General Chat

No Carole he did not have a birthday cake - he would rather have peas, carrots and broccoli. He loves his vegetables.

I can safely say I did not see Linda.

Now on the otherhand if my OH saw either you Carole or Linda who is not here or there, he would say a vision of loveliness has crossed my path.

And with that my friends it is heading up to 1am and I am off to bed.
I have been doing a lot of research for someone and want to get it finished and sent off by tomorrow.

Yes goodness me it is that time where Berona will be having her 39th Birthday again.

Bi Persey xx

Goodnight, Persey....Sweet dreams, sleep well:-))

I think I will also climb the wooden stairs.

Enjoy the rest of your day, sleep well Aussies.

Carole xxx

Carole and Perse, you couldn't have seen me because i wasn't here.

I was doing the housework, complete with my yellow Marigolds.. OH had been out and when he came in, he looked at me and said "Ah the daily help"

I suppose the lady that does - was doing what she does, because the lady of the house was wandering in the woods again.

I was not wandering in the woods, I was wandering about the house doing what I do, before I wandered down to the tourist office to do what I do there

Good Evening Linda,

I expect you've wandered back from the TIC by now.

I took OHs leg to the clinic. It was incredibly busy in town with visitors, it is half term, so I expect people are taking advantage of the good weather, although it is very cold.

Tec.

Hello all - I've looked out the window and it may be a sunny day today.

Linda - I was thinking about your work as a volunteer and how much the council are expecting of you and the other volunteers. It happens when you're an unpaid worker. I received a phone call from a paid worker at the hospital yesterday who assumed that my number was an office number. She was rude to my son who answered the phone as he was going out the door to work. She told him that he should have answered with the name of the organisation. She then told me that she had tried before the weekend to reach me on a number of occasions but no-one answered the phone. When I explained that this was my home that she was ringing she didn’t apologise nor did she make a comment when I told her that I’m a volunteer and that I had family ‘things’ to attend to last week. So much is expected of us – I can get phone calls at 7 or 8 o’clock at night, sometimes as early as 8.30 in the morning and the odd time at the weekend. I’ve now taken to using my answering machine even when I’m home although that sometimes means returning the call.

S x

Hello Tec and Sue.
i had to go away to take a phone call.

The trouble with our council Sue is that they have no idea at all about the amount of work they are expecting the volunteers to do. At the moment, there is a full time manager, plus a second person paid for the summer season plus all the volunteers who work every day. they are expecting the volunteers to take over and run the whole show. There is no way the volunteers are going to do that, of course the council will then blame the volunteers for refusing the opportunity to keep it going. Oh well

I don't blame you for screening your calls with the answering machine Sue, There is only so much that you can be expected to do as a volunteer

Exactly Linda. The other day even OH got annoyed with the number of phone calls - normally it doesn't bother him. I can't imagine how your council expects the office to be run solely by volunteers. Does this mean that the office manager and summer season paid worker lose their jobs?

Linda - do you know if the town of Cawood in Yorkshire is near the town of Sherburn in Elmet?

S x

5.5 miles Sue, so yes very close

We went to Sherburn last trip over. I have ancestors from there. They eventually ended up in Leeds as so many did. Is Tadcaster near by too?

S x

The office manager was employed last year after the previous one left. They only gave her a one year contract which finishes at the end of January, she has been told that it won't be renewed. The others were employed on a casual staff basis so they have no rights anyway. All the people in the tourism department in the council have been told that they are being made redundant

Tadcaster is6.7 miles north of Sherburn, the three of them make a triangle
Cawood is 8.4 miles from Tadcaster

Just in case you think I am brilliant, I am using google maps

Isn't that just wonderful - what a nice Christmas present:-(

Could I expect that someone born in Sherburn may be christened in Cawood? The names and dates tie in.

S x

I don't see why not, maybe the mother came from there. It was common to take the first child back to the family home for baptism

What date are you looking at Sue because the IGI baptisms for Cawood only go up to 1832

I'm looking at the Family Search site - the beta one. They have baptisms going back to the 1600's but I'm treading carefully before I actually enter them into my family tree as it would appear that I may have skipped a generation. I know they tie in but I've just got to find the missing people.
Is Spofforth nearby too?
S x

sherburn to spofforth is 18 miles

I seem to have a set of parents who had children in their late 40's to 50 y.o. so I'm definately thinking that I've missed a generation but I've found something promising so I'll keep at it. So many of them called their sons James, John and William.

S x

I am sometimes surprised by the length of child bearing. My absolute central line ancestors has a family with 16 children, the last on was born when she was 46. They are one censuses together,so I know it is correct