Cooking for one (Mark Three)

PasturesNew

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

...40 fits ....

Tough t1tty I say .... the information's in the public domain

Nobody's accessing secret and inaccessible files.... it's all sitting out there somewhere, if you've enough time/care/pennies to get to it! For me it's time, paying £0 takes 100x as long as if you just buy a list, or a CD with transcriptions etc.... or visit actual records offices at great expense (travel, parking, overnight stays, photocopying).

I do "everybody's tree" - half-heartedly ..... anything/anybody that catches my eye and I'm at their tree..... felons in the newspapers, somebody on the telly, some snippet spotted from a newspaper in 1870 that got me intrigued. I'm there trying to find "what happened next/what's that about then" ... and "how did that happen, who did they know, where did they come from". It's my hobby.

I'd rather pick up a random stranger's tree to find/follow than to borrow a book from a library. It's a real brain/resource stretcher.... working out how you can get information, what might have happened to give you clues where to look .... with mathematics, history, social history, local history all coming into it, as well as a large dose of "logical reasoning" most of the time too.

It's like a live Who Dunnit .... a live/real Mystery Detective Story you complete yourself. Better than reading a bit of old fiction.

.... so what's your name/year of birth?

Farway

PasturesNew wrote: »

Tough t1tty I say .... the information's in the public domain

And double tough t1tty when they find out the Mormons have baptised them, you, me, all of us and all our ancestors into the Church of Latter Day Saints

These are just one source of public domain info for anyone who cares to look

Dinner had an extra, I discovered some going over mushrooms in the fridge, so bunged them in oven with the bangers. But they looked awful once cooked, so binned them

Bangers, mash & last splurge of red sauce, glad that's gone, it was a YS Polish one when 4dsa were having a clear out

caronc

Good evening everyone,
I've spent the afternoon doing a bit of record digging myself, not ancestors but book-keeping;), I do like a bit of number crunching especially when it's not my cash.....:rotfl:

Soup at lunchtime yielded two portions so one has been eaten and one frozen. I had a taste of the ratatouille a wee while ago, it tastes great but they'll be no vampires lurking here tonight. I best put the tzatziki on hold if I don't want to reek for days:rotfl::rotfl:

bouicca21

Don't worry, Farway. A Mormon elder assured me that the souls of the ancestors have the right to refuse the baptism.

moneyistooshorttomention

I was warning that there might be a negative reaction to offering someone details of their ancestors (when one thinks one is being helpful).

I was not intending to receive (or due to receive) a negative reaction at me:cool: - as it is not appropriate.

mcculloch29

Caron, what a great idea, to get a cleaner. I am so enjoying, and seeing real benefits from mine being back. I met my main cleaner's husband for the first time yesterday, as she is on some short-term missionary work in Bangalore.
When I first had her cleaning for me, I was still teaching in the community, I gave her a set of keys, and came home on Tuesdays to a clean house.
Now I sit in the lounge and do my work, while they zip around (one upstairs, one downstairs), It's once a week, rather than once a fortnight, as the jobs I can do for myself are now very limited.

No cooking today, not because I don't have an appetite, but because I had a huge mixed grill, mid afternoon, a late lunch out with a friend. It included steak, and the steak was how I like it - red-pink.
We had a two-for-one voucher, so it was great value too.

PasturesNew

Farway wrote: »

And double tough t1tty when they find out the Mormons have baptised them, you, me, all of us and all our ancestors into the Church of Latter Day Saints

You only care if you're one of them.
If you're not religious you laugh at the nonsense.
If you are religious, you snort at their impudence and laugh at their worshipping a daft God they believe in when there's only YOUR God that's correct.

So .... on the balance of things and reasonable intelligence.... you just ignore all that stuff

PasturesNew

I'll never have a cleaner, that's too high up the Hierarchical Pyramid of Luxuries for me to contemplate .... I'll just learn to be content to sit in filth

caronc

mcculloch29 wrote: »

Caron, what a great idea, to get a cleaner. I am so enjoying, and seeing real benefits from mine being back. I met my main cleaner's husband for the first time yesterday, as she is on some short-term missionary work in Bangalore.
When I first had her cleaning for me, I was still teaching in the community, I gave her a set of keys, and came home on Tuesdays to a clean house.
Now I sit in the lounge and do my work, while they zip around (one upstairs, one downstairs), It's once a week, rather than once a fortnight, as the jobs I can do for myself are now very limited.

No cooking today, not because I don't have an appetite, but because I had a huge mixed grill, mid afternoon, a late lunch out with a friend. It included steak, and the steak was how I like it - red-pink.
We had a two-for-one voucher, so it was great value too.

I think weekly is more than I need just now but will see how it goes.
Your mixed grill sounds fab - can't think of the last time I had one.

caronc

PasturesNew wrote: »

I'll never have a cleaner, that's too high up the Hierarchical Pyramid of Luxuries for me to contemplate .... I'll just learn to be content to sit in filth

If I was able to I wouldn't need someone to clean for me as I have all the time in world to do chores these days but it is becoming more of a necessity than a luxury:(, thankfully I can wiggle my budget to support this choice. I appreciate not not everyone can.