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The Stay Safe Board / Re: State of Emergency, Coronavirus (part 2)
« on: Tuesday 17 March 20 12:34 GMT (UK)  »
A slight aside,but the "atmosphere" when Professor Chris Whitty starts to speak reminds me of Ian
MacDonald during the Falklands conflict.

Roger

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The Stay Safe Board / Re: state of emergency
« on: Monday 16 March 20 09:44 GMT (UK)  »
I guess I am one of the lucky ones
I’m only a quarter past sixty nine
Nevertheless I think I just might
Consider volunteering to self confine
I have an underlying condition
Makes me wonder how I should act
Though it’s not immediately one
Concerned with the respiratory tract
I’m awaiting the result of a biopsy
Which should be available soon
And if I require further treatment
It won’t make me more immune
My leg is hanging on by a thread
The hip could give way any day
And what is inhibiting an operation
Is an infection which won’t go away
I had a holiday booked in Turkey
Looking forward to some warm R&R
Fat chance that will now go ahead
Ah well ! - “Que sera sera” !
There are a lot worse off than me
I seem to still have most of my senses
So it’s roof down head for the countryside
Let the sun boost my natural defences

Roger

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The Stay Safe Board / Re: state of emergency
« on: Sunday 15 March 20 10:51 GMT (UK)  »
So are we going to be forcibly confined
Entirely for our own good
Like “A cream cracker under the settee”
Wasn’t Thora Hird really good?
Will there be an OAP catcher
In the streets with net and noose
To intercept ageing miscreants
Out on the fast and loose?
Will age police patrol the internet
Based on the DWP database
(Naturally they won’t be allowed
A tete a tete face to face)?
What will be the punishment
If a pensioner non complies
No pension or social services
Withdrawal of vital supplies?
Will many be hauled to the prison hulks
Those monstrous petri dish liners
Where they will be left to stew
With the virus as fellow diners
Perhaps for the baby boomers
This is their equivalent blitz
A test of spirit and fortitude
In the age of Amazon and Netflix

Roger

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The Stay Safe Board / Re: state of emergency
« on: Sunday 15 March 20 09:37 GMT (UK)  »
Aboard his play-street bright touring lorry
The Pop Man’s goods were displayed
Corona was once a childhood treat
With favourites like lemon or cherryade
An early glass recycling advocate
His heavy bottle could be returned
The legend on the back of the label
Promised thruppence would be earned
Now Coronavirus engenders suspicion
Keeps us locked away in fear
Wanting minimum social interaction
Fellow man please don’t come near
Panic buying has gone viral
Hand hygiene has become intense
For a handshake may be a Judas kiss
Betraying your body’s defence
A stark juxtaposition between the present
And when a day was just a plaything
As I look through self isolation’s window
And wonder what the morning may bring…

Roger

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Anglesey / Re: Owen Hughes Jones 1888
« on: Saturday 07 March 20 08:00 GMT (UK)  »
These look to be possibles for Owen and his parents:-

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X7J3-ZYT

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X7J3-874

The properties are relatively close together.

Regards
Roger

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Anyone up for a Challenge?
« on: Thursday 05 March 20 07:46 GMT (UK)  »
In the  1901 census there appears to be some fainter script above Ernest's occupation.It may not be relevant but can anyone make it out?
Looking back over comments,I'd missed the reference to a limp right arm in the photo.It almost looks as if he is an amputee.
It would be too much to expect these two observations to be linked!

Roger

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Anyone up for a Challenge?
« on: Thursday 05 March 20 07:18 GMT (UK)  »
There is a further "Gates" connection.Ernest Wooff is staying with the Neashams in 1901.William Neasham  married Jane Gates,another daughter of James and Sarah Gates,and another sister to Sarah and Eliza.Further,the Neashams are resident in Thornaby on Tees,only 3 miles from Stockton on Tees(the postmark).

Roger

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Anyone up for a Challenge?
« on: Wednesday 04 March 20 15:41 GMT (UK)  »
An improbable lateral thought,but here goes....
What if the writer is not the person in the photo?What if it is a woman(Handwriting style?Puzzle format?).
Unlikely(?),but what about Ediith's Aunt(?) Jane Dodsworth(nee Sarah Jane Wooff,married 1898)?
The picture could be her husband,perhaps.He would have been approx 27 at the time of writing(anybody guess the age of the subject?).There might be a way of making sensse of Father/Mother references.....Initials maybe JD as suggested....... 

Rpger

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Anyone up for a Challenge?
« on: Tuesday 03 March 20 17:38 GMT (UK)  »
If I am looking at the correct place,could the "signature" be a single "H"?

Roger

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