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I hear ya Steve...it has been very boring with no where to go with the shut down. What do you like to do when you are home?

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Just wanted to say hi. Always happy to chat.

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Hi Charles I'm 56 and from the north east I am new to silver surfers and I'm just here to make friends as I'm currently suffering from empty nest syndrome I like to read books go out to the country side and enjoy our beautiful countryside and i wouldnt love anything more than been able to enjoy that with friends from the website as currently it is just me and my 18 year old son who I love dearly but would like to meet some friends x

Hi Suzy and what a beautiful name and I will be proud to have a name like that. It is my first time in a site like this and actually I registered in Silversufers perhaps I am bored. At the moment I am not in U.K.. I am in Panama, was traveling in Central America for the last 2 years. Before the coranavirus started I was planing to return to U.K. but it did not happen. Then everything came to a standstill. Panama acted very fast when the coranavirus hit USA. Panama imposed whole day curfew since end of February we under curfew. They shut the Airport and no comercial flight in and out of Panama. They take it serious and protect us with curfew and only controlled and restricted time out to do grocery shopping. By acting fast Panama minimize the damage from coranavirus. Panama Government hopes to open the Airport by end of this month. They want to start with comercial flights very slowly. I hope by July or August to be back in U.K. I am enjoying here, I am in a remote area and I do not notice that the world is suffering from a pandemic until I watch the news. I have hot sunny weather I lay in my hammock the whole day dreaming. When I leave I will miss the sun, the food, fruit, the country, the Panamanians,and naturally my hammock. I love to travel and love to see other cultures. Before coming here I was in a Greek Island called Evia for about an year. So that is enough about me. boring I would say.
How about you, do you travel.? I can understand empty nest syndrome it would drive me mad.. wow beautiful country side I am a keen photographer, do you take pictures. ? Do you have only your Son? I have 2 grown up children they live in Germany, you maybe asking why in Germany because I lived in Germany 30 years. I have a granddaughter too 3 years old. I am divorced long time ago but I have a very good contact to my children we visit very often. Is your son studying?Mothers always love their sons don’t I know that I love kids .you are right, you have to find a little bit of time for your friends.
I hope I am not boring you with a long message.
Hoping to hear from you again.
Please take care and be safe.
Charles

Hi Suzy

I hope I did not scare you with my long reply. It was not my intention.
Hope you are doing fine?
Take care and be safe.

Hi Charles, what a good year to be born....same as me , I'm new to this so I'm just " dipping my toe" just to see how easy things are on here,
Wish me luck!!!
Jenny

Hi Jenny
Thank you and yes it is a lovely year to be born. I joined about 4 months ago I am new too. I am sure you will be alright here and find friends to chat about anything.
I wish you all the luck to settle here and enjoy your time..
We have to start new things sometimes and if we don’t try it we will never know.
Take care and be safe
Regards
Charles

Hi Charlesb, Thankyou, you are right. we all have to start new things, be a little brave, its nice to chat and read what other people are up to, although my things are quite boring!,
kind regards
Jenny

Hi Jenny

One thing you should not do it Is to underestimate yourself. How do you know if I find you boring.? Have faith in you girl and I say you are not boring I am not telling you to write you whole life story here.. I like to know about you in your own time please. I find you interesting and come on prove me wrong

Take care and be safe

Kind regards
Charles

Hi, I think you forget how to communicate spending so much time alone, don't get me wrong I quite like my life, my daughters on holiday so I drove to hers and put the bins in,( last year someone tried to break in), she lives about 6miles from me, one neighbour then no one for about 1\2 mile, it was lovely 3 deers jumped out a little way in front of me as I got there, we go for some lovely walks, but that's not really socialising
Regards Jenny

Hi Jenny is this message for me? Because I did not speak about socializing, I am a bit puzzled with your answer? Anyway interesting to know what you have written, it seems a lovely place where your daughter lives to see deers jumping in front of you. It is certainly better than city lives. Unfortunately thieves are every where I think even if you go the moon you will find thieves. It is not only virus you have to think about humans too because they are capable of behaving like a virus.

Be safe and take care

Regards
Charles

Hi Pat, This lock down is depressing with not being able to go out...

You live in a lovely part of the world, I've never been out of the UK..

I read a lot and love Lee Child.. Jack Reacher books...

Kate

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Hello Kate,

I down loaded a couple of books and told book club I'm reading them this month - boy I know how to chose them - both about the plague!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I also do family history so can disappear for hours up my tree 🙂

Very restricted here but it's working - only 13 deaths.

I was in the WRAF and was posted here in 1970 and fell in love with the place. My husband was made redundant and we had planned to retire here but a little later - a quick sort out of finances and we decided we would retire early to here. My husband has a bad back and the warmth here suits him better than the damp of UK.

Lots of UK tourists normally here. No tourists allowed at the moment. The majority of the tourists are British.

Have a look on Google or you search engine for Kolossi and Kourion to see the locality I live in.

Stay safe

Pat 🙂

Hi Island Pat,
Just looked up on Google where in Cyprus you are. That is a beautiful place. Here in the New England area of United States the coast is also very dramatic. We spend a lot of time driving into Maine and discovering new coves. Things are getting semi-back to normal here. Not really a touristy area where I’m from but a lot of businesses are just opening up.Both my wife and I are in the healthcare business working in hospitals. I retired last August and have enjoyed a Perdiem status. We intend to start traveling soon as she is a little younger than I and still working.

Hello,

Yes we fell in love with Cyprus in the early 1970s when my husband and I were both posted here and met here. We always said it was our ideal place to retire. Some of the areas are very touristy but we live away from those areas although we do get tourists visiting our local castle and the Roman remains at Kourion

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kourion

The theatre is still in use wonderful acoustics no microphones required every word or musical note heard.

Where do you intend to go to when you start visiting places?

Pat 🙂

Scotland, Norway, southeast Ireland. Apparently family originated there. Mayo county. We love off the beaten path. Not into large cities. Now just trying to travel to New England Camden soon for a getaway. I read to many stories from on your side and quickly become energized. The show Shetland gives me scenes that I would love to visit.
Bruce9999

Scotland is beautiful, have you watched Local Hero with Burt Lancaster, I've stood in that bay - it's at Pennan. Trouble is the weather 🙂 My husband used to go up to Scotland for work and sometimes went to the Shetlands on the car wash ferry - local joke.

I was born in the centre of England - Walsall near Birmingham, the area was the industrial centre of UK. I lived most of my adult life in Nottinghamshire, the last 14 yrs in UK near the famous Sherwood Forest.

I am doing my family history, my maternal grandfather had an Irish mother, My gt gt grandparents came from Tuam in Galway. My husband's gt grandmother came from Blackpool, Cork.

In UK I'd also look at Wales, the Lake District and Yorkshire as being to your liking. Have you ever seen All Creatures Great and Small - the TV series, now that showed you Yorkshire.

Can't help with Norway though.:)

Pat 🙂

We have not seen local hero, but will check it out. Have watched Hinterland which is based in Wales. Beautiful scenery.

Our ancestors apparently came from Nottingham area ( probably too broad for exacts) according to my grandma. My grandfather was orphaned and left at a home in Canada after traveling from England with his mom. Hard to get completed tree line.

Newfoundland is probably were we will travel to in spring once the border between US and Canada re- open. Until then, it’s trips to New England for stress release.

Still working a little at hospital. Cardiology. Semi- retired. Have to stop answering phone when they call for help.

Reading DCI book based out of Norfolk. Always google map area to understand story. Also Cardiff on Doc Martin is on the list.

So many places, so little time.

Morning, hope you and yours area all well.

A bit confused with Cardiff and Doc Martin as Cardiff is in Wales and Doc Martin is set in Cornwall.

I was sent to Cornwall for 10 weeks in summer by the WRAF (Women's Royal Air Force). Such a hardship :).

Terrible when work gets in the way of retirement 🙂 I suppose at the moment it's all hands on deck. We have been lucky here as we went into island isolation straight away and only repatriations allowed in with 14 days isolation using the empty hotels as isolation units. We are now getting back to normal - whatever that is.

UK has so much history. York is wonderful, We used to live in Newark on Trent in Nottinghamshire, a historic town itself with what's left of a castle where King John died. Oliver Cromwell punished the town in the 1600s by destroying most of the castle. Lovely old town centre. From Newark it was easy to get to York by train and I'd often take my 2 children to there in the summer holidays. There is so much to see, York has history from Roman times through the Vikings to more recent history. Take a walk around the place on Google, some terrific buildings and of course York Minster in Deangate.

I love Nottinghamshire, our children live there still, although both do a lot of travelling in their work. Son is an executive chef so not doing much work at the moment but normally he has to go around all the restaurants in the East Midlands for company he works for. Daughter is a civil engineer and area director of the East Midlands. At the moment she's in charge of a road widening scheme in Leicestershire (pronounced Lestersheer). She has been a key worker through lock down so has had to go to make sure the work progressed with the people keeping the required distance - not easy for those working on the road.

Americans tend to emphasise the word shire at the end of some UK county names and say it as shire, the Brits say sheer with no emphasis on it. Some place spelling seems to have nothing to do with the pronunciation :). Do as the rest of us do - go along with the locals.

Lived in Norfolk for a short time - not a fan, very flat, gets cold and very damp in winter. I have also lived just outside Salisbury so visited the wonderful cathedral many times, Salisbury is close to Stonehenge. Lived near Oxford as well, went on a tour around the university. Well my friend and I tagged on to the end of a tourists tour around Oxford and the university. We disappeared as the tour guide started to do a head count when they were going back to the coach :).

I come from near where Peaky Blinders is set, pity none of the actors have managed to get the Brummie accent correct. I can't watch it as their accents upset me too much.

Any hint at all where in Nottinghamshire your relatives are from? It has many villages and not many towns. Nottingham itself is famous for lace making. Coal mining area as well as agriculture. Clothes and nylons/tights making in more recent times.

You can always give me a few names and I'll try to find some information.

Off to get lunch ready. Keep safe.

Pat 🙂

You are correct. Cornwall, not Cardiff. Port Isaac actual. All look scenic.

Just returned from Maine. Father and mother grew up there. Older brother lived in cabin build by my dad when he was 18. Now my brother has built a post and beam house so we visit when we can.
This area of Maine consists of PHD lecturers to lobstermen. All ready to give opinions on our political quagmire.

My other brother runs an Apple orchard that he married into. Tough business with long seasons. 3000-4,000 trees.

We live in upstate New York right next to the Vermont border. Adirondack park with 650,000 acres within day traveling distance for mountaineer ing. 46 peaks above 3,000 feet which many hikers try to accomplish. Maybe with retirement, I'll give a couple a shot.

We have 4 kids between us. Second marriage. All live close by. 3 grandchildren. 2yrs, 9 months and a newer one at 4 weeks. They all keep us busy on the weekends!

Joined a group on Facebook that discusses BBC shows and such. Interesting how well written your mysteries are. Many in the states agree that American tv is not worth watching. I agree.

I will rummage thru my mother's information of our family tree and see what I can decipher from the notes. It would be interesting to get a new perspective on our past from someone who lives in the area.

Take care of you and yours,
Thanks for listening
Bruce

Sorry for delay answering Bruce been busy and had a funeral that was the 2nd death of friends in 4 weeks then another a week ago. None due to the virus.

Unable to got to 2 of the funerals as not here. Our friend here wasn't unexpected as he had dementia and he deteriorated very quickly in the last 3 months. It was a release from a dreadful situation, he was unable to move and stricken with several infections, one after another. He hadn't known who his wife was for over 6 months.

The area you live in and vacation in sound lovely. Went on a holiday to the Hereford area as a child and saw lots of apple trees - they were cider apples belonging to Bulmer's Cider.

UK is small compared to the USA, I have been to almost every county in England and Wales and some in Scotland. I love the countryside and although born in an industrial area have really enjoyed living in the countryside - in UK living out in the sticks. lol

I have a sister who lives not far from where she was born and has only had a passport for 3 years. Her son took her for 2 weeks to France and I managed to talk her into flying back here with me after I visited UK 2 years ago. As you may guess we are very different.

I would love to help you with your family history, I love doing research.

Hope you and yours are safe and well.

Pat 🙂

Hi Pat
I am new hear, and found your post interesting, although I don't live in Cyprus, I have a holiday home there in Kiti.I will look up where you are. I have not been there this year due to Covid but maybe in a couple of months.

Niru

Hello,

I'm somewhat west of your holiday home. 🙂 The far side of Limassol to you.

It's hot at the moment. Not many able to come to the island as restrictions still on. They were very quick to isolate us here. Covid 19 -19 deaths and just over 1000 infected.

Hope you get to your holiday home soon, when do you normally come here?

We stay away from tourist areas in the summer but doesn't matter so much at present. Have you ever been to Kourion as we live not far from there?

Have been around the Kiti area, not much of a journey to and from the airport for you. Most of our relatives and friends come into Paphos which is our nearest airport by about 12 minutes so almost equidistant.

Nice to meet you.

Pat

I have just finished my latest Lee Child book, The Midnight Line. Would like to read all 26 during lockdown but only managed to get hold of 6 before Lockdown. Most of our charity shops still not open, i work for our Local hospice shop and still waiting to re-open.

Hello,

I've just finished a Lesley Cookman - Murder Repeated and now starting of A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes.

Two very different books but I like that. I have a free kindle app. on my laptop, books in English here are too limited.

Most places here in Cyprus are now open. Severe restrictions at first made sure the virus was contained. The airports were shut and we even got a 9 pm curfew.

Stay safe

Pat

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Hi Kate,
I am new here too. I am looking to make new friends..
I live in NC... Where do you live? I am divorced. I do not have any children , but I enjoy working with children everyday in my job.
I would enjoy chatting with you ..

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Hello there ,

We are very similar in our situations ,except I have one son and two long distance grand children.
Life does get rather lonely , am so looking forward to the end of July . Am well kitted out for a visit into town . One or two places I need to pop into.
If you are free please drop me a line ......

Best wishes

Jo.

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Hi Nartane,
Nice to meet you. It’s raining here in New York, but that should resolve itself in a couple hours. I get a chance to walk a lot and cycle as my friend pushes me to stay in shape. Some days there is not enough Tylenol in the medicine cabinet! I read many books and stay active with grandchildren and my wife who is a little younger than I and still works full-time. Feel free to write back.