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   "max.it"  wrote in message   
   news:54f0f873.54951890@news.aioe.org...   
   > On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 17:55:44 -0500, "Mary"  wrote:   
   >   
   >>"max.it"  wrote in message   
   >>news:54f0e881.50870187@news.aioe.org...   
   >>> On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 16:47:48 -0500, "Mary"  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>>"max.it"  wrote in message   
   >>>>news:54f0dcb6.47851015@news.aioe.org...   
   >>>>> On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 16:05:34 -0500, "Mary"  wrote:   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>>I wanted to see if this got posted. I haven't seen any posts on any of   
   >>>>>>the   
   >>>>>>newsgroups I usually check for the last 3 days.   
   >>>>>>Is this the end?   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>>Mary   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> I've been sick, but lurking on the ng. It's a bit slow.   
   >>>>   
   >>>>Not just slow in my case - but non existent for the past few days on the   
   >>>>several active groups I still check.   
   >>>>I hope you soon recover from your illness. Spring will soon be here :<)   
   >>>>   
   >>>>Mary   
   >>   
   >>> Spring has hit Co Armagh already, the tits are collecting nesting   
   >>> stuff, and the song birds are making a racket and courting. This is   
   >>> the tough time for the birds, the food stores are gone and the new   
   >>> source of food is only just beginning.   
   >>   
   >>Birds always seem to manage to get food somewhere and start new   
   >>generations.   
   >>   
   >>I've never been to Ireland. Where is Co Armagh? My grandfather (mother's   
   >>father) was born in Ballymena, N. Ireland and moved to Scotland as a young   
   >>man and married my Scottish grandmother. I never knew him as he died   
   >>before   
   >>I was born. He was our only relative not born in Scotland. My mother and   
   >>father's side were Scottish and went back many generations to the 1700's   
   >>and   
   >>probably beyond. My father was born in Argyll. I did some genealogy a   
   >>while   
   >>ago to see how far back my Irish grandfather's ancestry went in Ireland,   
   >>and   
   >>found out the name of his mother and father, both born in Ballymena but   
   >>that's as far as I got.   
      
   > Armagh is a border county (uk side), the orange county, the orchard of   
   > Ireland. It is where the orange order was formed, and for good measure   
   > orange is also the county colour for gaelic games and other not so uk   
   > activities.> Ballymena is the big Presbyterian stronghold, they speak with   
   > a kind   
   > of Scottish accent. Anywhere in the north east of Ireland is just like   
   > Scotland.   
      
   I can believe that. Many people from North east Ireland came from Scotland   
   during the Highland Clearances according to history. I suspect the ancestors   
   of my Irish grandfather could have migrated to N. Ireland from Scotland a   
   long time ago and still be in Ireland. My grandfathers last name was quite a   
   common Scottish name and his mother's name is not that common in Scotland   
   but originally said to come from Strathclyde,Glasgow and Renfrewshire areas   
   but their ancestors could have lived in Ireland for many years many years   
   ago. I only know about my grandfather and his parents that they were all   
   born in N. Ireland.   
      
   >>In Toronto, spring won't be here for a while. Feb. is always a cold month   
   >>but this year, its been freezing every day and only one more day to go   
   >>before Feb. ends. Maybe it will be spring after that. In the summer here,   
   >>its very hot, so I don't mind the winter though it gets tedious. Not a lot   
   >>of snow so far, but extremely cold winds.   
      
   > I always remember February being cold and horrible, but spring is   
   > arriving earlier, and it only takes a bit of sunshine to get the   
   > insects and birds going, and the wives with their grand plans for the   
   > garden that they expect the cripple to accomplish ;) As a new over 50   
   > year old customer I get 10% discount from the diy store - they are   
   > trying to kill me!!   
      
   haha.Surely you are not a cripple. If you are just 50 you should still be in   
   good shape to get your garden planted with spring flowers and after that,   
   plant summer flowers.   
   We are supposed to be getting better weather next week.Hopefully we will get   
   out of the deep freeze. It has been the coldest winter for many years. the   
   sun has been out a lot of days, and makes you think its warm outside till   
   you go out.   
      
   I am trying to guess what diy means. Discount something? We don't usually   
   get discounts here till we are 60 at the earliest, usually 65.   
      
      
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