Dear N korea and china , South Korea and the US please desist from kicking off WW3 until Watford have got promotion please.
Sæl öll. Cappuccino, coffee, tea donuts and fruit are on the bar. Frothy cappuccinos for for al, HH, Leon and W_Y A peppermint cappuccino for DanH Coffee and cramel frapachino for IB Coffees for COYH, Frenchie, Kev rob theo and vic-rijrode Strong coffee for Sandy Milky coffee for Yorkie Espresso for SuffolkHorn Strong black coffees for Bragi Norway and zen Black coffee half hot half cold and no sugar for Charlie Tea for BHD Cornish Mark jsybarry jerzeypie Lloydinio NZ BCFCRed and Minx Tea with skimmed milk and no sugar for GG Hot chocolate with marshmallows for BBW Caramel latte for Hornette and Maestro Una paloma for Mexican Hornet Raining today even if the veðurstofa says snow later. AK Extreme starts tomorrow, and the snow is going so the snowboarders will have a problem. Jethro Tull will play a concert in Akureyri on friday 7. júne and on saturday 8. they play Vestmannaeyjum so David James could go if ÃBV are playing on their field.
Morning all from a chilly West West London.... Firstly, many thanks for the kind messages, it is greatly appreciated. Even though it was expected, Mrs W_Y and Little Miss W_Y are quite devasted as they were very close, so we have some difficult days ahead. Also I am the executor of the estate, so will be very busy over the next few weeks. Again, many thanks for the messages. I see that Sky are bigging up the game on Saturday, interviewing Cardfiff players with a Watford connection last night - I expext the whole Malky thing will get a good going over as well!
I am sorry W_Y ... all the best for the next couple of weeks We have my dad 94 and my mum 91 here for my 60th..... they live on a day to day basis....with health being at the fore
Took Mrs L down to stay in Guildford for a few days to see the grandchildren on Tuesday - visited my Dad (in Watford on a day we were in Hull !!) who will be 90 this July - he walks rather badly having had Guillame Barre syndrome some years back but is otherwise in good shape - but you still make sure you visit whilst you still can
Just confirmed promotion to the Premier League will do - we don't want another bunch to cheat us out of it, in the way Arsenal cheated Spurs at the resumption of football in 1919.
Must be to promote their new album 'Songs from the Glacier' Never realised that they were still on the go - quite liked them back in the 70's.
Morning all, had to take Mme's car to the garage this morning as man at MOT station said that a couple of bits and pieces needed doing. It has taken a week to get the parts, whereas in England a garage can make a phone call and a spares factor will deliver them free of charge within an hour. When my mother passed away we had the job of going through all of her papers and photos. There were pictures of people taken before I was born and we wondered who they were. If only we had sat down with her and had her write on the back their names, but you only think of such things when it is too late.
I came across this on the Hull board - someone says they posted it to ours as well but I must have missed it. Shows what a good bunch the Hull fans are. "Football fans often rightly get criticized. However I would like to put on record my thanks to all the Hull City fans who last night helped my 90 year old mum after she tripped on a dodgy bumpy kerb and broke her right shoulder outside the KC stadium. She had to wait 30 minutes for an ambulance but they all took their coats off and helped me keep mum warm in the freezing cold. They knew we were Watford fans and our team had beaten theirs 1 nil. The St.Johns Ambulance guy was brilliant and probably saved my mum's life with adrenaline oxygen and motivating words until the ambulance turned up. I am glad to say that after spending a total of 8 hours in Hull and Cambridge Addenbrooks A+Es my mum seems to be on the mend but will need to have her right arm in a sling for several weeks. All the Hull fans I talked to were friendly as were all the helpful support staff in the Stadium. You are all a credit to your club and I hope Hull and Watford both go up this season." Nice to hear, I hope the Fail follow up on this one. Anyone on here help out?
I understand very well - it's even more frustrating when trying to do Family tree! Anyway, we are in La Belle France now, until 16th April. Unfortunately, I left your e-mail address on our home PC's, only have laptop here. If you could e-mail me (gd@uni etc)I could pick it up on my laptoop & we could chat. Trust you are keeping calm being at one remove from the action. I'm not. Cheers
Enjoyed watching Chris Gayle this afternoon...92 not out off 58 balls, limping throughout with a knee injury. Shades of Gordon Greenidge! And now it's Tendulkar and Ponting opening the batting together. Enough to confine me to the sofa until dinner...
Same here - when my mum died four years ago, we found four large photo albums full of unknown people. The only ones I recognised were two of my grandfather - one taken at the Quintinshill train disaster where he missed death by a whisker, and the other when he disembarked upon returning from Gallipoli swathed in bandages, also having missed death by a whisker. It leaves a bit of a hole inside when you realise that there is no-one to ask who the others were. It was brought home to me again recently when I read, for the first time in full detail, the story of Scott of the Antarctic. One of those who died bears a family name & comes from the same part of the world as my dad - but I've no-one to ask if there is a family connection.
This thread is making me realise that an idea of Mrs NZ is worth seriously considering. As part of my work I have funding to collect oral histories. These are specific to my work, but Mrs NZ has suggested that we start a business where we interview (generally older ) people about their lives and present an electronic voice recording to their families. It is also possibe to scan photographs into the recordings which can act as an aide de memoire for the interviewee. The object of the exercise is to provide people with the stories of their parents and grandparents before they leave us. Obviously we will have to package the whole thing nicely and provide formats that can be upgraded as technology changes. It would also be possible to transcribe the recordings into a book, but that would be expensive. Transcribing takes many hours. My initial thought would be to charge $NZ100 (about GBP50) an hour for the recoding and provide a memory stick and cd of the recording nicely packaged. Other things could be added at higher rates. Do you think there would be a market for this sort of thing? Obviously you can't comment on the New Zealand market but do you thnk that people would pay that in the UK?
I think it is a good idea NZ and the cost sounds reasonable. Lady I used to know in UK painted peoples pets, on canvas of course, and charged between £150 and £200 per picture and she could hardly keep up with the demand. The village school there did a project on interviewing the oldest inhabitants and the material from that was later used in a village history book. The book did have to go for a re-print, so people do want to keep the past alive.
