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How Gins will ever keep it to 4 minutes is beyond me! :-P


Morning everyone and thank you for breakfast Sylvs. I must go and get dressed now. Hope you have a good playday Dea.... :-D

So there you are Jonesey, you have given me a start already......thank you :-D

Oooh yum.....Vanilla bean youghurt, a big tub of that please Sylvs

Gin,

Whilst I am flattered to be thought of as a word-smith and to be invited to become one of your speech writers I must decline.

To be meaningful your speech really needs to be written by someone with knowledge both of your individual students and of the course that they have just satisfactorily completed and I have neither. It is your desire to make your students both laugh and be proud of their individual achievements. It is important therefore that your speech makes mention of some incident(s) that occurred during the course. Such incidents might be humorous or indeed might serve to demonstrate difficulties overcome by individuals or the group as a whole. Whilst the telling of such incidents might not be meaningful to the audience as a whole they will be to your students.

As far as speeches in general are concerned, whenever I have been called upon to give a speech whether it be a simple vote of thanks or to a general public meeting, I have always tried to begin with humour, self deprecating if necessary. I have found that audiences with a smile on their faces from the start are usually more attentive, responsive and far less intimidating. ;-)

Good luck on Friday.

Good morning Sylvia,

SO pleased to see you!

Grand-daughter came for a sleep over last night so I was up bright and early (Well, EARLY anyway) ;-)

Will take a little portion for her too, if I may, though I will have to cook her egg for her as she has to have them cooked in 'Granny's special way' :-D

Off to do some 'playing' now! - Will see you all later.

Thanks Sylvs,

Dea x <3

good morning everyone


Breakfast is ready


Tea, coffee, juices


Cold cereals:-
Corn Flakes, Triple Berry Oatmeal Crisp, Maple Buckwheat Flakes, Alpen,


Hot cereal:-
Porridge



In the warmer:-

Canadian back bacon, turkey sausages, cheesy potato patties, broccoli and mushroom omelette, ham and cheese omelette, grilled tomatoes, grilled mushrooms, Maple baked beans, fried bread


Spinach quiche, bacon quiche tarts, broccoli and cheddar quiche,


Tourtiere, Jamaican beef patties, bbq’d pork steak, Vietnamese spring rolls (vegetarian) with sesame dip, Greek chicken casserole, ratatouille (vegetarian)


Buttermilk Dollar Pancakes, Maple syrup


Vanilla Bean Youghurt


Toast (sourdough, rye, white, whole grain, 100% brown, Hovis, gluten free), Danish, barm cakes


Muffins -- cranberry & orange muffins, morning glory muffins, blueberry muffins


Jams, jellies, Ginger marmalade, 3 fruit marmalade, marmite, peanut butter, vegemite




enjoy!




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Now, Jonesey....you being a wordsmith, I could do with your help

I have a 4 minute max speech to give to a graduation group. There are four tutors all speaking about their own students and of course mine were the best!

I know how to present of course (ace tutor in the UK!) but have you any words that can make them laugh and cry out of pride.....They have come so far and some really struggled, but they all got through

Delivering it on Friday :-D :-D

I love that war time report of yours Mr Jones.

I have my father's pay book with the army, and he always had a payment made to his mum... he was very good to his mother, who died before I was born. He looked after her and his six siblings from when his dad died when he was 13/14.

Interesting what I find in our Papers Past, someone asked me to look up a marriage re her female ancestor.. and what had happened.to her. I found a court case on him where he had married a second woman without divorcing the first one and the second wife was in tears and the first wife (ancestor) was comforting her.... it was also stated that he had ads in the paper for friendship with view to matrimony in another town in NZ.... busy bloke. He managed to serve in the army he had an alias but that may have been because his original surname was German. It was over 20 years before her marriage was dissolved.

I have found out so many strange things re this family... like something out of the movies. Thank goodness my correspondent has a sense of humour.


Persie

Well then you only look 46 Marie....all those fags then!

Yes Syl...sun, fags and no skin care at all....orf to watch the final bit, new face, teeth, hair, makeup, clothes etc

Maybe we could get Cyns on>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> :-S

Hello - thanks for all the birthday wishes - I've brought you all a tin of Quality Street, dig in!

Ginny - <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3
... for thinking I'm 46. My FB photo is about 2 years old.

I'm 55 and don't care who knows 'cos I'm only 25 inside my head :-D

Reporting in but have been busy with Evelyn's thread etc. ..........and grandchildren and tea and, and, and........so it goes on.


I can never understand sun worshippers Sylvs. And as for sunbeds....well......why do they do it? A deep tan can look 'orrible at any age but, as people get older their skin can look dreadfully wrinkled if they have been exposed to a lot of sun. I will remain pale and interesting!!

a sun worshipper?

Sylvs~~~~~

Just watching ten years younger and the women on there is 34 but her face looks about 50

Bless her, she has a fab figure and is very attractive its just the look of her skin

R


the medal card does not say


But equally, it does not say that the medals were awarded posthumously.


I do have to say however, that most cards that I have seen do have some sort of date on them.


Those medals were awarded to every serviceman who served "overseas" during the war ................. almost "service" medals, rather than distinguished conduct, or for actions "above and beyond"


My own grandfather got them .......... and I have no idea where they went.

I fear my aunt-by-marriage burnt them, as she told me back in 1991 that she had burnt everything to do with "that" family after her husband died "because no-one would be interested. She never asked ME!



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In most WW1 service records that I have seen any medals awarded to a deceased soldier were normally sent to their next of kin I.E. his parents or wife. In the case of the Alexander Hill who died in 1916 his medals were forwarded to an S.J.Hill.

I find service records make interesting reading. I came across one recently where the soldiers wife had run of and left him before he signed on. When he signed on he declared himself as a single man but when his wife found out she had written to the army asking for part of his army pay to be sent to her. She did not mention the fact that she and the man she had run off with were living together as man and wife along with their child. Not unnaturally the soldier contested her claim and to resolve the matter the army asked the police to give their view of her. The police report described her as, "A woman of loose morals often to be found in drink".

As an afterthought, as he died in action, I assume medals were awarded posthumously, if so would there be a record of the recipient.

R

My thanks to all ... it was as I had anticipated not much more to unearth

R

R

the following is on ancestry ...... which isn't much more than you know

UK, Soldiers Died in the Great War, 1914-1919 about Alexander Hill

Name: Alexander Hill
Birth Place: Ballymoney, Co. Antrim
Death Date: 16 Aug 1917
Death Location: France & Flanders
Enlistment Location: Ballymoney
Rank: Private
Regiment: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
Battalion: 8th Battalion
Number: 16448
Type of Casualty: Killed in action
Theatre of War: Western European Theatre



and


Ireland, Casualties of World War I, 1914-1918 about Alexander Hill

Name: Alexander Hill
Regiment: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, 8th Batt
Regiment Number: See Image
Rank: See Image
Death Date: 16 Aug 1917
Death Place: France
Birth Place: Ballymoney, Northern Ireland

image shows same information as above



Plus this


British Army WWI Medal Rolls Index Cards, 1914-1920 about Alex Hill

Name: Alex Hill
Regiment or Corps: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
Regimental Number: 16448


from image:-

He was awarded the Victory Medal and the British Medal, no date(s) of awarding.

This is the information on the medals:-

Allied Victory Medal (Victory Medal) was awarded for service in any operational theater between 5 August 1914 and 11 November 1918. It was issued to individuals who received the 1914 and 1914-15 Stars and to most individuals who were issued the British War Medal. The medal was also awarded for service in Russia (1919-1920) and post-war mine clearance in the North Sea (1918-1919).


British War Medal was awarded to both servicemen and civilians that either served in a theater of war, or rendered service overseas between 5 August 1914 and 11 November 1918. It was also awarded for service in Russia, and post-war mine clearance in the Baltic, the Black Sea, and the Caspian Sea between 1919 and 1920.





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I'm here Gins!

R


Ancestry carries transcriptions of all the surviving WW1 records .................. so, unfortunately, if your Alexander's records are not on there, then I'm afraid they have not survived the bombing and fires that happened in WW2.


It will make no difference applying to the War Office, or wherever it is that the records are held.




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Hi all
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cloudy with sunny periods today


I fear the Indian Summer is over :-(



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