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I'm back after finishing the ironing.........but going again to look at my last board of the day.


'tis very quiet...

I am sitting here - alone, in the gloomy 'half-light', scarf wrapped around my head, hands clasped over the upturned goldfish bowl...............

"Is there anybody there?" I ask........... "Knock once for 'yes' and twice for 'no'....................


Hang on.......

How the heck could anyone knock twice for 'no' if they were not there in the first place???????

Off to cook an 'Indian' - (NOT a real one I must add, just an Indian meal !! (tee hee!)


Will be back later, hope to see you all then !!

Dea Xxx

Thank you for that LK.
I forgot all about FMP passengers starting at 1890 there.

Hi LK and Janey,

Yes - have seen your mesage,..... thanks LK ! x

I know what you are both referring to but thankfully, it is not that kind of snow!

I am sure iot is nothing serious, I was just curious and will check it out with my Optician.

It seems to me that it is something quite common like "blue field entoptic phenomenon" - I look out of the window, then at the dark fence and it looks just as if it is raining (white'ish 'sleety' rain/snow?), only it isn't.

Does that make sense?

Anyway, I will get it checked.

Many thanks to you both though,

Dea x

Please do not delay Dea. As I said it could be a number of things ranging in severity.Early detection and treatment is essential i many conditions.

Your eyes are important.

Optometrist is the modern name for ophthalmic optician.
Determines the power needed for spectacle correction and monitors the health of the .eye.

If necessary optometrist can refer back to the GP (Doctor) or direct to the ophthalmolgist.

Dispensing Optician interprets the lens prescription and advices how best to make use it. lens choice, frame choice etc

Dea, I'm likely to say "detached retina" at the drop of a hat, but that's the extreme.

I don't understand the "optician" part of this. Here, opticians are not doctors. They are technicians who fit eyeglasses, and may make slight adjustments to lens prescriptions written by optometrists (who may write lens prescriptions and do various eye exams, including for glaucoma, but may not diagnose or treat eye disorders) or ophthalmologists (MDs). Sounds to me like you need a doctor, not an eyeglass fitter or even a lens prescription writer.

Anyhow. You haven't had cataract surgery? Cataract is a possibility. They usually develop slowly over months or longer. My first went from a slight little smudge in my peripheral vision I noticed in late August to virtual blindness in mid-October. You could have a similar situation.

But I'm not a doc, I just play one on the internet. ;)

Did you see my reply about the snow Dea?

I am off to work in a few minutes.

Eating toast as we speak! Thank you Syls.

Off to a funeral soon......will just catch up with a shedload of pm's before I tootle off.

Thanks for breakfast Sylvia x

It's a horrible wet morning here, I think winter has arrived!

Mornin everyone!

Dea x

ok, you lot

Breakfast is served


Tea, Coffee, Apple juice, Orange Juice, Cranberry Cocktail

Choice of cereals

Croissants, Toast, Danish pastry

Jams, jellies and marmalade


Enjoy!




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hi all


been busy today ..... but don't know what I've been busy doing!

actually, part of the time was spent loading photos from various emails into correct folders on My Pictures.


I got a watch for my 18th birthday, then I got another watch with several interchangeable different coloured straps for my 21st birthday ...... never quite knew why Mum had bought me the second one!

Much older brother gave me a silver charm bracelet and 6 charms

Mum died about 3 months later ............... and Dad then decided to have his old gold watch chain (the kind that looped across the waistcoat) altered to make a bracelet for me, and added the gold fob (Oldham's coat of arms) as the first charm. Then he added a charm for every birthday and Christimas until I got married 6 years later. He said it saved him having to think what to give me. I wore that bracelt every day, work or pleasure, for about 15 years .... then it got too heavy, and noisy, to wear to work!

Actually, the bracelet and fob were pretty special.

His father died of TB and alcoholism when Dad was about 10, and his mother raised the children by herself ........ 3 boys and 3 girls. She saved her husband's watch, chain and fob, and gave one to each of the boys when they got to 21. She also scraped and saved, and gave each of them the "missing" items.

Dad as the second eldest boy got the watch chain ........ so the bracelet I have dates back to at least my grandfather. The watch and fob were "new". I got Dad's watch after he died in 1970 ............. brother didn't want it.


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Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s
about Albert D. Parkin Name: Albert D. Parkin
Year: 1873
Age: 32
Estimated birth year: abt 1841
Place: Detroit, MI
Source Publication Code: 3371.25.5
Primary Immigrant: Parkin, Albert D.
Annotation: Date and place of deposits. Occupation, country of origin, address in Detroit, and age are also provided.
Source Bibliography: IBBOTSON, PATRICIA. Depositors' Signatures, The German American Bank, Detroit, Michigan. In The Detroit Society for Genealogical Research Magazine, vol. 67:3 (Spring 2004), pp. 106-109; vol. 67:4 (Summer 2004), pp. 151-154; vol. 68:1 (Fall 2004), pp. 10-13.
Page: 12

FBG

FMP records start at 1890.

OK.I am phoning FMP tomorrow first thing anyway(my first thing being about 10 am.>:),so may get it then and have a look.

Must go.
Night Ja..x

Edits..And LK ~~~~

Grrrrrrrrr
I was offline all day.

Dea

Snow that isn't there could be several things.

Do you have pain?

Is it in both eyes?

Are the eyes red or sore?

How long have you had the symptoms?

All new symptoms should be checked out as soon as possible.

I do not know where you normally go can I suggest you find one that can do either digital retinal photography or similar testing. An independent optician optician is a good idea.

I have spent years staying up to all hours because of the work I did. Now its just habit have nothing to get up early for these days.

I only have 1911 on FMP sorry

ja...x

What I am asking is if any of you think that Jane and Rees are the birth children of Sage and James Hillier/Hellier/Helliar?

I dont,going on the evidence of the census and no births for them under the name Hilliar etc.

Never mind,I am certain in my mind that they are both "adopted"and Sage and James did not have kids of their own by birth.

Have you got FMP passenger lists?It still wont let me o the page?

If you have can you look up for Albert Davis Parkin/s going out in about 1871.He was born c1841.

If you find him can you park it on here please?(To save muddying my work..:))

I think I have to go to bed now,starting to wilt.

How come you keep Canadian hours Ja...x?I have always wondered,but do tell me to mind me own business if you dont want to answer that question.

Didnt get anything for my 21st,I was in Llandrindod Wells hosp with a burst eardrum (Terrible pain)and they didnt bother making the 100 mile drive to visit me all week,said they were too busy on the farm and looking after my son..
Got a shared cake and party on my brothers 21st 3 yrs later in the April,my birthday is in January !
No pressie still though.

Yep

But you are a few weeks older than me Fans

Had a look but its welsh too confusing.

I got a radio alarm clock for my 21st very dissapointing

ja...x

cough...

1958 model as well. ~~~~~~~~~

My mother gave me a back scratcher and a wooden pot thing with a £10 note in for my 18th.
I still have the backscratcher,but a puppy chewed 2 fingers off the "hand" part.
Lord knows where the pot went,didnt like it anyway,and the £10 note went on baby things,No I son was born 5 months later.


Opinion please?

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