Family Stories by Lois

The missing link? Almost!

My grandfather’s family had lived for many generations on the south coast of England, settling eventually in Littlehampton in Sussex where some cousins still live even today.  My grandfather’s brother, Wilfred Henry, married a young woman Edith May Kinch, who had been born and brought up in Portsmouth where my husband’s family, the Sparshotts come from. Edith’s father Edwin was a shipwright working […]

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Bits and pieces by Lois

Who are they, and what are they doing and saying?

Whoo are the people on the beach There’s a mother and granddaughter paddling; grandma has just started saying “When I was a girl..” and the child is saying “ice-ceem, ice-ceem, me want ice-ceem”. Or maybe she isn’t a grandma, maybe she’s a grandpa and it isn’t a child but a dog, a dog who isn’t sure whether he likes the water or not. There are two people […]

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