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[Deleted User] · 14 April 2018 at 9:23AM

Karmacat wrote: »

I have a gut understanding now of indoor air pollution - I had a shower last night, of course, but the smell is in my hair, and woodsmoke is actually full of carcinogens .... very powerful.

I know exactly what you mean, KC. Whilst OH was doing all his branch sawing and chopping he had an ongoing bonfire that he kept replenishing. This went on over about 3 days in all and each evening he left his outdoor clothes hanging up in the little doorless cloakroom (not the toilet type) we have near the back door. He had a shower each time but the smoky clothes stank the whole downstairs out:eek:. He said it was pointless my washing them until the whole job was done as they'd only be the same the next day. I finally washed the lot yesterday so hopefully the whiff of woodsmoke that still pervades the air downstairs will vanish:j

[Deleted User] · 14 April 2018 at 9:28AM

Karmacat wrote: »

Thanks! It was a genealogy afternoon - take your own laptop in, do your own research. It was very focussed on Ancestry, and on Ancestry DNA, and I'm just not going to pay a subscription of nearly £100 a year, plus all the faffing about with certificates. Ancestry have enough free days to suit me, and if I want more, the library has a full membership. But I can usefully input some information to let it back up my info a little bit more. That always helps.

There's another couple of family history groups, so I'll try them too, and I have a "should" for French, but I *want* Spanish I'd like Ancient Civilisations, but the speaker on Monday was supposed to be great, and she was very poor (i'm an academic type, there's no two ways about it ). Science might be interesting. Local history too. There'll be something positive. I'm glad your mum has found the right thing for her

Your U3A branch sounds very good, even though a lot of what's currently on offer isn't appealing to you. I must research what my nearest branch has to offer. It's a round trip of 35 miles though so needs to be worth the bother and expense of going. Plus, I doubt I'd be much of a winter attendee:o. I have to admit that I feel intellectually starved nowadays, something that all my reading doesn't go anywhere near remedying:(

earthgirl · 14 April 2018 at 10:30AM

Hi karma I'm back from hols and just catching up!

Hope you find the French or Spanish, I am going to redouble my language learning efforts too.

Karmacat · 14 April 2018 at 4:33PM

Hi CBC, hi earthgirl

Gosh, CBC, if I had to go a 35 mile round trip, I'd hardly ever do it. The two I've been to have been a 15 minute walk away, max - and my town is only 30,000 people, not really a "pensioner" type town too, its more commuters. Sorry your geographical isolation is leading to intellectual starvation

I don't know if it would suit you, CBC, but there's this, the virtual U3A: https://vu3a.org/. Could be a stopgap for you, at least.

I've been checking out my medicine "cabinet" and scanning genealogy stuff at the same time - plus reading a fiction book of the sort that I still hope to write, and even hopped into town to have a look at the clearance section in Dyas

I live large, me

rtandon27 · 14 April 2018 at 8:43PM

Karmacat wrote: »

...to have a look at the clearance section in Dyas ...

Just love a good clearance section KC! Did you find anything worth purchasing?

We may have found the clearance section in a posh chocolate shop today...

Karmacat · 14 April 2018 at 8:53PM

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: Nothing at all! I was most disgruntedness

A posh chocolate shop, otoh ... now thats a place worth liberating :j

EatingTheElephant · 15 April 2018 at 8:14AM

I’ve just been on SJ’s thread and it got me thinking about bacon and now I pop on here and now I’m thinking about posh chocolates!! I’m feeling very hungry now!

Karmacat · 15 April 2018 at 8:51AM

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: it's a hard life, EE :rotfl:

I quite fancy something tasty myself right now: we'll see

Karmacat · 15 April 2018 at 1:16PM

Argh, bleeping genealogy can really take over your life

I meant to replace my mum's very blurry photographs with nice sharp online ones, for a little parish church in Northamptonshire. Trouble is, I disappeared into actual research :rotfl: and now I have to email the church :rotfl: well, not the building, I won't do that :rotfl: I'm sure they have a pic on their website of my great-great-grandfather, and his mother was the postmistress, and they definitely have a low-res photo of the post office :j

Stopping now ... food, garden, anything else but the laptop!

[Deleted User] · 15 April 2018 at 2:00PM

Karmacat wrote: »

Argh, bleeping genealogy can really take over your life I meant to replace my mum's very blurry photographs with nice sharp online ones, for a little parish church in Northamptonshire. Trouble is, I disappeared into actual research :rotfl: and now I have to email the church :rotfl: well, not the building, I won't do that :rotfl: I'm sure they have a pic on their website of my great-great-grandfather, and his mother was the postmistress, and they definitely have a low-res photo of the post office :j

Stopping now ... food, garden, anything else but the laptop!

I know how genealogy can take over your life:eek:. Been there, done that:o. The trouble is that it's all so fascinating, relevant or not. I had the habit of straying off the main family path to find out more about the very distant relatives who had very little bearing on my own line. I chose them often for nothing more than they had an interesting and unusual name:rotfl:. One thing led to another and before I knew it I was deeply engrossed people whose lives were totally peripheral to the ancestors that I was trying to track.

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