General Chat

Thanks for the cuppa Linda,but by the time I arrived it was cold. Never mind I will make us all a fresh one.
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And some buns as it's lunch time.
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I hope the servicing off the heating went well.
It's an awful day here today as well,rain,overcast,cold and thoroughly miserable.
Going to do us a nice roast dinner tonight,pork chops,roast potatoes + parsnips,peas,carrots,sprouts. Anything to warm us up.

It is raining heavy here too , puddles everywhere ,some so deep you could have a paddle easily.
I had to go and get my feet done this morning so I am twinkle toes what me I am like a large ballet dancer no dont laugh your not to take the mickey out of a poor old lady
I had a letter come from the pensions department I am on a widows pension telling me my pension was going up a few pennies I mean pennies and that next year when I am 80 years old I will get an extra 25 pence a week, I dont know what I am going to spend it on I am so excited.
another 75 pence and I can afford to go into a loo . when I am out.

Rita

rita dont spend it all at once lol

i woudent mind but you carnt even get a tin of beans for that or a pint of milk

well iv got a new contack on ancestey her granfather is the brother of my great granmother agnes barber
she is very exsited in finding me and her dad lived in the same street as im liveing now

but what a great sham as she told me that she came here to england in 2005 to see were her dad live when he lived in england and i told her she must of look strat at my house as there is not meny of them

but her dads house would of been pulled down in or after the war as my house was built in the 70's


DAM DAM DAM i all way just miss every think but im hopeing she will have some photos of the barber side to shear with me even if thay just mist me direct line


o her dad whent to live OZ in about 1916

i need wold wide on ancestery do eny of you have it

No, not me, I've just got the ordinary one.

I thought that hadn't gone on so I clicked submit again - then it went on twice.

pauline iv got the one were you can get the parish records looks like im going to have to plash out and get world wide

i forgot to say i have now got me level 2 certs thay came to day ago

Well done Shelly, can you relax now?


The phone rang just after my last post and I've just managed to get back here.

Shelly, have you got 'adblock plus' on your Firefox?

I've put it on and all the dark colours on here have gone light, as well as the adverts going.

Well done Shelly,on your results. See Pauline and I did help after all. lol
It would have been so nice for you,if you could have met up with your distant family member.
I found my grandmothers,brothers,grandaughter on this site. We exchanged photo's off them both,and my god,they were so alike.
We still exchange christmas cards each year. But I would love to meet her. It's daft really,she only lives up in London.
I know what you mean about the pension increase Rita. It's such an insult
the cost off living goes up,but the pensions dont go up to match it.
Both Rol'ys and mine will rise by less than a pound each.
We did not get the cold weather payment either,as we do not qualify,as we dont get any benefits. So I am dreading the bills when they arrive.

Mo, I didn't know you had to be on benefits to qualify for the cold weather payment, I thought everyone on a pension got it.

Maybe we should all go round and help Rita to spend her pension increase.

Pauline,we missed it last year as well. We were told you had to be getting
benefits to qualify. I even googled it to make sure. We are not in receipt off
DLA or jobseekers allowance,or getting money from the DSS.
We have to plod on with our meagre pensions,and do not qualify as Roly has two small private pensions,from when he was working.

mo that was for leve 2 that i done last year

im almost finish leve 3

pauline adblock plus i dont no if i have it and wouldent no were to find it
i do try and not to touch eny setting in case i crash lappy



Edit my new contack is 74 and was born in OZ so hopeing she may have photos of say her great grand perant witch would be my great great gran perants may be if im luckly she will have a photo of my great gran mother well that if her dad took family photos with him when he want out there to live
but it is early days yet and i dont have much luck do i with this side the BARBER side LOL

That happened to my dad Mo, he had a small private pension and it put his income just above the level he needed to get help with things like reading glasses and dental treatment. By the time he paid for everything - he ended up worse off than the people who were on benefits.

Shelly it's an add-on from Firefox, you have to download it and then right click on any pages you don't want the adverts on. I don't have the banners across the top of the page now (friends reunited and the dating one) and I don't have the adverts on the left of the page.

The only thing that looks strange is that my 'submit box', 'reply box' and 'bookmark this box' is pale grey now.

so were would i find the add on

Mo that does not make sense to me everyone on pension is suppose to get cold weather payments not the £25 l think they give those to people on social but not sure of the age but my sister got her £250 cold weather payment as I did and my sister has private pensions as well as her stat pension.I am not sure if you have to be 60 or 65.
I would queiry that if I was you..
mine is just under a pound Mo. but next year I will get 25 pence.per week. it isnt the money 25 pence but that must cost them more to send you a letter telling you.
Shelly do you know where about in OZ the Barbers come from I asked because some time a go I put a request on Records and someone from there looked for something for me and she gave me addresses to get infor from one was a libarary but i have lost that, have you tried that thread

Rita

Shelley

Your Barber didnt have a marriage to a Butler did they ? my father sister Ida Lee married a Charles BUTLER. his mother was a SARAH BARBER they came from Willesden or Kilburn area.

Rita

Shelly, google Firefox addons and click on the first one that comes up.

When the site comes up, type 'adblock plus' in the search box.

On the one that says ABP by Wladimir Palant - click on 'add to Firefox'

After you download it, you right click on anything where you don't want adverts on and then click adblock images.