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Hi all
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another 1-2 cm of snow overnight. Looked lovely in the early morning sun!

Sun is still shining ............. but I'm not going out!


More snow is in the forecast for every day through Wednesday ......... I have to go to the special physio on Tuesday, so am hoping that is not the day that we get "real" snow instead of just flurries


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Julie

Hi


It seems you cannot!

just another little bug in the system!



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Hi Julie,

If a message has been read (or deleted presumably), then there is just a blank space for some reason :-S Must be confusing for new members.


Gins.....bet you can't get up cross legged from a sitting position on a Friday night :-P


So you're up and about now Sylvs :-D

Hello all,

Just popped in to see how you are all doing!

Ginns - I can stand up from sitting crossed legged too but I still can't do sit-ups !!! ;-) :-D

Nice to see you Laines ! Xxx

Have been a bit 'not very well' for the past few days and also been busy with grandchildren before that so that's why I haven't been on very much.

Will be back to pester you all properly very soon :-D <3

I thought I would watch some TV tonight for about the 3rd time in the past 3 years - I rather fancied watching that new serial on BBC1 - Call the Midwife. It sounds quite interesting but is probably rubbish. Anyway, we will see. I think it is set around the early 1950's in London and is supposed to be an insight into social history of the time!!!.... Ooooerrrhhh !

It starts at 8.00 .

See you all later,

Dea x

<3

I have been known to sit up from crossed legs late into the night....but I woudnt try it after 10pm on Fridays ;-)

Hi Jules....nice to see you about <3

been up for hours, C


just not got onto here until now :-D



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Is it still snowing Syl?

The thing is that every country in the world is set up for snow....except the UK...everything stops!

My SIL in Switzerland has the ski chalet and to get to it.....is near death in good weather...but the Swiss have it sorted. The road is cleared three times a day and if it wasnt......you wouldnt get there

Gins


Vancouver and the area around it can often be the laughing stock of the rest of Canada, when snow falls ...... we can be much less adept than them!


But I think even we are better prepared than the UK .... at least from stories I've been hearing in the last few years.


The main roads and roads around hospitals have been kept clear .............. garbage trucks are equipped with ploughs as soon as the forecaster mentions the possibility of snow.

They send out trucks loaded with sand/grit or the newest idea, a salt/brine mix, to spray roads as soon as the temperature is forecast to be getting to 0C.

Then they run the ploughs constantly while it is snowing.

Side roads and residential areas aren't ploughed or cleared until everything else has been done.

I heard the city engineer say on TV last night that he had 52 trucks that he could call on.

We don't have dedicated equipment for snow clearing, that spend most of the time in the depot. Regular equipment is adapted as needed.

I think this may be where the UK is failing ......... they keep thinking you need to have the dedicated equipment.

We used to have some incredible snow falls when I was growing up. We lived on the edge of the Pennines in Lancashire, and we seemed to have 3 or 4 BIG dumps every winter ......... but the roads seemed also to be cleared reasonably quickly in those far away days!

I was quite amazed at what was not being done last winter when I went online to read the local Oldham paper to see what was happening during the snows you had then.



EVERYONE .... house owners or renters, apartment building owners or managers, and businesses HAVE to clear the sidewalks outside their building, plus paths and driveways on the property, by 10 am in the morning after snow has fallen. Penalty ....... a large fine

I'm a bit worried about that last one, as I can't clear the sidewalks and path to the front door if we get a big dump before OH gets back.

We have two sidewalks, one 33' and one 120', as well as the ca 12-15' front path.


I'm hoping that one of the neighbours does it before I have to ask! We do all help each other out at times like this.


If a house owner is not able to do it, you can phone the city, and they match you up with a local resident who will do it for you.



....... and it isn't snowing at the moment ...... it's sunny with cloudy periods, and a shade too warm for snow. But you should see the black clouds all around! The mountains on the other side of the harbour must be getting loads!




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what did I just say?!


I have just walked into the front room, and someone has pushed the snow shovel up the front path and along the side walk! :-D :-D :-D :-D

I wasn't worrying about it today, as it is only 1-2 cm!

Only hope it wasn't the 85+ year old across the street :-)


Maybe I shall go out and throw some salt on the steps and path.


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Hi all,

Wow I think I am suffering snow envy!!!!

It is expected to be very hot here today, high 30's yuck....makes me wonder why the ancestors came all the way out from Scotland and Wales to come to the heat in Melbourne! :-)

Hope you all have had a nice weekend. I had a quiet one, just grocery shopping, housework etc.

4 more working days then I have two weeks off work yay!!!

Hi Grace

nice to see you


why did your ancestors move?

opportunity!


and they probably did far better than they would have done back home


Australia and Canada were countries of opportunity, and comfortable for people to move to as they were part of United Kingdom "back then"

not like going to a "foreign" country, like the US :-D

Hope monster is fine?


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Hi Sylvia,

yep no doubt that is why they left but goodness they must have wished themselves home in the heat of Summer!

Monster is good but has discovered Bollywood movies.....

You sure they were not convicts Gracie :-D :-D

I would love a convict in my family...think there could be one with my maiden name but not sure where he would be related to my family.

Many yars ago before the internet a lady in Oz sent my dad a letter claiming to be related then after a few letters sent him this tree going back to the 1600s.with her family of course

Since doing this myself looked at this tree and there is no one in her tree that I have in mine.

ja...x

I know that I have siblings of my gt xxx grandfather who emigrated to Australia .......... one went out in the 1840s, then that guy's niece and nephew emigrated in the 1850s.

All went on some sort of advertised and assisted passage. The niece and her family ended up in NSW. The nephew was in Victoria, and I'm not sure where their uncle went to, I think Victoria

Then there were the family, cousins I think of my ancestors, who emigrated en masse to Victoria. Had some more kids down there, and some of the older kids got married.

Then parents and some of the kids emigrated to California ........... it seems they went on a Mormon organized ship that took families from Australia to proselytize on the California Goldfields.

I don't know whether they did that ..... but by the time they began to die in the early 1900s, they were being hailed as well thought of pioneers in the San Bernardino Valley.


I was told a couple of years ago that one of, I think, that group, or it might have been from the earlier one, was a guard at the Ballarat Goldfield Riot


A female member of the San Bernadino group married the uncle of Wyatt Earp.



sylvia

LOL I would LOVE a convict but nope..my pop's family came from Cornwall in 1857, my nana's from Scotland in 1912 and my other set of grandparents came out in 1900. Most dissapointed not to claim a single convict!!!!!

Lots of the Cornish lot though came out to Victoria and split into 3 places (all mining)...but a few of them went to the US all around Akron, Ohio etc.

Still they must have had a shock that weather and working conditions etc were so hard at that time out here as well, I am sure most of them were promised golden sunshine, a healthy climate and no problems with work...

Of course no one probably mentioned the weather, the hmmm reptile and insect life, and the depression hit and the Spanish Flu as it did around the worls.

I think they all must have been a LOT tougher than we are now, with our air conditioniting, clothes etc etc!
:-)

That is dissapointing then Gracie :-D

My paternal lot came from Cornwall then Devon and my 3x gt grandfather and his brother moved up to London in the 1820s.

When I have gone through all the births on freebmd there are a lot of London births and some Devon and a couple of yorkshire?? but from 1912 to 1957 they are all London and I could probably tie them all into being decended from these two brothers.

Now what happened to the Devon ones? did they all have girls? or maybe they all went to Oz?

I may get world wide A*** and try and trace them properly next month.

I loved Oz when I went for a holiday 30 years ago but terrified of all the deadly things out there...and I am not scared of incects as a rule, but we stayed with an idiot friend of the ex's who just made a big thing out of these things and it put me off.

I believe Tasmania is ok and it is not so hot?

ja...x

Tasmania is wonderful... and so underpopulated. Driving around is a breeze only two busy places Hobart and Launceston.

I am sure they have insects etc but did not see any. I would live there if it not for family all in NZ. My younger SIL thought it would be a good idea as then he could come for visits... His mum lives in Guernsey and does most of the visiting to NZ usually once a year.

Persie

The sent messages does work... there is a closed greenish envelope and if read there is no envelope... Just ask me I know everything... phjhhttttt lol.. ... ;-)

I can stand up from sitting with crossed legs... I uncross my legs and then use something to help me get up... no problem... well not much.... LOL

Sorry Dea,,, but I can manage a few sit ups and can do press ups on the bar.

(not the bar down at the pub Gins)

:-D :-D :-D :-D