General Chat

Linda I didnt know you had a tortoise I love them I had three titch so tiny and then their was florrie and Tommy Florrie was mine I had her for around 40 years when my Auntry had to move from her house to a flat she could not have Tich and Tommy so she gave them to me. they both died when we had a really bad winter yet they were well cosy in straw and wooden boxes coverd in a thick blanket I use to check them everyday poor Florrie died when I was in Nofrolk 2 years after my huaband died my neigbour made a little coffin for her and we buried her in the garden under a bush.she was so quaint she loved bread and jam and would go to the back step and wait in the morning till l brought it out to her. we really spoiled her infact they were all three spoiled. my Granddaughter has one now someone emigrated gave ti to her so they phoned me to asked me about winter hibination and food to give to them I use to rub i oil onto their shells before they hibinated and when they woke about March I use to wash them in warm watre and redo the oil on their shell.

Mo I went to have my warfarin blood test done but the bottle kept blowing she said it was something to do with the air in the bottle I have no idea what she meant anyway she had to do it three times before it worked. I came home and was so tired I had to have a rest fo an hour.
then I did my dinner and washed up.since then I have been sneezing all afternoon.I dont have a cold so I have no idea why,
Rita
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damn i can only go bk 2pages!!
might av to be sue for a bit later!!

& reset gr

Hi all, it's been a lovely day here - warm and sunny all day.

Linda, I didn't know tortoises could dash, not that I know anything about them.

I would have liked to have seen it dash as well Mo.

One of my aunts used to have a tortoise, it was a nasty little thing, it use to bite us.

Rita, did you keep your tortoises in the garden all the time?

My aunt's tortoise used to be in the house most of the time.

Puline they stayed in the garden during the daytime but I put them into their little house in the garage at night they slept in a box with hay in and I let them out first thing in the morning as the winter apporached I started taking them in ealier about 4 then earlier still till I saw they were slowing up then they stay in there little house gave them water and lettuce leaves until they left them, the stayed then till the end of March and I reversed it then later out into the garden and leaving out later at night. I had an 1 acera of garden at one time. but they always came back at night to the back step.
The only time I ever lost one was when I had one tortoise (that was before I had Aunties two ) was in Ealing and I had a back entrances a private road. and someone opend the back gate and Florrie got out lucky one of the neighbours found her and brought her back to me.you needed two hands to hold her she was that big and heavy.
I have a friend in Norfolk Mary she had an annex built on the back of her Bunglaow as she had tortoises many babies as well. they wandered about in that lived in it. she put them into the garage when they
hibernated. she had her oldest one who she said was a bit randy in a seperate box in hay a deep box. she went to stay with her daughter in Scotland for a month and her son who was married looked atfer the bunglaow and he cleaned her garage out took lots of stuff to the tip in Caister left the box with the tortosies in. she came back two days later and went to check on them and found the old one missing and his box her son said he had taken it to the tip. she rushed there and the men checked but could not find her Tortoise it was in a special wooden box.
she was in tears. the news paper printed the story and someone came to see her from the radio it was on that as well but she never got it back
her son was upset about it as well. we never found out where it went if someone found it or if it was tipped out and died as it was in hibination someone might have thought it was dead

Rita

Rita,my grandaughter has been bought a tortoise,by my daughters bosses. It came by special delivery,and cost them £200.
I did not realise that they cost as much as that,so I was shocked to think that someone,other than family,were prepared to pay that amount off money for one off their workers children.
Well she's not a child really,she will be eighteen next month,and I think it was bought for that reason.
I did ask my daughter if her bosses would adopt me,and treat me as well.lol

evening all

we use to have a tortoises when we was kids and a budge was alowed to have gold fish as well

was nether alowed to have dogs or cats my perants was moany

Nite nite all.
Sleep tight,see you tommorrow. Mo xxx

Morning All
Bit overcast here this morning.
Managed to get the shopping yesterday afternoon.
Have friends coming to dinner tonight.
Just little K today as other little is away this week. Have to find things for her to do but she's only here for 6hours so not very long.

Have a good day

Linda :o) XxX

morning linda
the sun is shinging here today and ill be stuck indoors got work all day

Morning Linda. Shelly.Pauline.Sue Liz Yvonne and Lady and not forgetting Marilyn.and Mo.

it is abright morning but I dont feel like smiling I had the most awful sleep last night didnt get off till 3 then was a wake from 4.30 till 7 oclock so I feel very very tired this morning.

I have just sent and email to my Eldest Son Mike to ask how one of my Granddaughteri is in the heart of Thailand and I am quiet worried seeing the TV this morning.
I am going to send an email to a friend who lives out there in a little whlle he has rhe Golf Course out there has been out there for years now he said he loved it an d would not come back here to live I wonder if he has changed his mind.

have a good day.
Rita
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Well a busy morning doing art and craft, round the lake to feed the ducks etc, including child !!!! She fell asleep on the way home so a quiet lunch for me. Then this afternoon drawing, stencilling and sketching for me and then her to "colour". She has gone home now.
Sorting out the bluebells before hubby got home and watering all the pots and seed trays. Tomatoes are coming along well.
Table laid for tonights feast LOL
Hubby preparing a marinade now for the lamb to be BBQ'd. I am having a small pork chop as I don't like lamb personally.
Room almost emptied of toys so the house looks adult, but I have to get things out again tomorrow so left the crafty stuff in boxes where I sit.

Will try to get back on before bed
Hope you all had a good day and enjoy your evening

Linda :o) XxX

Hello Everyone !!

Just popping in..........I have seen where my ancestors originally came from St Clements Cornwall.......he was a vicar , I was told he was a MONK . LOL
In 1495 he was Vicar of St Clements Church , but before that
there was a monastery nearby , so perhaps HIS father was the MONK ...... .

So now I know I have a very old rellie that traced all my Tregaskis family back to St Clements, now I got as far as 1697 and he wrote a book on the family name and traced it back to St Clements.

I was thrilled to go into that church which was 12th century,but all the old grave stones have worn away making it impossible to read,I'm sure they must have been Cornish Pirates as there was a little cove near by just handy enough not to be seen !! LOL

Off now to my cousins house for dinner , she lives in a very old cottage with a pretty white fence around it ......Just what Shelly would love ..

Speak later. Me xx

Hi Sue about time you came back ....LOL

Marilyn I bet you were pleased to find all that out. I have Vicars in my family tree on my Father side way back to 1664 they started from wealthy families and the first son became the sir and the second a vicar.
I was gobsmack when I found how manty there were. Grandfather family has started out as Quakers on his mothers side I have the whole list of the quakers someone sent me .
His father side was the vicars and farm labourers.
The headstones in the churches have all crumpled when Sheila and I went o look and them the vicar told us this had happened in a lot fo the churches so they have list of plaques on the walls in some of the churches with the names listed. our Mullock family were on a pillar outside their church on their estate. no headstones anywhere in the cemetary.
I suppose this will happened in future when people look for our graves..
so when do you come home ? did you get to Looe and Polperro ? I think I might go down there next year if I am still around.


Rita

evening all

marilyn ask relly if she would like to swop house
i have a photo of the font some of mine and hubby lot was bapties in
st andews church st andrews road

but one of the churches i need was pulled down a long time ago shame cos i remember seeing it when i was a kid

Hi Shelly
I dont know what area you are looking for that church but if you have a local Archive centre in that area you will find they have a list and photos of all the churches and school in that area from way back
Let me know what church and what area I might be able to help I am not promising but may b e able to. . if it is an area I know of.

Rita

rita its ok the church is my end and the records should be in my local librey iv just not had the time to go and have a look the church name is holy trinaty
and the spot it was on is now a but turn around point has been for years

in a way i feel lucky that i have walked the same streets and lived in the same streets as some of my ancesters even been in the same shops as them way befor thay have been pulled down and thinking of it had the same DR sergary as some of them cos how DR used to be in a very old house that had been there for years and years

ancestry trees are down

Morning All
Well we had a lovely meal last night. Friends left quite early, before 10:00. Hubby slept in the chair til midnight.I went to bed about 10:30.
Have been invited to my brothers on Saturday for a BBQ, so off out again. As one invite is cancelled another fills the space.
Bit ovecast again this morning.
Need to find things for K to do this morning.

Be back later

Linda :o) XxX

PS for Shelly Ancestry is back

Hi All

It is not a nice day the forcast said sun where is it ? come on who has the sun ?
Shelly Like you I lived in the same house my Great Grandfather and Great Grandmother lived in. Grandfather died before I was born but we lived with Gran I walked the street where my Dad was born where all the family lived when they married they stayed in the same area. also my Mothers Parents the Horwoods they lived close to each other Hundreds of them, in those days the family ment just that close family. so I can say I was married in the same church, had my children christened in the same church used the same little lanes and even some of the shops.that had been handed down in that family..
MY sister who is 6 years younger than I am always tells her daughter to ask Aunty Rita she would know as her mememory is good. so anything she wants to know about the area and surrounding areas I can usually help.
SEE I CAN BE IMPORTANT AT TIMES>
I think I better sort out my pills now and have a cup of tea before I have my shower.
Rita

good morning good morning good morning

linda you were me out just by reading your post lol
and im lucky cos the BBQ brother in-law was going to have he is not haveing it now yessss that meens no muppet show for me lol

rita now iv been thinking some more
GOD it heart my brain when i think to much

eny way i was thinking that DR sergary records could give us all a lot of info and even may be feel in some missing gaps

now i remembder to very old DR from when i was very young and i now on my mum side thay all had the same DR at lest 2/3 genarasion back i do no my 3 time granmother had the same DR so im now thinking on a death cert who is it that singes it

would it be the dr or the corener person
off to have a proper look at some of my death certs