If anything Dame Judi Dench's edition of Who Do You Think You Are was even more extraordinary than Josh Widdicombe's. I think my mouth fell open with surprise at one point, though her father's side of the story was equally amazing ( Read more... )

First of all it is 11th November and it is particularly poignant this year, not just because of Lockdown, but because I've been sorting through the documents relating to my dad's older brother who was killed in World War II. He died in 1943 aged 21, which is younger than my nephew is now. My dad very rarely mentioned him, and was 5 years younger so ( Read more... )

We usually do go out on this date as it is our wedding anniversary (thanks J for all the wonderful years) but a) the weather is dubious and b) we don't feel like using public transport so instead we are going to celebrate with a takeaway pizza from our favourite local Italian restaurant. I also thought today would be a suitable day to dig out our ( Read more... )

We're off to Lincolnshire tomorrow for one of our regular (or in my case not very regular recently) trips to keep an eye on mother-in-law's house. We've done very little to it at all this year as our chances of selling it are zero at the moment, but we really need to get our act together at some point. It won't be this weekend though as ( Read more... )

I've just realised that caz963 tagged me for the 20 Questions meme.

( OK, here goes )

...not a usual occurrence when we go to Lincolnshire. Of course we managed to spend part of a gloriously sunny Saturday morning in the local library looking at newspapers from 1916 to find the story about the sinking of J's great-grandfather's trawler. We succeeded even better than we'd hoped but I'll spare you my family history ramblings ( Read more... )

I meant to write this up yesterday but got so caught up in doing something that not only did I not write this but I nearly forgot I was supposed to be going out in the evening. Anyway better late than never and mostly for my own interest here is What I Did Over the Bank Holiday Weekend.

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