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Good news, the mole was benign, so I feel much better ,for my daughter in law and eldest son her husband .
Phew!
She is not a fuss pot and we have never had a cross word .
I am very grateful all is well for her.

Visiting my husband’s sister tomorrow ,she is the last of their happy family.
Christmas presents to be given and her B/ day on May 6 th , as I have mentioned .
She was my bridesmaid ,the other was stuck in The Isle of Man,heavy storms so no sailing .
She was a college friend .

Well , kitchen is sorted,milky coffee when son comes in from next door and then bed.
I want to wash my hair tomorrow morning before going to sister in law,It needs cutting ,appointment next week .

Look after yourselves folks. Thanks for good wishes , I hope all are as well as can be expected and that there is improvement .

Lovely day ,a bit of rain this evening.
Had to wash out the bird water container, It was filthy ,I think they have been dunking the stale brown bread I put out!

Viktoria.

My duaughter’s second marriage was in the Village Church, she had all pretty pottery .
Her friend and I set the tables matching the crockery —— oh No!
We had to unmatch them so no triplets ie side plate cup and saucer matching
- all mixed up —- it did look pretty though ,her cake was “ rustic”—- I could it visualise what she wanted so drew a few and she chose the one.I made and iced it.
In ivory, did I do grass,a bit of horse detritus for  authenticity!!?
Well I made sugar roses, had some skeleton leaves ,bought fine hessian braid
and assembled it did look nice .She drove up to see it and liked it so then I could properly attach the decorations .
She drove back to Suffolk with it ,a week before the wedding , the reception  was in a marquee on the village green ,next to the pub and the Church.
Ladies from the Church had Spring cleaned  it all, grass cut etc ,so very kind.

I do have photograph but some were lost from my iPad .
Trouble is you do something like that and people want you to do one for them .
I have never charged but always given as a gift then I don’t feel so bad as I worry about it all.But the hours spent!
I  would not have charged my daughter, of course.
No trouble doing it for family  but it gets too expensive, time consuming and a worry to do it for others.


A bright dry start but now very overcast, so washing that is in the washer dried inside I think.
Cheerio, Viktoria.

I agree Roobarb,I saw it just before heading to church and thought I would look again when back .
Knowing how kind Louisa Maude is I agree a typo .
Contentious- well argumentative  and sticking to your guns and stirring things up. So unlike L.M.  To use that word
Conscientious yes we can appreciate what Louisa meant given RTL’s work load and difficult travel at stupid O ‘clock!
I had two goes before spelling it correctly 
Mind you predictive text is back in my iPad, it is a nuisance ,you can so easily miss it.
We have a laugh don’t we ,always kindly I hasten to add.
Viktoria.

Well, an unsettled sleep pattern is really harming, and yours is chaotic RTL.
It is swapped and changed so often - irregularly, it seems.


I don’t know an answer except all nights or all days .
Work ought to be enjoyable even if tiring, I am sure you get satisfaction because I’ll bet you do a really good job ,but that can still be very
enervating .There seems not to be anyone in an  administrative post to talk to and more importantly listen!
Well keep us posted ,you know there are so many kind people who will
“ listen” on RootsChat ,just opening up and being read and thought  about is a little  “something”, that helps us get by. 
You might already take some but Multivitamins do help especially D .
Cheerio abd kindest regards.
Viktoria.

Whilst I totally respect ex soldiers ‘ attitudes that have been mentioned ,we can’t just forget such sacrifice by all men who did serve, willingly or not.

I wonder what our  country  and indeed the world would have been like had we not won WW1?
Perhaps no WW2 ?
As has been said-“ T he trains would run on time!”
Our country in 1914 was very class conscious ,great divides between the rich and poor and I remember reading once ,that there was a train of thought that women of the upper classes ( note the lower case letters!) grieved more strongly than the “poor” ——— ignoring the facts that thin ,sickly ,poorly clad
children could be dearly loved even if their mothers could not feed them or clothe them very well.
So when poor families lost a son they were not much fussed!

How DARE anyone arrive at that opinion.?
Families grieved but still had to go to work and get on with work and household work as well for women . They were more private , after all as for example when the letters started arriving in Accrington and surrounding small towns and villages, after the first day of The Battle of The Somme, when The Accrington Pals- 11th East Lancs - were almost totally annihilated -someone from  every street - it seemed and more than one in many homes were killed, brothers and fathers and sons.
That morning when the letters were received ,there would be grieving families almost every street .
I think that changed the idea of family members serving together ,it had been a sort of inducement ,serve with your brothers,father and pals.
1,076 men enlisted in 10 days, 850 were killed.
The Sheffield Pals were another example -

“ Two years in the making- Ten minutes in the destroying”.

They had served in Mesopotamia before being almost totally wiped out on the  first day of “ The Somme. “
It was a prime example of the innocence of youth and ideals of patriotism.

They and The Sheffield Pals were at the North  end the battle lines,Beaumont Hammel, Serre, Thiepval .
The huge Memorial there has many of their names on it.
“ The Accy Palls’ “ memorial is an Accrington brick wall, NORI brick ,a very hard wearing building brick made at Accrington.
Just at the edge of the trenches - we have stood in their overnight bivouac trench - and wept.

I have the Roll of Honour , fathers and sons together.

So whilst many men served honourably albeit reluctantly in many cases, they did fight in defence of their country.
All credit to them.
But of course they came back to mass unemployment,dole queues ,the means test, and such deprivation , not really until there were signs that Germany was “at it again “and rearmament started giving employment did things improve job- wise for many many poor people.
I know, my Dad was one.
He could not get married until 1933,too ill to work ,even after the relative luxury of being a POW ,which probably saved his life, or I would not  be here now typing away !
A very emotive subject,it almost beggars belief.

I admire those men who really did not want to kill others- who could be  family men like themselves ,but they did in defence of their families and
country.
They might not have wanted it but got anyway thanks and  admiration - they deserve remembrance .
“Love’s Last Gift- Rememberance.”

Viktoria.