General Chat

I have been reading for ages on here - and am now hungry so lunch again I think.

Sue I read the book "The Memory Keeper's Daughter" - years ago now and I thoroughly enjoyed it. A friend of mine purchased it new and when I saw it said Oh can I borrow sometime. She could not get into it - so chucked it at me and said you give it a go, she thought it a waste of money. I read it, loved it and reviewed it and sent it back to her with a little elephant ornament that I knew she would like in appreciation. She has persevered and got over the stumbling blocks and she too liked it.

Thought mostly I read crime - have read all except the latest of the Frost novels by R D Wingfield. The last one was just recently published after his death. We have it in the crime section and OH has read it. He mostly reads non-fiction except for Frost novels and once he caught me laughing at a Stuart Pawson novel about a Yorkshire DI he has now read all of them.

We have ordered Stieg Larsson books from the library but there are hundreds on the waiting list but they do have 40 copes of the first book so it may not be long now before I am into that.

Persey

To answer my own question, I have googled Pocahontas (now please don't misinterpret that ) and I have my two American Indian ladies mixed up.

Pocahontas was an Indian princess in Elizabethan days and married an English Settler in Virginia.

They both travelled to England where she became a celebrity

Allan

Didn't Pocahontas marry a John Smith - that would be a real doozy for one's family tree? I have a Smith way back somewhere and have left that avenue alone.

I have been to Utah - when we were there the bars there would not serve Whisky to the American Indians. My mother's cousin married an American Marine who was a Mormon.

Persey

Well I'll go to the foot of our stairs (only because I can't climb to the top)

So are there two of them then Allan?

Persey

Point taken Persey!!

Very bad grammar on my part,( but I'm sure that she will make a full recovery!)

She had a split personality!

No need to ask how you are today, is there!

Allan

edited to say John Smith was the man who wrote about Pocahontas. Her husband, fom memory (my memory!) was John Rolfe

Thank you for clarification Allan.

New I had learnt in about standard three (can't remember much about yesterday though) about John Smith and Pocahontas and thought that was who she married.

So now I better go an read my Longfellow - know he wrote about Hiawatha but who else?

You could ask how I am though - But that's okay I will tell you: my toes are warm so Linda they must be getting back to their proper circulation I guess. I have been exercising my foot - nothing strenuous but think that helps.Now I keep getting a crink in my neck with sitting awkwardly at computer in trying to accomodate where my foot wants to be. But I won't get a chip on my shoulder about it cause that would indicate there is wood further up.

Coffee time will make a large plunger.

Persey

Persey, I didn't enquire as to your health as you are obviously twice as sharp as I am and therefore in top form!

A chip on the shoulder just means that you are a messy eater :0))

Allan

Persey, buy a plunger, it will save time

However, I can send you one that has only been used a couple of times........











......on blocked drains

Adds body to the coffee!

Allan

Good morning, I am glad to hear that your toes are warmer Perse. Moving your leg around will increase the circulation. That is the problem with the boot, normally it is the movement of the calf muscles which helps to squeeze the blood back up your leg past the one way valves in the veins, so with the boot on, that won't happen as quickly. Or something like that anyway.

I live about three hundred yards from the back of the racecourse and the stables. On race day, they have to walk the horses out of the stables and down the road to get them onto the race track. There is also a car park next to the track where you can stand. There is only a double white rail to separate you from the track. If you stand there, it is incredibly impressive as they thunder past because you are only about six feet from the horses. Far closer than you would be if you were in the paid for part of the track. I have never actually been to a race meeting,even though we live so close.

I have just been looking on google maps to see if our house is on street view. It was not on last time I looked,but I noticed a thread saying the whole country was now on. When I put in my post code, It is there,but I seem to live in a huge old brick wall. When I "walked" around the virtual corner, the house is there, but because we have a tall copper Beech hedge, the only part of the house which is really visible is the double garage.maybe they think I live in there.

I have just had another look and just past the house, on what is normally a very quiet country road, there are several cars parked, so I looked next to it and sure enough there are lots of people walking into the cemetery which is only about twenty yards from us. The hearse is even there, now how is that for posterity, having your funeral caught on Google street view.

We use the google street view when we are viewing houses Linda - so we can get the lay of the land.
The one of our place looks like they took it on a rainy day. Some places we have looked at were taken before the house was built on the section.
It is quite fascinating - looked at one taken in a main road and methinks that a vehicle in the picture was making an illegal manoeuvre. Tricky word that nearly got my o and e around the wrong way.

As for horse racing - I am not one for them - this old nag wouldn't make the first hurdle in the steeplechase.

Note to Allan and CC - Polly is having computer problems but she shall be back the fix it person did not do a very good job and left her with more problems.

Persey

I have put off the evil moment for long enough,so I am off to do my exercise dvd. Thirty minutes of pure torture. If I am not seen again, I will be in a heap on the floor gasping for breath.

Wanders off, muttering "It is for my own good".

I can hear music playing - oh it is Linda doing her exercises to
"Let's get Physical"

Well you are on the right thread - very Australian.

I thought that i had better check in, in case you sent out a search party. I have survived and am showered, so I don't smell odd any more. That is my perfume you can smell, I am never without perfume, not that my natural odour is that bad you understand...

While I am doing the dvd I am always annoyed about the young stick insects who have lost a zillion stones each, jumping about in the background. I think that they should produce a more realistic version with old fat ladies gasping for breath. Maybe it wouldn't sell very well, with all that fat wobbling about.

Good morning/evening, friends. Hope you are all well.

An overcast start to the day and quite cool. I can definately feel Autumn in the air although it's still early March and can stay warm into April. Daylight saving ends the first Sunday in April and that usually heralds the end of summer for me.

Sue xx

Good morning Sue

Already 26c here heading for a forecast 36c. Thunder storms now forecast for the middle of next week.

I hope that this weather breaks soon, but gently!!

Allan

Good morning Sue - is there no-one else around yet?
Rain forecast here for Thurs,Fri,Sat & Sun. Didn't happen Thursday and a clear blue sky so far on Friday - but yes, the nip is in the air in the morning!

Good morning Allan - you sneaked in there while I was still thinking about it!

Hello Allan, Berona and CC:-))

Allan - I would be lifeless if I had to put up with those temperatures as long as you have.

Berona - I still find it amazing that your weather can be so different to ours.

CC - you're nuts:-))

Sue xx

Good morning Berona, good evening CC

What a coincidence. In a couple of earlier posts, Linda and Persey were talking about Googlestreet or what ever it is called and now someone has started a thread on the same subject

CC I've found no Smiths so far but my Great grandfather who was Charles Coe married my Great grandmother Annie Coe, which was her maiden name also. And as she came from Cork and he was born in Manchester were they related, or just a coincidence?

Allan

My OH has ancestors from Wales called Williams. Have you any idea how many Williams there are in Wales. Like your ancestors Allan, we have a Thomas Williams marrying a Catherine Williams - her father was also called Thomas Williams. I am Hot Matched with every Thomas Williams who every lived on GR.

Sue xx