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Krystyna23040 said:
That's sounds like an interesting read @lindisfel. Did he go off climbing mountains when his wife was seriously ill?
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I think he did. Apart from reading about 4 books on and off over the last few months, I might go to Waterstones and pick up the said book. Love going to old book shops but also like Waterstones for the café and the books obviously. If ever we move house, I am going to have a library - the silence would be amazing!
 
Lainie71 said:
I think he did. Apart from reading about 4 books on and off over the last few months, I might go to Waterstones and pick up the said book. Love going to old book shops but also like Waterstones for the café and the books obviously. If ever we move house, I am going to have a library - the silence would be amazing!
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That is dreadful that he did that and very sad for his ill wife.

A cafe at a bookshop is a bonus. I would definitely go to Waterstones to pick up your book.
We have 4 bookcases in our house . So maybe we qualify as a library. Sadly, Mr K likes clocks and we have a grandfather clock that chimes quite loudly so we are definitely not quiet like a library.
 
Our house is usually quiet enough to be a library. We have bookshelves lining the walls of our sitting room, but I have thinned the books out considerably. I did sell a whole set of Patrick O'Brien hardbacks that I bought for Tom, some never even out of their protective covers. He liked them because, being a Master Mariner himself, he could tell that O'Brien knew about the sea, whereas many other authors who wrote about the sea, to him, clearly didn't. I still have the complete set in paper back. Those were the ones he read and those I've kept. I also thinned out his collection of nautical books, but not the ones he used for navigation. Some of his collection he asked me to give to a retired Bos'un he had sailed with, when he was gone. Kept a small number which, who knows, I might read one day? Got rid of some of mine as well - the ones I knew I wouldn't read again. There still must be 900+ on the shelves.

Neil has another 1000+ in his part of the house but doesn't really believe in getting rid of books. His are mostly bought from 2nd hand bookshops and some are quite venerable.

A few of mine are, as well. A few go back to my childhood and have stayed with me all these years. Will I ever read a 1950's edition of Hans Anderson's Fairy Tales? Probably not, but it stays. An even older copy of Robinson Crusoe? Prize for my dad aged about 13 (1928), very shabby because I didn't really respect books when I was very small but it is based on the story of Alexander Selkirk - who shares an ancestor with Neil and Alistair. Another "Astray in the Forest" - about the same vintage and also a school prize for my dad, in pretty reasonable condition - one of my favourite reads as a child. How about Black Beauty? I refused to read it first time around because it gave a human voice to a horse. Never could do with that. Some venerable religious texts as well and one book I love which was published by some petrol company and showed maps of roads in the early 1900's. There are actually quite a few books kept for their literary value, which I may read again sometime.

Then there are the mini libraries in the bedrooms, and the hundred or so catering/cookery books in the kitchen. We are awash with books, as we are with many of the other things I keep for their sentimental value. .:banghead:

Odd thing is, I didn't want to hang one to my Uni notes or books that I needed for my degree, or my Masters. Got rid of them very rapidly. The only remains of those few years are 2 graduation photos and (somewhere) a couple of certificates. Who needs them now?
 
Krystyna23040 said:
We picked up Archie's ashes and paw print from the vet today. He is in a lovely wooden cask. A sad day but good to have him back home.
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Bless, that is sad xxx I have my Collie cross ashes at home. Couldn't cope with him being anywhere else. Hubby and I still talk as if he is still around, he is in a way x
 
Annb said:
Our house is usually quiet enough to be a library. We have bookshelves lining the walls of our sitting room, but I have thinned the books out considerably. I did sell a whole set of Patrick O'Brien hardbacks that I bought for Tom, some never even out of their protective covers. He liked them because, being a Master Mariner himself, he could tell that O'Brien knew about the sea, whereas many other authors who wrote about the sea, to him, clearly didn't. I still have the complete set in paper back. Those were the ones he read and those I've kept. I also thinned out his collection of nautical books, but not the ones he used for navigation. Some of his collection he asked me to give to a retired Bos'un he had sailed with, when he was gone. Kept a small number which, who knows, I might read one day? Got rid of some of mine as well - the ones I knew I wouldn't read again. There still must be 900+ on the shelves.

Neil has another 1000+ in his part of the house but doesn't really believe in getting rid of books. His are mostly bought from 2nd hand bookshops and some are quite venerable.

A few of mine are, as well. A few go back to my childhood and have stayed with me all these years. Will I ever read a 1950's edition of Hans Anderson's Fairy Tales? Probably not, but it stays. An even older copy of Robinson Crusoe? Prize for my dad aged about 13 (1928), very shabby because I didn't really respect books when I was very small but it is based on the story of Alexander Selkirk - who shares an ancestor with Neil and Alistair. Another "Astray in the Forest" - about the same vintage and also a school prize for my dad, in pretty reasonable condition - one of my favourite reads as a child. How about Black Beauty? I refused to read it first time around because it gave a human voice to a horse. Never could do with that. Some venerable religious texts as well and one book I love which was published by some petrol company and showed maps of roads in the early 1900's. There are actually quite a few books kept for their literary value, which I may read again sometime.

Then there are the mini libraries in the bedrooms, and the hundred or so catering/cookery books in the kitchen. We are awash with books, as we are with many of the other things I keep for their sentimental value. .:banghead:

Odd thing is, I didn't want to hang one to my Uni notes or books that I needed for my degree, or my Masters. Got rid of them very rapidly. The only remains of those few years are 2 graduation photos and (somewhere) a couple of certificates. Who needs them now?
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Well if I ever go missing (highly unlikely), I will be found buried in the books you have!
 
Lainie71 said:
Bless, that is sad xxx I have my Collie cross ashes at home. Couldn't cope with him being anywhere else. Hubby and I still talk as if he is still around, he is in a way x
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Yes, although sad it feels good that his ashes are back home. It does feel that he is still here.

We have our Saffy's ashes at home also. She passed away in 2009.
We didn't tell our girls that we had kept her ashes in a cabinet in the lounge as we thought they would think we were silly.

We had her picture on the opposite wall. Our 18 month old granddaughter loved the picture and I played a little game with her where I would say where is Saffy and she would point to the picture. Of course we didn't tell her about the ashes. So she always pointed to the picture.

Daughter and granddaughter had popped in and I decided to show daughter the little game I had been playing with granddaughter.

When I said where is Saffy. She immediately pointed to the picture. Then she went into a trance and really slowly she started to circle around - still pointing her finger. Daughter was really worried and asked me what is happening. Granddaughter was by now pointing at the cabinet where Saffy's casket was hidden.

We couldn't work out how granddaughter knew where the ashes were hidden.

We forgot about the incident and then some years later Mr K asked granddaughter - where is Saffy. She immediately pointed to the picture and not the hidden casket. All very strange. How, at 18 months had she known where Saffy's ashes were hidden.
 
Lainie71 said:
I think he did. Apart from reading about 4 books on and off over the last few months, I might go to Waterstones and pick up the said book. Love going to old book shops but also like Waterstones for the café and the books obviously. If ever we move house, I am going to have a library - the silence would be amazing!
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We used to have a laugh about Mr Bonnington!
It just seemed that the people he climbed with often had accidents.
But, he was always lucky!
We always assumed it would make an Agatha Christie or a Jackie Collins mystery thriller!
Ha!
 
Krystyna23040 said:
Yes, although sad it feels good that his ashes are back home. It does feel that he is still here.

We have our Saffy's ashes at home also. She passed away in 2009.
We didn't tell our girls that we had kept her ashes in a cabinet in the lounge as we thought they would think we were silly.

We had her picture on the opposite wall. Our 18 month old granddaughter loved the picture and I played a little game with her where I would say where is Saffy and she would point to the picture. Of course we didn't tell her about the ashes. So she always pointed to the picture.

Daughter and granddaughter had popped in and I decided to show daughter the little game I had been playing with granddaughter.

When I said where is Saffy. She immediately pointed to the picture. Then she went into a trance and really slowly she started to circle around - still pointing her finger. Daughter was really worried and asked me what is happening. Granddaughter was by now pointing at the cabinet where Saffy's casket was hidden.

We couldn't work out how granddaughter knew where the ashes were hidden.

We forgot about the incident and then some years later Mr K asked granddaughter - where is Saffy. She immediately pointed to the picture and not the hidden casket. All very strange. How, at 18 months had she known where Saffy's ashes were hidden.
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Amazing story of granddaughter and Saffy. Hug for bringing Archie home.
 
Lainie71 said:
Bless, that is sad xxx I have my Collie cross ashes at home. Couldn't cope with him being anywhere else. Hubby and I still talk as if he is still around, he is in a way x
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Sometimes, you feel his prescence, and look for him.
Bet, you still have habits, as if your dog is still there.
I know I do!
My first is to open the back door, when I get up, before anything else!!!!
 
Krystyna23040 said:
That is dreadful that he did that and very sad for his ill wife.

A cafe at a bookshop is a bonus. I would definitely go to Waterstones to pick up your book.
We have 4 bookcases in our house . So maybe we qualify as a library. Sadly, Mr K likes clocks and we have a grandfather clock that chimes quite loudly so we are definitely not quiet like a library.
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There was a huge Waterstones in the city, in Bold street. It was a place to get my specialist sci fi and the fiction I enjoyed when I bought books before, I got an e reader.. The actual shop, before it was a book store, is famous as the shop, in Bold street, for a time slip incidents.
Look it up!
 
I think I already told you lot about my trek library.
But my e reader has hundreds in the cloud.

Last night's dream was about a story, about a man, not me, who's middle toe was going to be amputated.
Until a doctor came in and just removed his toenail. The pain went. And, yes, I was feeling the pain in my dream.
I have no idea except finding the constant nagging ache, from my old bones.
But why the toe????
 
Just to tell you I'm waiting for another incident in or on the house.
This morning with the amount of water around, our drain blocked to the sewer, the outlet from the kitchen/ bathroom. And the wind has blown the old aerial of the chimney. Had to get a long ladder to reach and get down. I can't see any damage to the chimney stack.
So that's two, wonder what the third is?
Bloody weather!
 
Annb said:
Actually, I would be delighted if someone were to gift me a DNA testing kit because I would love to take one, but can never justify the price - not even now they are being offered at a bargain price. I have got back as far as I can at present using online Family History sites but would really enjoy knowing the distant past (some in Wales, much in England, pretty solid Anglo Saxon, I imagine, even though one part of the family, from Essex bears a name which was often taken by Jewish immigrants in medieval times. Very much a mongrel, I suppose but I would love to know.
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Just found a site which suggest that the name Furminger (the name of one of my ancestors) was possibly from someone who came with William when he conquered England in 1066 and was a cheesemaker (fromagier). That was a theory I heard a long time ago but then I heard that a fermenger was a tax collector who, with his cut from the collected funds, was able to buy land, which he then farmed and so we have the words Farm/Farmer/Farming. Today I read another theory , that jews (penalty for their existance in England before 1066 was death) had a name Furmiger which they changed to Furminger to hide their identity. So, perhaps we have rather more jewish forebears than we realised. However, if you were going to change your name to cover your identity and origins, surely you would make more of a difference - like our other potentially jewish ancestors who changed their name to Brittain. Fascinating puzzle.
 
dunelm said:
Good morning everyone, just. Smashing day yesterday, nice and quiet this morning. Here is a sketch I did a few days ago on a small postcard size piece of watercolour paper. Hope your Boxing Day goes smoothly.

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A unusual view to puzzle out its geomorphology.

A beech hanger fighting to grow upright on a drumlin?
 
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Lamont D said:
6.8 this day of darts. Had to go big shop, for of all things tea! Picked up a few fresh bits and a couple of treats for Mrs L. It is now two years since the FiL died. And left a huge hole in Mrs L 's life!
she did really well again yesterday, even if the idea of the kids going back to school today had a place in her thoughts! Ah well!!
The weather is inclement!
Poor Clement!I
It is dreadful, lots of rain, windy and chilly even tho my thermometer is in double figures.
Another storm. Soon be running out of names.
My spring bulbs are surging up. Is it me or are they really early?

Bits and bobs to do. Who is Bob?

Check back in after munching on gammon and pork and other tasty morsels.

My best wishes on this Christmas Wednesday to you lot as always.
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We cant get pgtips like we use to do.
 
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