Nice People Thread Number 10 -the official residence of Nice People

PasturesNew

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

OH dug out something similar he did in his last year at primary school - letters from his grandparents, great-uncles and so forth, setting out what they knew about family history. I could read some of them, the ones in Hebrew were less helpful (-:

I wish I'd done that. If I'd done it before I was 10 I could have got a lot more details than are now available..... might even have spotted dates not fitting together and realised/asked questions about my mum's real father (all I know is his surname, name's not even on the birth certificate).

neverdespairgirl

You do have a better chance with records than OH does, though.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

The sky could make a poet weep its so beautiful this afternoon. Soft mauves wisping and whispering to the east and a quiet winter fire of a sunset burning widely in the west.....apricot, a cold blue tinged pink, and cold blue edges.

Mine's been grey all day long.

lostinrates wrote: »

The temperature otoh made dog dog whine.....straight back in like a whippet in the snow.....suddenly a lot colder. The air this morning wasn't cold but the wind was, from the north and not biting but certainly having an over friendly nibble.

Spotted a light frost this morning; it's been so nippy today I've had the heating on for an hour this morning.

PasturesNew

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

You do have a better chance with records than OH does, though.

I do. Wish I had the money to throw at it. If you start with little you can have to buy no end of certificates to try to see/prove lines etc.

e.g. "List everybody in a half mile area with a particular surname in 1911 who was the right age by 14 years later to have fathered a child .... then compare any names with all passenger lists from 1924-1926 to see where they went. Mind you, at least at that point I'd have a shortlist of potential full names.

Then .... do all the family trees down from the 1911 family - to find existing/current people, to see if any of them are aware of this bloke in their distant tree that went abroad.

PasturesNew

If I ever won the lottery, a couple of million, say, I'd definitely employ a full-time family researcher to find the entire family history ...... up and down the lines .... and share all the information freely with everybody in those lines.

vivatifosi

michaels wrote: »

Sold out - it was on BBC news website yesterday. DW had already been down to Aldi, they had sold all 12 they got within minutes of opening on Sunday. Tesco Hudl tablets that cost 119 are going for 150 on eBay - looks like eveyone is getting a tablet for Christmas this year.

I got my dad one of the Kindle Fire HDs when they were £99 in the Black Friday sale, not one of the recons.

GDB2222

lostinrates wrote: »

Rosario been yet?

Indeed! The website now (correctly) reads Your parcel has been delivered and signed for at 15:24.

lemonjelly

You devils!
Moved & never told me!
I was back there, talking to myself!

vivatifosi

We went to the Harlequin Centre in Watford today. Parking was atrocious.

DH says that after he has retired, for fun and to wind people up a bit, he is going to wrap up a couple of shoe boxes, put them in big carrier bags and walk around the car park very slowly pretending to be going back to his car.

silvercar

vivatifosi wrote: »

We went to the Harlequin Centre in Watford today. Parking was atrocious.

DH says that after he has retired, for fun and to wind people up a bit, he is going to wrap up a couple of shoe boxes, put them in big carrier bags and walk around the car park very slowly pretending to be going back to his car.

Now called intu for some reason.

Sometimes you can go in through Kings and over the cut through to Queens at level 1. Often find spaces in the outside area before you get to Queens. (Though if the cut through is shut, you are then stuck in Kings.)

I do wonder what happens if you get to the top and can't find anywhere to park?