General Chat

I've seen threads from other members about it and they have all said that if you joined with 12 months subscripton then that's what you get when you renew. I don't because they changed their policy before I took out membership.

It will be interesting to see what they have to say.

Maybe your time of subscription is proportionate to the number of whinging messages you send GR or the amount of trouble you cause them with ridiculous complaints and problems. She asks, waving to the crowd!!!

You stick to your guns Aunty!!

Where is HRH hanging out tonight? Oh I know, bet she's gone to inspect the grounds in all their glory of blue and purple!!

Bet LGs going a bit red round the gills too!!!

Boooooooooo. Just been dashing around repainting everything Red and white again. Gone and got paint all over my footie shirt now LOL. That's your fault Aunty thats a new shirt RED AND WHITE !!!!!! you owe me.LOL

Got my girls staying overnight tonight so bedtime was a bit manic LOL

I prefer blue and purple!!

Well I dont LOL. Ava has been walking around waving the scarf and shouting Yay. What good taste my Grandaughter has.LOL

Doh! Just hit me ----- our flag is RED AND WHITE Is that what you're talking about repainting????????????

No RMS, I wouldn't let LG loose with your beautiful maple leaf. I am very fond of the Canadian flag.

Although it would be much improved if it wasn't red and white!! Too much of a reminder of that SOCCER team!!

Evening RMS.

What's wrong with them then YG ?

What's right with any football team!!! And I hate red!!

When Canada adopted the flag in 1965 one of the choices was blue and white, not sure why 'they' picked red

Some soccer teams are ok.

In my eyes only one soccer team is ok LOL.

Anyway best change subject as YG hates it. LOL.

I am off to bed know as no doubt I will be awoken quite early by the pattering of tiny feet. Well not exactly tiny LOL. Catch you all again soon,nite nite sleep well x

I think red is more striking than blue!

It's sentimental to me, I have met some wonderful Canadians and I have a very good friend in BC.

I'm gone too LG!! It's late for me, even though I can sleep in for a while in the morning.

Sleep well, nite nite xx

Hey we're ALL WONDERFUL but we just don't shout it from the rooftop like some countries.

Nite Nite everybody from Wonderful BC

I love you lot. We can take the mickey out of each other, sling off at our unfavourite footy ahem soccer teams, paint the town red and white, agree to disagree and still wish each other a fond good evening.

L and YG back to your corners this instant. Now just behave. You will all be tucked up in your little beds by the time I post this.

Except for you RMS. And I am never certain when you lot go to bed always get it mixed up.

On the subject of Red and White and flags here is a potted history of the Canadian flag. I will be asking questions in the morning so take note of the details.

Stolen from google of course.

The National Flag of Canada, also known as the Maple Leaf, and l'Unifolié (French for "the one-leafed"), is a red flag with a white square in its centre, featuring a stylized 11-pointed red maple leaf. Its adoption in 1965 marked the first time a national flag had been officially adopted in Canada to replace the Union Flag.

In 1964, Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson appointed a committee to resolve the issue, sparking a serious debate about a flag change. Out of three choices, the maple leaf design by George F. G. Stanley and John Matheson based on the flag of the Royal Military College of Canada was selected. The flag made its first appearance on February 15, 1965; the date is now celebrated annually as National Flag of Canada Day.


The length of the Maple Leaf flag is twice the width. The white field is a Canadian pale (a square central band in a vertical triband flag, named after this flag), and each bordering red field is exactly half its size. In the centre of the white field is a red maple leaf. In heraldry, the flag has been blazoned as "Gules on a Canadian pale argent a maple leaf of the first."
The maple leaf has served as a symbol celebrating the nature and environment of what is now Canada since the 1700s. The number of points on the leaf has no significance on the flag; they do not, for instance, represent the ten provinces plus one point for the territories, such as the Australian Commonwealth Star denotes.

The number and arrangement of the points of the maple leaf were chosen after wind tunnel tests showed the current design to be the least blurry of the various designs when tested under high wind conditions. The image of the maple leaf used on the flag was designed by Jacques Saint-Cyr.
In 1921, King George V proclaimed the official colours of Canada as red, from Saint George's Cross, and white, from the French royal emblem since King Charles VII.

By the 1960s debate for an official Canadian flag intensified and became a subject of controversy, culminating in the Great Flag Debate of 1964. In 1963, the minority Liberal government of Lester B. Pearson gained power, and decided to adopt an official Canadian flag through parliamentary debate. The principal political proponent of the change was Prime Minister Lester Pearson. He had been a significant broker during the Suez Crisis of 1956, for which he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

During the crisis, Pearson was disturbed when the Egyptian government objected to Canadian peacekeeping forces, on the grounds that the Canadian flag (the Red Ensign) contained the same symbol (the Royal Union Flag) also used as a flag by the United Kingdom, one of the belligerents. Pearson's goal was for the Canadian flag to be distinctive and unmistakably Canadian.

The main opponent to changing the flag was the leader of the opposition and former prime minister, John Diefenbaker, who eventually made the subject a personal crusade.

Pearson was leader of a minority Government and risked losing power over the issue; however, he knew the Red Ensign with the Union Jack was unpopular in Quebec, a Liberal base of support. The Red Ensign was strongly favoured by English Canada.

On May 27, 1964, Pearson's minority Liberal government introduced a motion to Parliament for adoption of his favourite design of a "sea to sea" (Canada's motto) flag with blue borders and three conjoined red maple leaves on a white field. This motion led to weeks of acrimonious debate in Parliament, and the design came to be known as the "Pearson Pennant".[20] Diefenbaker demanded a referendum be held on the flag issue, but Pearson instead formed a 15-member multi-party parliamentary committee to select a new design. Through a period of study with political manoeuvring, the committee chose the current design, which was created by George F.G. Stanley and inspired by the flag of the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario. The design was approved unanimously by the committee on October 29, 1964, and later passed by a majority vote in the House of Commons on December 15, 1964. The Senate added its approval two days later.

Queen Elizabeth II proclaimed the new flag on January 28, 1965. It was inaugurated on February 15, 1965, at an official ceremony held on Parliament Hill in Ottawa .

Silly person, we go to bed when it is dark outside and wake up when it is light

See -----------> its dark now so I will Night Night

Testing testing tick tock tick tock

So when you posted that it was 04.55 by the GR clock. It is now 0.725 by the GR clock and 17.55 by my clock.

It is still Friday 15 Jan where you are about 23.28 or 11.30 at night. Which means give or take an hour or two of daylight saving time you must be about 18 hours behind us. Almost a whole day behind.

Which makes sense because you are the other side of the the GMT line and the world rotates that way...

So they are just getting up, lazy lot, I have just finished eating my tea and you should have been in bed an hour ago, unless of course you're out partying on Friday night. Whoops, forgot about the snow. You are going to have to run very quickly to catch up with us.

Hey, if I tell you what the lotto numbers are tonight, you could put a lotto entry in with those numbers because you will have them several hours before the draw. Let me think about this for a minute...........

Lol- aunty! If the prediciton of the Lotto numbers was feasable, we would have been on to that a long time ago!

Oh, and we have no more snow in this part of the UK, except the melting snowmen (some with Arsenal scarves!) and the pile where my neighbour decided to clear the road in front of his drive.