Pen pals
Watch this postI have been pen palling for a while now does anyone else do this and is there somewhere on the site for this? It would be nice to write to people on here if they were interested.
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Have lots of relatives in Bloxwich - am doing my family tree 🙂
Pat 🙂
When did you move to Cyprus Pat?I often watch the T.V show,A place in the sun, and I've seen some lovely properties on their and better value than the UK.We have often said it would be nice to retire their,but I wondered how I would cope with the summer heat.I expect you get used to it eventually.My hubby has another 10 years to go at work anyway before we can move anywhere.
It will be nice when this lockdown is over so we can go out again and enjoy the summer,I hope it's not to bad where you are.Take care from Ann X
Well it would be if you like rain?
I knew I should've mowed the lawn a day ago... It's going to be wet for the next few days now.
Just to let you know my snail mail letter should be winging it's way to you as I 'speak'. It will be interesting how long it takes to reach you.
Catch you soon!
said he was not ready and this morning the secretary admitted she'd forgotten about it.
I used to live next to Walsall Lock and Cart Gear Ltd in Neale St.
I went to Wolverhampton Rd Primary, my sister went to the Primary and Senior so the senior would be the same as your mother. For my senior school I went to Edward Shelley High School in the Pleck.
I worked doing chemical analysis of the plating solutions for William Bates in Hospital Street. That lasted almost 18 months until I went into the WRAF at 18 and that, other than leave, was the last time I lived in Walsall.
I was posted around UK and then Cyprus where I met and married David. I have lived in Nottinghamshire most of my adult life and we came here to live 14 years ago.
To move here in summer is not a good idea. I was posted in July so was working next day after arrival in high temps. Ideally you start here in autumn and the winter will feel mild then the temp. gradually moves up. It's 22 C today but can reach high 30s mid August.
Don'ts here - don't follow the TV programmes, it's all tourist locations. We live in Kolossi - look on a map. We have much cheaper food etc. due to it being a normal village, even though we have a tourist spot of the castle (a keep really) and are near Kourion. Our council tax is just over a 100 euros and that includes a dog licence - THAT IS ANNUALLY, shouted it because I know most pay more than that per month in UK. Our last place in UK is over £2000 per year. Only get a place with a pool if you are prepared to pay for all the chemicals, electricity and hours of work to keep it clean. Remember there's a big pool only minutes away called the Med.. 🙂
I would suggest to anyone live a year in a place before burning your boats. Renting a year may seem expensive but you will see how you will cope. We knew from our 3 years here that we were OK with it. Also remember once used to the heat of the summer you feel the cold in winter. Some people go up the mountain to be cool in summer but then are cold all through winter. It snows up the mountain and many villages get snowed in. It's also misty up there and a pain to get shopping and medical help. I could go on but as it's only a thought I'll leave it there. We haven't regretted it.
Family History - my mother's family have lived for sometime in Walsall and I've found all my childhood I was stepping into the footsteps of my ancestors. Paddocks, Platts, Morris, Darbys, Caters all around me. Had 2 footballers in my maternal grandfather's family, one played for West Brom. the other for Birmingham City and Notts county - both Victorian era. I'm leader of the C3A family history group.
Daniel Darby, my 4th gt grandfather, was one of the founding fathers of Walsall leather trade. He died 1851 reasonably well off, I have his will, but with 10 children and over 70 grandchildren it didn't go far.
Deepmore Avenue - a good friend of mine lived there named Sheila Brisbourne, we were at Primary together and her mother worked at the Lock (how we referred to the factory next door). We saw each other on Sundays when we went to separate senior schools. Both went to Edward St Chapel off Pargeter St. 🙂
We are under stricter anti virus rules than you. We have only had 20 die and although nearly 900 cases of the virus it's in single figures now for new daily cases so we may have restrictions eased over the next few days.
Take care
Patx
Pat
Just been watching a place in the sun on TV,it was in Spain,it would be lovely if it were sunny here all the time to.Take care love Ann X
Oh and I enjoyed your "Goodness gracious me" clip earlier on the music thread.
Good to watch.
I hope Yodama has just got a cold and nothing serious.
Enjoy the sun. Remarkably (for this country) I am sporting a very good light golden tan from the last week or so in my garden (lots to do) We have been planting potatoes, peas and green beans and checking on all of the seedlings carrots, beetroots,leeks, sweetcorn, lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers amongst other things.
Having a break from it now, whilst it rains.
P.S I.meant to tell you ( as I' d read your post about the Birchill man/codebreaker.
I live in the town Alan Turing went to public school at (they filmed here with Benedict Cumberbatch playing him)
Have a nice evening Pat!
My mom's family in this Birchills were named Brown and my grand side were Webb, she had a brother in Raleigh street.My grandad was born in Charles Street.Its interesting tracing your family tree and belonging to the history society.
I belonged to Walsall U3A group for a while,I joined the gardening group but they lost their venue for meetings when the council decided to demolish the building and sell the ground for housing, after that the group dissolved sadly.Ive since joined a floristry group in Park Hall which I enjoy.
My mom worked in the leather trade many years there's not much of it left now sadly.The Birchills has completely changed now to how it was.My mom's aunt who never married was a Sunday school teacher at the mission near the navigation.My mom used to play on the coal barges near their in her Sunday best when she came out of Sunday school much to her mother's annoyance.
Hope you have a good week, take care from Ann X
I was at RAF Upavon near Upavon Wilts., went to Salisbury lots of times so not too far from where you are now. Lots of lovely open spaces.
Pat 🙂
My sister worked in the leather trade all her working life.
St Martin's Church Daffodil Rd C3A Walsall when I looked for my sister.
If you want a quick search done do a private letter with parents and grandparents and DOB or deaths and I'll tell we are related. Woman marrying alters names all the time.
The 1939 register has Browns born Ernest 1909 Florence 1908.
I love doing my tree.
Pat x
Pat x
How are you,I just dropped in to look at the comments on community site.
I'm Ann ,I'm married and 59
Do you still want someone to chat to
I've got 3 cats and I love animals and nature
Bye for now Ann
I am seeking a pen pal.
If you are interested in a bit of snailmail, please let me know.
M
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my interest are nature walks,reading,chatting,crocheting and several other things. Have you met many penpals?
Hope to hear back from you.
Thanks for getting in touch.Its lovely to hear from you.
I'm in bed at the moment. It's 10.20pm here in London in the UK.
I had a busy day so felt a bit tired so thought I'd have an early night. Too much excitement for an old girl.
If you don't mind can I get back to you tomorrow. Be nice to chat.
Hope you are well
All the best
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Cheers,
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So you want a penpal? Not sure if I will be ok for you as I am a rather boring person - but I will write a snippet and see what you think? I joined this site several years ago after someone recommended it for organised holidays for older people. As it happened the first day I logged on there was a holiday just perfect for myself and my husband. It was a coach tour around Sicily. This may sound horrible but I don't enjoy holidays with him as we have such different interests but I thought if it's organised, we may not argue about the what to do every day. So I booked it and off we went and it actually worked out ok. Sadly with Covid and other reasons I haven't really had a holiday since. Unless you count the odd times my daughter has invited me along with her for the odd weekends to help look after the children. Which I love doing.
I have visited the Silversurfers site the odd time since but never really found what I was looking for. To be honest, not sure what I was looking for! Today, I came on looking for a holiday for later in the year. Another totally organised one but sadly didn't find one. However, Penpal popped up and I thought mmmm.. give it a go. I think what caught my eye was the similarity of our hobbies (but not the old cars). My granddaughter asked for some dolly clothes and I got this odd idea of crocheting some. Well, I haven't done any since I was 14 when we all did poncho's! So my attempts were not great but she is happy and I really enjoyed doing outfits for all three of her babies. I also love dogs, and have a 13 year old working cocker who is adorable but deaf as a post and I also regularly dog sit my son's rescue Doberman. Sadly I lost mine two years ago at the sad age of 5. Again a rescue, which obviously had not been bred by decent people (this is me being very polite!).
Well, I think that is enough. How did I do?
Ruth
Nice profile!
Good that you're a writer.
Well done!
(I've written some (very very short) stories for kids .....unpublished).
I live in Perth, Australia.
Please feel free to drop me a line should you feel so inclined.
Best wishes,
James
The Ariadne handle is the one I use for my poetry . Proper name is Jacqui
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