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.

Monday, July 31, 2017

In Flanders field

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July 2017 marks the centenary of the Third battle of Ypres By most definitions one of the bloodiest and controversial of all the dreadfu...

Friday, June 9, 2017

A Soldier's Wife

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. My Maltese great grandmother Liberatta Xerri was what is now called an army wife. In 19th century Malta her policeman husband died le...

Friday, May 5, 2017

Kindness is alive and well and can be found on a Virgin train.

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Arrived at Euston station last night on our way back from Slovenia just too late to catch the fast train to warringon. Instead of waitin...

Friday, April 21, 2017

What we learned doing National Service

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National Service - what we learned Every now and again after some particular outrage by a young person, student, hoodie, longhair ...

Tuesday, April 18, 2017

Fall out for a smoke

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We live near a large block of modern flats and we can see some of the mainly younger residents standing outside smoking because it is no...

Monday, October 3, 2016

To the woods

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I am not sure why, but if I think of the countryside these days I don't visualise rolling fields and all that, but of woods. Perhaps ...

Monday, September 5, 2016

September,Hop-picking,blackberries and scrumping

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First week of September, a little cooler and mostly damper, a whiff of wood smoke in the air, blackberries in the hedgerows apples on the t...

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