General Chat

Same here Allan,
Many people here who are entitled to certain allowances don't bother claiming because of the hassle of dealing with the agencies and form filling.

Well I'd better go to bed, it's very late, my body clock has not adjusted.

Enjoy your day,

Goodnight,

Tec

Good night Tec, stay warm

Allan

Hello all - I missed you this morning. The internet was playing up and after trying to get this site, F/Book and my email I gave up. The annoying this is I knew there was a photo to see on FBook. I saw it this afternoon and it was worth waiting for. A lovely photo of my sister-in-law with her paternal grandmother. I'll get it printed for my SIL and frame it for her.

It's been raining most of the day but I'm not complaining. The garden badly needs it and it may cool things down. I wonder if Berona has had any rain.

Sue xx

Hello Sue, I hope that all is well!

Allan

A case of hello and goodbye...what an unusual name for wine!!!

Will chat tomorrow. 'Bye all

Allan

Good morning, or more to the point good mid morning.
I have been pottering as per usual.
I received nine death certificates in one batch this morning. There are still two outstanding. The saddest cause of death just says childbirth.These days we don't expect that, but sadly it used to be a reality for many people.

CC, I don't have a diamond to send you, will a limp of coal and a set of DIY instructions do instead?

Looks like I've just missed Allan. I'll answer him anyway. That monitor is called a Continuous Holter Monitor ECG and I have it hanging off me in a padded pouch with various wires hooked up in various directions. A strap going over my shoulder keeps it to the side of my body - and all they said I can take off to go to bed, is the strap over my shoulder! I'm not looking forward to sleeping peacefully tonight unless it comes easily from having been charging around in one direction to supply blood for a test, then in the opposite direction for the monitor fitting - with 20 minutes between the appointments.
Tomorrow, I have to go there again for them to remove the monitor. In the meantime, I have to write down everything I do. This, too, is a problem. How much can I do with this thing on me? I had to ring my Dr for the BT results before I could take my 6pm tablet and I sat there for 17 minutes constantly dialling before I could get through. Maybe I should write that down in case the monitor shows how frustrated I was!

It didn't help when they told me I can't have a shower until the monitor comes off either. To-day has been quite humid!

Sue - plenty of cloud and crows flying around, but except for a few sprinkles which dried as they hit the ground - still no rain as yet. Forecast is for storms today and tomorrow, but that doesn't usually mean anything.

Hello Berona, excuse the strange sound of my voice, it is because of the clothes peg on my nose!!!
I hope you do manage to get some sleep and that you don't pull the wires off in the night.

I have been having a lazy half hour, but must get on and sort things out. I must, I must...

Linda - one of my maternal great grandmothers lost her husband when great grandad died in France in WW1. She was left with two little girls - one of them my grandma. She married a few months later and had 3 more children. She died of TB when she was 39 and she was 7 months pregnant. I thought that was the saddest death I've had in my family and I actually shed tears when I got the certificate.

Sue xx

Berona - what have I missed. When did you get the monitor?

Sue xx

Edit - oh I see - I read back. I hope you get a good sleep tonight and you're not too uncomfortable.

It's a 24hr monitor and was fitted this morning. All of this comes from my thyroid specialist wanting to find out what made me have that cramping attack day after boxing day.

He sent me for an ECG a month ago, and because it showed "a little something - not much", he rang a heart specialist who said he didn't really need to see me - but I was sent to him anyway! I have now joined the ranks of the warfarin-takers, but need to have blood tests often to make sure the dosage is right and now this monitor. I have never had chest pains, nor have I fainted or had dizzy spells in my life and I will probably be happy to know that I'm OK at a later date, but in the meantime, I hate having to get out early and go to strange places.

I also get cranky when I can see loads of females working in these places, but when it comes to me stripping to the waist - I get a male attendant!!

Oh Berona - better be safe than sorry. Warfarin is pretty heavy duty. Obviously the specialist feels you would benefit by it but I'm wondering if the "aspirin a day" would do the same job. Still I'm not the expert.

Sue xx

I have bought lots of death certificates Sue and I find them really interesting. They just round off the information I have built up.

When I first started researching, I assumed that my ancestors would all die young, but that is not the case at all. The majority of them lived to a very good age.

Dads side of the family started off in Northumberland, mainly working on the land as most of the population did. Yes they had hard lives, but they all had gardens,so could grow food and the children had a healthy environment to grow up in. Later on, they started working in the pits, but again because they were in small villages, they houses all had gardens.

Mum's side were from West Yorkshire and were all weavers, but in small mills and again they lived in what are now very desirable little villages, with lots of farms around where they bought what they didn't grow.

Disease seems to be the main problem before the days of antibiotics. My mother had an older sister who died when she was only ten. She had been bitten on the arm by a boy at school, the wound became infected and she died from Septicaemia.

I know that not all families were so lucky, I have done a tree for someone where they mainly lived in Preston in Lancashire in terrible conditions, all working in the mills. The infant mortality rate in those families was shocking and the adults died at a much younger age as well.

Oops, I am not her, I really am doing my chores...

I didn't know they showed the cause of death on the Death certificates. That should be interesting. My gr/grandfather was born in 1851. His parents married in 1850 - then his sister was born in the second quarter of 1852 and his mother died in the same quarter. I have wondered if the mother died during the birth of the daughter. The daughter then died at the age of 22, so my gr/grandfather became an 'only child'. Unusual for those days!

My father's great grandmother died at the age of 38 from TB in Kirkgate in Leeds in the shadow of St Peter's Cathedral. This was built at great expense by Rev. William Hooke so the commoner could worship in comfort. The money could've been spent on improving the housing in the area as it was a slum district. I have to admit to feeling a little bitter about it at times.

Sue xx

When I'm transcribing for FreeBMD, I find that I can skim through the births and marriages, but I seem to take longer to do the deaths, and yet, they are virtually the same amount of typing.

I tend to wander off to thinking about them as I'm doing the 'age' and there are so many zeroes and small numbers in those lists, I can't help thinking of all the heartbreak those deaths must have caused.

When I see those who died under the age of 20, I wonder how many of them would have lived if only the modern treatment had been known then.

I must away. I have already filled in my 'diary' showing that I spent half an hour in the bathroom. It will probably take that long to get around all the wires. I'd love a shower - it's very humid here!

Talk again when I get back from the pathologist's in the morning. Sleep well Sue - Linda, if you're still here - have a good day! (Now, that feels strange - I feel like I'm inside out, or back to front!).

Good morning/evening everyone. Hope you are all well. It's cool and wet here with more rain forecast for the day.

As neighbours we have all got on together for many years - very few people have moved from our street. Now I think a few of us are going to have to complain to a neighbour about her trees. The roots of the trees in her front yard are causing problems with her house foundations. She has found out that the cost of removing the trees is very expensive so she thought she would wait for awhile. My OH and a couple of other people have noticed lately that branches of two of the trees are dying rapidly. We think she may be poisoning the trees in the hope they will die but this is becoming a dangerous situation. Already a branch fell onto the road when we had a windy afternoon on the weekend. A lot of people walk on our street and of course cars drive past. A real worry but not sure how to approach it.

Sue xx

Good evening/morning all

Hello Berona, I hope that you slept well with the machine on.

Sue, I don't know about NSW but in WA local councils have the power to order that dead o r dangerous trees on private property be removed. If this isn't done within a certain period of time, the council can do the work and charge the person with the cost. If the person doesn't pay, this is registerd against the property so that if it is sold at any time in the future, the council can claim the costs back

Hello to CC and Linda


Allan

CC the 19thC "philanthropists" were only concerned with the 'common'' or working class people as factory fodder.

The slums were erected as cheaply as possible to be rented out for a small fortune.

No offence to any people with strong religious beliefs but religion was used to subjugate the masses. Pray to God and be grateful that you have a job and a roof over your heads

In the early part of my career I had to deal with the aftermath of that attitude with the slum clearance programmes of the late 1960's early 1970's

Allan