General Chat

morning everyone. we seem to have lost some of the new members ? I wonder why ?

Many Happy Returns of the Day Pauline remember you're older today than yesterday but younger than tomorrow..
Love Rita
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I am off to the dentist this morning at 10 o'clock. then into the doctors to ask for an earlier appointment for my warfrin blood test as I am away when my next one is due.

back later
Rita

:-D :-D <3 Happy Birthday Pauline <3 :-D :-D
Hope you have a lovely day.

Good morning to everyone else.
Hope Mo is feeling a little better today.
The sun is out at the moment but rain is forecast by lunchtime :-( It has absolutely chucked it down all night. Where has summer gone? It's the longest day tomorrow and the nights will start drawing in again and I haven't had enough sunshine yet :-S

Have a good day folks,

Cath xx

Good Morning All.

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No brekkie for me til I come back from my run.

Have a good one all.

See you later.

Morning all. is everyone sleeping in today?
Lovely sunny morning here, hope it stays this way.

Breakfast is ready.
Cereal or fruit.
Bacon, eggs, sausage, tomatoes, mushrooms and hash browns, all on hotplate.
Toast, hot rolls or waffles.
Marmalade or honey.
Tea or coffee.


Off to see to my horses now, taking Scarlett with me, she loves being with them.
Whatever you are doing today take care and stay safe.
Jean xx :-) :-) :-) :-)

Will the last person on tonight put the lights off ! ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-)

I'm heading for the shower then bed !

Night All ! :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)

Happy birthday Pauline,
Hope you have a nice day <3 <3 <3

Hello everyone. We have a birthday girl tomorrow, Monday 20 June.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY PAULINE
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Hope you have a lovely day,
enjoy it.
Jean xx
:-D :-D :-D :-D

Hi all,
had a lovely day with all the family here for huge piece of roast Beef.
OH taking me out on tuesday evening so something else to look forward to.
Hope everyone else had a lovely day too :-D

Mo thank you for the photo of you and babies, they are so gorgeous <3
will send you my new email addy as it went to my old one.

Edit: Just realised it's Paulines birthday tomorrow, same day as my eldest daughters.
:-D Happy Birthday Pauline :-D

Stephen, there's nothing wrong with weeds. They're just ugly flowers :-S
I've just made an amazing discovery. I discovered that when you have scones,jam and clotted cream, it's easier to put the cream on first and then jam afterwards. A friend of mine gave me 2 jars of homemade strawberry jam for my birthday so I bought some scones and cream and voila my own cream tea. Yesterday I put jam on first and I got in a mess :-0 :-0

Stephen - C&P'd from an e-mail. Sorry - don't know anything else about it's origin/composer.

Dermot,

That 1500 information was great. My daughter is going to use it in her English Classes at High School.

Where do you find it ?

If house prices continue to fall as fast as predicted, I can see the day looming when the signs in estate agents’ windows will read ‘Buy one, get one free’.

Evening All !

That was a magic day out. The gardens we visited were fantastic. Obviously a labour of love for the owners.

Now Mrs Stephen will be ear bashing me to do a bit of transformation to ours. :-( :-( :-( :-( :-( :-( :-(

What's wrong with weeds ? They are natural and are mostly green. And once the snow covers everything they all look the same ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-)

Time for a wee relax.

Evening All.

Hope you had a pleasant day, Cath and hubby hope you had a nice meal somewhere.

Been home from work for about 1 hour. Had a nice beef dinner and feel very full up now.

We will be cutting K.'s birthday cake later on with a nice cup of tea. :-)

Keep the cyber hatches open, it will be winging you way about 9pm.

If I dont get back, see ya tomorrow.
<3 <3

Hi Everyone,
Just been to see my friend Avril and I've been spending my birthday money :-)
Got a pair of trainers and Is used my W. gift card to get some more books.
Fascinating history Dermot. Very interesting.
Stephen a lot of Scots invented important things but England is still better at football :-D :-D :-D
Happy Anniversary Mr and Mrs Cath <3 <3.
I managed to finish all My Vampire books.I didn't go to bed til 12.30am but never mind. I took these books up to the church and left them in the Porch ;-)

Now that it's brightening up....... for Fathers Day I'm taking Mrs Stephen out to vist some gardens near my daughters house.

Some of the bigger houses (mansions) have a Garden Open Day today.

All the cash raised goes to Charitable causes.

Think I'll go dressed as a Tramp (nothing out of the ordinary for me)
and rattle a tin can about. See if I get any donations :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D

Catch you later ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-)

Hi Folks,

Printed with Tongue in Cheek so to speak !!!!!!!!!!

All in good faith :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D

Morning All !

Happy Anniversary Cath......have a good day.

'Always be an England'

as long as they can still use things invented by the SCOTS.

Macadamised roads : John Loudon McAdam (1756–1836)[3]

The pedal bicycle: Attributed to both Kirkpatrick Macmillan (1813–1878)

The pneumatic tyre: Robert William Thomson and John Boyd Dunlop (1822–1873) [10]

The overhead valve engine: David Dunbar Buick (1854–1929) [11]

Tubular steel: Sir William Fairbairn (1789–1874)[12]

The patent slip for docking vessels: Thomas Morton (1781–1832) [14][15]

Canal design: Thomas Telford (1757–1834) [17

Aircraft design: Frank Barnwell (1910) Establishing the fundamentals of aircraft design at the University of Glasgow.[20]

Steam engine improvements: James Watt (1736–1819)[1]

Coal-gas lighting: William Murdoch (1754–1839) [21]
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Carbon brushes for dynamos: George Forbes (1849–1936) [23]

Europe's first passenger steamboat: Henry Bell (1767–1830) [27]

The first iron-hulled steamship: Sir William Fairbairn (1789–1874) [28]

The first practical screw propeller: Robert Wilson (1803–1882)

Making cast steel from wrought iron: David Mushet (1772–1847) [32]

The hot blast oven: James Beaumont Neilson (1792–1865) [34]

The steam hammer: James Nasmyth (1808–1890) [35]

Wire rope: Robert Stirling Newall (1812–1889) [36]

Cordite - Sir James Dewar, Sir Frederick Abel (1889) [39]

Threshing machine improvements: James Meikle (c.1690-c.1780) & Andrew Meikle (1719–1811) [40]

Hollow pipe drainage: Sir Hew Dalrymple, Lord Drummore (1700–1753) [41]

The Scotch Plough: James Anderson of Hermiston (1739–1808) [42]

The mechanical reaping machine: Rev. Patrick Bell (1799–1869) [44]

Roller printing: Thomas Bell (patented 1783) [48]

The adhesive postage stamp and the postmark: James Chalmers (1782–1853) [49]

Universal Standard Time: Sir Sandford Fleming (1827–1915) [50]

Light signalling between ships: Admiral Philip H. Colomb (1831–1899) [51]

The telephone: Alexander Graham Bell (1847–1922)[4]

The teleprinter: Frederick G. Creed (1871–1957) [52]

The first working television, and colour television; John Logie Baird (1888–1946)[5][6]

Radar: Robert Watson-Watt (1892–1973)[8]

The underlying principles of Radio - James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879) [53]

The first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica (1768–81) [54]

The first English textbook on surgery(1597) [55]

The first postcards and picture postcards in the UK [57]

Logarithms: John Napier (1550–1617)[58]

The theory of electromagnetism: James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879) [59]

Popularising the decimal point: John Napier (1550–1617) [60]

Identifying the nucleus in living cells: Robert Brown (1773–1858) [64]

Hypnotism: James Braid (1795–1860) [65]

Transplant rejection: Professor Thomas Gibson (1940s)

Criminal fingerprinting: Henry Faulds (1843–1930) [70]

Pioneering work on nutrition and poverty: John Boyd Orr (1880–1971) [73]

The ultrasound scanner: Ian Donald (1910–1987) [74]

The MRI body scanner: John Mallard and James Huchinson from (1974–1980) [76]

The first cloned mammal (Dolly the Sheep): Was conducted in The Roslin Institute research centre in 1996 [77]

Chloroform: Sir James Young Simpson (1811–1870) [86]

The hypodermic syringe: Alexander Wood (1817–1884) [87]

Discovery of hypnotism (November 1841): James Braid (1795-1860) [88]

Identifying the mosquito as the carrier of malaria: Sir Ronald Ross (1857–1932) [89]

Identifying the cause of brucellosis: Sir David Bruce (1855–1931) [90]

Discovering the vaccine for typhoid fever: Sir William B. Leishman (1865–1926) [91]

Discovering insulin: John J R Macleod (1876–1935) with others [9]

Penicillin: Sir Alexander Fleming (1881–1955) [7]

Discovering an effective tuberculosis treatment: Sir John Crofton in the 1950s [93]

Primary creator of the artificial kidney (Professor Kenneth Lowe

First beta-blocker drugs: Sir James W. Black in 1964 [95]

EKG [Electrocardiography]: Alexander Muirhead (1911) [97]

The Refrigerator: William Cullen (1748) [98]

The Flush toilet: Alexander Cummings (1775) [99]

The Vacuum Flask: Sir James Dewar (1847–1932) [100]


The piano footpedal: John Broadwood (1732–1812) [102]

The first automated can-filing machine John West (1809–1888) [103]

The waterproof macintosh: Charles Macintosh (1766–1843) [104]

The modern lawnmower: Alexander Shanks (1801–1845) [106]

The Lucifer friction match: Sir Isaac Holden (1807–1897) [107]

The self filling pen: Robert Thomson (1822–1873) [108]

Cotton-reel thread: J & J Clark of Paisley [109]

Lime Cordial: Peter Burnett in 1867 [110]

Bovril beef extract: John Lawson Johnston in 1874 [112]

Electric clock: Alexander Bain (1840) [113]

Boys' Brigade

Royal Air Force: Lieutenant David Henderson considered instrumental in the foundation of the British Royal Air Force. [121]

Bank of England devised by William Paterson

Bank of France devised by John Law

Colour photography: the first known permanent colour photograph was taken by James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879) [122]
Etc :-P :-P :-P :-P :-P :-P :-P

****** HAPPY FATHERS DAY******

To Stevey & Dermot..... :-D