General Chat

Pauline,like Rita,I have no photo's off my line dancing days. But I do have a DVD,as Roly recorded me dancing my socks off. lol
It has only been about a month Rita,since I gave all my line dancing costumes to the charity shop. I still have my boots and hat though. And I also saved one costume,as it cost me an arm and a leg to buy. It's a dark mustard colour,and has black fringing on it. I never took to the shorter style skirts,so this outfit has a skirt that comes down to my boots. Not very practical for showing off the dance steps in competition work though.
I wonder what new plants Linda has bought from the garden center.
Hi Liz,Marilyn,Shelly,Yvonne,Lady.

Maiyln I have another favour to ask you please next time you go to the devon records office it might be there I found a Walter Lee born 1873 in Devon and he died in 1933 in Portsmouth Hampshire it is quiet likely this is my great uncle I cannot find it on ancestry there is one but that one is too old for Great Uncle Walter. when he came out of the Navy in 1911 he was in the area s of Plymouth and Portsmouth.
I dont know what ese I can do to look where to see if it is him ? unless I send for a certificate of death.

Rita

HI Pauline

I have no photo of my dancing days I do have a couple of medals somewhere about. I was a fanatic at dancing I use to go nearly every night. Ballroom rock and roll you name it I did even old time dancing. once or twice but I perfered Ballroom.
The country and western I only did when I went to Norfolk for some reason it was like a cowboy country whether it was because there were so many American camps about and plenty of G l even in 1982 there seem to be plenty of places you could go to to learn and dance.
when I was younger and started dancing at the palas in Cricklewood I went roller skaing in the afternoon which was on the ground floor I did this saturdays and sundays most weekends went home had dinner dressed and came back at 7.30 to the next floor up where we danced I learned to dance on skates the roller skates instructer became my brother in Law later so how about that then ? Fate.

I notice now how quiet it is in Surrey no aircraft flying over head.I can hear the birds all day instead of first thing in the morning. talking to my daughter a few minutes ago she said her friend said( they were ilving in take off path and since the ban on flying they can walk a round their garden and speak without shouting and the tiles on the roof didnt rattle either)
Now i know what it must have been like when my ancestors lived it must have been so quiet with just the breeze and the sound of cattle just think of the peace of that. when you hear the hustle and bustle of life as it is today.

Rita

Morning all, it's a bit dull here and a bit nippy but hopefully it'll get better as the day goes on.

Rita and Mo, it made me smile thinking if you 2 doing your line-dancing in cowboy hats and boots. I would love to see you doing it. I went to a line-dancing class a couple of times and thought it was good but my friend couldn't pick it up (she couldn't remember the steps) so we never went back. We just go shopping now instead.

Maybe you could send us some photos of your dancing days.

Glad you had a lovely birthday Linda, did you put some of that cake in the cyber hatch for us?

Marilyn if you'd been a little bit earlier you'd have caught Liz before she went to bed.

LOL Shelly, only you could come up with that bit about the planes.

Morning everyone.

well all who are up now I will say to the others LAZY BONES get up.and enjoy the day.
Shelley you could be right about the non flying of aircraft I have been waiting for these people that keep on about climate change blaming it all on us folk. just goes to show you no matter how hard you try to keep the climate green it is not always possible these acts of god add there own climate change.what with Volcano's amd earthquakes.
My nephew was due to fly from America to Cyprus yesterday he has a long journey and was in a stop over but it has all been cancelled till Monday now.
My son came back from his fishing holiday in France and said it was very cold in the evenings he was dead tired as well as he said for some reason the roads were pretty busy. so I take it some people managed to get across the sea to France by ferry and were travelling over land to there destinations.those poor little school children were held up at some airport waiting to fly home and were stranded because of it. I bet the cost of a ticket to fly will go up after this they have to get their moeny back somehow.

Liz it was brilliant though wasnt it we asked for cash not ash.

Rita

x

Morning all
Thats OK LIz, I know you aren't here every day.

Off to the garden centre soon. Let you know what we struggle back with !!!

Have bubged the nets in the wash already and caught up with some e-mails so been busy.

Be back later off for a quick shower before my son arrives.

Linda :o) XxX

Morning all,

Liz I'll send it to you......OLLY

I'm up again early.......I must not keep doing this !! LOL


Lovely here again going to be quiet today no little darlings !

Going to Church....how good am I ??

Hi all

Linda, I am sorry I missed wishing you happy birthday, so glad your day went well and you have an outing to the garden centre today to spend some of your money too. Enjoy yourself.

Rita, I only copied that report about the cash not ash thing lol, can't take the credit for the joke.

Marilyn has my email address if anyone wants it, would love to see little Olly's photo.

Must get to bed, just used my slow cooker for the first time, so dinner for this evening is bubbling away nicely.

take care all, have a lovely day,

Lizxxx

evening all


are we all going to watch brittens got tallent to nite
start of a new serios

you no what all this thing about the plains not flying and all this crater stuff i dont think it is true
i think thay have stop them to monniter the air to see how must pulshion thw plains are givening us
i think its so thay can see how many more plains thay can fly and make all airpolts bigger or build more

Hi Marilyn
Isnt it great when you teach your grandchildren to knit their little face screw up and their fingers seem to wander I taught some of mine . they mostly wanted to sew.and do cross stich.
I thought that was funny Liz thread she said they asked iceland for cash not ash. .
brilliant.
Mo
I did ballroom dancing from the age 15 and got my medals Then I move to norfolk it was all the go barn and square dancing. so I joined a club with some friend on a tuesday afternoon then we started going on a Thursday evening the guy who taught us Named Brad made tapes and we use to take them home and pratice. a couple of the hoilday camps in Hemsby have country and western weekend (The had Elvis presetly weeks as well ) when the held the country and western weeks the people all walked about in country and western gear all around the town boots hat everthing the camp itself was decorated with the american flags all the tables and the ceiling had flags conferate ones as well The North and South held battles on the beach and field canons you name it they had them.we were invited to go two afternoon during the week and dance for them country and western I still hav e my black hat and a skirt. The people really appreciated it they came form all over England we even had american tourist . we did this every year I moved from there to Surrey in 2003 . and they dont have anything like that now as far as I know as some of the camps closed.

Rita

Hi everyone.

So glad a lovely birthday Linda....Where's our cake's ?????

Rita, its lovely here as well in Devon I have been to the park with my granddaughter.....I have now taught her to knit !!

Now funny how their mothers don't teach them, She watched Wallace & Grummit knit on the telly and asked me could I do that Grandma ?
Well these characters knitted so fast and she thought she could as well first time ..LOL
So a scarf we have made for her cuddly dog !!!!!

Well fancy seeing Lady.......now where have you gone Lady ?

Pauline is it still warm where you are ? I have had to change twice on & off with tops ..

Shelly must be really busy today not seen her yet !

Afternoon everyone.
What a beautiful day. When we went out to the car this morning,there was a fine layer of brown dust all over it.
When we got to the car park,we noticed that all the vehicles parked there,had got the same dust on them.
We are wondering if it is dust from the eruption in Iceland. You never know do you.
Shelly,young Olly has got definate chances in photographic modelling.
I don't know if you have got any agencies in your area,that do child model
photograpy,but if there is,you could put his name down with them. He has got the perfect look to him,and those eyes,they are like pools of liquid gold.
It's nice to hear you had such a lovely birthday Linda. Enjoy yourself at the garden center.
Rita,I used to love my line dancing. Did you ever enter any competitions.
I did,the first one was at Prestatyn in Wales,and the second was in Stoke on Trent. I have also danced at Blackpool Tower ballroom. The closest I came to winning was third. Always a runner up,never good enough to win though.
I had to give it all up,when Roly had his brain bleed,as I was needed at home. And I am not sure wether my memory could remember all the steps we had to learn back then.
Hi Pauline,Marilyn,Yvonne,Lady,Liz and of course our Sue should she look in.

Pauline how right your were by the time i had my shower and dressed and made the bed the sun was out and has been out all day but I didnt walk around the Lake instead i posted my St Georges Day cards incase they didnt get them as sometimes the post is very slow. then I brought some plasters in the chemist and then got my little bit of shopping. on my way home I called into the charity shop to see if one of the assistants was on duty as I promised I would show her my country and western badge I had when I lived in Norfolk I belong to the country and western dance club we did shows at the holiday camps and went tuesday afternoon to the hall to dance it was the highlight of my life and I still have my little yellow badge of a wagon with Omersby Western club written on it and my name dangling underneath. bet that has surprised you all.
can you picture me dressed in my western gear.

Lady nice to see your still about and like you I tend to use the Ancestry more now when I am searching but I find the people on GR are so kind and really helpful I have had so much help when I have come up against a brick wall.

Linda I am pleased your birtday went off well you have a whole year now to wait for the next one . ? Shame.

I hope you all have a lovely weekend if the weather stay like this I am sure you will.?

Rita
x

Good afternoon everyone
Thanks for all the birthday wishes yesterday. It was a good one. I had a few gifts and still have the money to spend and son taking me to a garden centre tomorrow.
We had take away chinese last night, hubby escaped the airport too, but as he had eaten just joined us for a glass of wine or two.
The youngsters all brought something for the evening one the flowers the other some drinks and the third a cake !! I truely only had a small square and sent them all home with the rest between them.
Hubby has gone to work again but doesn't know what he will do as lots of the checks have been done over the last 2 days and who knows when they will fly again VERY worrying !!

We woke to a misty sky this morning which quickly turned into a fog. Went to Sainsburys and by the time we came out it was clearing and it is now a lovely afternoon. Might get out into the garden if I am lucky.
Thanks Pauline for forwarding the lovely pictures of Olly. He is beautiful.

Try to get back later

Linda :o) XxX

No, no shows for a while...end of May is the only one which I am entered for although there are some I will go to just to watch.

I am going to a seminar today(in 3/4 of an hour) on Afghans.

I don't do alot on the tree I have on here, I do find Ancestry much better to find more detialed info out. I only come here to Community most of the time & that isn't very often..is it?

Morning Rita, hope you have a good day, the sun might be out by the time you have your shower.

It started off sunny here but it's gone dull now, but at least it's warm.

Shelly tell your daughter we all agree with you about the photos.

Have a nice day everyone.

Morning everyone

I am not at all happy this morning why ???? The sky outside is Grey and i mean Grey where has the sun got too ? no blue sky to make me smile.

I had planned a walk around the Lake this morning but this has put me off.. hope you all have a good day.
I am off for my shower now I have had my beaker of tea. notice I needed the beaker this morning the cup was not big enough I didnt want my cup to over flow. Lol.

Love Rita

photos was taken in vaientines park ilford
we went shoping today pop in jesops the photo shop and olderd them 2 photo size 30x20 going to put them on the living room wall

i told her he should be in mags ect but she think we have mummy and nanna simdrome lol

some of hubby side have very cerly hair


lady we was going to send out a search party for you again
sue gone on the missing list was well

Well, at least the transport on the ground is working OK then Rita.

It was a lovely place to take Olly's photos wasn't it? I think Shelly should enter them in a competition.

Pauline I thought she might have been or in Kew gardens it was a lovely place to take his photo with all the spring flowers about dont you think ?

My sister got home at 8 oclock she did it in record time she said all the transport was on time and connected.

Rita