General Chat

Good morning/evening all.

Yes Linda - once you are well there is a lot to do. I'm dreading the time coming when we will need to do that. It's amazing but since we started on this "journey" with you I have been making an effort to spend more time with mum. She's hardly neglected but I'm conscious of how little time we may have although she's a healthy 75. As you mentioned on Hayley's thread they are precious.

Carole the poems you are putting up are lovely. I've had a look at the site you mentioned and it's got a few good ones.

I've been trying to decypher a couple of wills that I downloaded from the National Archives site. One of the bequests left was to a son for caring for his father through his life - "books and suits of clothing". I mentioned it to my son and he said he wouldn't thank his dad for that:-)) OH told him that he's hoping that's all that will be left. As we are about to buy a new car and book for a holiday OH may well be right:-))

Sue xx

Hi Linda
Don't worry about how it sound's bad, I understand how it is and the thing's that have to be done, watched the lady I work for haveing to do the same thing when her husband died, this probate thing is a pain in the neck. Her husband died in february and she is still waiting for probate to go through. Anyway how you feeling with your chest infection better I hope, you take care

Diane x

Hi, Berona - you posted while I was typing. I too get sidetracked when researching. While Linda was helping to knock down my brick wall with OH's maternal line I received a hot match which ultimately took me back two generations. I was jumping backwards and forwards. Even more so when I used Linda's way of thinking and applied it to another mystery and that also worked out. In the end I just noted all the info. and put it to one side until I send for the certificates to prove a couple of points.

Sue xx

Ooh are you going somewhere nice on holiday Sue?

A holiday sounds good, although it is only a few weeks since we went, but it seems like an eternity ago.

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Hello Berona as well,sorry I didn't spot you either

Hi Berona and SueMaid
you came on while I was posting, isn't it funny how something like what Linda has gone through start's you thinking about all the junk and other thing's you have collected over the yrs all have to be sorted out as you don't want to leave load's for your family to sort out when your gone.

Diane

Good Morning/Evening Everyone,

Hi Linda,
I am pleased that yesterday went ok, well, you know what I mean. I expect you have lots of sorting out to do now - but maybe now the pressure is off, and you can take your time with some things. I hope so.
Is that nasty chest infection responding to antibiotics?
When I was little I always seemed to have a bad chest. My mother used to cut a square of lint and spread this evil smelling ointment called Vick on it, and make me wear it against my chest underneath my vest.
I am not recomending you do that Linda, you will have no friends.

Diane, I see you are still at large, so hopefully haven't been charged with assault and battery. I never implied you were a witch!!!

Carole, Loved the genealogy poems - very good, I will copy them if I may.

Colin, You have had a busy week, long time since my social calendar was that full. Sounds good to me, I was just about to call for your help on here, when Allen turned up unexpectedly and saved my bacon, but the girls were very gentle with me, though I did my best not to provoke them.
(Stirring a hornets nest, and all that)

Alison, You said you are the sanest one on the thread - are you sure?

Tec.

My mother was a great believer in Vic Tec, in fact I threw a tub of the evil stuff away the other day. She had enough stuff to start her own chemists shop. The prescription medicines I took back to the chemist, but there was still a mound of non prescription stuff to bin

Hello, Tec:-)) It makes my morning when I see your first post on here.

Vicks was a huge thing in my childhood too. Was there a household that didn't have it in the bathroom cupboard?

When my MIL passed away I helped my FIL clear out a lot of stuff. In the back of the wardrobe was a huge box full of toilet paper, tea, sugar and soap. I was young and insensitive so I made a joke about stocking up. He told me that it was a left-over from the war when things were in short supply - a habit she had never got out of.

Sue xx

Good Morning Sue, and Berona,

Berona, If you get to the fruit market, will you get me some cox's orange pippins, conference pears, and some nice fresh salad please. The produce locally is rubbish - Thanks, I'll collect it later.

Sue, A holiday, how exciting, somewhere nice I hope. You have so many great places to choose from in your part of the world.

Tec

Tec hun
I know you didn't imply I was a witch it was Allan, and yes I'm still here, neighbour wasn't in last night, must have stayed somewhere else, but he's in now I can hear him banging around

Diane

Allan, How could you imply Diane was a witch? Hopethe neighbour is not too noisy tonight Diane.

Another obnoxious substance I remember was something called,
Parrish's Iron Food. I had that poured down my throat daily at one time - absolutely disgusting - apparently growing boys needed it?

Tec

can't you bang on the ceiling with a broom Diane? They always do that on TV. I can only see it putting a hole in your plaster though.

Being a girl, obviuosly I didn't have to suffer that Tec, but I do remember cod liver oil.

I don't remember my Mum ever NOT having the Vicks in the bathoom cabinet - much to my chagrin! I seemed to wear it to bed more often than not when I was a child...I never made my children put up with it - but of course, we had antibiotics by then - not when I was young.

Well, it looks like a lovely day out of the window - but the radio is broadcasting a 'severe weather warning' of wind. So far, nothing here, but I'll wait and see what happens before I go for my drive.

I have already had one clearing out. I lived in my previous home for more than 40 years and my sons made many trips to the Salvo's depot and also to the tip when I was packing to leave. Moving from a 5-bed house with out-buildings to a 2-bed villa created quite a lot of items and furniture to be donated or dumped! I try to throw out something whenever I get something new, so I hope that when my family have to do any clearing out, it won't be as bad as it would have been, had I not moved three years ago! However, I intend to be here for a long time yet, so who knows what I might amass in that time?

We used to have something pink every sunday on a large spoon, sister said it was codliver oil but I disagree it was definately pink not seethrough yellow

Diane

I am not a hoarder Berona and have moved house several times,so like you have had several major sort outs. I am a firm believer in that if you haven't used something in the last year,then you don't need to keep it, sentimental items excluded of course

Cod liver oil would not be pink Diane, I can't think what that would be, some sort of tonic I assume. I also remember the strange bottles of orange juice we used to be given at the health clinics

Blancmange..........Ugh

My grandmother was a great believer in Castor Oil for constipation. She passed her belief onto my Mum, but Mum used Olive Oil - once a week, to keep me regular - although I don't remember having any problems! I think it was given to me as a preventative medicine - and I hated it! Can't even stand the smell of cooking oil to this day!

Good evening/morning everyone,

Linda, Nice to see you back on the thread and that everything went relatively well for you on Tuesday and take care of that chest infection. Rest is what is now required

Diane, I didn't mean to imply that you were a witch (but even Linda knows about the broom!), but if you were you would be a white witch not a horrible one with warts on her nose.

Tec, I remember Vicks from my boyhood days. We also found another use for it many years later, but I'm not going down THAT path.

Good morning to Sue, Posh and Colin.

On an earlier post I suggested that Berona was akin to a majestic hawk waiting to pounce on injudicious comments. Well yesterday I posted a reply in my usual jocular way on another thread that mentioned upside down Christmas trees.....the very next post was from Berona, gently chastising me!!

Allan