Breaking Through, Travelling On

Cheery_Daff

Aw, sorry to hear about your friend KC Good on you for being there, and I hope she can take you up on whatever you can offer xx

rtandon27

Awww KC - big hugs for you - so sorry to hear about your friend.

It's lovely to know that you are happy to be a support to her in the way she'd like! That's the mark of a true friend!

Karmacat

Thanks you guys she's a determined soul, thats for sure, and even though they say "advanced", the odds are still in her favour.

I'm still pleased with the photo I took (for the book cover) but I didn't get out to plant the garlic - it was tipping down by the time I felt strong enough. I unpacked the cloves, anyway, and tipped them into the garden to get wet, at least, I've no idea if I've now killed them or not I didn't phone about the w/m either, I hate doing that sort of thing. But while I've been tidying up my computer and its bookmarks, I've been scanning like there's no tomorrow a pile of A4 papers a centimetre thick has bitten the dust :j

Lula-Hula

Hello lovely KC,

the pages of your diary do get filled up so quickly, just spent some time catching up again and I'm so sorry to hear about your friend.

We're having glorious weather here one day followed by teeming rain the next, it's sunglasses and wellies at the ready :rotfl:

There's been lots of decluttering going on here and yesterday I was out in the garden for the first time this year, raking up leaves

One of my aunts is researching our family and we've discovered ancestors who were wheelwrights and cheesemakers, it's fascinating stuff and there are some fabulous names too ...

Odd you mentioned fly screen earlier, I was thinking about getting some for the summer ( cant bear insects inside) and remembered you getting some ... I don't suppose you remember where you got yours from do you ?

xx

Clutterbee

Hello I am an long lost poster with a new name. I decided to post on a few select diaries and headed to look for you. Great to catch up. Will read more later as I am about to start work. You know me better as a lady with a big dog

Karmacat

Lula-Hula wrote: »

Hello lovely KC,

the pages of your diary do get filled up so quickly, just spent some time catching up again and I'm so sorry to hear about your friend.

Hiya :wave: It does go a bit fast, doesn't it ... I love having other people post on here, and *I* like to post to keep on top of where I am with things, and there are a lot of issues to keep on top of ... so it zooms along a bit

We're having glorious weather here one day followed by teeming rain the next, it's sunglasses and wellies at the ready :rotfl:

Yep! Sunglasses and wellies exactly sums it up :rotfl:

There's been lots of decluttering going on here and yesterday I was out in the garden for the first time this year, raking up leaves

Did you manage to put them in a black plastic bag to decompose? I didn't do that this year but there's still some around from the first couple of years I did it.

One of my aunts is researching our family and we've discovered ancestors who were wheelwrights and cheesemakers, it's fascinating stuff and there are some fabulous names too ...

Lovely skills to have! You're lucky to have unusual names, its a godsend my grandad's name is a bit unusual, but the great one for working class Liverpool is a g g g g grandmother who was born in France - I had visions of the French aristocracy, possibly, but her dad was an Irish sergeant in the army of occupation after Waterloo; still, very interesting (to a genealogist!).

Odd you mentioned fly screen earlier, I was thinking about getting some for the summer ( cant bear insects inside) and remembered you getting some ... I don't suppose you remember where you got yours from do you ?

xx

I can't remember off hand, but I'll look it up for you. Be in touch

:kisses3:

Clutterbee wrote: »

Hello I am an long lost poster with a new name. I decided to post on a few select diaries and headed to look for you. Great to catch up. Will read more later as I am about to start work. You know me better as a lady with a big dog

Hello honey :j The lovely lady who sent me the Transferwise linkie, yes? Because thats relevant to you too? How wonderful to be counted as one of a select few Hope you're doing well

Karmacat

I was a bit dozy when I woke up, truth be told, as my neighbours seem to party in the bedroom on the other side of our party wall, till about 1am. Still, I've woken up good and properly now, been doing French translation of official sentences for my sister - the perils of having a house sitting empty in deep countryside .... and of then having to talk to the police in their own language, since it is, after all, their country ...

Its *still* raining ... don't want to plant in the rain this morning, as I'm working at 1pm, and I wanted to go do the banking this afternoon, so I can't do it then either. Choices, choices .... plant this afternoon, won't matter if I get soggy then, do banking on Sat morning, and buy frozen veg at Iceland next door to bank instead of going to Sainsbo, its cheaper anyway. Have to stand by the phones tomorrow in case my sister needs me for translation duty ...

My fogger for the cluster flies is arriving between 11.30 and 12.30 this morning :j going to read the instructions properly, as it seems more than normally toxic, so may not be able to use it today.

greent

Yeay for drying washing outside - I'm sooo looking forward to being able to do that again! Whilst we've had dry days, they've been chilly and our garden gets no wind, so the clothes literally just hang on the rotary all day and don't get anywhere. I need It to be a bit milder! But Spring is coming - yippee!!


Sorry to hear about your friend - never nice to hear. x


On the subject of researching ancestors - try searching for Jones in rural Wales! (and also at least one male of each generation was called David) Or my gramp's family came from Ireland and were illiterate (as many were at that time) - so records were just completed by the parish clerk - one relative was born one spelling of the surname, married in the parish records as another variant - and buried as yet another!!!:eek::D Makes tracing it all quite :eek::rotfl::rotfl:

Goldiegirl

Lula-Hula wrote: »

One of my aunts is researching our family and we've discovered ancestors who were wheelwrights and cheesemakers, it's fascinating stuff and there are some fabulous names too ...

I have some wheelwrights in my tree as well, on my mum's side. I think it was my great x 3 grandfather. He died in 1848, and in the 1851 census my great x 3 grandmother was listed as a wheelwright, so she must have taken over the business, which I thought was rather enterprising for the times.


On my dad's side we have three or 4 weird name that run through the generations. In fact my dad was one of the last with one of the odd names. But it looks like he reinvented himself. He left his village in Berkshire in the mid 1930's to work in London, and took the opportunity to start calling himself by a different, more common name, which appears on his marriage certificate, and his death certificate.


He never actually told me his real name, but I was aware of it, as I came across his birth certificate when I was about 11, being a typical nosy child looking into things that didn't concern me:rotfl:

Karmacat

greent wrote: »

On the subject of researching ancestors - try searching for Jones in rural Wales! (and also at least one male of each generation was called David) Or my gramp's family came from Ireland and were illiterate (as many were at that time) - so records were just completed by the parish clerk - one relative was born one spelling of the surname, married in the parish records as another variant - and buried as yet another!!!:eek::D Makes tracing it all quite :eek::rotfl::rotfl:

I have a Jones in Anglesey - her dad ran the pub, so I saw the lease, which was quite something I've got loads of Irish in my family, coming in via the army, via navvy work in Scotland, and straight to Liverpool just after the famine ... the thing about official interpretations of the names of illiterate people is horrendous, isn't it - and of course, spelling wasn't fixed then like it is now. Makes for interesting times!

Goldiegirl wrote: »

I have some wheelwrights in my tree as well, on my mum's side. I think it was my great x 3 grandfather. He died in 1848, and in the 1851 census my great x 3 grandmother was listed as a wheelwright, so she must have taken over the business, which I thought was rather enterprising for the times.

Thats great! I have a washerwoman in the 1850s who supported herself, her sister and her illegitimate child, but thats a very normal occupation. Wheelwright, for a woman, is fantastic!

On my dad's side we have three or 4 weird name that run through the generations. In fact my dad was one of the last with one of the odd names. But it looks like he reinvented himself. He left his village in Berkshire in the mid 1930's to work in London, and took the opportunity to start calling himself by a different, more common name, which appears on his marriage certificate, and his death certificate.

Interesting! Trying to think if I've got anything similar, and I haven't ... the Irish child who was brought to England in the 1850s had the surname "Connor" but by the time he's living in New York he's added in the "O" so he's "O'Connor". Thats all I've got!


He never actually told me his real name, but I was aware of it, as I came across his birth certificate when I was about 11, being a typical nosy child looking into things that didn't concern me:rotfl:[/QUOTE]