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Glasgow doesn't get snow that much (more in the last year than in my lifetime, pretty sure) but we did get a good 2-3 foot of snow at one point in the late 90s and the schools remained open. Hah, I looked out the window there to be greeted by the most half-assed snow you'd ever seen. Bright clear skies ahead, and just two clouds barely emitting a few flakes. In fact, in the time taken to describe how pathetic it looked, it's turned into rain.

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That's quite cool actually. Apparently, one of my many great great (not sure how many greats though) grand uncle according to my parents is former US president James K Polk. I definitely would not have guessed that if I had to guess famous people that I'm related to, so it's especially cool to know someone that is related to one of the few living relics from before 1905. Next time you get to chat with her, tell her that one of the posters from another forum said hello to her.

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Please, no more teams of 20 people with the same name.

If he gets cold he could just through a few more tax receipts on the fire.

Pity he didn't feel the same way about Vietnam....

Turn on, tune in, drop dead.

I've just eaten a small plastic Star Wars figure. It was a little chewy * Yes, I know. The old 'uns are the best.

Light dusting of snow so the school is shut FFS Really  Wouldn't happen in the western Highlands. They just take the weans out to gather up bits of wicker from the island. Keeps them warm. ** I might make soup today too. And baked potatoes. Needed due to child me wanting to play in the snow

Must end up pretty confused in his logical Möbius loop.

Thanks for the great answer. She sounds terrific. I think she and I would see eye to eye on a lot of things. "You have no idea how many voice recordings I’ve accumulated and questions I’ve asked her!" With her consent, you should put them up on Youtube as they will be a treasure trove for people interested in social history. "... when she was in university..." It would have been rare for a woman of her generation to go to uni. "She always jokes that based on what people eat today her longevity records might never be broken, so she thanks McDonalds." I made that very same joke a while ago somewhere in this same thread. I think it was about the proliferation of Yank supercentenarians thinning out as the McDonald's generation hits old age. "1990’s. She hated the war periods and in between the wars there were too many economic depressions for her liking. The economy in the 1990’s was booming and in her opinion, the culture was great. " Yes, the Asian Tiger economy period would have been good. Yes, the 1990s were a fairly good era in retrospect before the Yanks lost the plot completely after Sep 11.You'd be too young to even remember that world. There were a lot of economic problems for those of us not living in Asian economies though. Depressing that that decade might be as good as it gets and we might not see anything as good in the rest of our lives... "She says that hygiene was the biggest imrpovement. In the early 1900’s, the thoughts of washing your hands, brushing your teeth, and taking showers were almost non existent! " That's why she outlived them all. "She hated the developement and progression of the atomic bomb. " Absolutely. "I think she also has a crush on Yuzuru Hanyu." Well, you can't blame her because every man in the world is a toyboy from her perspective now. "This is also when she started driving (she got her first car at the age of 92)" She's Supergran!

Great post! When you think she was born in a world before the invention of aeroplanes and with telecommunications in their infancy, using Skype is an achievement indeed! "6) I'd say my chances of at least reaching 100+ are quite good too based on heredity and genetics." - make sure you're not hit crossing the road tomorrow now after saying that... "I should expect to reach the next century. (I'm currently born May 2001, age 16) " - pity you weren't born a few years earlier so you'd have a chance of spanning 19xx to 21xx. Awesome that you are exactly 100 years younger than Great Aunt Chiyo though and that she lived past the 100th anniversary of that photo! "... covered the assassination of the Russian Royal family in 1918 (which she believed to have been the most important event to have occurred in her life)." - No wonder. The Russo-Japanese War would have been one of the defining events of her early childhood. " ... to avoid the hardships of WW2 (she did not agree with the Japanese regime at all)" - What was her reaction when she heard about Hiroshima and Nagasaki? I'll just throw out some basic questions you can ask her: 1. What is the biggest technological change she has seen? (Aeroplane, telephone, television, refrigerator, penicillin, internet, etc)? 2. What is the biggest cultural change she has seen? (Let's remember Japan is a VERY different place now than it was before the war). Is it too materalistic/Americanised for her? 3. Does Abe worry her? Is Japan going back a little in a more martial "1940s" direction? 4. What was her favourite decade to live through? 5. Are people becoming more or less civilised or is human nature basically staying the same? 6. What would the people she knew as a child think of the world today if they were still around? Good points, bad points? 7. Which famous person has had the biggest impact on her life? 8. What are her favourite improvements to the way people live over the last 100 years? 9. What changes does she like the least? That'll do. There are thousands more questions I could ask but I will restrain myself...

to Joanne Woodward 88 today!

Pot, kettle, black?

The first page of Google tells me that my mum is apparently seen as scary and irritable.

"Silent blob" is great.

Penny Vincenzi, the best-selling author you've never read but have seen all her books advertised on train station platforms, dead at 78.

It was, I had to go out and was worried I wouldn't be able to get back home! Joking apart, we're not really expecting much until tomorrow/Wednesday, but then again, it doesn't take much to bring the town to a standstill. Looking forward to more of this...

I'm on board with this totally. Keep on him, Phantom. Other interpretations are insulting to my intelligence. e.g. Kapoor just died of a heart attack. That ain't natural causes, that's a heart attack. SC

Ffs why couldn't the jury just decide.

Must be something in the H2O H2O Dihydrogen monoxide, aka DHMO. Dangerous stuff. regards, Hein