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Careful Maureen ,you will get Frank all excited ;-)

Great news about Grace William.I bet you are counting the hours down now until tomorrow :-D :-D

Oh Shirl!!!!!! What are you like :-S :-S.Easy mistake,but a very expensive one.

I had a cat once called Jerry .A beautiful ginger Tom that adopted me .He was a brilliant shot at weeing down the bath plughole lol.I couldn't believe it the first time I found him doing that.

Off to watch Coach Trip

Hi Folks,

That is an interesting name Kim! My dad was the youngest in his family and he was named after the island that the midwife came from!! lol He didn't have a middle name either so he couldn't use that instead. Eventually, in his 50s he changed it by deed poll. I suppose he got fed up of explaining it when people asked about it, but it was rather distinctive and unforgettable though.

Glad the baby is out of hospital William. I'm sure they will be chuffed to be taking her home.

OH has been busy wrapping the pressies for FIL's birthday tomorrow and has nipped out to get a tie to go with the shirt. He is excellent at buying and matching clothes together for himself, usually asks what I think, but is always spot on so I'm sure he will pick a good one.

I have been going through the button tin to sort some out for Friday's class. We are doing a scrunched button bracelet........not sure it will be my kind of thing, so if I don't need to buy any, so much the better! :-D Mum always had a big tin of buttons that I loved playing with when I was little.

I remember buying some bright orange fleecy nylon sheets when I was in my 20s. The static was awful......daren't move, but plenty of sparks between the bedsheets alright!! I think a lot of nighties were nylon then too which made it even worse.

I am hoping I have made a breakthrough on one of the brick walls on my tree!! :-D :-D I think I may have traced my ancestor, the son of the traveller, in one of the newspapers I mentioned the other day.....in trouble of course!! Two little boys, brothers about 10 years of age, barely able to see over the edge of the dock, were charged with the offence of begging. The father's name is right too, although his occupation, still a traveller's occupation, was different to that shown on his son's baptism cert. I hadn't managed to find any siblings before, but now have a brother, so looked him up!! Very interesting too!! My dad used to say he was related to fairground people. This brother married a lady whose father was..............a travelling showman! Also one of this brother's children was a famous gipsy violinist according to someone else's tree I found him on. Even curiouser, it said this violinist had something wrong with his foot, possibly twisted. One of dad's brothers had a deformity with a foot about six inches shorter. He wore a heavy looking iron thing on his shoe on that foot. I only ever saw him once when I was about 4, but remember being scared by that as children often are when they see something strange. Lots more research to do on that side now!!

Ann,well done .This is all sounding very interesting.The foot deformity could be a 'club foot'.

I hope your FIL has a lovely birthday tomorrow.He will look very smart in his new togs.

I remember those nylon nighties ,sleeping in nylon sheets.The nightie would always cling to my legs and body.Peeling the nightie off always caused sparks and cracks.It was awful :-S :-S

My younger brother William Dennis was born in 1947.
He among thousands of others were examined very closely and his health etc has been monitored down the years.

The group were observed and compared.
This group early on became known as the RED SPOT BABIES

Are any of you in that group?

That's lovely news William that baby Grace is home at last , bet you carn't wait to have that first cuddle :-D :-D

I remember my BIL putting plastic bottles in the garden filled with a little water to deter the cats , it did make the garden look a bit untidy ,like some one had lobed a load of old bottles over the fence :-S :-S perhaps he used to many !!!

Ann, we use to have a button tin too,had great fun threading the buttons on a piece of cord or string ,then taking them all off again .
Now i seem to have a box filled with little plastic bags with the buttons in .
I've worn new clothes and thought what evers that digging in ....and finding the little bag attached with the spare button !!! LOL

That sounds interesting about your ancestor, poor little boys , having to beg ,probably sent out to beg by the parents !!
Did you see the WDYTYA with Larry Lamb ? he was from a travelling showman family .

Cor its cold out side now ,opened the door to let Toby out and got hold of the door handle on the outside of the door ,it was freezing cold , it was a wonder my fingers didn't stick to it !!!!

I wasn't around then David.Can you elaborate more please???What was that all about?I'm curious :-D

http://research.ncl.ac.uk/plerg/Research/1000F/1000history.htm

I had to look Red spot Babies up..I was born 1946 in the baby boon....

I have just watched the midwife programme the old fashioned one on play back..Will have to record this as I watch dancing on ice.

I will have to go and check tonights programes now.. One born every min on? catch you later

I had to look it up too Pat as I'd never heard of the study. Here is a bit more on it.......seems it has been a good thing for picking up health problems for people too........just the Newcastle area though.

http://www.journallive.co.uk/north-east-news/todays-news/2009/12/05/red-spot-babies-still-doing-their-bit-after-62-years-61634-25323546/

I've 'worn' those little bags too Mandy and have a little raffia pot full of the bags with buttons for things I must have got rid of years ago! lol

I have recorded a programme that was on last night about a Bridal Shop in Kettering........ring any bells Jane? It is about that woman from the Hotel Inspector, Alex ?. Now she is trying to make shops profitable.

Hope your visit to the docs isn't too tiring for you Kim and that it is a bit cooler too.

I don't mind wearing the little plastic bags lol.....its when you have the buttons in the little cardboard envelopes that i'am not to keen on LOL

What a brilliant study.To follow people all these years.

Thank you for those links Ann & Pat.

Those 1000 or the remainder of them will be monitored for life.

Back in the sixties there were man made materials to rival silk or satin,they invariably sparked and crackled.

E's been poorly for quite a while but fortunately is now on the mend.I feel uncommonly tired and under the weather.Hope I'm not getting what she had.

When did you last get get a polio vccine booster or a tetenus booster?Been donkey's years for me.
When E was working as a nurse she got these every few years.

William...Im glad you will be able to see baby Grace tomorrow...Cant wait for the photos of you with her.

Mocha is doing a lot better today..Eating better now..Had a mad half hour with his toys and other things lol..

Kim ...I hope you get on Ok tomorrow...It has been very cold here and sunny..The sun comes though our bay window and then deceives you with the weather outside.

Set the house alarm off this morning..Set it ready to go though front door and forgot my hand bag lol....I couldnt remember how to disarm it..Had to ring Alan at work but the message went to voice mail..Sorted it in the end.. :-D

It is my programme tonight so I will claim the tv..There is one in the bedroom where Im typing... but I get distracted by PC ...So I will go downstairs and have a cuddle with Mocha.

Evening David...All these people on here who work in the health sector or did..Lol

Good question David!! I haven't had any for over 20 years. I think I will ask at the doctor's next time I get a blood test done. I have a feeling it may be 10 years for tetanus? :-S Hope E carries on improving and that you haven't caught what she had.

That's a good sign if little Mocha is feeling like playing and is eating Pat. I bet the morale at work is a bit low with all those resignations.

Shirl, OH has a cataract......they won't do anything will they until they are bad enough.

William I can realy understand how you must be feeling now that you are going to meet little Grace at last. Please give her a big kiss for me.

I feel like god mother to all the babies that have been born whilst I have had this thread.

Never heard of the Red Spot babies before at all.

Kim good luck for your visit to Sydney tomorrow. Hope everything goes ok.

Ann I still have mums button box. Still

I have just emailed photos of Mocha...If you didnt receive them Pm me please..

William I can realy understand how you must be feeling now that you are going to meet little Grace at last. Please give her a big kiss for me.

I feel like god mother to all the babies that have been born whilst I have had this thread.

Never heard of the Red Spot babies before at all.

Kim good luck for your visit to Sydney tomorrow. Hope everything goes ok.

Ann I still have mums button box. Still

When I was a boy I thought Dennis being a Red Spot child meant he had measles or worse lol.
The Red Spot is just an indicator chosen to identify the childrens files back there for the purpose intended.

David ,I hope Ellen is on the mend and that you aren't going down with what she has.There are so many bugs and viruses going around at the moment.
I think children still have the polio vac by drops on the tongue.We had it on a sugar cube.Not sure about the Tetanus one.
My daughter has to have injections to prevent her getting Hepatitis (A,B,or C) I'm not sure which one. She works with Drug Addicts.I do worry sometimes about her as she is often in very difficult and dangerous situations.She has to be brave sometimes,even though she is feeling pretty scared.(I am very proud of her).
I can't watch 'One Born every minute'.Chris is watching something else(something about Egypt).I am actually enjoying it too ,but still want to see the other programme........oh! he has just chucked me the controls
:-D :-D.BBL