Thanks for this picture, Frank. Just look at the love and tenderness here! Makes me wish I was a vegetarian. I really suffer when I eat animals. Not that I've ever eaten a giraffe!!!! I get more upset when I hear about cruelty to animals than to people.
It's lovely having you back, Winifred. I read in the Daily Mail yesterday about an English couple convicted of hoarding, and making their kids eat while sitting on the stairs. Just as well we don't have that law here, or I'd be making headlines! Since I became addicted to ancestry.com I've been digging out old photos, drawings that Philip did when he was in kinder and primary school and various other odds and ends, and they are spread all over the kitchen table. Emma slept with me on Friday night and I had to give her breakfast in bed on a tray on Saturday morning, as there was no room at the table!!
Today, even though it's Mother's Day, my task is to clean out the enormous store room and put everything back.
Lina is astonished/appalled that I (and another one of her friends who should know better) read the Daily Mail. I laughed to myself the other night while watching 'Last Tango in Halifax' when the bloke discovered his lady friend also read it!!!! I think this is one of the best programmes I've ever seen - I love Anne Reid. She's a wonderful actress. The others were all excellent, too. Did you see it, Winifred and Frank?
Yesterday I stood at the computer for about 18 hours, trying to track down an ancestor. He was a Jewish dentist who got my grandmother - a catholic nun - pregnant in 1907. My dad was the result. Can you imagine the scandal!!!! A couple of years later she married a bloke called Philipson and they rubbed out her maiden name on the birth certificate and changed it to Philipson. You'd never get away with that nowadays. I've contacted quite a few cousins during my search. So now at least half a dozen of us are trying to track down Joseph Cohen and his descendants.
On my mother's side there's a juicy scandal, too. Her father got a woman pregnant in 1905 but her parents wouldn't allow her to marry him, so he took the baby home from the hospital and brought her up himself!!! Imagine a single father at that time!!! He had to employ a live-in housekeeper but that caused gossip so he married her and they had my mother, twelve years after the first baby.
Then there's an arsonist and murderer...and not too far from me, either. One never knows...So, Winifred, be very thankful your ancestors were a pretty bland lot.
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Yes I did watch "last tango in Halifax" and thought it excellent viewing! That Dentist Granddad must have been some Romeo, a Nun no less Wow! Have traced our Family tree back to pre 1800 and unearthed a few skeletons etc in the cuphoard including an Uncle hanged in Durham jail in 1925 for murdering my Mams Sister (his Wife)
That was funny I read the title 'Mother's Day in OZ' and then realized it meant only the beautiful picture - though the rest was interesting. I did not say that although my family had done damn all of interest my mother and father had a romantic beginning. Mum was the slave for her large Irish family and one day whilst collecting a huge jug full of (not quite set jam) cheap at the local factory she met dad who was job hunting. He was 12 years her senior and a foreigner from Oxford!! - 3 weeks later he collected her from the end of her street and they ran off to be married at 8 0'clock the next morning in the local church and caught the bus to Ilkley in Yorkshire leaving a note but no address. Romantic eh? They were married for 50 years and when dad died she told everyone she'd be happy to go too as nothing in life would be good without him.
Not exactly daring deeds, getting nun's pregnant or being hung in Durham jail but a nice story.
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