Genealogy Chat

Robert .... how lovely to see you!!

and I love your assessment of this thread.


It's much cooler and cloudy today .......... weather change on its way! The wind has arrived ........ the trees and shrubs are really blowing around at the moment!

So .... it's out of the cellar for us!!


OH's birthday today ............... daughter has taken him downtown and they are going to go to an art gallery or museum ............. decision to be made when they get there! MJ is with them (of course!)

I'm going to spend much of my time copying a lot of J's baby pictures on to my 'puter ........ she wants to take the prints with her (actually, if truth be told, I told her she could take them .... she'll only get them eventually!!). They start with the hospital one which was awful!


Tonight, I take OH out for dinner, and J as well of course! Babysitter looks after MJ.


Tomorrow, J will be packing

she leaves on Friday am .... will have to get her to the airport for about 9:15 am


Yesterday, we both had physio appointments ............. mine at 12:40 and J at 1:00 ....... followed by a sushi lunch

J has to change the way she picks up and handles MJ if she wants her wrist to stop hurting and her shoulder to improve.

Me? I have to continue with my exercises, and watch how I walk ............... no more falling over!




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I must add that Frank is much, much younger than I am.

Yes Cynthia, I did include Frank in my comment.

Frank is a bit of a mixture - part Fifer, part Weegie(Glaswegian) and one or two other things but is a typical Scot where we can do battle with our friends up to the point of insulting them but we only do this with true friends. Frank obviously looks on all of you as good friends.

Thank you Robert....do you include Frank in your comment??? I mean.......he seems very confused at the moment. Probably an age thing.

By the way Frank, in those days the tv was black and white and not much bigger than a microwave. Oh yes, I think he only allowed you one tissue no matter how much your gums were bleeding.........good old days? Nah.

Cynthia,

You are all doing well.

Friendly banter without any nastiness.

Love to all.

Cynthia,

I'm not surprised your unmarried, unchild friendly Jewish dentist wasn't happy with you.

I imagine he must have been flabbergasted on seeing you lying on your back watching Corrie on the ceiling mounted 60" plasma with your legs in stirrups and asking for a painkess extraction without (blunt) needles.

Ooopps, did you say teeth..............

Confused ooopp north ;)

Good analysis Anne. Mind you, we keep going don't we?


Robert.....do you think we are behaving ourselves or is there room for improvement?



Frank, I was having a tooth filled not giving birth!! I have no fear of the dentist and we get on well.

Long gone are the days when I used to get into a dreadful state before visiting the dentist...he was an elderly Jew - unmarried and not very tolerant of children. His needles were thick and blunt (or so it seemed). He once either smacked or kicked my son for fidgeting in the chair. Wouldn't get away with that these days would he?


It has been drizzly here today but is now sunny and dry so out goes the washing....again!


Take care friends.

Hiding - Yes.

But still watching to see that you are all behaving!!!!

Well silence seems to be the order of the day.

What is happening here - are we in danger of dissapearing again

Evelyn has vanished
Robert is in hiding
Wayne seems to have vacated so has Catherine
Debbie & Jeanie have divorced themselves from GR
Reece is looking in now & then & will be back when she feels ready
Susan is in Bali - lucky thing
Josie is knee deep in dry cleaning
Frank is trying to keep our computers up & running
Sylvia hiding in the basement with the family
Cynthia living it up at the fairground witht he candyfloss
I am still in training - but we have been let out of the dungeon - we are now on the 2nd floor (getting altitude problems now) in the daylight (on with the glasses) all the curtains back & looking out at the other building and busy main road.

Who did i leave out?

Talking about candyfloss - my little newsagents now sells Candyfloss in little pots at 50p a pot. Will try one soon just to see what they are like.

Well 10 mins left and need to finish my cheese salad - its not that inspireing - esp when looking at restaurants with all that lovely looking food.

Take care all

Yes, good idea that with the TV on the ceiling except of course that I take my glasses off when I'm in the chair so I can't see the ceiling never mind a TV !

Well done Cynthia for having teeth after all those doughnuts and candy floss............floss, do you floss??

That's what my dentist asks me every time I visit.........come on, life's too short to floss ;))

Now then Cynthia, relax, breathe slowly................

"Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence"

Just popped in to say goodnight!


Went to the dentist today and watched tv! He has a set on the ceiling so it's helpful to take one's mind off things. Actually, I don't mind going there at all and yes Frank, I still have all my own teeth!


All that talk of windows........mine could do with a wipe down soon.....any chance?



Daughter has now gone to her brothers for a few days so I can relax for a bit.......famous last words.


Imagine......our Sylvia swearing silently! Wonders will never cease.


On that note......night all. Cx

no-one's visited since this morning???????????


another hot sunny day .................26C in the shade in the backyard at 10:00am. Over 30C forecast again for the afternoon

Daughter wants to go to Ikea. Leaving in a few minutes


Back home for lunch, then find somewhere cool for the afternoon and evening

Guess where?


Woke up about 5:00 am this morning, saw OH had pulled a BLANKET up over him.

Realised I didn't feel too well.

Realised fan had been turned down to setting one.

Turned fan up to 2.

Drank 8 oz water.

Felt much better.

I was dehydrated!

He said "I felt cold in the middle of the night so I turned the fan down and got the blanket".

I swore silently!!!!




Back when it's cooler!


Weather is supposed to start cooling down on Wednesday or Thursday. Down to clouds and 18C on Friday ......... when daughter leaves.






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Hi all


................ have emerged from the basement

ours isn't quite as spiffy as Frank's US relations ...... we don't have air conditioning! You really have never needed airconditioning in Vancouver, but it seems that the times are a'changin'!

It is carpeted though, we have a dining table in one part of the basement, and OH's computer and "office" in the other. Unfortunately, we can't get onto the internet from his computer ...... we do have a router etc etc, but something has gone wrong with the connection in the last few weeks.

The high in the shade in our backyard today was 34.1C, inside this room it got to 35.7C ........................... it was about 24C in the basement, but felt much cooler than that!


where's Evelyn???




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Oh Cynthia, you sweet talking thing.

With candy floss AND doughnuts, It's not Mrs Michelin in spring you shoud fear,..........it's Mrs Michelin in autumn you should be worrying about.
Mind you it's probably neccessary to build up your protein stores for the winter.

As for Anne, it's just stuff I've done for my mother-in-law when she had Windows XP SP3 and myself of course when I had Windows '98 !!
Sometimes works, sometimes not...............

I've just been playing about with Photoshop Elements 6 and you can slim people down in the photos as well as doing their makeup, eyelashes, teeth whitening.
You can make an old dog look quite wonderful with a bit of time.

It's amazing stuff..............

You've gone all technical Frank! Hope Anne can cope with your advice......it's mind boggling....but then, you are so good at getting one's mind to boggle. I could do with you here though Frank....daughter's computer has died and it rather looks like there isn't any power coming through the charger. She is not happy!




Must be hot to keep Sylvia away.......she needs a little cave like Robert's to retreat to.

How are you Robert? Waving to you ~~~~~~~~~~~~



Went to the agricultural show but was a bit disappointed....the usual horses, cattle, stalls etc and crowds of folk but it lacked a certain 'something' if you know what I mean! I did indulge in some candyfloss and fresh doughnuts though.......oh dear, thoughts of Mrs Michelin spring to mind but at least I haven't had any tea yet!


I forgot how tiring it is to traipse round on the uneven surface of a field.....showing my age now!


Evelyn? Yoo hoo........where are you????

Love to all. Cx.

With regard to the DVD try opening "Device Manager" and see if DVD is listed there.
If so, click on it then under "actions" click "update driver software" and allow it to find any driver updates online.

Also in "my computer" or "computer" is DVD showing there.

I know they do sometimes vanish but they do give up the ghost eventually.

Sylvia, just be careful as your skin will be all white and "peally wally" living in that basement .

Cynthia and co won't recognise you, well not unless they are wearing sunglasses ;))

Thanks Frank = will let you know what happens

I can't remember how old it is - at least 4 years I think

Take care all - will try & pop back tomorrow

Hi all


quick visit ...... another hot day.

Yesterday broke a record set in 1946


today is expected to be even hotter



Retreating to the basement again



..................... it's just coming up to noon, and it's already 30C outside and over 32C inside this room .................. with the fan going strong!




see you later ....... maybe!!!



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Hi Anne,

SP stands for service pack so you will have Service Pack 2 installed and should really be thinking about installing SP3 if you don't already have it.

.http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/default.aspx

Norton 360 is fine as I used it up until last year when I tried Norton Internet Security 2010 which is also very good.
It was cheaper to get NIS 2010 than Norton 360 v4 and when I'm due to renew next I'll get Norton 360 v4 next year as it will be cheaper than NIS !!

MY mother-in-law had a six year old laptop with XP and ended up getting a new on as it had become so slowwww.

My only thoughts apart from old age..........not you Anne, the computer... are that it's just clogged up with rubbish so you could try cleaning it up.

First of all I would download and run Ccleaner which will clear all your history and any rubbish that has bulit up over the years.

1. On the opening screen click on "Run Cleaner" in the bottom right hand corner and as the first run can take from a minute to an hour depending on how much there is to clean out so just let it run.

2. When that's done cleaning, click on Registry and click on "Scan for issues" which will clean up your registry.
Once run click on "fix selected issues" which will ask.......
Do you want to back up changes to the registry?...click "YES" then "SAVE" then "FIX ALL SELECTED ISSUES" and that's it all clean and tidy......

It's available from www.filehippo.com below which is a lovely site full of free software.

CCleaner 2.34.1200

http://www.filehippo.com/download_ccleaner/

Once that has finished cleaning download and run Malwarebytes again from filehippo.
Update it as you should when running any antispyware/malware and then run the scan.
This could take quite a while, but is good at sniffing out baddies.


Malwarebytes Anti-Malware 1.46

http://www.filehippo.com/download_malwarebytes_anti_malware/

That should tidy things up and may even speed up your computer.

Worth a try.

Frank - you lost me somewhere -
XP home edition - not sure what the SP refers to -
I do have Norton 360
and my CD/DVD RW has stopped working & isn't showing up on the system - so looks like we need a new one.

No Windows 7 or Vista

Sounds like the US family have a wonderful life

I still have a load of things in the attic from my teenage years - I really must get rid of the stuff - when i was younger i bought a load of things for my bottom drawer and things for when i had a family - well that never happened - but they are still in a box - I really must find a home for them and free up some space - wonder if anyone would want to buy them on ebay.

I must be one of the few people who don't use ebay.

Will pop back again later if I get the chance.