Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

bugslet

PasturesNew wrote: »

a petrol account at a local fuel station so she just had to drive in, fill up and sign the account sheet. .

You mean there are other ways of paying for fuel????? Think I'm in for a big shock the day I retire:eek:

PasturesNew

bugslet wrote: »

You mean there are other ways of paying for fuel????? Think I'm in for a big shock the day I retire:eek:

Yes, the other way is to drive something small and diesel, then sneak up quickly behind a big lorry that's filling up. Just as the driver's put it in the holster and walked back to the cab, grab the holster and fill your own. Then drive off, he'll pay for it for you.

GDB2222

Generali wrote: »

given that the addiction means there's a 50:50 chance a smoker will die of smoking..

Thanks. That's a particularly neat way of putting the point across.

I tend to say that smokers have double the mortality of non-smokers, and then people get confused because you can only die once (unless you're James Bond). And then I try to explain, which then causes a really serious case of MEGO. Your explanation is much better.

GDB2222

PasturesNew wrote: »

I lost touch with her because after secretarial college
he bought her a flat in London, on the corner of Harley Street

You were friends with Christine Keeler! How cool is that!

PasturesNew

GDB2222 wrote: »

You were friends with Christine Keeler! How cool is that!

Shhhhh, you weren't supposed to spot that bit.



I suspect my old friend left the country, she doesn't appear to have married, nor died, nor still be in the country (four people with her name, I checked them all out, none seem to be her) .... so that leaves immigration.

She's probably in a big black arab dress and is the 4th wife of 15 to some Sheikh.

I think her mum's alive, so I'll stalk her next...

Yep. Found her, she didn't remarry. She's moved to a village 5 miles out of town. Now aged nearly 80 she's living in a nice/modern, detached house worth about £400-450k. She's been there 14 years.

michaels

GDB2222 wrote: »

Thanks. That's a particularly neat way of putting the point across.

I tend to say that smokers have double the mortality of non-smokers, and then people get confused because you can only die once (unless you're James Bond). And then I try to explain, which then causes a really serious case of MEGO. Your explanation is much better.

Between 1995 and 2010 life expectancy for men in the UK at age 65 went up from 14.6 to 18.3 years.

During that period 'healthy life expectancy' (without life-limiting illness or disability) has fallen.....

Perhaps we need to think of quality of life as well as just length before denying people things that some find to be one of life's pleasures....

michaels

PasturesNew wrote: »

Shhhhh, you weren't supposed to spot that bit.



I suspect my old friend left the country, she doesn't appear to have married, nor died, nor still be in the country (four people with her name, I checked them all out, none seem to be her) .... so that leaves immigration.

Did you check the prison records....

ukmaggie45

PasturesNew wrote: »

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Aww you have great memories there. You should try to write that up and "put it out there" somewhere for others to know/enjoy long into the future as they do their research and discover you

It's pure gold to have a photo of a child that died so young! Such a rare treat.

Even where photos existed, uncaring past generations have binned photos as "no idea who that is" when they've done house clearances....such a shame they've all, often, disappeared.

I've no idea what happened to all the photos at my grandmother's house after she died. My mother's brothers probably did the house clearance and probably kept no photos (not of interest).

Lol at the photo of the child that died so young - it's a bundle wrapped up in a shawl! But it was only when I started my tree that I found out that Grandama had a child before my Gran and lost her. I keep meaning to blog about it all, but Life Happens and then there isn't time. My descendants will just have to search the MSE forums to find out about me! :rotfl: Though maybe I will get around to it one day. Hopefully while I still have memory left - dementia of one kind or another seems to run on both sides of my family so I don't hold out much hope for me in another 15 years or so :eek: if I'm still around then of course! <roll eyes smiley>

A lot of the photos I've inherited are labelled on the back. I should really do that with as many of the rest as I can manage - there are some that I'm clueless about already. My parents mostly refused to get out the old photos and talk about them, I asked often enough in the last 30 years or so of their lives! I have a feeling there's a dark family secret hiding around or something like that! :eek: That would be fun! :beer:

It's a real shame you didn't manage to get the photos from your Grandmother's home. I was amazed we found any when we cleared my parents flat... In fact we nicked them early on when Mum went into hospital as I think if she'd gone back to the flat she'd have destroyed them. She destroyed plenty of other stuff!

ukmaggie45

Just took a look at paternal grandfather's will value. £21277 19s 11p. Three executors - one of his sons from his second marriage. his first daughter's husband and my granmother's father. My grandmother was left all the goods and chattels and money for my Dad and Uncle's education (I think that was in some kind of trust) while the first daughter got the house. So my grandmother had about a month to move out of the house with everything in it!

The first daughter was called Maud. When she was dying Gran said to my Mum "It wasn't true what Maud said about me"! I suspect that was something along the lines of she was a gold digger who only married my Grandfather for his money. Gran was his third wife, she was 27 when she married, he was 57. He died age 70 when my Dad was 11 and in Prep School. My Gran send her sister (Auntie Gertie - now there's a name to conjure with, I think I read that there wasn't a single baby girl got named Gertrude last year!) to school to tell him, it was half term when rellies were allowed to take the boys out for a slap up meal and she told the headmaster he wasn't to tell Dad about his father until he'd had his half term outing.

Reminds me of what someone said here about 3 generations rags to riches and back! My Dad held the money, and I'm in the process of spending it all! :rotfl: Mind you I know very little of the earlier family yet - must try to get to it. I do know one of them was an engineer on the West Coast Railway, and some were engineers in Leeds and I think Manchester. And my Grandfather lived in Liverpool (he worked for London and Lancashire Insurance Co), I have rellies buried in Fazakerly Cemetery - should go and look for them and take photos! Maybe in the summer when it's warmer!

ukmaggie45

I'm not sure how well this will work, we'll see!

DQWD (or may do)

I found the address where my Grandfather was living when he was 22. Right here in Liverpool! It looks a fairly small house to be home to him, his Mum, Grandma, 19 yr old brother and 4 yr old brother. His Mum is given as Head of the Household on the Census (1881)

It's the grey painted house that the top window is open a bit. Right of centre. Number 10.