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Hmmm I am gunna say this nicely Uggers I think you have dragged your 30's out long enough 27 years is long ....but your well past tugging it, now ** kndly ** start to embrace the 40's ( well past it I know) but you as you have done with your 30's you can drag them too like a dog with worms drags its arse along the floor......we shall save talking when you were 50 for another day dont want to over truamatse you dearie :)))))

Honestly you two, every day you sound more and more like an old married couple! *tsk* lol

*sighs* Hayley, it doesn't matter how often you say it, I am *still* a decade younger than you :))

A very mature student Uggers ;))))


Itsmytelly reckons he did the 2001 form but I cant remember doing the 1991 and I didnt know hm then...

I was an enumerator in 1991 - hadn't long left college, wasn't earning much and needed to pay my damn Poll Tax bill. It was an evil job for not much money.

Mmm... then you would have seen my house if you had craned your neck to the right a bit, on the other side of the playing field as you went up the hill, lolol

My hubby is a fat lot of use at remembering things like that... I am surprised he remembered the 2001 Census!

We think he was away in 1991, well, we know he was away for a good bit of it.. 1st Gulf War......... depends what the date was... must go back into google and find out the dates... lol If it was a Tuesday or Thursday in term time, then I was at work, lol the house would have been empty, as the boys were in Boarding School that year.. my goodness, why is it that something so out of the ordinary can not stick in the mind? lol

Hayley you have given me a headache, lolol making me do so much thinking!

Love

Daff xxx

Hi Daff,
Yes we have discussed this before lol, if you rememeber we lived up the other end in Limasol. I shall have to ask hubby when he comes home as to whether he had to inform anyone with regard to where we were. We only came up to your neck of the woods once, that was to go to Nissi Beach, it was a cold windy day when we came and there was hardly a person in sight.

i worked on the census 30 years ago delivering and collecting the forms. Every form had to be collected and correctly completed no matter how many visits it took. We were paid well, (so much per returned form), and if you were allocated a decent area the job was OK. However it was a nightmare if you were given a bad area and I dread to think what it will be like for anyone doing it next year in some of our deprived areas.

Born in 1962 I remember filling in the 1981 and putting 'stripper' as occupation. I was an ox tongue stripper - meat processing.
What will the grandchildren think......... I shudder.
Began nurse training the year after and still doing it. In fact at the time I thought if i can do this then I can nurse.
Good idea to photocopy the 2011 and put it in the memory box.
Joan

You might be right there, Karen...... Also, we didn't actually leave for Cyprus until March, and we spent a few weeks at my parents before we went...... we had just left Germany... so in fact, we could flipping well be recorded anywhere, lolol... better put that on my notes for future researchers, lolol

Helen, I am sure we have discussed this before... we were ESBA, and lived in Dhekelia... if you knew that area, then you would have seen me pootling around, lol I was quite noticeable... one of the few Brit wives with a moped! Oh and we lived in a very distinct spot, so you would know that, if not me!

Love

Daff xxx

So how does the Jedi Knight's prayer go then Whirley??!!

K

Daff and Brumie Helen - in your circumstances, would the forms not have been filled out for you?

What I mean is........one of my rellies was in Bermuda for the 1911.
On the census image I can see his details on an Officers form, along with hundreds of other blokes, but not in their own handwriting, some admin bod has filled out the whole form.

His wife and children are on another form "accompanying wives and children" or some such title, and they're listed with hundreds of others, and the form has been filled out by another jobsworth, ie not their own handwriting.

K

Muffy, we too gave our religion as "Jedi Knights" as alot of people did that year and it was noted, i believe officially as being a religion. I remember when in hospital, 2 ladies from the Catholic church came to visit me (long story) asking did I want them to say a prayer for me (I was quite poorly). I explained to them that I was actually a Jedi Knight and not a Catholic so no, I didnt want a prayer thank you. "Of course you are dear" said one of them patting my hand and nodding. She obviously thought I was a raving nutter, which I am of course.

PMSL @ Muffs lol


I can't remember doing any but i must have done the 1991 and 2001 - Mum and Dad will have done the 1981 i guess, as i was still living at home then, i must ask them lol ....................

I well remember filling in the 2001 census as OH was insisting that his religion was *jedi* *sighs* xx

There arose a few new religions on the 2001 census. People got angry at the question and made up a religion as a protest. The forms are so long now it will take more than a night to fill them in.

Some of you have created problems for your descendants they will be searching for you on various census and wonder why you can't be found. better make notes on your tree re why you are missing LOL

This 100 year rule means we will never see ourselves on a census.

Pat

Daff, we were in Cyprus in 1981 and Germany in 1991 and didn't fill out a census form either times. Now that will be interesting for the replies in the future. Lol

How odd.... I was thinking of that earlier today..... I can't remember filling in the census in 2001, and it turns out I didn't, lol... hubby did, cos I was in work, doing a double shift with sleep over. I was a deputy then, so the Manager filled it in I think... now isn't that strange?

I can remember the 1991, but not the 1981... we lived in Cyprus for that, but as forces, we must have filled it in, unless we were staying at my parents... we were home for part of March that year... would that have been it?

I am worried now in case I haven't been entered... I don't want to be a nonentity, lolol!!

Love

Daff xxxx

Perhaps " Itsmytelly " filled them in ? ......and didn't mention it ?