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Yes Viktoria, ponds do need a lot of attention to keep the fish healthy. Perhaps there is somewhere near you that would take your fish.

When the grandchildren started to arrive, we decided to do away with our pond for safety. We asked at our local garden centre about re homing  the goldfish, they have a large raised pond full of fish. They said they would be happy to take our fish, so they ended up enjoying far greater room to swim around in, plus plenty of fish for company.

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I know exactly how you feel Viktoria, we had exactly the same thing with our cat on moving back from Berlin. When we got back from the vet my husband and I both sat and wept. We had sent our sons to the pictures so they didn't know what we were doing.

Apart from a budgerigar, we had always refused them a pet because of the problem moving between countries every two or three years. Then one day boys rescued a kitten when the mother, a stray and her two other kittens had died. We didn't expect ours to survive, his eyes were only just open, but I fed him with an eye dropper every hour and kept him in my apron pocket during the day for warmth, at night he slept in my fur hat turned inside out, in a box by the bed. I have never got up so many times in the night as I did to feed him.

Against all the odds he thrived and grew into the most loving and playful cat. In the evenings he would curl up on my lap and the bird used to love to sit on his head and nibble his ears. Visitors couldn’t believe what they were seeing. It was the most unlikely sight and gave us many a laugh.

We had no more pets until we were back in England permanently.

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Census and Resource Discussion / Re: 1921 Query
« on: Monday 25 March 24 10:25 GMT (UK)  »
The adoptive parents most likely knew the mother as any arrangement would have almost certainly been private. Formal adoption didn’t start until 1927 after the adoption act was passed in 1926.

My mother-in-law born in 1920 was a similar case, her adoptive parents knew who her mother was. She was never formally adopted and never met her birth mother, although her adoptive mother pointed her birth mother  out to her across the street when she was about 9 or 10.

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Unless you know for sure who Helen’s parents were, it quite possible that Helen was her illegitimate daughter and she was concealing the fact. Something that was frequently done.

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I remember our GP, Doctor Mary Mitchell pre the NHS. Her surgery was in her house, now replaced with a block of flats. She took on a femail partner, Doctor Noel Carr. When I was four I was rather ill with pneumonia and she called and gave me tablets, the next day I came out in spots, it was measles. I was convinced the tablets caused the measles and that the doctor gave them to me to sop be being a bridesmaid the following week ;D

Those were the days when the  doctors did regular home visits, day or night  and rather than appointments, you just turned up at the surgery and joined the queue. When Doctor Mitchell retired her replacement, Dr Am Wyatt, went above and beyond for her patients. I remember when my father was very ill she would often pop in without being called, just to make sure he didn't need anything. I can't imagine  the GPs today doing that.

All though it has relocated twice, I have been with the same practice most of my life, except for the years I accompanied my husband on Army postings. Now there are five GPs and you have to wait ages just to get a telephone appointment.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Local GRO Index Access for Birmingham
« on: Friday 22 March 24 21:17 GMT (UK)  »
Just enter James Murray and Minnie Hewson and the reference number and you will get the marriage you want.

 Ignore the names of the other couple.

Just  enter Minnie Hewson and the reference you and will still get the correct certificate. You only need the name of the bride or groom.

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The Stay Safe Board / Re: Diary Week Ending March 24th.
« on: Friday 22 March 24 18:10 GMT (UK)  »
I hope all the members of the public and the press will now have the decency to leave them alone and not pester for updates.

Hopefully, she will make a full recovery  and not be rushed into making further statements.

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The Common Room / Re: Should I believe the newspaper?
« on: Friday 22 March 24 16:48 GMT (UK)  »
I believe the newspaper reports are incorrect (nothing unusual there) and the death in 1969 in Maidstone is his. Diana needs to get the 1948 Marriage to Kathleen EASTWOOD in Maidstone and see if he was a widower. Millie had died in 1941 so it’s highly likely.

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The Common Room / Re: Should I believe the newspaper?
« on: Friday 22 March 24 15:48 GMT (UK)  »
According to the report  of the eldest son’s marriage in 1941, he is described as son of late Mr Sweetman, so as he was alive for the 1939 Register his death should between 1939 and 1941.

There is another anomaly. If Diana has the marriage certificate for Ernest’s marriage to Millie BRADFORD it would be interesting to see what that shows, as the maiden name of the mother of the three sons  is BROOKS not BRADFORD. I can’t see an earlier marriage for Millie.

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