Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

silvercar

Then I spotted that the father died in 1729 and the baby was born in 1733.

In years to come, it's going to get a whole lot worse. I know of one baby born in 2013 whose biological father died in 2010.

PasturesNew

I think I've found out why they're inbred.

There's a website about the family/origins that says it appears that the area was originally protected and they held important jobs for the King, as archers for his special hunting grounds .... and, historically, if anybody wanted to marry an outsider the outsider had to be vetted. Also, there was a fine to be paid if you married an outsider.

So I guess it became the norm that they all stuck together and never married outsiders as it was so difficult/expensive to do so. And, as Kings came/went/died and families grew, the original jobs disappeared and they built their lives around industries in the area.... by which time they were so insular that others probably mostly avoided their village as it was full of idiots (and people with no toes).

Fascinating to realise that they really WERE probably inbred by "law"!



My "married man that ran off with ...." was a kind of outsider, based at the castle itself, then that lot slowly moved along the villages over time occasionally. His lot seem to only appear in the county in the 1600s or so. His family didn't appear in "the village" until his parents married there ~1800.

LydiaJ

bugslet wrote: »

I'm not great sometimes at managing to spot who is who in a programme - I like all the characters to look radically different, though since I have neither TV or broadband at home, it doesn't exactly matter.

Me too - at least until I've got to know the characters and can think of them as people rather than just as faces I need to match to names.

michaels wrote: »

First day back at work after a week off and I so need a holiday, my non-work to do list scares me Does anyone else find their home life takes up so much of their time they can't fit in a job?

Yes me. My non-work to do list is so scary that I'm too scared to begin on it. :eek:

silvercar wrote: »

In years to come, it's going to get a whole lot worse. I know of one baby born in 2013 whose biological father died in 2010.

And the babies with more than two parents (mitochondrial DNA plus two chromosomal DNA parents, woman to carry the pregnancy, people who take the baby home from hospital all different) and of course parents who've changed gender. I recently came across a baby with one parent who's a woman of the usual kind, and the other parent who's a pre-op trans-woman (legally female but still functionally anatomically male and able to beget children), so the baby is growing up with both biological parents called "Mummy Jane" and "Mummy Sarah" (not their real names). I'm not sure how you would indicate that on the tree.

DD back to school yesterday - Y8 seems to be going all right so far. She thought she was going to have maths teacher that she doesn't like, but finds instead that she has a different one whom she describes as really nice, so that put her in a good mood. She's busy doing homework this evening. DS doesn't go back until tomorrow. I had inset yesterday and today, with lessons starting tomorrow, although I get the morning morning off to prepare stuff, while most other people will be busy with a whole morning of tutor time, because as a part-timer I don't have a tutor group.

Doozer - how did the first day at the new school go for your DD?

vivatifosi

Evening folks. I heard something on the radio today that did make me chuckle. Tried to find online but failed, so please excuse paraphrasing.

An eight year old girl did not want to go back to school. While her parents backs were turned, she took their laptop and typed up a standard letter. The content went something like:

WARNING!!!!

Do not send your children to school tomorrow. We have building work and it will not be finished.

Signed (name of head)

She then put a copy through the letterbox of every house in the street.


I know it is terribly naughty, but what forethought! Apparently she was caught out because it wasn't on headed paper and the head didn't normally start notes with four exclamation marks. Apparently her parents have had to apologise to the school

I would imagine that she's been grounded.

Doozergirl

DD phoned me in floods of tears. She got off the bus home at the wrong stop! :eek:

Thank heavens for mobile phones. It's the school bus so there's no jumping on the next one.

DS and I tracked her on the iphone and picked her up. She saw a roundabout and what she thought was a co-op, but it wasn't.

We drove the rest of her full bus route and I showed her the places she knows before her bus stop. I've also told her to stay on the bus until she is absolutely sure, even if she goes past the stop as she knows the area after the stop better than the area before. She says she was sure, though.

Normally, she'd have a friend who is going into year 9, but it was just Year 7s today.

It was an adventure, certainly.

Otherwise, she enjoyed her day! Started Girl Guides this evening too. We're starting Couch to 5k tomorrow together.

LydiaJ

Doozergirl wrote: »

DD phoned me in floods of tears. She got off the bus home at the wrong stop! :eek:

Thank heavens for mobile phones. It's the school bus so there's no jumping on the next one.

DS and I tracked her on the iphone and picked her up. She saw a roundabout and what she thought was a co-op, but it wasn't.

We drove the rest of her full bus route and I showed her the places she knows before her bus stop. I've also told her to stay on the bus until she is absolutely sure, even if she goes past the stop as she knows the area after the stop better than the area before. She says she was sure, though.

Normally, she'd have a friend who is going into year 9, but it was just Year 7s today.

It was an adventure, certainly.

Otherwise, she enjoyed her day! Started Girl Guides this evening too. We're starting Couch to 5k tomorrow together.

Oh no! How scary for her. As you say - thank heavens for mobile phones. How long is her bus journey?

Glad the rest of the day went well for her.

SingleSue

I tried and failed miserably at not being an over protective mum tonight.....

SingleSue

How scary for her Doozer, not the sort of thing you want to happen on their first day.

Doozergirl

LydiaJ wrote: »

Oh no! How scary for her. As you say - thank heavens for mobile phones. How long is her bus journey?

Glad the rest of the day went well for her.

It's about half an hour on the bus. And 15 minutes in the car to/from the bus stop. It's longer on the bus than it would
take me, but I have to get DS to school in the car as the first public bus from near our house gets him to school late.

I'll be doing a triangle every day. 15 minutes to bus, 15 to next school, 15-20 home.

vivatifosi

Is anyone else finding the air pollution high tonight? I'm going to shut the bedroom window, there's a dry, Dusty smell in the air and my eyes feel a bit gritty.