General Chat

Yvonne. you a Berkhamsted girl too? Ohhhhhhhhh!! You'll get me started on how much Berkhamsted has changed next! My mum and dad are still in Northchurch

Just picked up on this thread whilst on holiday in France, so can't get to Hemel I'm afraid. I worked in Marlowes for four years at the Ministry of Transport building (Department of the Environment) back in the 1970s and yes Jess I do remeber the tube thing that went across the road, I used it often. Never actually lived in Hemel, I used to bus in from Berkhamsted and then drive from Leighton Buzzard, but still go there shopping and to consult the records in the library there as alot of my family were from that area. Hope you all have a good time. When I retire next year I may be able to join in some of these goings-on. Best wishes, Yvonne

Andy Glad you found & liked the Waterend Barn. It wasn't raining then was it? Hope you enjoyed the theatre too! Penny

Thanks for the thought Andy....use to hang out in hemel like all the time,i revisited last year omg how much it has changed....

Incidentally Penny the Waterend Barn in St Albans was just the ticket!

Maybe next time Queen?

OMG,,hemel hempsted,i come from Berkhamsted but now live in Blackpool :(((((( would loved to of come for coffee...

Re age, 59 last May!

lol Jess I cant wait to come down to Hemel I will be joining in with chatting up some of the Local talent aswell being a single mum nothing like a bit of flirting to make you feel good lol Lesley :~)

mini meet? sound like it was a mini riot!! Will request a copy of the Gazette this week me thinks, and see if there any warnings about strange women in the vacinity of the Water Gardens trying to pick up men on Bicylces. jess x

I thought Penny was 30 because she types young. I did have fun though with the men on their own, especially the German who I struck up a good chat with, and we could have had coffee together, he lives in St. Albans and works in Hemel. I am 60 by the way - and definitely can't believe it. What Penny is too polite to tell you, is that two of my friends, mother and daughter, saw me and plonked themselves down with us - but Penny was included in the conversation and she is easy going anyway. Thanks again for a pleasant couple of hours Penny. Just sorry that we didn't see Andy - although I was eyeing up all the single men..........maybe another day........everyone welcome.......

Hi LL It will be good to meet you on another mini meet. Sally , for some reeason thought I was 30 :-) but I'm 38 :-( I'll let Sally tell you her age. It would be good to know Andy's as we/Sally were picking on all single men :-)

Hi again All Sorry I didnt reply earlier But I couldnt stop laughing at the vision of you looking at everyone and talking about GR lol....No really I had to go out and take my Daughter to her dads house for the night.... I bet they thought *Just another Nutter in Hemel* lol I would love to meet up with you when Me & Daughter come down to see my dad Hopefully it will be this summer hols ...she starts College in Sept so would like to get down before then...I def not be having Iced Coffee the sound of it makes me feel ill lol I will stick to Nescafe thanxs lol I have not got the nerve to go to a BIG meet as I dont speak to loads of people on here...I dont really join in on the Generals Board as it gets to nasty and Emotional for my liking ...Im usually on Tips or Records Not trying to sound Cheeky but How old is everyone? I will be the BIG 40 in January OMG OMG OMG although I dont act it lol Lesley :~)

Well Penny, if it happens again I'll make sure you can recognise my unrememberable moosh, if only to save embarrassment to yourselves and innocent male passers by!

Oh Andy Sally was asking all single men if they were from GR!!! We'll ask you for a description of yourself next time!!!!

Many apologies, for not being there folks, eldest daughter wanted to get her hair cut 11.30 in Berko, so I ended up walking young Christie down the towpath in her pushchair feeding the ducks! Someone please give me a nudge if there is another meet! Added by J e S S on 03/07/2006 21:42:27 Did you go to school in Hemel to Andy? No Jess, first of all Pinner, West Lodge, then Headstone Lane SM followed by Bushey Meads SM when we moved from Pinner to Bushey. When we were first married we went to Lovely Luton, then as the kids approached school age I didn't want them to go to school there so we moved to Hemel in '76.

Hello Glad you got home alright. I just thought we should have taken some pictures & posted them like all the other meets do!!! Good job you were confident & telling a stranger looking for a young (thanks) lady from St Albans or else we might still be looking for each other & andy!!! Look forward to the next one - but not iced coffee !! Penny

See I can't even get the poor man's name right....its Andy...not Alan.......

I feel at home with Penny, she is easy to get on with.... we sit outside in the sun, and order a couple of iced coffees.......then along comes my friend and her daughter, they sit with us and the chat turns to medical problems and horses........ Thank you Penny....it was lovely meeting you and seeing the pictures of your two lovely boys.......I am really glad to have met someone off the board..........a face to a name, so to speak......this has given me the impetus to join in a larger meet, that someone with a bit more savvy than me has arranged..... ...to Alan......I'm sorry if you are wandering around the precinct still......I did look out for you.........

think..........right, approach the man and ask him if he belongs to GR........no, he doesn't.....quick explanation as to who GR are....then whilst we are talking up comes this younger lady, so I think that she must be Penny........I ask her,......she says 'no - Dad, I can't leave you alone for five minutes and you're picking up ladies' - quick explanation about Genes Reunited......and I move on. Lady goes into Starbucks, looks lost, looks round as if she is meeting someone......approach her........she wasn't amused......went onto another lone lady.........no.........by this time the first man and his daughter are laughing at me.......I decide to hang around in the vicinity and make a mental note that I am not really cut out for this. I then see this lady.....again quick explanations about GR and ancestors and things - and I am talking about meeting this lady from St. Albans, when up comes Penny and says hello. Sorry Alan, if you did turn up.....I did try......there was this chap on a bike........all done up in cycling gear.......but he was German, so after some chat about Nuremberg and the football, and how he works at Hemel Hospital and lives at St. Albans....Penny and I at last meet and sit down for coffee.....