General Chat

Tess, so pleased that you have heard from Bridget, it will be good to see her back on Genes. I am (fingers crossed nothing forgotten) all ready for Christmas. Will just need to get ourselves to Milton Keynes and hope it doesn't snow. We are going to our sons this year. Most of the presents (to the rest of the family) have been delivered now and it is just son's family's presents here now. I love Christmas but don't like the travelling we always eem to have to do. We always go to one or other of the family. still that means no cooking for me so i should be grateful. :-)

Hope all are well, sorry not been on here for a while. We went to the cinema this week to see Tom Hanks and Emma Thompson in Saving Mr Banks which was very good.

A lot of rain and some wind in my area, but no real problems close by.
managed to get to the local shop today - without getting wet. One of the advantages of living in an inner city area - everything on the doorstep.

Googled one of the surnames in my tree (Trillo) and found that it may have come from Trillo in Spain, near Guadalahara.

So will now be researching the area - even though there is no real proof about my ancestors origins!

Guadalahara has an interesting history - the old buildings tell (some of) the tale.

Well it seems that we have finally given up the ghost

Sad :-(

Well it was nice getting to know everybody

<3

Gerard

I am still around Gerard. I wonder where Bridget is, she temporarily moved out of her house to let it but I would have thought she'd moved back in by now. Maybe she now has no internet. Very strange and sad to lose contact. Tess is still around and also Jan (Greenfingers) Although Jan'sOH is not to well and they are waiting on hospital tests.
I hope you and OH are well Gerard. Keep posting here occasionally, you never know it may come back to life. :-D

Hi Everyone

Hope you are all well

Well it is a lovely April morning in London - with blue sky and the sun out - and the sound of two magpies (who have made a nest just outside my front window).

Looking forward to Saturday - my football team are in the Semi-finals of the FA Cup and are favourites too, fingers crossed for a win, although they haven't been playing well lately.

Easter nearly upon us - OH and I have 10 days off together so we are going to have a go at the garden (especially the cat memorial) it is a year now since we lost our three babies :-( and we need to have a more permanent reminder of our lovely cats.

How about everybody saying what they are doing for Easter? and get this thread moving again :-)

Love and prayers to all
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I'm still here, but not on the boards very often.

Will have a quiet Easter (I hope) as I'm not a church goer will not be celebrating Easter in a religious way.

However, as a Catholic when younger, used to love to go to church on Easter Sunday morning, to see all the (un-shrouded) statues and the abundance of flowers.

Always stunning.

I haven't been sending many emails either - have not been in contact with Bridget, not will try to find her details and email her in the next few days.

Have been thinking about her a lot - but just not got organised.

It was my sons 40th birthday on 10th April - I haven't been able to celebrate it with him yet as he has been with his family near Ludlow. Hope to see him and his two younger sons the Friday and Saturday after Easter.
Will be celebrating my younger brothers birthday on 25th, so hope to go out with son on 26th (I just haven't told him yet).

Still trying to do something in the garden, but the weather not been too good and I'm a little below par.

Might manage to do something at the week-end.
Will keep fingers crossed.


I owe Ann a couple of book reviews will try to pull my finger out tomorrow or Friday.


Hope everyone is okay.


Tess

P.S. I am still hoping that my football team will stay in the Prem.

Nudge because I think Bridget may be looking in. :-)

Not gone yet myself - still around - on Genes and Ancestry every day

Hope everyone is well

Gerard <3 :-)

I am Back!
Hope that some of you see this!
I decided to leave Anst...y and come back on here.
My tree else where is still there so people can still see it if they want to. However I do feel that there are some erros and got rather fed up with some people tell me different things for the same people......
I only arrived yesterday, a good Jurney to see you all

Hope that there are some replys :-)

Bridget

Gerard, good to see that you are still around and welcome back Bridget. Very frosty here this morning but sunny too so quite pretty. I still don't like it and hope it soon melts!! :-)

Hello everybody thank goodness 2014 nearly over, only bright spot was our neices wedding on the hottest day in July, the rest I won't dwell on !! OH got hospital appointment next week, then we hope for the all clear, and maybe get thinking about a proper holiday next year....insurance payments quoted at present astronomical.

Regards Jan

Still struggling along here in Menorca. It gets more like the Marie Celeste every week with people either going back to England permenently or at least until next spring,
We´ve had a bad year healthwise & have put all thoughts of moving to the mainland on the back burner. Had a real shock back in July when one of our closest friends committed suicide. Still miss him so much. Christmas won´t be the same without him.
On the plus side, the weather has been amazing up to now. We are still managing lunch outside most days. We´ll probably pay for it in the New Year.

Jan does that mean we might soon see you back on Greaders? :-D Hope he gets the all clear anyway. <3

Wisechild I am so sorry to hear about your friend, how sad and what a shock for you.

I just want to say I am so pleased to see that this three has continued. I am going to post tomorrow

Bridget

Well it has been a pretty good year for OH and myself. We have been well and enjoying life. She is writing a book (has about four chapters finished already) about her early experiences (mostly factual but some fiction and names changed). I am really pleased for her. She has a friend who has just had her first book published, and she has been most helpful and encouraging. Although I am retired I work a few hours in the evening, cleaning at an insurance company in the city, about three months ago the supervisor left and I was asked if I would like to take over. It is a lot of responsibility and I seem to be working a lot harder than before, but there is a lot of satisfaction. I don't know what I would do without my work!
My football team (Arsenal) are struggling a little bit this season, although Bridget's West Ham are doing particularly well.
Our cat Sox is still going strong, he is fifteen now, and gets more and more spoiled each day :-)
More news soon - hoping to see my brother from USA in December too.

Love and prayers for all
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Gerard

Maybe Ann Maybe...will let you know

Good morning to everyone,
The weather in Peniscola is chilly and the sky grey with all the trees swaying.
We went out last night to the English Bar and husband had 30 people turn up. Not bad for this time of year.
Our table came second and that was because 3 were very good and I helped a bit!!!

Foot Ball! West Ham still my team!

Bridget :-)

Gerard, good luck to your OH with her book, I hope she is enjoying writing it. Writing can be very cathartic. Pleased to hear that you have both kept well and that you are enjoying your evening job.

Jan, I hope you do rejoin us. Greaders has very few people in now but those few are all very keen to continue. The writing group is in a bit of a slump, only three of us writing and we are very sporadic. (or lazy).

Bridget, second is good. We usually join in with the Ex Pats quizes when in Tenerife but our team is usually nearer the bottom than the top. But it is, as you say, a lot of fun. :-D
It is very grey here at the moment, looks like it might brighten up later, quite mild though for November. :-)

This morning I posted 2 cards to Europe and three small parcels to UK and it cost me over £8. Glad I don't have any more parcels to post.

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!!!!
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