Roobarb - shocking to hear about the flooding over your way. Flooding is the cause of so much destruction.
Caroline - sounds like you had enough things to do to fill up your day. Never thought I would see the day when ordinary tasks took on a special purpose!
I’ve had two nights in a row with less than 6 hours each, which is not enough for me. Last night my leg was okay, thankfully.
Yesterday I received my PDF certificate order from the UK (do they still come from Southport?), took just about 72 hours, a record! There is still one to come, and one by mail, which might be weeks. For some reason, an inner voice was telling me to order a certain person’s death certificate from 1947, not someone I would normally order, but I did. Turns out the informant was a daughter I never knew about. When registered her surname was a spelling variant, and she did not live with her father in 1891 and in 1901 she was in service, and then got married. So now I can fill in all the blanks, turns out she had seven children.
I recorded an American genealogy programme a couple of days ago called Finding Your Roots and watched a bit of it this afternoon. One of the subjects was actress Glenn Close and I got a memory jolt when they began talking about her belonging to a quasi-religious singing ensemble in the late 60’s. They toured all over NA and came to my hometown in Quebec where she was billeted at a friend’s house. I met her, she would have been about 22 at the time, I was in my teens. Of course, I had no idea that she was going to be an international star one day, and forgot all about it until my friends’ mother told me in the mid-1980s me that the “Glennie” that had stayed with them was Glenn Close.
Her family history looks interesting, will watch the rest tomorrow!
Went for a walk in our local park with OH this morning. It was a brisk -6C with windchill, but lots of people walking and it was sunny too. OH went off for a longer walk and I waited in the car. We were in part of the park I had never been in before, it is 300 acres, so lots to explore. There are limited areas where cars can go, so that is nice.
Otherwise, set up a new jigsaw, read my book, and puttered around. We just watched a half hour of Antiques Roadshow on BritBox, not sure if they are most current. They were at Ightham Mote in Kent.
