Today I've mostly bin...

[clvrlad]

no idea for mine the postie comes at midday...same time i start pity im incharge so i cant be late....

[LAT]

Post has been and gone so I'm guessing it will be Tuesday evening for me.

[MBH]

... stuck at home, so trying to puzzle.

During which - while researching {re_sir_ching - technical term for blundering around in the dark hoping for insipiration} I found the following style of phonetic alphabet - very useful for the more annoying 'Customer Serivce' operators you may end up talking to:

Roman Numerals (rn)

A-Are
B- bdellium
C- cue / 100 (rn)
D- Double-u / 500 (rn)
E- eye
F- Faze
G- gnome
H- heir
I- irrupt/ 1(rn)
J- Jalapeno
K- Knot
L- Llama/ 50 (rn)
M- mnemonic/ 1000(rn)
N- Nguyen
O- Ours
P-psycho
Q- Quay
R-Are u listening
S-see
T- Tsunami
U- Urn
V- 5 (rn)
W- whole
X-xylophone/ 10 (rn)
Y- You
Z- Zhivago

{Yes - I needed to Google "bdellium"}

For those that looked down the list and said "Yeah? So waht??" remember to read it out loud

[clvrlad]

currently hard at work.... just like the rest of the day....

as usual on a saturday

was working last nioght till 6am started again at midday... like i said b4 tuesday-thursday is my weekend

[MBH]

currently hard at work....

No you're not - your on the forum with us

[clvrlad]

i didnt say hard at work at wot :-p...

trying not to make too many spelling msatiseks is hrad wrok

[Bunnylump]

...gardening. And damaging myself.
I stupidly tried to move my tomato stakes whilst standing on a log. The log rolled, and I landed, with all my (considerable) weight on TOP of the tomato stake in a very unfortunate place. Excruxiatingly painful. I now have one "side" about twice the size of the other, and am looking forward to actually becoming purple for real.

[MBH]

OUCH!!!!

Don't know where to start with this one - how can someone so blasted clever.....

[kathlyn]

Keep up the alcohol oops I meant medicine it'll help numb the pain. Hope it gets easier soon

[Redfraggle]

Ouch - rubber ring for you then. You just take it easy - that's an order!

[tricia]

Postie not arrived - gives me time to get back to doing the family history - its a bit difficult at times - I can get full access to the Scottish records - which takes in my maternal side, however my Paternal side mostly comes from Sussex in and around Cuckfield before moving to Brighton. Spookily I was born in Horsham avbout 10 -15 miles from Cuckfiled!!!!!!!
I have some evidence of them being there about 1700.

The Scottish side starts in the Highlands near Inverness , move to Skye then down to Central Lowlands obviously following the work.
I have found Sailors, coastguards , cotton mill workers , farmers, shoemakers and miners.
So most of ancestors are from Scotland, England, I have found a link to Cork and to Australia - even Brazil.

All I need is to find a Welsh Connection then I am sorted for being representative from all of the UK

Tricia

PS Bunny you take care and don't get into any more scrapes

[gill216]

I have found Sailors, coastguards , cotton mill workers , farmers, shoemakers and miners.

Lucky you. I have workhouses, wanton women, and Homer Simpson!

On the plus side I have Chad Varah (founder of the Samaritans) and somebody Tiffin, the first governor of Ohio. I also struck lucky with a great great granparent. Her whole history is documented back to 1401. All 51 pages of it. Needless to say she was the black sheep and they don't want to know about her. I've tried 3 times to continue the line down from her (yes, I sent documented proof) but I'm just ignored.

[tricia]

Lucky You - getting that far back - I am semi stuck with the family in Skye because the parish registers no longer exist - but the ancesters were involved in the rent strikes against the McLeod Land owners in 1866 which were part of the second Highland Clearances
Tricia

[Bunnylump]

Not that bit fraggle. Front half (the bits that come in pairs... ) flipping painful. Ouch ouch ouch...

So far my family tree has turned up LOTS of farm workers, washerwomen etc., but ALSO a set of Lords, a Cornish "giant" and a bigamist who ended up in the News of the World.

[Redfraggle]

OMW Bunnylump!!! That's even worse. Are you sure you are ok seriously? That sounds so painful.

[tricia]

trust bunnylymp to get a bibamist BUT Samuel GAVETT Phillips gave me a few moments of concern

Tricia

[strep98]

I have found Sailors, coastguards , cotton mill workers , farmers, shoemakers and miners.

I have Copper Miners, and more copper miners oh and more copper miners. Then my Scottish lot are Jute workers and magicians as they have disappeared off the face of the earth. My Gt Gt GT grandmother changed her name every cencus (never marrying I might add)

Hope you feel better soon Bunny, know how you feel I wrecked my shoulder 8 weeks ago and thought it was all part of the fibromyalgia so did nothing about it until the pain management physio I am seeing told me it was nothing to do with the fibromyalgia and packed me off to a different physio

mostly been see Harry Potter (at long last) just 8 of us in the cinema bliss!

[eirian]

downloading a load of pics of my gorgeous boy from my camera (ok, so I did it a few days ago, but only just had time to post one of them here!)

so here he is:


(for anyone who wants to see a whole load, here's the link to my imageshack page

The next issue has excellent timing - we're taking Thomas to visit his grandparents next week, so I suspect that his grandad will do plenty of babysitting while me, Sigur & Wulf try to do as much as possible before Scurra arrives at the end of the week and we try out the power of cute baby as a method of extracting hints from a (hopefully) doting uncle!

[giraffe]

Oh he's gorgeous!

[chazzie]

Love the photos Eirian - he is gorgeous..... enjoy your time with the Grandparents - play your cards right and you should get some rest