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Messages - madammagician

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The Lighter Side / Re: 96 years ago
« on: Monday 16 April 07 16:01 BST (UK)  »
My great aunt is 102 this year and still as sharp as pin! I love listening to her tales of childhood in London.They were VERY poor, there lodgings burnt down when she was about 10 and they were homeless! The red cross fed them! Her aunt wanted to take her to America to start a new life in 1912 but her parents wouldn`t let her go and the ship that she would have sailed on sank on it`s maiden voyage!( I realised she was talking about the Titanic)She would follow the friut and veg barrows and when no one was looking would cut the bags open with a knife to let all the fruit fall on the floor and as it did her "gang" would grab the fruit and run!It was how they survived! she said she was ALWAYS hungry!

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The Lighter Side / Re: Family Heirlooms - what would you have liked?
« on: Tuesday 20 March 07 10:36 GMT (UK)  »
My mum and dad inherited my great grans HUGE Mahogony bed, it was lovely! but they gave it to my cousin when he got married so that they could buy a modern bed!I would have loved to have had that!Luckily i have great grans bookcase with ball and claw feet.

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The Lighter Side / Re: Bizarre Requests on wills
« on: Monday 26 February 07 14:16 GMT (UK)  »
coralc, ;D just what you want to inherit! a MANURE PIT!

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The Lighter Side / Re: Bizarre Requests on wills
« on: Monday 19 February 07 14:52 GMT (UK)  »
There is a well known fella from my neck of the woods name of Henry Trigg who put in his will that he did not under any circumstances wanted to be buried! supposedly he had had an encounter in the local church yard with a grave robber.So when Henry dies he is put in the rafters of his barn!And there he stays until someone refurbishes the barn and finds his coffin!The irony is that when the bones where looked at they were of a dog so poor henry had been snatched after all!

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Wigtownshire / Re: Galoway Irish?
« on: Friday 16 February 07 16:02 GMT (UK)  »
sandheadlass thank you so much for the explanation!  ;D

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The Lighter Side / Re: Funniest mistranscription?
« on: Friday 16 February 07 15:48 GMT (UK)  »
 ;D ;D my name is fannina oompla, i am a housebreaker and i live in footspray! ;D ;D

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The Lighter Side / Re: Excuse me while I rant about....
« on: Friday 16 February 07 12:27 GMT (UK)  »
 ;D ;D sorry betty but fanina oompla! this could end up being a thread for the funniest mis transcriptions!

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The Lighter Side / Re: Excuse me while I rant about....
« on: Thursday 15 February 07 21:19 GMT (UK)  »
betty i did a lookup for glen yesterday Name Westlake was transcribed as kresleke! ???

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Wigtownshire / Galoway Irish?
« on: Thursday 15 February 07 13:59 GMT (UK)  »
My father kept telling me that his ancestors from Penninghame, Wigtonshire were Galoway Irish, Were thay origionally from Ireland?I am not sure what he ment? ???

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