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General Category => NEW MEMBERS! Introduce yourselves here! => Topic started by: Beverly Kohn(Thompson) on October 14, 2008, 08:38:09 AM
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Hello, My name is Beverly Kohn and hope to find everyone fine this morning. It has taken me awhile to post because I am new to the computer also! I joined Clan MacTavish-Thompson in 2007 at the Glasgow games in Ky. and was really impressed with the people I met there. Disappointed in the events afterward but I think everyone's made the right decisions since then concerning getting back to our own roots and finding out the truth of our history! I will give a little back ground of family at a later date and even though we haven't found out alot, maybe it will help. I hate to introduce myself and turn around and ask for help,but, my sister and her husband are traveling to England for a business trip and will have time to tour England and Scotland for awhile and are having trouble finding accommodations in London for less than $400.00 u.s., does anyone have any ideas? That is for 3 days. I appreciate any help as they are leaving on the 24th of this month. They have plans to stay in Gloucester for their business meetings and then are going to Edinburgh and the Isle of Skye to tour and back to London and that seems to be hardest place to find something reasonable. Any ideas would be great! Thank you in advance and to everyone in Clan Thompson society "I hope the best you've ever seen will be the worst you ever see!" I read that somewhere and loved it!
From one hard headed Thompson to another!
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Hi Beverly,
Welcome to the Forum!!
About London hotels....There are discount hotel sites for London on the internet. Basically it seems like a half price rate at a lot of London hotels, both in town and out skirts. I did a search for "london hotels" and quite a few came up... and they include prices
Paula
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Hey Beverly,
It's a pleasure to welcome you to the Clan Thompson Society!
Donna
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Guess What Folks.....ANOTHER HAPPY DANCE !
My cousin, Jan Cunningham, is joining as a LIFE TIME MEMBER !
Donna
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Hi Beverly and welcome!!!!! You nailed us with hard-headed I think!!!!
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Good morning! Thank you for the welcome and thank you Paula for the help with London hotels. It's nice to meet you Duke, I felt a little dajevue because I had an uncle named James Edward Thompson, my dads little brother,cool huh? He had the best sense of humor he was great! Hope you all have a great day!
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Hi Beverly!
I met you at Glasgow when you and your sister joined the Clan MacTavish/Thompson! It's great to see you on the forum...and I hope we will be able to help you find something for your sister's trip..... You're truly among friends here and we offer quite a collection/selection!
Mary
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And welcome to our newest LIFE member, Jan Cunningham! I asked Donna if we could look for any more members from her family but she seems to be running out of them! ;D Jan, I hope you get involved with your cousin AND the group here on the forum. Donna and I have been working on project for the past couple of months now and we're always ready to pull in some other helpful souls!
Thank you most sincerely for your support.......... and faith.
Mary
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my sister and her husband are traveling to England for a business trip and will have time to tour England and Scotland for awhile and are having trouble finding accommodations in London for less than $400.00 u.s., does anyone have any ideas? That is for 3 days. I appreciate any help as they are leaving on the 24th of this month. They have plans to stay in Gloucester for their business meetings and then are going to Edinburgh and the Isle of Skye to tour and back to London and that seems to be hardest place to find something reasonable. Any ideas would be great!
Beverly ---- do you know if they have a preference in what PART of London they stay? For example:
* Bayswater
* Belgravia
* Chelsea
* City Of London
* Covent Garden
* Docklands
* Earls Court
* Hampstead
* Kensington
* Knightsbridge
* Maida Vale
* Marble Arch
* Marylebone
* Mayfair
* Notting Hill
* Pimlico
* Richmond
* South Kensington
* St James Park, Westminster
* Trafalgar Square
* Victoria
* West End
* Westminster
* Westminster / St James Park
* Westminter/Victoria
* Wimbledon
Would they be interested in self-catering or B&B or just hotels?
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Hi Beverly, where is your Uncle James Edward from?
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Hey Duke, my dads family were all from Edmonson county,Ky. a small town called Brownsville. My uncle worked as a driver for Fort Knox after WWII, transporting newbies in from Louisville,Ky. to Fort Knox, boy was that fun for us girls!!!
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Hi Beverly and a warm welcome to you. I can tell you fit right in with us reprobates, ;D, great to have you with us.
Barbara
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Hi Beverly! and welcome to the family!
I think I have missed say "HI" to other new members so I'll do that now. A very big weclome to all our new members ( and a "hi' TO THE OLD-TIMERS TOO)
Has anyone noticed the huge influx of new members of late--outstanding!!!!!!!!!!
A big thnaks to the newbies, and a pat of the back to the Old-timers
mY BEST REGARDS TO YOU ALL
Booner
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Thanks Beverly,
Was fishing for Pennsylvania, haven't gotten to any family in Kentucky so far but will keep you posted...
Thanks,
Duke
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Hello Everyone,
My name is Jan Cunningham, I'm Donna Lingren's cousin. I have just become a Life Member of Clan
Thompson Society. I live & work on the southern Oregon coast & really love it here. I moved here
from Arizona 16 years ago & can't imagine living anywhere else.
I work for the largest truck repair shop on the OR. coast as bookkeeper & office manager. I've been
at this job my entire time in OR.
I was born & raised in Minnesota & have two brothers, older one in Ohio & younger one in Oklahoma.
They have a good Scot name also, McKinley (I'm a Cunningham by marraige only).
My cousin, Donna, has done extensive genealogy work on our mothers' side (Thompson) of the family
& has given me a start on my father's side (McKinley).
I'm looking forward to exploring the Clan Thompson Society website & learning more about my ancestors.
Should prove interesting.
Oh, I go by jcbowls because I'm a bowler.
Bye for now,
Jan C.
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Hello again. This is Jan Cunningham. I decided to change my user name so
I would be more readily recognized. (I'm just to used to other sites).
Jan C.
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Hey Jan,
Since you are my cousin, I'll be the first to welcome you to the Forum and to the Clan Thompson Society! You're going to just love everyone here!
Donna
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Welcome Jan!
I'm so glad your cousin talked you into joining us! We're a wacky group - and our conversations can take off on any tangent at the drop of the hat....but we're fun! Please ask any questions, pose possibilities and ideas, comment on everything and anything, start new topics.............someone will jump in and comment on it! :o
I also want to thank you for joining right off the bat as a life member! That shows confidence in us! All I can say is that we're doing our best and can only get better with input from our members. Please post!
What highland games are in your area?
Mary
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Welcome Jan, Beverly, Duke and anybody I may have missed due to encroaching senility. I seem to be falling behind and have forgotten who I've already welcomed to the madhouse and yes, the inmates are definitely running the asylum. But hey, that only adds to fun!
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Welcome
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Welcome home Jan, We're all glad you're here.
Booner
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Welcome Jan, it's great to have another member of our family here. Post and have fun! :D
Barbara
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Good Morning! I wasn't sure which category to post general conversations in so, here I am. I just wanted to wish everyone a great Halloween, this is one of my favorite times of year as I love Ghost Hunting! Everything seems to come together this time of year. My greatest dream is to one day go to Scotland to do a bit of hunting, but you should be careful what you wish for ,huh? I hope everyone has a great holiday. Bev
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Thanks Bev.
I enjoy Holloween too, although I way to old to trick-or-treat
Booner
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I always loved making costumes and decorating. When I was a library director, we turned the library into a Haunted House every year. The Lioness ran a non-scary room for the little kids and the others came through the haunted house. We had some great props and actors.....chain saws, Frankenstein's monster and his creator, Dracula, witches...... we moved the book shelves and covered them with black plastic. Then we had people on top with fishing rods and strands of fishing line that they would bob down in front of people's faces ....others would swoop 'bats' in and out of the tombstones outside with fly rods....we'd cut slits in the black plastic and walk through the aisles right in front of people carrying a battery candle and through a corresponding slit on the other side. We had light and we could see the slits but the visitors couldn't and 'people' would just materialize in front of them and then be gone. It was great fun. The town organizations and businesses donated candy, ice cream, brownies, etc. and the library was the draw every year and every year we made it different. I do miss it!
I also remember painting haunted houses, black cats, bats, ghosts, etc. on our daughters' fingernails a day or so before Halloween so they could wear them to school. This was before you could buy stickers!
Mary
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That sounds like a lot of fun Mary. Bet you do miss that. Living out in the country like us I bet you don't get any Trick or Treaters.
Barbara
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Your never to old for trick or treating. When im in the ages of 22-dead im gonna go trick or treating every year. You got to pull the old my little brother/sister is sick. but dont tell them brother slash sister. choose one or the other
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Graham, you truly are incorrigible!
You're right, Barbara - we've never had a trick or treater here. Not only do we live 4 miles from the nearest town (not city!), but we're on the top of a hill, too! I don't even want to walk up that hill with the mail, let alone for a candy bar! Well....maybe a couple of candy bars.......... ;D I really don't know what the country kids do - whether they go on into Cookeville to some organized events or what?? I suppose they are probably driven around to the neighbors...it's too far to hoof it for little ones.
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Saves money Mary, not having Trick or Treaters. ;D You're closer to a town than we are. It's 12 miles to the nearest town and 15 miles the other way to another town for us, but I love country living. :D
Barbara