The Ed asked me if I was keeping well when I posted a thread this morning

[dotty.]

I've been to bloody busy to notice if I was keeping well, I went to buy some oil for the car tonight after work, isn't oil expensive? £7 for a litre of GX something or other, it's cheaper than Bacardi, I need a Bacardi more than I needed oil, but the red oil light was coming on when I went round corners, and so I've probably done the right thing. So ed, I'm keeping well, but reluctantly teetotal.

[sandyRoe]

The Bicardi would have been nothing but a bad memory in the morning but the oil will still be there working away for you.
NIce to see you back, Dotty. :-)

[dotty.]

why where have I been? See, too bloody busy to notice where I am tut

[craft1948]

Hello dotty I've had an invite to help transcribe the 1940 US census...............have you heard anything about it?

[boxtops]

You haven't been posting much, dotty - noticeable by your absence :-)

[dotty.]

yes craft I tried to do some of it a few montsh ago, all the foreign names though and the writing was atrocious! I downloaded the first batch but it was reallt difficult to be sure of the real spellings, it did make me realise how easy it would have been for transcribers to make errors, the batch I was doing was from one of the New York districts, virtually impossible to make out some of the european names.

[dotty.]

boxy I've been busy with real life stuff, it's not as hectic at the minute though.

[craft1948]

Oh right..............thanks dotty I think I'll give it a miss.

[dotty.]

the photocopied cards were also very grainy and poorly copied when I looked craft, I spent so long trying to decipher the first couple and then I couldn't feel confident, and I can transcribe latin wills from the 1600s with no problem!

[AB Editor]

:)