*Stop The Cavalry* It's The 2014 Christmas Chatter Thread

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I 've had a request from dd she wants the Christmas tree up next weekend :j.

nic2075

Peppapig wrote: »

I've used Ancestry a lot in tracing my family (both sides) and DHs paternal family. It's been really interesting but you do get to a point where you just can't go any further because the records aren't there - you have to move to parish/local records after that. Having said that, I'm in England so finding records for Scotland and Northern Ireland may be much more difficult and I wouldn't know. It does seem like the birth and death records are for England and Wales. There is a help bit on the front page where you can email them questions so I think I'd probably do that before committing to any money and check if there are any Scottish records you can access through them. I do the monthly subscription and cancel and opt back in as and when I need to so you could perhaps try that if you decide to give it a go. Good luck.

IrishRose12 wrote: »

Yeah, I'm in N.Ireland apparently my family doesn't exist :rotfl: I've found that with quite a few family trees places now, One side of the family I can trace back to Scotland then that's as far as I can go, the other side I can't find anywhere:eek: So either they all married ghosts or I'm just not meant to find out about my family tree:(

I don't have the time nor the money to sit and go through them all now, so I've given up Which I'm gutted about, but they really don't make it easy TBH

Thanks ladies. IrishRose, I think you are right and there isn't much info in there if you are in Scotland or NI. I will look and see of there is there's another site better to use. It flashed up somewhere that there was free military records for yesterday, so I went for a nosey. I have a good bit of info regarding my grandparents, so was looking for their births etc to find out my great grandparents details and go from there, but zilch came up no matter what I put in.


Peppapig- I didn't know you could just do a monthly thing, I will look into it after seeing if the info is on there somewhere, I just need to cancel the free trial or its over £100 will get debited. :eek:

3forholidays

Nic if you are looking for Scottish family records then the best site to use is http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk but it is expensive to use (see http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/content/help/index.aspx?r=554&409 for charges). I'm afraid that I don't know of any free sites that contain Scottish records.

mcculloch29

Wow, this thread is flying. I saw the JL ad on YouTube and loved it.

I'm in the North of England where a lot of smaller market towns have a most excellent small department store called Boyes. Boyes is brilliant for all sorts of OS stuff, enamel bakeware, decent hot water bottles, Stardrops..

This year Boyes have children's Christmas duvet sets for £9.99. The prints are OK, there's rather a cool one with cartoon reindeer and Christmas trees. However, I'm wondering if this is a step too far? Allowing time out of use for laundering, it's only going to get a few weeks of use each year.
I suppose it could be a family heirloom eventually and £9.99 won't break the bank, but I wonder how many of these Boyes will sell? Any thoughts, folks?

newthrift

Afternoon Everyone,
I have caught up, it moves along quicker every week i'm sure :D
I haven't seen the cola advert but did see JL and I LOVE it, but I do love penguins and as a child Pingu was my fave Aldi's is really good too, but I can't think as I have seen many of the others.

Going to finish the last couple of cards off tonight all being well and apart from a candle in a jar for my Grandad, Christmas presents are complete :j:beer: After looking through the list I have decided next year I am setting more strict limits and going more in the way of a hamper for people! Not overspent too much but next year money will be tighter anyway (£420 total spends on everything:eek:)
chrissy how exciting :xmastree: I am thinking of putting a few items out on my day off at the end of Nov before I put it all up on Dec 1st, unless I can side track myself with decorating our Christmas cake and present wrapping :think:
freespirit glad all went well with pick up at airport and at least if the bump made no mark don't worry I hate the carparks when they get busy, I get all of a fluster!
whitesatin sounds like a lovely weekend
Going to the first Christmas market and decorated house on Thursday :j We go every year to Chatsworth xmas market and to see the house dressed up, it's so beautiful and this year it's Alice in Wonderland!!
Watched some fireworks from the car last night, we always drive and park to watch the local theme parks ones - £42 each to get in no chance :eek::mad:

Mojoworking

Free spirit congratulations and what the eye don't see the heart don't grieve and if you can't see a bumpnor mark it don't count!! Didn't realise you were dealing with Heathrow! I panic at Manchester and the first time I was on the M25 and I saw a plane coming in to land on my car I was sure - I nearly died!!! Well done you and glad dd had a fab time. Well done to dd2 for talking about her pnd and well done to her for getting everyone over to you on Sunday.

Chrissyg snap - are you going to do it. I had said 29/30 Nov but shes wrote by 15 on the calendar decs up!!!

Mcculloch we used to have a boyes where I grew up.. I paid £20 for the double of that duvet for dd and I'll be a scruff and use during the year probably but it is defo going on xmas eve. She is 10 in January and the kids have told her in her class there is no santa. I've said when you're young you believe then you don't and when you get to my age you believe again so I'm on the tail end of the magic so intend to milk it.

I've been in town this morning and broken the back of my xmas shopping some fab harry potter and frozen clothes bits in primark. Lovely lush bits and I'm mostly done. I hate wrapping will need to do that asap.

Hope all are well x x x x x

freespirit66

Afternoon everyone,

CHRISSYG wrote: »

I 've had a request from dd she wants the Christmas tree up next weekend :j.

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:I bet you will be the first on this thread then CHRISSY

mcculloch29 wrote: »

Wow, this thread is flying. I saw the JL ad on YouTube and loved it.
I'm in the North of England where a lot of smaller market towns have a most excellent small department store called Boyes. Boyes is brilliant for all sorts of OS stuff, enamel bakeware, decent hot water bottles, Stardrops..
This year Boyes have children's Christmas duvet sets for £9.99. The prints are OK, there's rather a cool one with cartoon reindeer and Christmas trees. However, I'm wondering if this is a step too far? Allowing time out of use for laundering, it's only going to get a few weeks of use each year.
I suppose it could be a family heirloom eventually and £9.99 won't break the bank, but I wonder how many of these Boyes will sell? Any thoughts, folks?

MCCULLOCH i think christmas duvets are really popular now, most people put them on the beginning of December so you get a months worth of use. TBH i have seen christmas tablecloths 3 times that and they get even less use each year, if i had the money and they did a superkingsize at a decent price i think i would love one haha

newthrift wrote: »

Afternoon Everyone,
I have caught up, it moves along quicker every week i'm sure :D
I haven't seen the cola advert but did see JL and I LOVE it, but I do love penguins and as a child Pingu was my fave Aldi's is really good too, but I can't think as I have seen many of the others.
Going to finish the last couple of cards off tonight all being well and apart from a candle in a jar for my Grandad, Christmas presents are complete :j:beer: After looking through the list I have decided next year I am setting more strict limits and going more in the way of a hamper for people! Not overspent too much but next year money will be tighter anyway (£420 total spends on everything:eek:)
chrissy how exciting :xmastree: I am thinking of putting a few items out on my day off at the end of Nov before I put it all up on Dec 1st, unless I can side track myself with decorating our Christmas cake and present wrapping :think:
freespirit glad all went well with pick up at airport and at least if the bump made no mark don't worry I hate the carparks when they get busy, I get all of a fluster!
whitesatin sounds like a lovely weekend
Going to the first Christmas market and decorated house on Thursday :j We go every year to Chatsworth xmas market and to see the house dressed up, it's so beautiful and this year it's Alice in Wonderland!!
Watched some fireworks from the car last night, we always drive and park to watch the local theme parks ones - £42 each to get in no chance :eek::mad:

NEWTHRIFT well done on getting all your presents finished :T i think people get flustered when it is so busy because people are so impatient and if you dont park within 2 seconds flat they start getting irate especially this time of year :mad: Haha i love it we used to do that park up somewhere near to see the fireworks instead of paying stupid prices

freespirit66

Mojoworking wrote: »

Free spirit congratulations and what the eye don't see the heart don't grieve and if you can't see a bumpnor mark it don't count!! Didn't realise you were dealing with Heathrow! I panic at Manchester and the first time I was on the M25 and I saw a plane coming in to land on my car I was sure - I nearly died!!! Well done you and glad dd had a fab time. Well done to dd2 for talking about her pnd and well done to her for getting everyone over to you on Sunday.
Chrissyg snap - are you going to do it. I had said 29/30 Nov but shes wrote by 15 on the calendar decs up!!!
Mcculloch we used to have a boyes where I grew up.. I paid £20 for the double of that duvet for dd and I'll be a scruff and use during the year probably but it is defo going on xmas eve. She is 10 in January and the kids have told her in her class there is no santa. I've said when you're young you believe then you don't and when you get to my age you believe again so I'm on the tail end of the magic so intend to milk it.
I've been in town this morning and broken the back of my xmas shopping some fab harry potter and frozen clothes bits in primark. Lovely lush bits and I'm mostly done. I hate wrapping will need to do that asap.
Hope all are well x x x x x

MOJOWORKING omg you have made me giggle i remember a few years ago we were taking DS to look at a uni in Cambridge, i was driving and my anxiety was awful this particular day and i remember looking at the sat nav and i thought it was taking me into Luton airport and i got into such a state DD1 was saying 'mum it isnt just keep driving' but i was like shouting 'omg omg i am what shall i do' at the next garage DD1 made me pull over and said 'i will drive because otherwise i am going to have to slap you to calm you down' :rotfl::rotfl:when i think now it was hilarious but at the time i was like you having kittens :rotfl::rotfl:OOh a race between you and CHRISSY :D Fab! We need piccies though girls. The HP stuff in Primark is supposed to be fab i must try and get in there, glad you have got a lot of your christmas shopping done

mcculloch29

Good point about the tablecloths vs duvets. I hadn't realised they were popular as my grandchildren are outside that age range now at 12 on Saturday and 14 next June. But that reminds me, our Christmas tablecloth didn't make it out last year, I will have to check it over for marks before it goes on this year, so had better look soon to get it laundered in time.
I bought ours half price from Aldi one January, for about £3.99.

I love my post - Christmas bargains as I usually forget all about them and then have the pleasure of rediscovery in Dec.
I do have a little Christmas mat for the kitchen, along with Christmas tea-towels and a Christmas hand-towel that my sister gave me one year.

nitnurse-not2

Hi all, :santa2:
I have been into uni for a self directed study day and I feel like I am wading through treacle. :(:(
Then I had to have a puncture repaired on my car.:(:(:(
Driving home I was feeling a bit low:(:(:(

But when I got in :j:j:j
Woop woop woop.......

I have just recieved the book from you Feistyfidget.:j:j:j Thanks so much.:beer: I now have a great big hot chocolate, blanky on my knees and am about to start reading.:D:D:D:D
What a turn around
xxx