Genealogy and other jottings

Genealogy or perhaps more Family History. Not just straight forward (or backward) family lines, but brothers and sisters, the neighbourhoods that they lived in and some information about what was happening at the time.

Thursday, August 29, 2024

Swedish death cleaning

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In recent times I have seen two mentions of this, an article in the Guardian and a tv episode on a obscure channel. I had never heard of th...

Wednesday, June 12, 2024

HMS Whimbrel and D.day

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HMS Whimbrel was a Royal Navy sloop which had been built in the Yarrow shipyards at Scotstoun Glasgow. Ernest McKie had been member of the...

Thursday, January 25, 2024

Do you ever weep ?

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Do you every weep? For the state of the world? The people of Ukraine or the ones risking their lives crossing the channel in small boats? N...

Monday, February 6, 2023

Six Nations ? We have more than that.

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The six nations rugby competion has come round again and if we swapped those six nations around a bit, one of our family would always win!...

Friday, November 25, 2022

PPE but not plastic aprons or masks

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If I had gone to university, as I might have done as a mature student then no doubt I would have chosen PPE as a course. These initials be...

Monday, November 21, 2022

A challenging project right off the bat

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A challenging project right off the bat The conservation and partial restoration of an 18th-century taxidermy bat specimen © Simon Moore...

Monday, September 5, 2022

The Old Man at sea

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Eighty years ago at the age of 42 my dad joined the Royal Navy for the second time having already been in the First World War. We do not kno...

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