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In our very wet garden today.
Turn of the season – random snippets
The clocks go back tonight. This always brings to mind a surreal conversation years ago with my mother-in-law & her sister, as we drove them back home. My m-i-l was watching a flock of birds flying overhead on their way … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Locality, People, Photography, Random, Seasonal, Uncategorized
Tagged autumn, family, Personal, photography, seasonal, time, Worcestershire
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Looking forward, looking back…
Well, we’re halfway through January and it’s my first post of the new-ish year despite the resolution to write more regularly and the weekly alarm which I set but ignore! We have much to look forward to this year with … Continue reading
Tracks and traces
Just another inconsequential but somehow satisfying and serendipitous little find from my genealogy meanderings. You have been warned. I was doing some transcription work for a family history society and while checking records in the 1939 register, came across Arthur … Continue reading
Posted in family history, Music, Random
Tagged Clifford, Halifax, Heddle Nash, Hinchcliffe, Jean Morton, Morton, Widdop, Yorkshire
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Little Discoveries, Bigger Picture…
I dabble in genealogy and suddenly remembered tonight that Find My Past had offered free access to their newspaper archives over the long weekend. There wasn’t time left for any major research, so I contented myself with a slightly manic … Continue reading
Domestic disruption
I’ve just decamped into our bedroom with a bag of electronics, a few bits of extraneous furniture, cardboard packing cases and bubble wrap hoping to get ahead, or slightly less behind, in the schedule of packing up rooms for the … Continue reading
Posted in Houses & Gardens, Humour, Journal, Random
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Connections and digressions
I posted these two pictures in a Facebook Group, Calderdale Then and Now, as I had spotted someone else’s similar post about the bad winter of 1962-3. We had returned from Nigeria for good (or so my parents thought) in … Continue reading
Posted in family history, Houses & Gardens, People, Philosophical, Random
Tagged family, Personal, photography, Yorkshire
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Look up
We were fortunate to have our booster shots against Covid today, especially in the light of the local case rate escalation published by the ZOE project. Sitting waiting in the (mercifully quiet) doctor’s surgery I was reminded of a friend’s … Continue reading
Anna’s Random Thoughts
I’m going to have to do this, given the title! A simple and effective artist’s book idea from Anna Yevtukh-Squire. I’ve enjoyed some brilliant classes in creative bookmaking with Anna at Malvern School of Art. over the last couple of … Continue reading
Revisiting the past: ‘dame school’.
I occasionally search desultorily for some of my childhood memories in one form or another. A search for mentions of my ‘dame school’ in Bukuru, Nigeria, threw up a surprise result today, in the form of a book written by … Continue reading
Posted in family history, History, Random, Travel
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