Genealogy Chat

Thank you Josie - much appreciated

Hope its not too bad for you at the dentist - come back to us we can take away the pain

Sylvia - thank you for the sympathy - it still hurts just thinking about him - its like losing part of your family - must not start this again - especially at work - they will think i have gone mad crying over my keyboard.

Glad the heating is working

Take care all - will pop back later if I can

Hi everyone


Anne ......... don't forget Kaikoura, 180 km north of Christchurch. Fabulous for whale and dolphin watching, and bird watching.

Also the wine areas ................... Hwkes Bay, Marlborough, Nelson etc

Hawkes Bay area also has one of the most perfectly preserved Art Deco towns, Napier which was almost completely destroyed in an earthwuake and rebuilt in 1931. Some fabulous buildings ..... and the wine is good!





We did get the threatened snow overnight!


It started to snow about 8:30 pm, and it was falling fast and furious when I last looked out just after midnight

However, it had turned to rain when I next looked out at about 5:30 am

I guesstimate that we got somewhere close to 10 cm, based on what is left on the grass.


OH was out shovelling our sidewalks (corner house, so he's got to do 33' x 120') by 7:30 am, then did the neighbour's across the street ..... Joe's in his late 80s. By the time he had finished, at least 3 other neighbours had been out and shovelled their 30' frontages!

The rain stopped by about 9 am, sun came out for a spell around 11 am


still lots of snow on the ground, but temp is about 6C, so it should be melting!

All in all ..... the side roads are a mushy mess!

And many of the sidewalks are the same ................ although there is a new by-law in effect that says ALL sidewalks have to be cleared of snow by 10 am, even in residential areas. It looks as though a lot of people haven't bothered!



On the good side .................. I can see one of the major roads into Vancouver from my kitchen window, and it was completely clear of snow by 5:30 am ............ ploughs were out as soon as snow started at about 8:30 pm



OH has been messing about at home this morning . He decided not to drive out to the university, he has to be out there from 4 -10pm for opera rehearsal, so he decided to stay home.

So far he has fixed a wonky door knob on our bedroom door, put some hooks on insides of new kitchen cupboards to hang some items like the nutmeg grater, vacuumed 2 rooms, found some way out-of-date cans and jars (soup and pasta sauce) and ditched the contents. He's having a ball!!


and I am keeping out the way!



sylvia
xxx

Keep your snow please Sylvia....we certainly don't want it.


Our son's cat was put down on Monday because of a large tumour. It was 14 years old and had done very well. My son was shocked by the cost!


I have been multi tasking all day so am a bit frazzled.


Going to chill out by a quick browse around I think.

Love to all. Cx

hi all
happy new year
your thread is allways great to read and friendly
dorothy teresa

Thank you, Dorothy Teresa


and a Happy New Year to you



sylvia

Hi Everyone

I to have been missing cynthia ,can't take my eyes off of the TV at the moment .

It is really heartbreaking for all conserned.

The water levels are still to high for the people to go back in and clean up if they can in some cases.
It is going to take months ,years even for some.

When the water level drops they will start to find the dead who have just been washed away especially those in Toowomba where the wall of water came in .
The whole of OZ in is collection mode to help out .

On the other side us ,we are sweltering,I would love some rain but not what they had.

Washing today ,I won't be ironing though...to hot for that today.

Anne sorry to hear about your friends Cat,not a fan of cats myself but I appreciate your lose.

Back to the Washing and the TV.
Suex

Thank you Sue - not sure who is more upset

Its funny how much I miss him around now

Sorry to hear about your sons cat, this one was 12 & he had heart problems - so better he went while he was pain free.

Its hell when we lose these animals

Will let you know if my clients pick the NZ holiday ideas.

Oh by the way - I didn't get the job - the one who did the best presentation did

Its so annoying - wish it went on what you have done rather than how you behave for 10 mins at some point in a day

Never mind - at least it wasn't more money - just more work

Anyway off for now

Take care all

Sorry you didn't get the job Anne but you don't sound too worried by it all. Nice postitive attitude!


Sue, the floods are unbearable to watch and it's happening in several place now isn't it?


The problem I had with my ignition on my cooker has finally been fixed. The thing is, when I gave the chap the cheque, I inadvertently tore out TWO cheques without realising. My OH was looking and saw the blank cheque stub.....arghhhhh I had given the man a blank cheque! I was not flavour of the month as you may imagine. I immediately phoned and he had found it and is dropping it off this morning. whew.


Very mild here today thank goodness and I am looking forward to the time when I can hang the washing out again without having to use the drier.


Now, where's that Frank of ours? I want to know is it simple and safe to download a new browser on my desktop? I am on a certain site where one can chat but, apparently, my desktop browser is too out of date to do that. Will I lose anything or what?

Hope he is well enough to answer as I haven't seen him around.......


~~~~~~~~~~~ haven't forgotten our venerable Robert. Good morning Robert and I hope all is well with you.


Now to face the day..........Love to all Cx

Thanks Cynthia,

All is well with the Old Man.
Living the quiet life as all old folks must do.

Robert I don't believe you - you have been out boogieing the night away - Gateshead or Newcastle this weekend or are you going north of the border?

I bet you are a wizz on Facebook (I never go on that site)

Cynthia good job you got the cheque back

Actually had time for 30 min lunch today - makes a change

Very quite on here today & for the last few days -

Do I take it Frank & Evelyn have been off somewhere together!!!!!!

Going to the outlaws tomorrow - so will be missing

Take care all

Tabitha, Whitley Bay rather than Newcastle!!

Facebook, what is that?

Hello again, I'm back.................

My dear wife has been off work all week with that chesty horrible thingy (Cynthia speak) which affected me for the last couple of weeks except that she suffers from asthma so it does to hit her hard.
Result is she has been living on the computer with Facebook .....Don't worry Robert, it's just another way for a bunch of women to blether away for hours, not for real people like you and I :)

I didn't like to upset her with her being so poorly so I just left her with the computer all week and tonight she feels a bit better....... funny that, it's Friday !!


Absolutely shocked by all the flooding around the world, Australia, Brazil, Sri Lanka, apparently all affected by the same oceanic currents.... La Niña.

Did you see the woman in Brazil being pulled to safety with a rope but risking her own life by clinging on to her little dog.... she dropped it as she was pulled up.

Anne, sorry about the promotion but take heart from the fact that you won't get any ulcers worrying about work.

Now then Cynthia, what are you running at present.
Windows XP..... Internet Explorer 6 or 7.

What are you being asked to use as Inernet Explorer 8 is available from the following site.

http://www.microsoft.com/uk/windows/internet-explorer/worldwide-sites.aspx

When you download it IE 8 will automatically take over from your present one or will ask if you want it to do so.
If you don't like it, just go into programs and uninstall IE 8 which will leave the original program still there.

Other browsers are available with the same advice as above although you may have to tell them to run instead of IE6/7.
Don't uninstall your original IE6/7 as they are used for a lot of Windows programs..................

Firefox...... http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/

Google Chrome...... http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en-GB/landing_tv.html

Safari.............. http://www.apple.com/safari/download/

Come back on if you are stuck and send any blank cheques to my PO Box ;))

Hi all


Frank ....... welcome back, hope you are feeling much better.


Frank and Cynthia ................. I loaded Mozilla Firefox to use on sites that won't accept IE6 ..... which I still like and will continue to use as long as I can, even on GR!


It was very easy to load, and relatively simple to use.


I keep hearing of problems with IE7 and IE8, and of people getting rid of them.



It's raining here ............ had 40 mm in 24 hours ending this morning. Result ............. land slips and mud slides on the major highways east.


basically, for a time this morning, Vancouver was cut off from road access to eastern Canada!


Now (just after 12:30 pm), the sun is shining .......... but the rain is due back tonight and over the weekend.




Anne ..... sorry that you did not get the job, but it sounds as though it will be more pleasant NOT to be doing it!

Nudge

Hi Yah Gang

Just to let you all know that everything is ok at my end for the moment in regards to our rising river levels.
Much of this has been let out to sea so it can flush out all the salt etc; bird life etc; has increased dramatically, seeing some that have not been around for years, fish are in abundance for those that like river fishing, but the main concern will be the ferry crossings as they may have to be all shut down until it drops, but we will see.

As you have seen on your TV's that there has been quite a bit of disaster flooding in QLD, NSW, VIC and Tassy. Some towns have never ever seen a wall of water 12 mtrs high, so it pretty bad in places across those states.

Most of the Qld and NSW flood water is headed our way via all the rivers that feed into the Darling river then that all flows into our Mighty Murray.

Everyone down this end will need to start taking drastic precautions NOW if not they will not be prepared for a what we call a 56 flood.
Personally I am predicting much higher than that as I still have family that are very old paddle wheeler masters and they have also said that.
The aboriginals are also stating that it will be a big "pickninny" flood.

Where I live is on higher ground but will see a mass of water out on the river flats that will cut off the road that takes us to the ferry to cross the river.
It will just make things a little harder to get to but we do have roads up higher so we will not be cut off like a lot of people that live on the rivers edge and man made river-mariners .

Being communities like we are we will all band together and won't let it beat us.

We have decided to hold a dance at the local hall for all the flood victims on the eastern sea board and proceeds of that will goto the flood relief committee.

Regards

Wayno

Hi everyone


Wayne ....... lovely to see you, and to get an update on your situation


I had forgotten that the water in QLD and NSW all eventually drain into the Murray.

I remember seeing boards on a tree by the river in Echuca, marking the height reached in various floods. The 1870 flood level was way way up ... ??? 15' or 20' ?????


we're having heavy rain here, but nothing like what you are having!




s
xx

Thankx Sylvia

Boy your memory is good !!

Yes the Echuca level is well up at moment just hitting 92mtrs which is getting close to just walking off the wharf onto a boat.

Wayno

Hi Everyone,
The Floods in Queensland are certainly devastating, about 160,000 Kiwis live in Queensland. Hence a lot of assistance from NZ.

My Son's friend came over from Brisbane at New Year to stay and we were worried when the Flooding was affecting Brisbane City itself. But he rang home and his Mother and Sister where perfectly all right.

Though I found it disconcerting to hear of areas under water where I had walked when I visited Brisbane a couple of years ago.

It's certainly not a good outlook for your part of the Country either Wayno.

One ironic thing from the Flood through Brisbane's business district was, that The Office for the New Zealand Earthquake and Disasters Commission had to be evacuated, because of the rising waters.

It was strategically sighted in Queensland in case an Earthquake in NZ destroyed it.. Currently the office is still dealing with all the Claims from The Christchurch Earthquake.

Feeling Good today pain and swelling from the Teeth extractions on Thursday has gone but still have a very tender lower gum and can only eat soft foods carefully.
My Mouth was a real mess, missing teeth, chipped and broken teeth and lots of infection.
When I was a child I was given an Antibiotic [not used anymore] that stripped the enamel from my teeth, I finished up having loads of fillings and since having children my teeth have started crumbling apart, I have already had 6 teeth out. I no longer have any lower molars and now 4 front top teeth are disintegrating.

Dental care here in New Zealand is very expensive. Coupled with a terrible fear of the Dentist has sean my mouth get into a bad way.

Just before Christmas, A Special Someone took me by the hand literally to a Dental Surgeon who gave me a full assessment of my teeth, something that I had never had done by my Dentist.

End of Feb I am having the fillings removed from 5 teeth and new composite ones put in. Then the third stage will be in October when I will have 6 more teeth extracted including my 4 Front teeth and dentures put in top and bottom, so for Christmas I am going to have 4 new front teeth, plus a mouth full of good looking teeth.
The best thing is that I had Buck Teeth and I now have the option to have my Teeth anyway I like I even get to choose the colour of my teeth.

The dental surgeon is amazing very loverly and reassuring and she uses the latest Lazer technology and best of all she uses sedatives.

Of Course it does not come cheap all up it is costing NZ $8,000.
Hence the need to do it in 3 stages.

But it is well worth it, knowing I won't be toothless in my old age and my general health is going to improve massively. I am going to be able to finnaly say goodbye to continual Sinus infections, that have been a result of the state of my mouth.

Take care everyone, Catch you all later Josie

Hi Everyone

Wayno !! nice to hear from you again,I am so pleased to hear the Murry is all back to its best .
Just goes to show what a ggod lot of rain can do and with good management it should now have anew lease on life.

I am very impressed with Queensland and NSW with there people and all the help that others are giving it is wonderfull to see.
My surprise is the young ones ,instead of drinking themselves into a stuper and fighting everyone that looks at them they are out helping.
Very good to see.

Josie you sound like you have been through the wars ,I too hate the dentist but I did find one about 10 years ago that was very different than the rest and now I don't mind going to see him at all.
I hope you get well soon.

We went up to Perth on this weekend to see Dad,he is fine and can now see well,he has recovered from his stroke and back to normal and my Aunt in the UK is well on the mend so I can stop worrying.

We are watching the cricket at the moment and we are in front Yipeeeee.
I had better not speak to soon.
Catch you all later.

Wayno keep us up to date with your end and stay safe.

Suex

Edite
That was 1500 on this thread that is,congratualtions to us all.

Keep up the good work everyone - we may get to 2000 yet

Lovely to have you back Frank & a quick visit from Wyne - still no Evelyn

I spoke to someone in Cairn;s on Friday - they had a very nasty tropical storm - it sounded terrible.

Hope Whitley Bay was a hoot Robert

Josie it sounds awful - I had terrible trouble with my teeth when I was young & found a wonderful dentist - she is not cheap but she is good & I have great confidence in her - even had fillings done without a jab - I also once had a root canal without a jab - now that is impressive & I went back to work straight after. I know I am mad

We went to the outlaws yesterday - My OH's nephew (the one with more money than he knows what to do with - but won't attempt to offer us help) is moving again - this time to a mansion a couple of roads away from where he is now - this one is over the road from the golf course & has its own swimming pool (Heated) - 5 bedrooms, 6 bathrooms & 6 reception rooms (all for 2 adults & a very spoilt child) It also has a very large garden - the biggest in the area as well as electronic gates to enter the property.

Well I know 2 people who will not get an invite - nor are we that interested anyway - Its all show - not a proper home - something like the Celine Dion pictures that were in OK when she had her first son - it all looked so fake.

Well this won't get any family tree work done - will it

Take care all - pop in again later