Life moves on and the wheel keeps turning whether I am here or not. Often, my absence here means something has grabbed my interest and this is definitely true right now....
I signed up to Ancestry and started tracing my family tree. Oh how fascinating!
My Dad's Dad's side is not too tricky, an unusual surname and a helping had in the form of a pretty good idea of first names as my Dad has already put in a lot of work on this. Eventually I will get his tree in the post and that will help even more. I have already found things he didn't know though - finding where a lady has gotten married can be tricky without national searches...
My Dad's Mum's side has not even gotten a look in yet.... but it wil...
My Mum's Mum's side is what I have been looking at most recently and is proving to be fascinating but tricky. My Great great great Grandfather was from Scotland and he suddenly appears in the part of the country the family then stuck to through generations. Unfortunately he has not put which part of Scotland on any census. To add to the difficulties but also to make him more interesting, he appears to have been a soldier and it looks as if he was posted to Ireland where he married my great great great Grandma, then a few years later had my Great great grandfather in Ireland before touring all over the place. They eventually settled in the family location, which is where his wife was from originally. So how did they meet? Why did she go to Ireland as an unmarried person and then stay there? I believe the sudden marriage and then delay before the first child is down to the Crimean War, they married just before he left but she did not get pregnant until he returned. I feel an urge to start an interest in military history of the time..... Maybe I can deduce some stuff.....
My Mum's Dad's side has been fascinating but tricky. The paternal branch is just impossible! They moved around and have a common name and some things appear to have happened so they just jump and then they can not be plucked out from all the others of the same name.... but the maternal branch.... very fascinating! My great great grandfather was a commercial traveller / manager / office speciality, whatever that all adds up to, but he did travel, he even went to Chicago, but I have no idea why.... My great great great Grandma was it seems of mixed English and French descent and hails from Guernsey....
So you never know what you are going to find for sure and it is addictive.....
As well as all this, i came down with a cold. Last night I was craving hot comfort food so I stewed pork belly with tomatoes, onions and corn, flavoured with sun dried tomatoes, porcini mushrooms and chipototles. It was lovely and it burned and i feel better for it.
A friend found this great idea called Graze.com where they send you four punnets of natural foods to graze on, randomly selected from their range according to certain options and likes and dislikes etc. I love this idea and hope it might help me little... I have ordered my first box and sent a gift one to my Mum as well. Anyone else in the UK wanting to try, let me know, I have a promo code I can email....
The magpies are doing well. befor ethe wedding they had been looking scraggly and their feathers were a mess, with a great ring of them missig round the neck. I was even worried they might not survive the winter! I returned though to find their moulting complete and they are resplendent in their winter plummage now and happy to wait by my car for the odd snack as normal.
The wedding seems to have seen the last of the Summer warmth. Autumn has come crashing in with a chill in the air. My bug has left me feeling cold and right now I feel out of sync. My body too tired from the wedding to keep up with the sudden change. I shall catch up.
Oh and I found a website entitled Society for Shamanic Practitioners. It only lists seven drumming circles for the whole of the UK. There is one in Cornwall and I am really hoping it is my end.... I have enquired... I think this would be a very good thing for me....
Also thinking of setting up a blog just for my dreams....
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