General Chat

Oh Tec
Forgot about that for a while tho son did say his friend had acquired them 2 tickets @ £60 each. Son doesn't want to pay that much but wants to go to Cardiff, so perhaps he can arrange to sell them on ... not touting tho.
My B.i.l on Anglsey usually comes down for the Welsh games, but can't come this weekend.
Hubby prefers to watch it on TV, tho he was a Welsh youth player....Sandie

No we don't wear labels Tec, I don't think there are many going,so I think we will just introduce ourselves, I think I have met two of the people before at another smallish meet. i once did go to a very large meet at Matlock in Derbyshire. That was actually a Family Tree Forum meet,but most of the people were from GR as well. I stayed overnight in a hotel that time, but this is only about an hour and a quarter's drive from here

Sandie I hope you don't get the deluge we've suffered.

Amanda I'm sure to enjoy the rugby, but I'm not optimistic that we will win against Australia - have you seen the size of those Aussies. Our Welsh lads are only little lol.

Good Morning Berona,
I think it was a bit of a cheek describing you as a British Subject, when you were born in Australia, so clearly Australian.

Tec.

Goodness Amanda, it doesn't seem three weeks since Bella was born

I'm glad you're going to the Newcastle meet Linda - I did wonder if you would be going. Give us a report when you get back:-))

It's cool and wet again this morning - I've forgotten what the sunshine looks like:-( We had the sun out for about 15 minutes yesterday afternoon - and we had to rush indoors thinking that some strange phenomenon was occuring:-))

Not much planned for today.

S x

Hope you enjoy the meet Linda, must be interesting to put faces to names.

Sandie, Apparently there are 25,000 tickets unsold for the match, but £60 is a lot of money for many folk. Make more sense to reduce the ticket price and fill the stadium.

Tec.

Good morning Berona : )) I haven't even got a passport ( and never have had ) , so I have no idea what I am ; )

Linda .... the time has certainly flown hasn't it , I had to go and look at my calendar as three weeks seemed like a long time ! ...lol

Tec ..... I have to confess to being uninterested in almost all sports . If Rugby was on the telly I'd only be looking at the players legs : o Football players legs are no where near as interesting as Rugby players legs in my opinion ....LOL

We have the burgandy EU passports now, not the same as the nice black ones we used to have

Good morning Sue, hope you are fine today and I hope your weather has improved hun.

Good evening Sandie and Amanda

Amanda sound's like you have had a nice time with the family.

Hi Sandie, hope all is well with you hun.

Well if I had to discribe my nationality it would have to be a Welsh Jewess (sp) with English tint's lol.


Believe it or not I started to type this at 9-30 and got sidetracked by other thing's, so when it is posted other's will have arrived so I'll say hi to any-one else here.

Diane

That's how we were described while we were still part of the British Empire, Tec.
There were only five million white people here at the time of WW2 and 99.9% of that were Brits (don't quote me on that percentage - it's my guess - there seemed to be a 'few' Chinese, Greek and Italians). It wasn't until the influx of immigrants in the fifties and sixties that more came from Europe and Mediterranean countries.
There was an old law called the White Australia Policy and since that was abolished, we have them from all over the world now, making 21 million.

Amanda - how strange to have a thing about rugby players legs LOL

I've got a nice black British passport, now long expired.
When I first went to America I had no passport, but as a Merchant Seaman the FBI photographed me, embossed a number on it, like a criminal, took my fingerprints, made me sign a declaration that I'd never been a communist, and issued me with an "Aliens Landing Card" which I've still got. I felt like something from another planet.

Tec.

I must share a story with you all. My parents were born in England but have Australian passports as me and my OH do. When we took mum to England two years ago we landed in Manchester and went on through to customs. All those with British passports passed straight through but we had to line up in the "other" queue. My mum was very vocal about how she was born in England so why did she have to wait. She also - rather loudly - said that she didn't see how people who were obviously of other nationalities could have British passports totally missing the point that she had Australian citizenship. As this was not her first trip back to the UK I hate to think what she was like at other times.
S x

Horrible hairy rugby players legs? No thanks Amanda. I take it your a rugby fan then:-))

S x

No Sue ..... I'm not a Rugby fan at all ..... I just like their legs .....lol

Hello Diane ....I hope you have had a good day today : )

lol Sue, my mum used to make very loud pronouncements which made me cringe as well.
Hello Diane,I think you Welsh people are trying to take the thread over from the Aussies

Good morning Sue. Your story of your Mum reminds me that everywhere I went in Europe, I always seemed to see (and hear) some lady who couldn't speak the local language, and spoke in clear English - then, when the local person indicated that they didn't speak English - she felt that they should understand it better if she shouted it at them - she would then raise her voice and repeat it all over again!

Get off Linda :))) lolol

I am not at all biased , we just like talking...a lot.lol

Hi Amanda, not to bad today as I spent most of the afternoon in bed ( lazy so-in-so that I am ) lol.

Linda I was only born in Wales and in residence for 6wks until my adoption went through, lived in Shrewsbury till I was nearly 6yrs old and then moved to Liverpool. Have lived in many other places for a short time between the year's 1972 and 1975 and have remained in Liverpool since then.

Tec sorry to hear it is so wet were you are ( again ) it was raining here earlier but has stopped now so there are load's of firework's going off.


Diane

Good Evening Diane,

There are lots of Welsh Jewish ladies about. I once heard the Welsh described as One of the Lost Tribes of Israel lol.

I'm sorry to say that my mother was totally rascist - the remarks she made very loudly while in hospital were awful and I just wanted to hide under her bed.

Tec.

My father said when he landed in the UK - that they were to take no notice of that Australian rubbish where he was born he was a New Zealander - and could beat the sox off the Brits at Rugby. He wouldn't let them open his bag and told them there was only clothes and his slippers in it and kept banging it on the outside to indicate where his slippers were. Trouble was our flight was several hours late getting into Heathrow and he had been up most of the night chatting up the hostesses and drinking whiskey and had no idea where the keys were to his case.

Talk about embarassing - however, they let us go without a search at all. He normally would be very obliging.

Persey