My mum has done lots and continues to do lots but nothing as seriously amazing as what.. you don't know who.. has done. Nope, you ain't getting her name 'cos she's shy. And, we have to 'play real nice' to nice folk, especially to those nice folk who own up / confess openly to reading this 'ere blog!
And this extremely nice woman has been reading my blog right from the start, we should give her a medal for perseverance.
Doing stuff makes or builds your past, being a mother or a lover or a wife or even none of the before mentioned (as opposed to the above mentioned) also makes you have a past and, you're someone's child so you had a childhood, a happy one we hope, and your parents had parents and backwards you go.. whoosh, back down the slope as far back as you can go.. into THE PAST!
Which is why BUB and my mama are doing the tracing of their family. Because, of course, the only difference being he is the son of Robert and she is the daughter of Constance who were brother and sister but before that, all their relatives were the same.. gettit? It ain't hard, you just have to read it slowly.
So EVERYONE has a past.. unless you a person from outer space!
And, IF you have children.. PLEASE try and get down on paper as many details of your family and your partner's family as possible. You may think that your kids won't be interested, they may not be because you're right there infront of them but your grandchildren will certainly be, for only if you're veryvery lucky will you see your grandchildren grow up to be adults.
So get yourself a roll of lining wallpaper and starting at the open end with yourself, you write down what you know about whom you know going backwards in lineage and time. And jot down anything different or interesting beside that person.
She discovered that one of her God-Fathers did something that earned him 'something' in the way of a military something but AFTER WW2, it was classified for 60 years and has just been de-classified, so she is off to the PRO at Kew, which is where de-classified information is able to be viewed by the public, to find out what is was for. She has a vague idea what it might be to do with as Hugo was highly decorated for something during the Malay Emergency.
Is she nosy, undoubtedly! And she'll be writing to Simone, his widow, Simone, about it. Is he part of her past, most certainly, for it was he, who was such a lovely man, who took her to Prunier's Fish restaurant in St. James's!
She came home with such a load of SWAG today.. all worthy of its' own post! But our next post is about and for Karen, another very dear Dear Reader.. it'll make Joe jealous, she's been cross-country skiing and we've seen the photo of the snow, lying very deep and crisp and even.
So we're going from one part of America to another.. whoosh.. PipPip..
GeeGee Parrot.
December 31st, 2015.
PostScript: PRO stands for Public Records Office.
And this extremely nice woman has been reading my blog right from the start, we should give her a medal for perseverance.
Doing stuff makes or builds your past, being a mother or a lover or a wife or even none of the before mentioned (as opposed to the above mentioned) also makes you have a past and, you're someone's child so you had a childhood, a happy one we hope, and your parents had parents and backwards you go.. whoosh, back down the slope as far back as you can go.. into THE PAST!
Which is why BUB and my mama are doing the tracing of their family. Because, of course, the only difference being he is the son of Robert and she is the daughter of Constance who were brother and sister but before that, all their relatives were the same.. gettit? It ain't hard, you just have to read it slowly.
So EVERYONE has a past.. unless you a person from outer space!
And, IF you have children.. PLEASE try and get down on paper as many details of your family and your partner's family as possible. You may think that your kids won't be interested, they may not be because you're right there infront of them but your grandchildren will certainly be, for only if you're veryvery lucky will you see your grandchildren grow up to be adults.
So get yourself a roll of lining wallpaper and starting at the open end with yourself, you write down what you know about whom you know going backwards in lineage and time. And jot down anything different or interesting beside that person.
She discovered that one of her God-Fathers did something that earned him 'something' in the way of a military something but AFTER WW2, it was classified for 60 years and has just been de-classified, so she is off to the PRO at Kew, which is where de-classified information is able to be viewed by the public, to find out what is was for. She has a vague idea what it might be to do with as Hugo was highly decorated for something during the Malay Emergency.
Is she nosy, undoubtedly! And she'll be writing to Simone, his widow, Simone, about it. Is he part of her past, most certainly, for it was he, who was such a lovely man, who took her to Prunier's Fish restaurant in St. James's!
She came home with such a load of SWAG today.. all worthy of its' own post! But our next post is about and for Karen, another very dear Dear Reader.. it'll make Joe jealous, she's been cross-country skiing and we've seen the photo of the snow, lying very deep and crisp and even.
So we're going from one part of America to another.. whoosh.. PipPip..
GeeGee Parrot.
December 31st, 2015.
PostScript: PRO stands for Public Records Office.
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