Month: December 2024
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Sussex Roots
This week I am returning to the Carver’s who originated in Lodsworth, Sussex. It is December with short days. I wonder what life was like in agriculture in those mid-19th Century days. Tending cattle and looking after the farm land would have been a brutal lifestyle in the rain and wind. While writing this I…
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Great Uncle Harry (Palin)
If my blog was a book, then this is how I would like to approach it. Michael Palin was able to write this book because he was handed a pile of notebooks and diaries and other papers relating to his Great Uncle. He supported this with a lot of research into the historical context of…