Josh turned up this morning with a very realistic looking plaster cast (actually horse bandages over white wadding of some sort) on his arm and a story of trampolining in the dark! It took father in completely, (and his Grandma Thompson who gave him £20 to cheer him up!!!) but I caught the edge of a smile exchanged between him and Jacob so wasn't fooled.
They went on to create a fake e-mail from a Wing Commander A. Gowke about keeping livestock in beteen 11.00 and 12.00 because of low flying sorties over Lincolnshire, the print-off of which they were going to show to Grandad Thompson, Dad, and any dog-walker, horse-rider or falconer they might come across on their farm!
Josh is a good actor and Jacob is pretty dead-pan when he needs to be. They are both, of course, seriously wicked!
I just got a a letter from a lady who is also descended from the Thomas and Ann Coulbeck, and Richard and Eliza Appleyard - she is my grandad's second cousin twice over, so she is my 2 x second cousin twice removed and Liz's third cousin twice removed (just the once so far as I know) - anyway she has two generations of Coulbecks and their wives with maiden names I haven't got beause I never got round to looking in the Waltham registers - I will have to check as I don't know the methods of the other distant cousin who did the research she is using, but it could be significant; on the other hand there are mistakes in the later generations so I'm not holding my breath, but a visit to Lincoln seems indicated.
