General Chat

Ha ha Vera, It looks like you were intending to write much more! :-D

Crikey Gill you must have worked hard to get moved so quick! At least you would have escaped the stamp duty cost that will be back I think at the end of this month. I couldn't help but think about your 400+ pots!! Are you still in the same area? The house obviously needs some work, much like my last house did, but you aren't afraid of that and fields at the back will be like me and nice to look out on. Is it a house or a bungalow? I suppose once Sandra moved out, she was bound to want her stake in your place eventually, but I would have thought she would have got help with rent etc with her benefits? I do think she would have been better staying somewhere near you though as some of her 'friends' where she is seemed to be taking advantage of her and it's too far for you to keep an eye on her. Unless you have moved nearer to where she is of course. Fingers crossed she will settle now and not want to be upping sticks again soon.

I seem to have spent a lot of the afternoon getting 'blue' to print properly on the printer, then somehow the printer disconnected, told me it was offline, but not how to get it back online!! In the end I did what OH said to try, and removed the printer and then put it back on and it worked! What a lot of time we waste on these things.

I must get on with some HW. The sun was showing how mucky the insides of the windows are this afternoon and some webs have returned too. OH has checked my front tyre and says the pressure is still ok, so I must take it for a short run this week to see if the warning light goes out. If not, the light must be faulty. :-S

I keep meaning to contact Fitz to see how he is and how Jane's family are. I wonder if H & G will be going back to London or nearer his parents like they originally planned.

It looks like you have a puzzle there with Queenie's name Mandy! An expensive call then, but with all their washing to be done they couldn't manage without!

Well you did end with several smiles Vera but way way down the page. I have got a Tesco ready to cook lamb shank, it is for one but I usually find it lasts me two days. It has been a lovely day today but it looks like as the new mower arrives and is ready to go the weather will change. I bought the Gtdch because daughter has one and she saw an advert with a £200 discount with a code, it worked so 299,99 instead of £499.99. I guess it is last seasons stock but that doesn’t bother me.

It's not often I'm left speechless but I am after reading your post Gill. That was a surprise! How much support will Sandra need and will she be able to get support. Owning your own place is quite a responsibility; will she be able to deal with everything that entails? I hope she will feel happy and more settled now. It sounds as though you and OH have taken on a "project". At least you'll be starting from scratch and able to get things just as you would like them. Be prepared for it to take longer and cost more than you expect - projects always do. I assume you have stayed somewhere near OH's work. I wish you luck and hope that you will be very happy in your new home.

It sounds as though several of us have had a bad night. I fell asleep soon after 11 pm and woke a couple of hours later to OH's snoring. I kept nudging him to turn over but he just got louder and louder. I swear I could hear the roof tiles rattling. Eventually I got up, went to the spare room and read for a while but I couldn't seem to settle to sleep after that.

Sounds as though you had an expensive morning Mandy but your son will be glad of your help. Being without a washing machine when you've got a large family must be a nightmare. What a pity your beef was so tough. Beef can be funny - one time it'll melt in the mouth and next time you could sole your shoes with it. If I only want a small joint now I usually buy brisket and then either do it in the slow cooker or pot roast it in the oven. We had roast chicken today and it was really tasty, but we'll be eating it for at least 2 more days.

A cordless mower is a good idea AnnG. I know the electric ones have safety cut-outs but you still have to be so careful not to go over the lead. Cordless sounds a little bit safer.

We haven't had our census letter either. You can go online and request your access code which can be texted to you but I thought I'd give it a few more days before I do that.

We had our roast dinner about 2 pm and we are both full up so I have just made a cup of tea and we'll have a snack around 8 pm. I fancy cheese and biscuits tonight as we haven't had them for a while.

Fingers crossed for a better night tonight for all of us. I tried to end with a smile but my emoticons don't seem to be working.


















































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Wow Gill you kept that quiet. How long have you known you were moving? I can't believe you haven't said anything. I am assuming that you have bought a property to do up? is it in the same area and are you going to let us have your new address. Well I suppose it was always on the cards that Sandra would want her money to buy her own place. will she still have the support of social services if she is in her own flat or will she be completely on her own. The garden sounds a bit of a nightmare but better to get the house sorted first. Is there any help these days with cavity wall insulation? and is there any help with boilers. I know there have been several schemes over the past years but not sure if they are still going.

Mandy more expense then as Frank would say!!!

I have just ordered a cordless lawn mower. Nothing wrong with the mower I have got but it is a bit awkward to get around the centre bit of the garden it will be much easier with a cordless one.

Hi everyone

It's freezing here today, they reckon we're in for snow next week, I'm not looking forward to that.

We've sold our place so Sandra can buy herself a flat as the social can't give her one in the area she wants as she hasn't lived in the area for six months out of the last 12 months or has any immediate family living in the area. So we moved a couple of weeks ago. Sandra is still waiting for her flat to go through, hopefully it won't be to much longer, she living in temporary accommodation at the moment.

The place we've got has no gas metre so we have no central heating or hot water and because we cook by gas I've no way of cooking. We're having the gas pipe tested on Friday to see if it's live or not. If it's live we can get our energy supplier to install a metre, then we can have a boiler put in. If it's dead we'll have to have new pipework put to the property from the road which isn't cheap. There's no carpets here either, which doesn't help.

This place had dodgy electrics so we've had to have the place re-wired then we bought electric heaters to warm the place up a bit. All we've got in the kitchen is a sink and a few wall cupboards. There's a chimney in the kitchen with an old coal fire, which we need to have removed and there's a hole in the floor near the back door which needs repairing and we need to change the wooden back door for a double glazed one.

All the lower bricks around the property are crumbled so they they need replacing as well. OH's been trying to dig out two very large pampas grass in the front garden, he thinks it's going to take weeks to get rid of them. Both front and back gardens need sorting. There is a massive hedge right down the middle of the back garden which needs taking out. Our property backs on to fields which we can't see at the moment with the back garden being so over grown.

There's a cavity wall in this property which needs insulation putting in and we need some loft insulation too. So plenty to do before it can be called a home.

At least Sandra is getting the flat she wants now she's taken her share out of the old place. It's a good job she invested in the old place or she would of had to private rent which she may not of been able to afford. This way she'll own her flat outright, so she'll have no mortgage or rent to pay and she'll have some money over to buy furniture.

Sandra's on the phone, so I'd better go.

So looking at the 1939 register Mel Queenie was housekeeper for John Saunders and his wife who was down as incapacitated ,but why was the Cowling name crossed out and Saunders added
She married John 8 years later in 1947

Thanks Mel i have gone back with Queenie i was just looking at my tree again for some thing to do and the probate bit came up and i didn't have that .

I'm looking forward to the 1921 Census too as my dad should be on there ,not sure if Queenie brought him up so it will be interesting to see where he was and who he was with ,he never knew his father and i suppose he never asked ,but he always said he had a half brother but i never asked about him ,i can remember going to see Queenie and i wasn't very old and i only saw her the once ,when we left she gave me a Sindy doll.
It will be interesting to see where Queenie was in the census too.
Dads middle name was Evans so was that his father ? we'll never know .

We had a good messenger call with son and family this morning ,over an hour but a lot of it was buying them a new washing machine and sorting that out as theirs is leaking but they have had it a long time and it does a of of work with seven in the house ,this new one if an 11kg one so will take a bigger wash load ,so all in all a dear old call LOL

The three little ones go back to school tomorrow and the other two go back on wednesday ,they have to test on wednesday in school and again on monday then they test at home .

No Anng we haven't had the census form yet .

Frank the census is every 10 years, the last one was 2011. I have not had anything in the post about it yet. Has everyone else had it then?

Well I walked two more bags down the road for recycling and posted two letters. I also spent a half hour in the garden cutting down more of the blackberry and tidying up where the Michaelmas daisies were and where the Dahlias were. The bin is full for tuesday now.

Shed will be the samew as before Wild Thyme and country cream when we get the paint.

Suns gone now but even while it was out it was bitter cold out there.

Shame about the beef Mandy such a nuisance when you lok forward to it and its tough. Could'nt you have given it to Max? Or dos'nt beef agree with him? I have pm'd you and can go back more if you want it.

Oh has been mowing again this morning.

Must do lunch now.

Morning All,

I had a bad night too and was still awake at 4.00am then it was eardrops to do while I was a zombie! It isn't surprising you are very unsettled at times AnnG, it will take time.

Mandy how disappointing about the beef you were looking forward to. Still today's lunch sounds tasty. We are having fish and so called light chips with cauli bakes and peas. We are having the second turkey on OH's birthday so I wanted something quick and easy today. I must admit I have days feeling like that too! OH keeps out of the way! Lol. He was crowing how great his birthday lunch will be, but it's just more work when you are the one doing it. Still at least he appreciates it and will do some of the veg and wash up.

I think the 1921 census won't be released till next year will it? I was looking forward to it being sooner as well as my dad should be on it. OH has done most of ours Frank.

Good luck with the garden Mel, the sun's coming out here now so it may be quite nice outside. You didn't say what colour your shed will be.

Good morning all. I thought I had better pop in, I don't want you worrying.

Not a bad nights sleep, I was up just after 7.00 am. Ros came out just after 9.00 am

We have just had a coffee and a Bacon sarnie, that will see us through until this evenings meal. Roast Pork and all the trimmings.

I have just completed the 2021 Census. That's all done and dusted.I can't remember when we had the last one, or when there will bee another. Do any of you know. ???

Brightish sort of morning here, Cold, but didn't see any frost when I got up.

As usual, I haven't read any posts, but I assume you are all well.

Nothing planned for today, so it will be the paper and my book. BORING or what. lol lol

Stay safe, see you later. xxxx

Ohdear Mandy not a good day all round then. Feel a bit like that today because I am tired. At least I can't pick a fight with myself. well if i did I'd win.

Morning all,

Don't think we had a frost this morning but it's jolly cold out ,sun keeps trying to peep through the cloud .

I cooked roast beef last night was really looking forward to it but it was as tough as old boots ,I thought it would be as it was the other half of a bit I bought just before Christmas and that was tough , I don't think how ever it was cooked it would have got tender so that went in the bin .

Today we're having sausage ,bacon, mushrooms beans and tomatoes ,might do a few chips or sliced potatoes done on a tray in the oven .

Well I suppose it's another day of finding some thing to do ,yesterday I could have picked a fight with anybody I was just in that mind where nothing was right and the beef was the last straw , roll on the summer .

good morning all, bright and dry, maybe there was a light frost it wa -1 at 0800. 1 degree now.

I didn't have a particularly good night. went to sleep around 11, woke up at just gone 12, walked around, eventually back to sleep woke about 02.30 walked around and sat in my office for a while. Back to bed around 3 and woke at 0600.

Plenty to do here but not sure what I am going. to be doing One of those days I can't settle. I do have a load of washing in though.

Morning all,

Another hard frost but the suns burning it off slowly and it looks like it may be a nice day but is it cold out like yesterday??? Not been out yet so I could'nt tell you.

If its not too cold I shall go out in the garden and do a bit out there.

yea Annx worrying as you say.

Thank you Ann

I have emailed you the entry Mandy.

Has any one got access to Ancestry please ,

Could you look up Probate for
Queenie Louisa May Saunders Nee Cowling born 1902 Honiton Devon
Death 1971 England