General Chat

I forgot to say, that the dentist at Beamish is great, I loved the foot powered drill The food in the Co-op cafe isn't the best i must admit

Forster is another good name CC. The Northumberland line is mine and unfortunately it comes to shuddering halt with my maiden name male ancestor who was born c1800. He says he was born "on the sea" in two censuses and even worse in Ireland in another one. Unfortunately his wife is one of two women of the same name born in Corbridge in 1811. She seems to have met him in Newcastle, where presumably she was in service. She had her first three children there before they returned to Corbridge c1838. they had a grand total of fifteen children. two of them died as infants and one aged ten, but the others all lived to adulthood

Hi CC

I too am researching in Northumberland and Durham.

Do you both have access to the Newcastle Courant which is available online? You can join the Library, which can be either done online or via phone. I have found reference to many of my line and it is also a good source for 'knowing how ones ancestors lived'

Susan
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I have access to that through the Lancashire library on line, or at least I think I do, but I never found anything, maybe i should look again

I have spent a lot of time trawling through the Bishops transcripts on line which cover lots of parishes not on the IGI

I have just checked and i do have access. while I was looking, I realised that some extra Yorkshire papers have been added,so I am going to see if I can use the obits in them to solve another problem

The Forster was the woman CC, there were two baptised in the same year. the vicar wrote extremely good notes for the time, including the mothers maiden name and where both parents came from He gives the birth dates as well as the baptisms. Unfortunately I have no way to tie tie my woman in with either family. The male must have been baptised somewhere even if he was born on a boat coming over from Ireland, though why you would give birth on such a short journey I have no idea. he has a reasonably unusual name for the time, but I can't tie him in anywhere.
I am off to watch Foyles war now

Another absolutely gorgeous day spent in the garden catching up with odd jobs. Repotted things sitting in frost damaged pots. Got through two bags of compost. Now I'm aching, and my back is complaining bitterly.

Sounds of summer all around - the whir of lawn mowers, the gentle drone of the occassional light aircraft going unhurriedly somewhere, and the not very welcome and irritating noise of someone screaming around on a jet-ski just off shore. Quite a few visitors around still, because of school holidays, but then there will be a lull until Whitsun.

Tec.

Good morning/evening all.

Showers forecast for today (which arrived whilst I was out for my walk:0(( ) with storms forecast for the next three days.

Today's top temp for the Bunbury/Australind area 19oC: positively Arctic.

Susanwith numbers, you asked about an Aussie meet.

As far as I know there hasn't been one in Western Australia, but I do know several regular posters who live in the Perth area, plus a non-regular poster who I found out by chance lives in Busselton, which is about 40 kms south of where I live, and who visits Australind to see the local physiotherapist.

I have been toying with the idea of seeing if there is any support for a meet.

This could be arranged for Kings Park, which is the Botanical Gardens/War Memorial which sits above Perth. A magical place to visit.

Allan

Good evening to you all. No good mornings as yet - I seem to be the only one here who is enjoying the morning air.

I believe I saw something about a 'meet' in Victoria on the other thread a couple of years ago, but whether or not the same people are still involved, I don't know. I do hope to meet Sue some day, as I understand the distance between us is only a couple of hours' drive. However, whilst I think it would be great, the distance between us all does present a problem - it just can't be covered in a day trip like the English meets can. Without checking for accuracy, I'm in Sydney and Melbourne and Brisbane are about a thousand miles in opposite directions from here - and Western Australia is more like three thousand miles from us. It might be possible for one of us to meet another one of us, if they happen to be travelling, but a full meet with all of us sounds like a pipe-dream - unless of course, we get to make that cruise!!!

Good morning Allan - you sneaked in while I was still typing. Hope you are feeling good after your morning walk.

Berona,

That may bee sooner than you think.

OH and I have scaled back our plans for our fortieth wedding anniversary and are now looking at travelling to Canberra for a few days to see 'Floriade' and other tourist places like Parliament House and the War Memorial. Then onto Sydney for a few days to take in the sights and do a harbour cruise (OH has done one and wants to repeat the experience. I have never done this before.) My first and only trip to Sydney involved an overnight stop, but I did manage to see Darling Harbour and the Rocks.

We would then return to Perth via the Indian Pacific.

Floriade is from Sept 11th to Oct 10th this year.

Allan

Good morning Berona

Feeling slightly damp........such a strange feeling! :0))

Allan

Grr i just typed loads and lost it.

Nineteen is glorious Allan, not Arctic, it was about the same temperature here, but it will drop down to degrees overnight

Linda, following on from temps in the high twenties and low thirties, nineteen is cool!

We still have afew leeks in the garden so we might make a leek and potato soup!

Allan

I often make leek and potato soup Allan, it is one of my favourites. I noticed that there were two rows of leeks on the allotment. They were the last lot to be put in in the autumn and were tiny when they severe weather came. i didn't think they would survive, but they have. they have started to grow again and are just about ready to use, which is good news

Linda, we are relatively new to growing leeks.

We never grew them in the UK, and thought that it may be too hot over here for them, but given the right conditions they thrive.

We also planted Kale for the first time (in Oz) last year and had a bumper crop. Typically, we could find no seeds but quite by chance, stumbled upon a small retail nursery whch had seedlings.

This year at least three other nurseries now sell seedlings.

Kale reminds me a bit of spring cabbage.

Allan

My sister grows lots of kale, but I am not that keen on it, i don't like spring cabbage much either. We will grow cabbage, but the ones which are the paler green type. I sewed various types of climbing beans and lots of mange tout in the green house to give them a start. It is a bit early to put other seeds straight out into the soil. All the local nurseries have the veg seedlings in at the moment. We are going to go and get some later in the week. I should have planted some broad beans before now, so we will get the plants instead

Linda, our staple 'green' that we grow is silver beet (Swiss chard). it's great as it is a pick, and come again, crop.

I like the nice 'earthy' flavour.

We have also had success growing broccoli, but somehow we cannot seem to grow cabbage!

Broad beans and peas (sugarsnap) also do well in the garden, as do beetroot and turnips

Allan

Allan

I have a packet of Swiss chard seeds,so I will give them ago. We grow beetroot and turnips as well, but it is too early to put the beetroot into the soil just yet. We are so far north that we are always a few weeks behind the gardening programmes on TV. OH is going to plant loads of onions later this week. We put some Japanese onions in at the back end and they have survived,as has the garlic which is coming along well

It is 11.30pm now,so time I was tucked up in bed before it gets too cold in the house.

Goodnight, enjoy your pleasantly warm day