Breaking Through, Travelling On

beanielou

Waits for Z's response!!!!

Karmacat

I'm way too innocent, thats my problem :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

I have a free morning, but a busy afternoon ... I'm sort of ready for the weekend Editing for the new book edition will be a good job, I think.

Whenever I'm at the computer checking emails and whatnot, I'm always at the scanner these days - my genealogy files, for instance, have a lot of photocopies of book pages taken at various times, I'm doing one currently about the "Pals" regiments of WWI - friends and neighbours all signing up as soldiers together which is why some areas were decimated It's background only for my family - they *did* sign up, in droves, but were too unhealthy or too old for frontline duty, so my great grandad, for instance, was guarding German prisoners in Ramsgate (and therefore was a witness to one of the first air raids on British soil, by a Zeppelin :eek:). You never know, hey?

Goldiegirl

I don't seem to have many close relatives who were in the WW1, as they all seemed to have been the 'wrong' age to sign up. The closest relative I've found who served is a great uncle on my dad's side. He was 34 when the war broke out, and as far as I can see he was in a support role.


My paternal grandfather is a bit of a mystery, as he's not on my dad's birth certificate I speculate that he was a soldier. My dad's middle name was Olaf, which appears no where else on the family tree. I keep on searching around to see if there were Scandinavian soldiers posted in the area (Berkshire) in 1917, when conception would have taken place, but nothing has jumped out at me.


On the maternal side, my nan was born on 1902. She married in 1921, and my grandfather was 25 years older than her. Many of the younger men had been killed in the war.


I always get the sense he was he was a distant father. He was born in 1878, so he probably had a Victorian outlook, and he died in 1935 when my mum was 9, and she didn't have many memories of him.


My nan then went and married her late husband's brother, so my mum's uncle was also her stepfather.


Fascinating things, families!

ZTD

Karmacat wrote: »

I've *used* two preps in my life - a micro Phillips screwdriver, which helped when my sister's glasses fell apart on holiday, and a tiny little knife I have that levered a sycamore seed out from a crack where it was stuck and about to spread roots. No zombies, no aliens, nothing :rotfl: aliens could be interesting, you never know.

Well you could consider that to mean you're otherwise well stocked to face life. I cane my emergency water/kettle/coffee stocks which are in my car so hard, you'd think they were patrons of Madame Cyn with frequent flier cards...

ZTD

Karmacat wrote: »

I'm way too innocent, thats my problem :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

It's mine as well... :A

Karmacat

Goldiegirl wrote: »

I don't seem to have many close relatives who were in the WW1, as they all seemed to have been the 'wrong' age to sign up. The closest relative I've found who served is a great uncle on my dad's side. He was 34 when the war broke out, and as far as I can see he was in a support role.

Yep, thats my lot too - except for one of my maternal great grandfathers, who died in a tugboat accident 3 weeks after war broke out - he was well known and well respected on the docks, as my grandad found out when he started work as a young teenager in 1917.

My paternal grandfather is a bit of a mystery, as he's not on my dad's birth certificate I speculate that he was a soldier. My dad's middle name was Olaf, which appears no where else on the family tree. I keep on searching around to see if there were Scandinavian soldiers posted in the area (Berkshire) in 1917, when conception would have taken place, but nothing has jumped out at me.

Olaf! Thats fascinating! Maybe they were evacuees, like Poirot, not soldiers?

My paternal grandfather was abandoned by both his father *and* his mother, and brought up by his aunts (and my dad was brought up by the very same ladies, after his own mum died very young ) - tough times.

On the maternal side, my nan was born on 1902. She married in 1921, and my grandfather was 25 years older than her. Many of the younger men had been killed in the war.

I always get the sense he was he was a distant father. He was born in 1878, so he probably had a Victorian outlook, and he died in 1935 when my mum was 9, and she didn't have many memories of him.

My nan then went and married her late husband's brother, so my mum's uncle was also her stepfather.

Fascinating things, families!

That *is* fascinating! Thats really something, Goldie

ZTD wrote: »

Well you could consider that to mean you're otherwise well stocked to face life. I cane my emergency water/kettle/coffee stocks which are in my car so hard, you'd think they were patrons of Madame Cyn with frequent flier cards...

I agree I think ... Oh! I was just querying what you'd written cos I couldn't understand - too innocent, see - when I realised I understood :D:D

ZTD wrote: »

It's mine as well... :A

Your problem is innocence :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: I think not, my good man :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Week 8 has ended :j:j:j I've just sat here, completely wiped, for about 2 hours am recovering now. Weird. 7 more weeks to go.

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rtandon27

ZTD wrote: »

It's mine as well... :A

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Karmacat

rtandon27 wrote: »

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Yeah it's a bit rich, innit


Not quite sure what to do today - I'd planned to walk into my little town centre and do the banking, but I feel a bit wobbly, am using flu defence sprays, so I'll see. May be a question of gentle pootling.

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smallholdingsister

Hope you feel better.xxx

Karmacat

Thanks SHS - I just dread the stress of cancelling sessions through illness when there are so few weeks to go ... mad, I know. Might not be so bad now, when people who need it have sorted out their continuations, but ... anyway, I might be brave and do a salty gargle, and go for the banking anyway