General Chat

No Sue, the transcribing isn't hard work. Anyone who can type can do it. I have been doing the index pages for marriages from 1934 to now on the fourth quarter of 1937.

What I find amusing is that every job I ever had since leaving school has involved a typewriter - even when I had sixteen years at home rearing a family - I did voluntary secretarial work and my husband's reports, so I didn't lose my speed - but I had never done data entry before and this year, since starting on the transcribing, I had to learn to use the top row of the keyboard (numbers) and couldn't do it without looking - but now! I can not only touch-type the top row - I'm typing faster than ever before!

I can't write very well because I have osteo-arthritis in my wrist, but the wrist stays still while the finger tips fly! Who would have thought I would be typing faster than ever at my age!! I only do one page at a time (150 records), then have a rest, and repeat again later. I get through 4 to 8 pages a day on average and I enjoy it. I even time myself to see if I can go faster! - Well, it keeps me out of mischief!

Good evening to all Aussies and welcome James and Liz.

As you know I don't usually post at this time but there is naff all on the TV. I've read the Sunday paper and done a couple of crosswords so I thought that I would pop on here just to annoy people and put a stop to any sensible 'conversation'

I'm a past master at that :0))

Allan

Allan, know what you mean about TV. Tonight I watched Einstein Factor (finishing soon) and teh ABC News. I don't know about where you are, but with the end of the fotball season and before the beginning of the cricket season, the news was full off puff pieces more suited to 60 minutes or foreign correspondent. Oh, a multiple scenes of the demolition derby at Bathurst. Don't those blokes know how to drive to the conditions? OK, it was wet on the race track- so slow down. At least you will finish.
Welcome to James-Liz.
I am one of the sane ones (not really). I had a certificate that said I was sane when they ley me out of the asylum but I think it has expired.
It has taken me the best part of an hour to read five pages of posts since I last looked in on Friday night our time. Bit late now for me to be on but I wanted to say hello. I am sure I will regret it in the morning. New train timetable. I get a train 2 minutes later (good), 8 cars, not 6 (good), comes only from Epping so hopefully less crowded.
Carole, one of my younger cousin was horse mad from about age 14, still is at 51. Well may they say that Poverty is owning a horse. On the other hand she and her husband now operate a show horse stud on the NSW mid north coast. Hard work, but they enjoy it. She still works full time as a schoolteacher though.
Hello Allan if you are still around, hello Brits. Have a good evening tonight. Colin.

Welcome Liz/James

I am having a lazy day. I was out for the count last night and only woke up at 9.30am because OH was shaking me. He always brings me breakfast in bed on Sunday morning (as all good husbands should) and he was so hungry, he couldn't wait for me to wake up. I pointed out that he could have had his own breakfast and made mine when I woke up, but making two lots obviously had not occurred to him.

Good whatever it is where you are everyone,
Welcome to the funny farm James/Liz

Psst Allan,
Just a quiet word, so I'll whisper,
Does your OH get breakfast in bed on Sunday mornings, or any other morning?
Do you think that Linda is trying to stir up trouble on here for us?

Hi Colin, I wondered where you had got to. The Bathurst Races sound fun. I am a Formula One fan, and follow every race.Your Mark Webber is a brilliant driver, I have a lot of respect for him, but he seems dogged by bad luck at times. Incidentally, they didn't give me a Certificate of Sanity when I left the Asylum, but my case comes up for review soon, so if I disappear you may draw your own conclusions. Personally I believe we are safer in there, than out here in the big bad world.


Berona,.. I find that if the purple Submit button disappears, if I sign in again in the boxes above the Reply box, the Submit button re-appears, aggravating, but it works.

Sue,......I have four siblings, none are interested in family history. I did once give a copy of my tree to one of my brothers. He was about as interested as if I'd given him a copy of yesterdays newspaper. I do have a nephew who is interested, so long as I do the research, and meet the expense. It would be so good to have a relative who is interested, and prepared to do some research, though I do fairly well on my own. I also research my OHs ancestry, that is interesting. She has Irish ancestry far back in the dim and distant past - pre 1775, but I have a brick wall then.

Carole.........Have you found a suitable horse yet? Your daughter, and my grand daughter have very similar interests. Grandaughter is horse mad, and has been studying piano since she was five, now fifteen. She has passed all her grades in piano to date, and plays beautifully. She leases a horse at the stables, and rides every spare minute. There is one horse there that everyone is afraid of. He is Arab, beautiful, 16hh, but very difficult and unpredictable to ride. However, she is not afraid of him, and although won't use him in competition, she rides him regularly too, to exercise him. He has thrown her many times, but she has more control of him than anyone else. Grandaughter is just a mere slip of a girl, very slight in build, and whenever I've watched her ride I have to look away at the big jumps until she's safely over. She also competes in dressage.

Tec.

Tec, you surely can't be serious?

You don't take the Duchess breakfast in bed? I shall have to be having words.

I have had a nice lazy day and have actually managed to write the letters which were on my "to do list". I only have three major outstanding jobs for this week, but they all involve making visits to various places, so will have to wait until Tuesday.

I am a very "listy" person, I hate being disorganised.

Linda......
I most definately surely can be serious.
This is not Claridges, Savoy Hilton, or the Park Lane Hotel.
Breakfast in bed in not in my remit,
Room Service not included.
Love, Honour, and Obey.........( Obey? - Yeah right)
I don't remember anything about Room Service.

I am too busy.......
Painting/Decorating Inside and Out
Laying carpets
Plumbing,
Re-furbishing bathrooms
Re-furbishing Kitchen
Window cleaning
Gardening
Cooking
Cleaning
Stripping beds
Making beds
Washing
Drying
Ironing
Shopping..........20 mile round trip
Walking the dog
And many many other things

Breakfast in bed? I should Coco

However, when the staff get here, I will be saved because the Maid with hairy legs willcarry out most of the above duties,

Tec

if you are going for the sympathy vote Tec, I am afraid that it is falling on deaf ears

Sympathy is neither sought or appropriate,
and regardless of your hearing affliction, for which I am truly sorry,

There will still be no Room Service

Tec.........Well known ogre of this Parish

Oooh, Linda and Tec are "having words". Keep it nice:-)) Can't stay long as I have to take my son's car in to be services. He usually has Mondays off work but they changed the roster and today of all times he's working. As the service centre is just down the road I don't mind but I'm a bit nervous driving his super duper car.

Hopefully you will all still be around when I get back.

Sue xx

Good evening/morning to everyone.

Go on, Linda - give it to him! Don't take any nonsense from him!

Tec, I tried your method, and it worked! Whilst reading to get up to date, I noticed that the Submit button had disappeared again, so it signed in and voila!! This only started happening to me last night. Is it a new thing from GR to stop us from not signing out? The only times I have had to sign in has been after GR has had a 'glitch'. I still haven't signed out - just signed in while I was actually reading the posts on this thread - although it made me find the thread again. I can usually go straight into GR or FR and flit from one to the other at will. Maybe the powers that be don't like it!

Tec - whilst I thank you for your computer advice - it doesn't mean you are forgiven for not taking breakfast to the duchess in bed!

Editted - Take no notice of that list he gave us, folks. It's probably made up from all the works he has done over the past twenty years!

I bet that he is only posturing Berona and that he really takes the Duchess breakfast in bed every morning

You're probably right. He really is a softie at heart and no doubt, shy, too!

Where are the others? Sue and Allan should be here by now! Of course, Allen is probably still out talking to wheelie bins.

Sue did post, she has gone out,
I am busy working on Sues census results, but will keep posting while I do it

You're right. I didn't see Sue's post. She must have sneaked in while I was typing. I hope she didn't watch the Bathurst races yesterday or she might get the urge to head for Bathurst in her son's car!

Good Morning Sue, and Berona,

Sue, Mind how you go in the super car - easy on the gas.
Don't worry, Linda and I are not "having words" just a difference of opinion,
Linda seems to think I'm some sort of MCP - THAT'S A LAUGH.

Berona, The problem with the Submit button has been happening to me for some time now. Although, like you, I always come to this thread through "Favourites" Sometimes when I have to sign in GR tells me they don't recognise my e-mail address, but accept it on the second attempt.

Don't tell Linda this, but the Duchess wouldn't thank me for breakfast in bed. Even when unwell, she prefers to come down to breakfast.

Tec

i think she would be more careful as it sounds expensive

My OH is like that as well Tec, he hates eating in bed.

As OH worked abroad such a lot, I was left to look after the children as well as work. So when he was at home he used to bring me breakfast in bed on a Sunday morning and I would read the Sunday Times in peace while he entertained the children. It gave me a little oasis of peace and although the children are grown and long gone, the ritual has survived