Breaking Through, Travelling On

themadvix

I third the 'that's lovely' from Viirgin trains - it's excellent that they gave good customer service in the first place and that they acknowledged your feedback. Would love to see the photo too - please can you send me the link?

In reply to your comment on my thread, family tree (I started when I was about 13, I was an odd child) is back to pre-1837 on my Dad's side, with loads of interesting stuff available. On my Mum's side it's both less easy (ag labs/London) and less interesting largely! It keeps me entertained though. I daren't find out about the library, I'm sure our local archives do have free Ancestry access, but I really don't have time - it's nice to dip a toe in when there's a free weekend, but I find it so addictive and all-consuming that nothing (work, housework, DIY, exercise) would get done if I had access all the time! (I did take up a 3 months for £12 offer last year and made loads of progress - the difference now so much is online is incredible to the 'take four microfiches covering a one-year period and check for the name you're looking for' approach of years ago!)

Hope the de-moulding is going well

beanielou

How lovely to get the flowers~~enjoy

Karmacat

Hi folks, I've taken the pics, but not uploaded to the blog yet - I'll let you guys know

themadvix - absolutely understand about not finding out if your library has Ancestry! I didn't while I was working, after all! Interesting that you started so young, I did too - and what that meant is that I got lots of oral history stuff from grandparents, who'd been born between 1891 and 1905 - life was very different! Still, I might look again at Ancestry today, since I've been integrating genealogy notes from my mum into my own stuff, I'm aware of a few gaps, even in census records, things like that. You can never have too many census records

Otherwise, same as previous days - clearing the garden, cleaning the house, and sorting paperwork, I'm blitzing on all three till the end of Feb.

rtandon27

Housework is the buzzword of the day KC - spent 3 hours tidying this morning & now the recycle bin is 1/2 full! Laundry & folding and ironing up next with budgeting on the plans for later...

Tomorrow is a reward day - a free movie - earned through my works healthcare plan - the one with the three women mathematicians working for n a s a - am making sure we use every hidden benifit these days - means less spending from our pockets!

Looking forward to the linkie of a pic of your flowers!

Karmacat

Oh I've seen lots of adverts for that one when I'm watching itv hub - it looks really, really *really* good, I bet its a great watch.

Housework ... yes. Sigh ... Cleaning up the garden is hard work, but I'd rather do that than housework :rotfl: the current crop of work is stashing all the branches etc in the carcass of the broken shed*, and using up the *two* half open bags of soil I've found I want to finish both those tasks today, which then enables me to move the wheelbarrow (which I might put on freegle, it was gifted to me and I, um, don't want it) and that will carry on the process of clearing away for light to reach the winter savory, which has been very, very very shaded, poor thing.

I'm accepting the need to slog on the garden till the end February, with a couple of days off - if I let it stay like this till the growing season really takes off, it will be an utterly miserable place to be.

But the first weekend in March, its either to my brother's to celebrate his 65th birthday or to the local library for a free walk (brother takes priority :rotfl: I guarantee). And then, there's the local Writer's Group, there's a sound healing group, and there are things to do in the U3A groups I found last year. Navvying in the garden will then have to take its place in the greater scheme of things.


* branches to be burned eventually, for their ash. Tomorrow, I'm experimenting with paper and twigs, we'll see how that goes.

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beanielou

Dont overdo it though.

themadvix

Karmacat wrote: »

Hi folks, I've taken the pics, but not uploaded to the blog yet - I'll let you guys know
Interesting that you started so young, I did too - and what that meant is that I got lots of oral history stuff from grandparents, who'd been born between 1891 and 1905 - life was very different! Still, I might look again at Ancestry today, since I've been integrating genealogy notes from my mum into my own stuff, I'm aware of a few gaps, even in census records, things like that. You can never have too many census records

So true about the census records!:rotfl: Yes, I too managed to get lots of oral history, it makes a huge difference, doesn't it? Really brings the people to life. I'm not sure why (apart from the fact he was born is 1828 and it's been passed down through the generations), but the fact I know that my g-g-grandfather was rather an unpleasant character (he drank and beat his wife) is exciting to me - it makes sense of his very strict Methodist-preacher son, who went around buying up pubs and shutting them down!

Hope the housework didn't get too much yesterday KC! End of Feb is only 8 days now

Karmacat

Don't worry, beanie, I was fine, and I won't overdo it in the future either

themadvix wrote: »

So true about the census records!:rotfl: Yes, I too managed to get lots of oral history, it makes a huge difference, doesn't it? Really brings the people to life. I'm not sure why (apart from the fact he was born is 1828 and it's been passed down through the generations), but the fact I know that my g-g-grandfather was rather an unpleasant character (he drank and beat his wife) is exciting to me - it makes sense of his very strict Methodist-preacher son, who went around buying up pubs and shutting them down!

Oh my!

I do have a grumpy churchgoer who was in the local choir - my ag lab, actually, I have a picture of him in 1910 on a choir outing, he was in the first batch to collect the state pension. His wife, though - I'm hoping she was never beaten. She was the local postmistress, so I'm hoping that if he'd tried, she'd have smacked him one His son was also grumpy - my dad stayed with them in summer holidays, and Grumpy One's wife used to laugh at her husband, so I doubt she was beaten either, thank heavens.

Hope the housework didn't get too much yesterday KC! End of Feb is only 8 days now

There was no housework there was only navvying in the garden:
- finished the 2nd bag of soil.
- got everything stowed in the broken shed
- moved the old chimney pot to sit by the shed
- chopped a few brambles (which had tried to root :eek:)
- chopped back some box hedge from next door
- started to uncover some paving, disappeared under garden rubbish the people I bought this house from used to have their barbecue here.
- cleared up edging between some of the border and the grass.

The width of the garden (normal, but it had become much too enclosed) is appearing out of the murk :j and my local sparrows are very happy with all this upturned earth thats around :j

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Karmacat

I forgot ... these are the flowers:
https://sunlightandimagination.wordpress.com/2017/02/20/unexpected-flowers/

rtandon27

Ahhhh flowers...

Utterly lovely! & even better that they are in a trusty kilner jar!