genealogy

Uncle Alf? from LissaT ^Pro 107 days old

Today is the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, one of Lincolnshire's most famous sons. The statue outside Lincoln Cathedral When ...

Tidy from LissaT ^Pro 128 days old

I am starting the holiday witha massive tidy! We live in a five bedroom and one bathroom house, but two of the rooms are taken up with sewing and ironing, ...

Lost Touch from LissaT ^Pro 277 days old

I am on the whole pretty good at keeping track of my cousins. On Saturday my father received a solicitor's letter about a small legacy (and I bet it ...

Lunch from LissaT ^Pro 694 days old

Some of the things I have been given this Christmas gave me pause for thought: Do my friends ever listen to a word I say? Do they really know me at all? Well, ...

Flitcham from LissaT ^Pro 905 days old

As any readers of the previous blog will realise I went to Norfolk today. It is half-term and Pa had a meeting in KingsLynn. Joe and I hitched a lift; ...

Castle Rising from LissaT ^Pro 905 days old

About a hundred years ago three right little vandals went to Castle Rising, and left their marks on the ancient stones of the room below the great hall. Those ...

Tree Climbing from LissaT ^Pro 1203 days old

Recently the local paper was asking readers about famous people they had known, and my father decided that he would write about his famous relatives. ...

April Fool from LissaT ^Pro 1330 days old

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 ...

Further up the Tree from LissaT ^Pro 1363 days old

I took Joe to the archives in Lincoln to climb a few branches higher up his family tree. It is all so very different from the old days at the castle ...

My Family and other Animals from LissaT ^Pro 1377 days old

There was a dog in church again yesterday - this time it was a guide dog, so legitimately a member of the congregation. Its presence raises an interesting ...