General Chat

Good Evening Carole,

Quite a lazy day here today. Weather still on the warm side.

Thank Heaven we are past the school stage! I used to dread the whole thing. :0))

Allan

Ive still got about four more years of it.

We had a nice day, weather wise:-)

Carole

Hello Carole - what's the course that takes that much longer? How many hours per week do you do?

All this metric talk -

I actually remember and I think all those over seven at the time would remember the conversion to $ dollars and cents. It was 10th July 1967. There used to be a television ad nearly every night for about year telling us what to do. I worked in the Post Office on the Telegraph & toll counter so we had to take the money in in old currency and hand out the change in new. We had to have two cash drawers - loads of laughs.
It made it so much easier when selling stamps much easier to add so many 14cent stamps than so many at 1/3d etc. I had already used decimal currency in the states so new it would be a doddle compared to
£.S.D.

The kids today don't know how lucky they are - I remember doing long multiplication sums with £.S.D.

I see over here they have finally brought down the price of coverseal for the back to school. I still prefer wallpaper. My Childrens' Encyclopaedia is still covered in the same wallpaper from when I was 10 not bad for over 50 years.

Persey

Hi Berona and Persey...

Berona.. sorry hun, I was talking about my children. My daughter has two more years to finish High School, my son has four more years.
I'll miss them when they go back on Monday.

Carole xx

Carole,

You no longer get over them studying and then the next generation come along and here we go again. Though in my case my eldest is back doing some degree to do with Early Childhood Education. And my youngest's hubby is doing his PHD.

My eldest grand daughter is going to a new high school for her second year of High and I think she will do really well there. The other one will go there next year. And the little guy if he stops falling off his scooter should be already for his 8 year old's class next week. He is going through the plasters Berona. He lives dangerously... never be sedate when you can rush around at top speed.

Persey

Hello to Persey and Berona,

Carole, my OH is dreading the start of the New term.

She used to work in the Education system as a Schools Officer at one of the local high schools. A few of the women that she worked with are still in the system and next week our email programme will start overflowing with all the joke emails which they only seem to send from work!

Allan

Talking of joke e-mails Allan - I got a new lot sent to me re Walmart -
there were a couple of real doozies in there - I wonder what planet these Americans are on at times.
I have one friend that is bored at her work down country but not in the Styx so she is always sending jokes around.

And how are you this fine evening Allan? We've been promised rain all day - must've spat three spits when I hung out the washing and that was it. We've been up to the quarry unloading concrete that the digger dug out.
Then we picked up topsoil and brought that back.

I got a bit wary with the topsoil because tonight on TV they were talking about people getting legionnaires disease from handling potting mix. Not enough warnings on the bags etc and how to work with it properly. It was quite a scary item, one poor bloke was crying - his partner died just before Christmas from it.

Persey

Persey

"Styx" PMSL

Warnings have been on bags of Potting mix and Mulch etc for some time now in Oz.

It is sad when people do not read the warnings. We now make sure that it is thoroughly damp before using such mixes as well as wearing masks. (Mines a nice Mickey Mouse one!).

It has been hot again here. Advance weather forecast shows rain one day and then the symbol disappears!

At the moment in this room (where the a/c doesn't reach) I'm sweating my proverbials off!!

Allan

The are going to revise the warnings on the bags and they want the garden centre people to also have masks available. Places like Bunnings have the masks in the DIY area and not in the gardening section. One interviewer asked people who were buying potting mix did they know the pitfalls etc and only one linked it with Legionnaires - but she said she did not use gloves or mask (how silly).

Sweaty proverbials - you do talk bollocks.

Persey

Thank you, Persey, I love you too :0))

Only a joke!

Allan

Much too hot in here....will be back tomorrow.

I'm escaping into air conditioned comfort!

Have a great day all you Brits and have a nice evening all Ozzies

Allan

Hello everyone - hope you are all well:-)

We do get onto some varied topics - the conversation switched from children to potting mix in minutes:-))

I had a lovely evening yesterday. I took some photos to my brother's house and he was at home by himself so we sat and chatted family history none stop without boring anyone else witless. We speculated about our ancestors' lives and looked at old photos. I love doing that:-))

Sue xx

Morning/Evening all. Another humid day coming up here. Didn't get the storms we were promised. However, more promised for to-day and tomorrow, so we might make it yet.

Perse - Our change-over to metric was 14th February, 1966. For months before, we heard it sung to the tune of 'Click Go The Shears'. I have my own memories because I had to pay 50% of my hospital fees a month before my (3rd) baby was due in March, so I paid it in pounds, shillings and pence - then when I was leaving the hospital in March, I paid the remainder in dollars and cents!

Good morning Berona and Sue,

Yesterday was one of those days where it hit 34c early on and stayed at that temp until early evening. No breeze to talk of and when I went to retrieve the freebie newspaper off the lawn in the afternoon, I nearly burnt myself on the front door handle which is metal

Allan

I suppose some of our friends here would not understand you getting burnt on your door handle, Allan. They should try getting into a car here after it has been parked in the sun! Many a time, I have started to drive a car and found the steering wheel too hot to handle!

At this time of the year, there is a certain time of day when I have no shelter in my paved courtyard. My cat has learned to 'look' out for quite a while before she ventures out, and she won't go if she can't walk in any shade! The pavers can get so hot on those very hot days, that they burn her paws!

Berona, our cats have the same problem!

We are often amused to watch them stroll nonchalantly across the cooler vegetation and the run across the pavers to get to the cat flap.

They are not stupid!

Allan

Good Morning Everyone,

Hope you are all well, and doing cartwheels today.

I have been busy on my tree. As well as my own ancestry, I am also researching the Duchess's. I notice there is a public tree on Ancestry belonging to someone also researching her line.They have a common Gt Gt Grandfather. While I have most of the same information, I see that he has a little more than me.
I don't want to just "steal" his information. Should I contact him to ask if he minds first? What do you do?

Tec

I have been out the front raking - and my variation of cartwheels would never do - not in front of the neighbours.

Looks around for the men in their white coats.


Persey

Good evening Tec

Whilst I have never been in that position I would have thought that contacting the person first and explain that you may have found a common ancestor.

You could then, if they are in agreeance send the info you have (which would appear to be the same as theirs) and if there is common agreement,ask if you can use the bits which are missing from your search.

Allan