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OGFB Blog: Julie in Norfolk
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20 September 2008
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I just had a look at Gearce's blog post count and it seems to have diminished somewhat, what went on there?
Anyway I am back at my familiar Saturday morning slot with very little idea about what I am going to write again. It is funny, but I manage to think of something after a while and by then I have used up sufficient room - not wanting to make you face a wall of text.
This week I have been mostly knocking my head against brick walls, the wall may have started to crumble and I am not sure about what is on the other side. We will see about that as things eventually transpire.
This weekend I will be cooking apples for apple sauce, apple pies etc as one way of storing our cooking apples. I may have said that the tree was groaning under the weight of the harvest, unfortunately it took one groan too many and the roots pulled up on one side. It was a lovely old tree and I am sorry to see it go but there you are. It will keep us warm this winter fuelling the woodburner. I happened to take a photograph of it two weeks ago and I will post that later for posterity.
I have taken two significant leaps family history wise this week and have ordered photocopies of the entire Ulpha parish register - previously untranscribed. The parish does appear in the IGI but this will give so much more information and I hope confirm my beliefs with the work done so far. The other leap was ordering a death certificate from LancashireBMD, I have asked them to check for the occupation of the 4xg grandad as he was a calico printer for most of his life - I think he died in 1849. This will give me a better idea of his date of birth and I can then start tracking down christening records. I may be able to find a marriage for him as well although I haven't found one as yet which worries me as I know his wife's name. Back to basics Julie.
I have always been a person who has tried to run before I walk and I have learned to live with my faults - having come to terms with sitting myself down and forcing good practice. New leaves have been turned so many times that it is silly, but I am careful not to make too many assumptions or leaps of faith.
I don't have many plans for the weekend so I should just about achieve them all as opposed to setting my sights too high and doing b*gger all, so onward and upward as they say.
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15 September 2008
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Just a short entry to my blog, I don't like leaving it more than a week without an update. I think this has been the most regular diary type of affair that I have ever maintained except for my Time Manager at work.
For all of you not in the know, a Time Manager is the big daddy of all diary and planning systems and I treat mine like a god when I have trouble motivating myself.
I have to motivate myself as there is no other b*gger to do it for me, nor is there anyone else who really understands the black arts that I undertake on a regular basis at work.
So I go to work, magick away casting spells and checking that they work; contenting myself for for several days, confusing the old subordinates and to the disinterest of my peers. Why do I do it you ask.
B*ggered if I know. I have the Monday morning badly today and am looking forward to doing OTHER STUFF!
I have ordered photocopies of the Ulpha Parish Records to trace the Stable(s) line back properly rather than relying on the IGI. I am hoping for more information than simply names. These records will be about a fortnight in arriving, so I shall have to steady on until they drop through the letterbox.
I was really pleased with the photographs of St Paul's at Marsden, this seems to have been a church that the family used and I am hoping to grab a look at the graveyard fairly soon.
Well I've had a moan and prattled on about family history. I am going to try some scrap booking this week in the long lonely nights in the hotel, results may inspire another forum entry.
See you all soon.
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07 September 2008
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Oh there are none so blind as those that won't see. I had a vision of a family history book that I wanted to produce for myself and moaned to myself that there didn't seem to be the sorts of materials on the market that I wanted to use; in the end I used a photograph album where the entire page was covered with a plastic film that held the photographs and papers in place but didn't allow for much embellishment other than flat two dimensional stuff, if you built up layers it didn't seem to work well and I had a vision you see...
Well how was I to know that scrapbooking had become all the rage, after all there were only countless magazines on the subject in newsagents and materials galore in the very store that I bought the photograph album from (cunningly disguised as cardmaking and scrapbooking materials).
Oh, and I felt such a Nelly when the penny suddenly dropped (another credit crunching noise there).
So now I can have my "studious" family history book and my more "ornate" family history book. BTW this is hence the request for a photo of St Paul's Church, Halifax Road, Nelson.
So today, as if I haven't got enough half finished projects, I am embarking on another one. Project that is, not half finished - yet....
Firstly however, I must walk the new, sleeker and racing snake model of Sam-u-el the Span-u-el who has had yet another haircut. A couple of miles around Hills and Holes will do him fine, I don't want to let him off the lead as he will, sure as sugar, find some deer poo to roll in. He smells lovely and clean at the moment and I wouldn 't mind a few more days of clean dog odour.
Then it is time for living room and bathroom cleaning, and dining room as well, oh and the front hallway and downstairs loo.
Steve will probably by this time have gathered enough garden rubbish to require a trip to the recycling centre courtesy of my driving.
Oh and then it is cook the dinner, sew the required press studs on my dresses and pack for next week.
I am so glad we get weekends off work to relax!
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30 August 2008
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Just thought I would update this blog before doing the long walk with Sam-u-el Span-u-el.
I have enjoyed the thread regarding UFO sightings. Last seen by me in Colchester in a friend's back garden. As I was explaining the UFO thing, it nipped behind a cloud and was not seen at all on the journey home. I am a little worried now as what I did see was disturbing, in the distance, a long way away was a red glow on the horizon, did the UFO crash? There has been nothing about the sightings on the national news, nor anything about a glowing disk crashing into the horizon. I think we should be told!
Most other stuff that went on this week was work related, no comments about that then, except for didn't the week go quickly! All the week that is except for the traffic queue / jam that I was in on Tuesday on the M25. Two hours to move 2 miles, I think I can work out my average speed. I heard on the radio this week that the average speed on motoways has reduced to something like 62 mph. Someone somewhere must have had his foot through the footwell to go at a rate to counteract the speed I was doing!
Other stuff: not a lot.
The Bank Holiday flew past, I can't remember what I did now so that was a complete wasted day. I remember what we had planned and didn't do, I remember why we didn't do it but I can't recall what we did do. Just remembered - roast pork for dinner and the crackling was brilliant.
The next few weeks will be filled with what to do with cooking apples. We have a tree in our back garden that is groaning under the weight of a bumper harvest. One thing I will make (look away all dieters) is Apple Crumble Pie. I got the inspiration for this from a television programme several years ago and I make it thus:
Blind bake a deep pie base.
Add stewed apple to the base.
Add cooled thick custard to the top of the apple.
Add a crumble topping to the top of the custard.
Cook as per normal to brown off the crumble.
Serve with vanilla ice cream.
Under no circumstances weigh yourself within one week of eating a portion of the above.
As per normal, the pears have done ok but have committed suicide before being picked and then the wasps got at them, or maybe the wasps have got at them already?
We also have Raspberrys in the garden, not too many as it is a young bush, but enough to have an odd one everytime I go into the garden, it stops the birds from cropping them.
Steve's tomatoes are coming thick and fast, we will have some roasted with tonight's dinner I think, along with some red peppers.
Ah well, I have rambled on enough for a blog entry, you don't want a wall of text of my goings on after all.
Tarra
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26 August 2008
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Well it is the end of another Bank holiday weekend and there are no more until Christmas. As I write this at 23.58 on 25th August, there are 4 months to go.
So I'm planning christmas already, not because I am a great fan of the season, but because I intend that it will pass spiffingly well this year. Our best Christmasses are always the ones that are planned well in advance and executed gradually toward the day. The big downer on the Xmas season is my birthday is too close so I have decided to celebrate early this year and widen the gap between the two dates.
Dinner has been planned. Daughter wants pork and we will have some fowl with it, probably duck or goose. Accompanyments to the dinner will be braised red cabbage, shallots cooked in red wine with chestnuts, lemon and cranberry stuffing with sausage meat, roast potatoes and yorkshire pudding. There will probably be brussel sprouts for the chaps in the house - so long as I remember to put them on to boil in mid October.
Christmas cake will be cooked in 3 to 4 weeks time and fed generously with Brandy inbetween cooking and Xmas.
Last week was a funny old week and I have to think forward and ignore what goes on at the present. I may dwell on it in future blogs when I have got this vault over and done with or I may not, I've just got to get through the next couple of weeks with an intact mind.
Family history wise has all been focused on Steve's family from Norwich and Great Yarmouth. We have contacted two distant cousins of his and seen a photo of a distant ancestor also, great stuff and it has been very rewarding. If you are a person with Fiddy as a surname, you are bound to be related.
We bought some new mugs from "Range" yesterday and Steve has exploded one this morning already, fancy putting boiling water into it to make a cup of tea, I don't know!
We have also taken to visiting the dead section in our local garden centre, purchasing casualty plants. So far they are all doing very well with Steve's tlc. He has green fingers, I have brown. I can turn any healthy looking greenery into a dead thing in a week. The more care I give them, the quicker they die. Overwatering is one of my failings, followed quickly by not watering at all. I just don't get the balance of watering right. As I choose plants at plant stalls at the market, the children refer to me as "selecting my next victim."
Take care everyone and remember, onl.y 4 months to go until christmas.
xxx
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