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You could even make mousetraps with cheese and marmite... geez Gins.. :-S

I dunno, some people want waiting on hand and foot...........sheesh

Fanks Persie.....I will have a rootle around....can't remember trying quince wotsit so may give that a go.



Morning Grace ~~~~~~~


Another lovely day here.......just as well, I've got plenty of washing to hang out!



Have fun....~~~

I think it's the era we were born in Cyns

We know how to rustle up a feed out of anything.

I have a load of washing put on around dinner time for me to put out in the morning.

Hopefully it will be another nice day tomorrow... that will be five fine days in a row so hope I am not pushing it.

P xx

Well, I thought it was a lovely breakfast Persie and SO kind of you to provide it for us!! <3

I had a toasted cheese and tomato sandwiches with some of that lovely bacon.......... delicious !!!

Running a bit late today so have to dash off to collect my grandchildren for the day!

I will take a bit of that passionfruit cheesecake for later.

See you later,

Dea x

Thank you Dea and Cyns for showing appreciation...

It's the era we were brought up in Persie ;-)

Get lost you lot...I didnt have time to put anything together this morning....sheesh

Thank you for the dry bread Pers ;-)

Dentist for me,cant get over how good Mr Hurricane was while watching dentist fix Nans tooth,then shopping,then park and now feed dogs with Nans little helper,hope he makes it all the way with the dog food tonight and not have to scrape it back in the bowl like last night... :-D

Pick runner beans and chop to go with fishfingers or pork chops and spuds.....

Bath and then bed????????PLEASE...

Is that the strain I see showing.............??????

could be dog food you can see Cyns

Nothin phases our Fans.....anyone who can do a DIY funeral has my confidence!

Dog food scraped up again...Sigh

WALK BOY,dont run....

Courgettes picked as well,not all made it to the butter in the pan,seems they are as nice as raw runner beans.... :-D

Don't talk about DIY Funerals Ginns!!

My brother's is tomorrow and apparently a Priest has been arranged and he was supposed to telephone me about the Eulogy etc !!

No phone call yet and no answer from his phone - I have left messages but no reply!

Have a feeling he will not bother to turn up so I might have to 'do it myself' tomorrow !!

Oh well,

Such is life ;-)

Dea x

You will prob do a better job of it Dea as at least you knew him properly....

And if he is leaving it this late to discuss it cant say I have much "faith"in him.....Even if I had a faith in the first place...

Soz Dea.

Dont worry he will be in touch tonight, its how it goes

I will think of you tomorrow, as I do every day

At mom’s funeral last year, we only had the last info about 9pm the night before and we changed it all

He said we could not have Ruddy Kipling 'If' as it was too masculine....we told him bleep orf, it’s what we wanted

All went well the next day, except for my car, if you remember!

Just a thought Dea.....has he been in touch via email?

hi

why do you keep on nudging up this thread?

There is nothing in the Genes Reunited house rules to say that members cannot post twice, thrice or 101 times, if they feel like it, for the same person.

Genes has a rather strange message board compared to other family search sites.

Rather than having a usable thread history with a decent search tool Genes has a a totally useless search function (it is easier to use Google) and seems to feel that the best way to deal with requests is in real time. I guess this has an entertainment value for some but it is a hassle for others who have the temerity to desert their keyboards after posting to fix the kid's tea or watch Casualty or whatever, lose their place and post again... Many (most?) are not aware of "my threads".

By and large people (but not all) are far more likely to answer a request if they know something about the family / locality. Thus anybody new to this board may imagine that the chances of a useful response are remote. Indeed they would be except that (as in Macbeth's blasted heath) Ancestry has a team of self annointed wizards who answer most of the queries on the board. Unsurprisingly as they do most of the work this group seems to feel they own the board and can set rules.
Pretty obviously for them repeated posts are a big annoyance hence yet another of those. huge threads which have always been a feature / curse of Genes. Whooosh indeed.

OTOH they are pretty good at dealing with ancestry transcription errors, strays etc but the lack of any real subject knowledge tends to show.

Given the lack of a decent search tool repeated requests are inevitable, especially when people are looking for more info than you can find in the cold printed record.

Much as the efforts of a small group are appreciated it would be far better if Genes itself got this board sorted out so that the thread history was accessible and all members may feel able to join in and indeed reply to aged posts - something nearly as verboten as posting twice. A reply may be of interest to others, not only the original poster.

For this to happen Genes needs to demand a structured post with family name and locality as compulsory in the header (so that a search can work properly and sort names from place names) plus date range. Given different board software we could then have something as useful for family search as roots.web.

However whilst it remains essentially an extension of quizzes and trivia in format one hopes in vain.

Meanwhile may I suggest that the "rules" remain solely those posted by Genes and users - especially new ones - are supported and not crushed with such responses as "don't post twice". It is after all meant to be fun.

best regards

Whooo Howard, what a convoluted statement from you. I'm not sure you really understand how things work round here so will send a pm.

I will clarify though, if you look at the Help clinic above, left, it clearly states.........

'Please don't post about the same person or family twice as this can make extra work for the volunteer helpers.'

why do you keep on nudging up this thread?


Why not?

And it is GR who state this rule

Howard, maybe you should contact GR with your ideas? This is not the place where you will get help ;-)