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The holiday is over!
As usual we had a marvellous family holiday! Five cousins, five partners, nine children, two girlfriends, six grandchildren, three dogs… what a houseful! And also as usual I’m sure we all ate far too much; on the first night we always haves sausages because they are easy to cook and this year we had them […]
MoreLichen it in Kent…
Just coming into Margate and I couldn’t resist capturing this golden roof… A lichen firework… Lichen archipelago An old wall in spring sunshine
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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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Lois Elsden 