Genealogy Chat

Hi everyone



I wasn't googling to remember their names ........... I was googling to find their autobiographies! Crikey ... some of them led very different lives from what we believed at the time!!



Cynthia ............... my daughter sends me Blue Mountain cards all the time, and I have never had a problem with them. I've also had them from other friends

HOWEVER, the email saying that you have got one does usually say the name of the sender ....... although the sender may just have forgotten to fill in the correct box.

This is what my last one says before opening:-
(date)
To: Mum (email address)
From: J, M, & M (email address)


It came with the following heading, which showed in my email inbox:-

eCard from BlueMountain.com
xxxxxx, xxxxxx, & xxxxxx has sent you an eCard (date) 15 KB


It is a reputable company for sending email cards, and you have to download the player because they usually have music and "movement" with them (like Jacquie Lawson cards).

You can open the card and read it without having the Flash player.

The difference is that I think Blue Mountain is free, and Jacquie requires that one pays about £10 a year for unlimited card sending.



take care everyone


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Tabitha

Must confess I was thinking of UK stars at the time but yes Paul Newman was at the top of my list. Those blue eyes could melt you. James Garner wasn't bad either. Lucky you meeting them.
Still think Johnny Depp without all the makeup is stunning. It's definitely Colin Firth as Mr. D'Arcy for me. Local boy made good!

Well, afraid your TV list goes right over my head except for Mark Harmon and he does nothing for me.

Sorry to hear you are multi-coloured. Quite nice on a dress but not on the skin (unless it's makeup of course).

Hope everyone else doing OK. They are, no doubt, doing their good works elsewhere.

J
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Cynthia - DON'T OPEN IT

Glad to hear your S i L is better & on the mend Susan

Just heard at work we are moving desks again - instead of the nice view - we are back in the dungeon again - never mind - we should be in the main building in October.

Hope the roast was ok Susan.

I love all the old films my mum was a film buff - so I grew up with them. Stewart Granger still has the sparkle for me. I loved Colin Firth in Mama Mia - but Laurence Olivier has to be Mr Darcy with Greer Garson. I like Sean Connery now he is older & still think Roger Moore & Pierce Brosnan as 007 for me. I do not like the new one - no sense of humour whatsoever - so grumpy.

I met Paul Newman & James Garner a long time ago and those eyes really were that blue. I loved the films but he wasn't my sort of hero. I like Liam Neeson as a rugged sort & love listening to Richard Burton - he was a wonderful actor and the voice.

Anyone seen "The Wild Geese" Richard Harris was a fantastic actor as well and James Mason but he will always be the baddie in my view. I liked John Mills but not for his looks.

If we are looking at todays actors on screen - no I don't think any really appeal - sorry Jeanie I am not a Johnny Depp fan - I liked Willy Wonker but not the Pirate films.

If you look at actors on TV only well it has to be
Yannick Bisson, Scott Bakula, David James Elliott (in his white uniform) - Mark Harmon & David Boreanaz just to name a few. Getting all hot under the collar now.

Sylvia just a few more for you to google and spend some time on - its such a pain all my shows have finished at once - Fringe - Bones - NCIS - Murdock Mysteries - its not fair & they leave you on a cliff hanger as well

Well have to go back to work & try & pack up some of my stuff - sniff sniff - have the most fantastic bruises - my poor arm is black & blue from elbow to half way down - if you look under the grazes & I have a very large multi coloured bruise on my rump.

Reece - hope your OH is back to normal soon

Anyone heard from Evelyn????????????????????

See you all soon - Take care now

Cynthia

For what it's worth my advice is that if no sender is showing 'Bounce' it. More than likely a scam. Try 123 e-cards if you want one.

Jeanie

Coffee time.

Anyone know anything about BlueMountain ecards?? I've received an email but no sender is showing. I've opened it but have to download a flash player and am reluctant................Frank sweetie, tekkie help required please.

Popping off again. Cx.

Come on you lot
Peter O'Toole as Lawrence of Arabia and Omar Sharif, Cary Grant and Rock Hudson and Roger Moore and Pierce Brosnon, Colin Firth now these are what I call handsome Men.

Woke up to 3 degrees Celsius this morning and ice on our Car's windscreen Turned into a nice sunny day, if a tad cold it is supposed to turn nasty later on to night and hail, hopefully that will be while I am asleep.

Off to watch 'desperate Housewives' on TV,
Catch you all again later. Josie

Ah, bless....reliving your youth then Sylv??? My mother in law had a thing about one of them but I can't remember which one......whoops, here comes that rolling pin...... [ducks out of way]


I always preferred Sean Connery as James Bond to be honest. I'm familiar with most of them because my OH loves old films....especially cowboys...John Wayne etc. Then he has a spell of those daft science fiction ones which I loathe. Now and again we go all sentimental and watch black and white 'family' war time films such as This Happy Breed. Then we move on to war time action films - Dambuster type. Only recently we settled down to watch Hobson's Choice with a very young John Mills in it. Not much on live tv to enjoy these days!


Must get some work done - am at hospital appointment with OH this afternoon. See you later. Cx.

Hi Again everyone

OOH!! My favorite actors were George Peppard,Michael Landon,Partrick Swayzy,Robert Mitchum (those eyes) John Wayne,Lawrence Olivier..

I remember as a girl watching all the late night movies with my mum ,being the eldest I got to stay up late waiting for Dad to get home (long distant lorry driver).

I always liked Roger Moore as 007,followed by Pierce Brosnan.

The actors today have a lot to learn from some of the oldies.

I am up for the next birthday at the end of this month,don't remember whos it is though can somebody remind me please.

I have a roast on tonight better go and check it ,he won't eat burnt offerings.
Suex

Morning campers!

Another lovely day here after a good overnight soaking. Glad I cut the grass.

Surprised you had to Google for handsome 50s & 60s actors Sylvia. Thought it was short-term memory that was affected as we got older:-)))

Richard Todd, Robert Shaw, Jack Hawkins, David Niven, Richard Burton (if you can ignore the skin), John Mills, Bryan Forbes (although mainly small parts had a real soft spot for him - better known for screenplays and directing though), Peter Finch (Aussie but I'll include him anyway - he was gorgeous). Actually saw him walking up the Strand - even better in the flesh) and Sean Connery was around then. I did go to a football match once. It was between Showbiz 11 and a team of Boxers and Jockeys. Sean was playing and he really stood out from the crowd. Bad experience afterwards though. Terrible crush leaving the ground and I nearly got dragged under. Very frightening experience - especially as I was preggers at the time.

Have a good day everyone.

J
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I blame Anne

First, she intrigues me about the Volks Railway


Then I get to thinking about Stewart Granger ...... I've spent literally hours googling actors names from the 50s and 60s ............... one would lead to another, and then to another



fascinating to read about some of them!!



but I haven't done much on here today!!



s
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Hi Everyone

It sound like you all had an eventfull weekend.

Anne I do hope you are better today,I do take a lot more care with myself these days re;falling over ,it takes a lot longer to get over things like that as we get older.
As Frank said take life nice and easy.

Josie good luck with your new job,you will be great at it,and yes hotel prices are stupid,the average man in the street cannot afford those kind of prices.

We live in a holiday town that swells three fould in Summer and you can just see the prices going up as any of the holidays gets closer.

I think caravan parks are the only ones that stay within the reach of the ordinary family,they get full to overflow.

We went away this weekend to see the brother and his wife,we have not been to see them for a few weeks ,thought we would wait until the Sister In Law was feling a bit more like visitors.
She is doing OK ,waiting for her hair to grow back.

I can just see a faint cloud of dark over her head so maybe that is the start,she is still very tired and a little worried about the future but we just keep up the good thoughts that she will be ok.
She does look a lot better to me ,she has her colour back so that is always a good sign.

I have so much housework it will take me all week to catch up,the Mother In Law want to go to the big smoke on Wednesday,more Roses for her garden.
She is 90yrs this birthday ,I wish she would slow down she makes me tired.

Better get into it I suppose.
Love to everyone
Special love to Reece and family.
Suex

Edite
Frank nice to have your humour back,good start to the day.

Hello everyone. Lovely to hear from Reece - sound like you're being very inventive with your culinary experiments and I'm sure your dear OH is enjoying them greatly.



Sounds like an ideal day out Anne and just what you need at the moment.


Jeannie, you've had a day like me....busy, busy, busy. So glad to sit down and put my feet up. I've had my granddaughter since yesterday and she's a dream to have around but we kept busy. Just taken her home so that she gets a reasonably early night ready for school tomorrow.


It's chilly and damp at the moment and the sky is looking very grey in patches - we could do with some more rain to be honest.


Must go and get some messaging done. Love to all, Cx.

Hi all

that sounds a lovely day out Anne


I'd never heard of the Volks Railway ...... but I've been googling!


off to mooch around

EDIT ... spent so much time looking at the railway that I missed both Reece and Jeanie!



s
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Hi everyone.

Had a very busy day. Not doing much of what I intended to do - which was finish taking contents out of kitchen cupboards, washing them, cleaning shelves and then replacing contents. Did some of that then walked dogs and fed them and me. Noticed rain forecast for tonight - so thought I'd better cut grass. Did that, back and front, noticed pigeons had splattered front windows, cleaned them, made evening meal and I'm shattered. Wish I could have had a day like yours Tabitha (even with a sore end). You should have taken a cushion with you. Glad to hear you're not feeling so bad today.

I too liked Stewart Granger - lovely voice - always a plus with me. Such a shame what happened to him. Did you know he had to have a lung removed. Idiot surgeon removed the good one and left the bad. No hope for him after that. He was incredibly philosophical about it. Have to disagree with you on one thing. Handsome actors - have you not seen Johnny Depp to name just one?

Well, I'm going to do a bit more of what I did last night. Sit in my bedroom and watch one of my favourite men ....... courtesy of BBCi player only in case you are wondering. May even go and watch Who Do You Think You Are - Sarah Jessica Parker later. So a real lazy night. Will probably pop on later to do some more nudging. Thank you received on two of the threads.

Have a good evening everyone.

Jeanie
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Later edit: Don't know how good the SJP WDYTYA programme was. Fell asleep!

Hello Friends,

I want to send Frank a very big hug indeed -my sons will be 49 and 46 this year and I must say that I would have killed anyone who did anything to them similar to Frank's experience. You are a very brave man, Frank and I send my warmest love to you.

Now Anne, forget the pegs in future! Leave them there - they'll wait for you. I do hope you are feeling less sore now. Its all so easy isn't it?

Dear OH has finished the 10 days of twice daily injections today and has a break of about three weeks until the next 10 days treatment starts. I have been trying to find different recipes to cook for him, searching through all my many cookery books, saved recipes from Oz, Nigel Slater and all! He finds that he can't bear anything sweet so having lots of lemon and lime juice on food and am just waiting for a lemon sorbet to freeze. I even managed to find 'liquid glucose' (for this recipe) - guess where after trying all sorts of places - at the local Chemist!

Enjoy the Cairngorms, Robert and I hope the weather is lovely for you.

Sue, a lot of people don't realise just how cold it can get in Oz in the winter months - we had fantastic frosts when I was a child in northern NSW and my brothers and I used to fight over who broke the ice in the mornings on the horses' drinking trough!

I've promised to go downstairs and sit with OH to watch three recordings he made this week - Halcyon River, Wallander and a new one on Fishing presented by Bernard Cribbens but made by a friend of our older son. I think it was on at 7.00am this morning! The computer is upstairs!

Sending love and all good wishes to everyone - thank you all once again for your kind thoughts.

Rxx

Afternoon all - thank you all for your kind words and the comments Frank - made me giggle - a lot less battered & bruised today thank you.

Rear end hurts a bit but its the arm that is really stiff & sore.

Our bus service is 75 years old today so they were doing a special day on the sea front. So we decided to take a little walk down there - its about 15-20 mins normal pace - but we walked through the park - I use to spend hours here as I use to go to school at the end of it.

Had a few memory lane moments. There must have been about 50 buses all shapes & sizes and ages as well as a few old coaches - OH was snapping about with the camera. Then we went for a ride on the Volks Railway - its one of the oldest electric railways and travels along the seafront. you should be able to google it.

It has been a lovely sunny day - only problem is it has very hard wooden bench seats - not so good on my rear today - but we had a lovely time - then we walked back to the aquarium and took a vintage bus ride. They were running the old open top busses from the pier to Rottingdean for free. Never say I tunr down a free ride.

It was lovely on top of the buss you see so much you miss in the car. We ended up in Rottingdean a nice village and still has very narrow roads. We took a turn around the village and by the pond & little country church. Its still very quaint - you may be able to google it. Then we took the vintage bus back and had lunch out in the sunshine - again very hard seats. We went for a walk on the pier and then took a normal bus home.

Oh is doing a good impression of Evelyn's Ron - eyes closed watching the telly - feet up - the chair is making funny snooring noises.

I have Scaramouche on the TV & in my element This is the film I saw years ago and fell in love with Steward Granger - I still love it & I am still in love with Stewart Granger. they don't make films like that anymore & I sware they don't have hansome actors either these days.

I know he was no angel but he had something you cannot get these days - pure charm - actors these days just don't have it.

Well I am off to finish swooning at the screen.

Loved the demolition Sylvia.

How can you fall out of your back door Cynthia?

Take care all

You sound cold Josie....stay warm and snuggle down again.


Just a flying visit - off out again in a tick and need to get changed - no, not on my broomstick today Frank.


Hope Anne has managed to stay upright today and isn't too bruised. That was a nasty fall alright.


Hope that firm get it in the neck Sylvia....sounds like they deserve to be prosecuted.

Back later. Must fly. Cx

Hi

Frank

we have rules and regulations here .... and neither of the walls should have fallen outwards on to the street.


A couple of people were extremely lucky!

There's going to be a city investigation ... seems the demolition firm might not have had some necessary eprmits


There's going ot be a WorkSafeBC investifation .... our version of your 'elf'nsafety

there'll possibly be a police investigation


and about 6 other investigations as well!


probably also including who hired these cowboys!


I think it is absolutely amazing to see it happen on that video, and to know that no-one was even scratched!




Josie

I did try to get on fmp ..... it was hopeless!!!



Those ticket prices, hotel prices etc etc .......... are all exactly what we had for the Winter Olympics in February.

Homeowners tried to get in on the anticipated "bonanza" by lsitign their homes for rent for 2 or 3 weeks ................ at obscene prices!

Most were not rented!






s
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Just a quick visit,
Cold wet and raining here.
Had entertained the idea of getting up at 6.15am here to use FMP but decided to stay snuggled in my blankets.
Glad I did after reading the comments posted, it would appear every genealogist in the world decided to access the site at the same time
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Poor Anne I fully sympathize, having done that same stupid thing in the past, myself. Hope you are not too sore for too long.

Once again poor Anne you are probably counting tickets in your sleep or should I say your nightmares!
I am sorry to say it will be no better next year when NZ hosts the World Cup Rugby. Over here very few NZ'rs will be going to the matches, forced to watch it on TV as the Ticket prices for the main games are selling in access of NZ$1,000 each
and the prices for hotel accommodation is mind boggling, Hotel rooms that are normally $150.-$200 per night are being sold for $750-$900 which gives you an indication as to what more expensive rooms will cost.
Everyone is hoping to cash in on the tourist bonanza that will happen through out NZ as the games are being played throughout all the major centers.
I have heard that hotels in OZ are booking up fast for during this time as a lot of people have figured it will be cheaper to stay there and fly over to the matches on special charted flights.

Catch you all later Josie

Wow Sylvia,

They would never have done that in UK without closing the street first.

Don't they have elf 'n safety in Vancouver........ouch!

Anne, you could have put in a claim if you had been walking by with your clothes pegs!