one of your speech writers I must decline.

To be meaningful your speech really needs to be written by someone with knowledge both of your individual students and of the course that they have just satisfactorily completed and I have neither. It is your desire to make your students both laugh and be proud of their individual achievements. It is important therefore that your speech makes mention of some incident(s) that occurred during the course. Such incidents might be humorous or indeed might serve to demonstrate difficulties overcome by individuals or the group as a whole. Whilst the telling of such incidents might not be meaningful to the audience as a whole they will be to your students.

As far as speeches in general are concerned, whenever I have been called upon to give a speech whether it be a simple vote of thanks or to a general public meeting, I have always tried to begin with humour, self deprecating if necessary. I have found that audiences with a smile on their faces from the start are usually more attentive, responsive and far less intimidating. ;-)

Good luck on Friday.

So there you are Jonesey, you have given me a start already......thank you :-D

Oooh yum.....Vanilla bean youghurt, a big tub of that please Sylvs

How Gins will ever keep it to 4 minutes is beyond me! :-P


Morning everyone and thank you for breakfast Sylvs. I must go and get dressed now. Hope you have a good playday Dea.... :-D

Night thread...

I am off to bed ... :-)

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Nite Nite Persie!

Dea Xxx <3

I have never yet found any Service/Pension records on Ancestry of any man who was killed in Action....
Some Medal cards I have seen have had DEAD written across them when soldier killed in action.

Anyone found records of a soldier killed in action to prove me wrong??

Interesting
This is one of mine

Name: BRAGINGTON, LESLIE PERCIVAL
Initials: L P
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
Unit Text: "D" Coy. 7th/8th Bn.
Age: 19
Date of Death: 16/08/1917
Service No: 41722
Additional information: Son of Thomas John and Sarah Jane Bragington, of 7, Osborne Rd. South, Erdington, Birmingham.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: XXXIII. F. 17.
Cemetery: TYNE COT CEMETERY

Same regiment same battalion same day.

LK you might be interested in these

http://freespace.virgin.net/sh.k/corptlang.html

http://freespace.virgin.net/sh.k/ordlang.html

http://goo.gl/4LYzQ

R

Thank you for that Robert.

He was born in and his parents were in Erdington so no idea why he ended up with an Irish regiment.

Evening all!



Where's you all gorn?



I'll finish watching Pointless then.........humph!

Well Fans - I don't know about 'Pension Records' but I have certainly seen MANY Service Records of soldiers 'killed in Action'.

Evening Cynths,

Just taken grand-daughter home - 1 more day to go before the end of the half term holidays..... YIPPEE !!!

Grandson tomorrow and then a LONG rest !!!!!!!!!! ;-)

Dea Xxx

Cyns :-P

I am speaking to David Blunket at 12.30 tomorrow and have sod all written down.....so busy today

I'll wing it I think.....good at thinking on my feet :-S

I agree Gins......you could talk yerself out of any situation methinks :-P

Yep Cyns....had to do it many a time but not as often as our Fans I bet

We've had freezer food tonight, pie, chips and beans.....cant remember the last time I had that...it was nice but I prefer real food

Anyone want a LARGE bowl of home made tomato soup , lovingly made with home grown tomatoes, containing my own carrot and onion and bay leaves???????????? + freshly made crusty bread rolls !!!

OOOhhh - It was SO gorgeous - I just wanted to share it ;-)

I have LOTS left !!

Dea Xxx