Early Risers.

[45156]

Afternoon All

 

First off a belated wish to Tony and Aditi, as I didn't visit yesterday. 

 

And of course the usual generic greetings to all fellow ERs. 

 

Not a lot has happened since I last visited, and hooray, 30747 has decreed that there will be no more decorating until after we get back from holiday in September.  Now then, where's that baseboard gone that was lurking in the garage?

 

Regards to All

Stewart

[Tony_S]

Afternoon all.

My mother’s family had an uncommon surname that they thought may have been French. They were quite interested so I did some research. My Mum mentioned to her most interested brother that their origin wasn’t French but probably someone from Wales. My uncle said he was no longer interested and not to bother anymore. 
Tony

[tigerburnie]

I have found family were living almost within walking distance of where we lived in both Leicester and Derby and never knew they were there, my maternal Grandad had loads of brothers and sisters his children didn't know existed, most odd. We were called by some solicitors some years back to go and clear a house in Derby, that turned out to be my mothers Aunt and she'd never heard of her!!

[Andrew P]

21 minutes ago, tigerburnie said:

I have found family were living almost within walking distance of where we lived in both Leicester and Derby and never knew they were there, my maternal Grandad had loads of brothers and sisters his children didn't know existed, most odd. We were called by some solicitors some years back to go and clear a house in Derby, that turned out to be my mothers Aunt and she'd never heard of her!!

Any money?

[Joseph_Pestell]

35 minutes ago, tigerburnie said:

I have found family were living almost within walking distance of where we lived in both Leicester and Derby and never knew they were there, my maternal Grandad had loads of brothers and sisters his children didn't know existed, most odd. We were called by some solicitors some years back to go and clear a house in Derby, that turned out to be my mothers Aunt and she'd never heard of her!!

More common than you might think for families to split apart like this. My father had an elder half-brother and elder half-sister that he only found out about when he was 80.

[Rugd1022]

During my Dad's ancestry research we found out that a very distant cousin several times removed worked for George Lucas's Industrial Light & Magic on the first Star Wars film, he was a 'Foley Operator', which (I think!) is something to do with the optical effects department. Much closer to home another element which we now know is 100% spot on is that my uncle Tony was the duty rozzer when Mira Hindley was nicked in October '65 (four days after Brady), he was the arresting officer. We recently found out that his son John (my cousin) who was also a rozzer, attended the aftermath of the IRA bombing in Warrington.

 

I find this stuff fascinating - we're all entwined in history one way or another, be it intimately or just as passers by.

 

Stay safe all 

Edited August 26, 2020 by Rugd1022

[Happy Hippo]

Dave Hunt has been absent for a few days so I sent him an email to find out how he was.  this is an abridged version of his reply:

 

'Richard,

 

At the moment I'm closer to you than usual - specifically in Ward 16 of Telford hospital. To cut a long story short, not only do I still have the gutrot with no sign at abatement but I've also had a mini stroke.

 

I had a dizzy spell on Saturday afternoon and later noticed that I had double vision when I looked to the right but didn't do anything about it. On Sunday night I also had a rotten headache so on Monday morning I phoned the GP. Within minutes I was on my way to Telford and was admitted to the stroke ward where I still am. There have been other issues such as occasional high spikes in blood pressure that require sorting out but the prognosis looks OK and although there is some degradation evident in my brain (absolutely no comment required!) the consultant thinks that I should recover normal vision eventually and there are unlikely to be any permanent effects. I've just had a further MRI scan for him to reach a definitive conclusion. The likelihood is that I'll be on various medications for a long time.

 

 

I haven't looked at TNM or any other RMW forums (fora?) until now but will try to catch up soon. To be honest, though, I probably won't feel like posting replies on TNM or ERs for a while so I'd be grateful if you would put a message on each saying why I'm missing.

 

Thanks for the message of concern. I'll keep you updated.

 

Cheers

 

Dave.'

 

I'll pass on everyone's best wishes to Dave, and will pass on any messages.

Edited August 26, 2020 by Happy Hippo

[J. S. Bach]

Prayers for Dave Hunt.

[simontaylor484]

Likewise from me

[Andrew P]

4 minutes ago, Happy Hippo said:

Dave Hunt has been absent for a few days so I sent him an email to find out how he was.  this is an abridged version of his reply:

 

'Richard,

 

At the moment I'm closer to you than usual - specifically in Ward 16 of Telford hospital. To cut a long story short, not only do I still have the gutrot with no sign at abatement but I've also had a mini stroke.

 

I had a dizzy spell on Saturday afternoon and later noticed that I had double vision when I looked to the right but didn't do anything about it. On Sunday night I also had a rotten headache so on Monday morning I phoned the GP. Within minutes I was on my way to Telford and was admitted to the stroke ward where I still am. There have been other issues such as occasional high spikes in blood pressure that require sorting out but the prognosis looks OK and although there is some degradation evident in my brain (absolutely no comment required!) the consultant thinks that I should recover normal vision eventually and there are unlikely to be any permanent effects. I've just had a further MRI scan for him to reach a definitive conclusion. The likelihood is that I'll be on various medications for a long time.

 

 

I haven't looked at TNM or any other RMW forums (fora?) until now but will try to catch up soon. To be honest, though, I probably won't feel like posting replies on TNM or ERs for a while so I'd be grateful if you would put a message on each saying why I'm missing.

 

Thanks for the message of concern. I'll keep you updated.

 

Cheers

 

Dave.'

 

I'll pass on everyone's best wishes to Dave, and will pass on any messages.

Richard, Firstly please pass on my sympathies to Dave, Only met him the once at Telford, but a thoroughly nice chap.

Secondly, thanks for enlightening us on here.

And finally, tell Dave, that is exactly how my mini Stroke was in June 2014, Double vision, then rushed into Burton on Trent Hospital the following day. I was told I shouldn't be able to drive for 3 Months, and normal sight should return.

Almost 3 Months to the day, I went into the bathroom one morning to have a wash and shave, and there was only the one of me in the mirror. I went into the lounge and announced it to the Wife. I then looked out of the window, and said; I can count the bricks on the chimney over the road without glasses. On going back to the Hospital for a check up, I could read the bottom line on the  chart without glasses, and still can to this day. I was told that often sight can change and sometimes for the better. My reading sight is as before, so overall I have made a full recovery.

After my release from Hospital, (3 days) I had a few panic attacks, but the GP told me to get some Kalms, and to take one if I felt a bit panicky, but now that is almost a thing of the past as well.

 

All the best. keep well and safe, and that goes for ALL ER's.

[Gwiwer]

16 minutes ago, J. S. Bach said:

Prayers for Dave Hunt.

Woteesed. 

[BSW01]

Richard 

 

Please pass on my thoughts and good wishes to Dave 

 

Brian 

[Coombe Barton]

Thoughts to Dave

[tigerburnie]

Get well soon Dave

[Barry O]

Flippin heck,, young Dave ill!.. Hope he gets better soon as I have missed his banter on RMW as well as his knowledge of all things Midland. Please pass on my best regards if you would be so kind..

 

Baz

[simontaylor484]

Justhad a call from drs the districtnurse  said my blood pressure was a little high. Mmm not surprised i could see down her top. She was lovely 

 

Think my blood pressure went higher when drs rang and i couldnt really admit to been lecherous 

[Tony_S]

Richard, please pass on best wishes to Dave and hope he is well enough to go home soon. 

[pH]

3 hours ago, J. S. Bach said:

So, were there any??

Yes, there were known to be, which is why that term was included in any search meant to find publications dealing with that topic.

 

In fact, there were lists of all sorts of mis-spellings known to exist which had to be included in searches to try to make sure all relevant publications were retrieved. (Though theory says that that is impossible in anything other than a small, finite, tightly-controlled collection.)

[BoD]

Please pass m’y thoughts on to Dave, too, Richard.

[The Stationmaster]

Afternoon all,

 

And HH please pass on my best wishes to HH for a good and quick recovery.

 

And to trees of the family.  the one, or part of one my dad did sits on the desk a few feet from me and that goes back to 1643 for the direct line.  however years back in his direct research he came across a distant cousin living in Scotland who line of the family had moved northwards out of Yorkshire when the brother of dad's great grandfather (or grandfather?) had moved to Scotland for work.  This distant cousin was even more bitten by the genealogy bug than my dad and eventually hired a pair of prefessional genealogical researchers to have a real go - which they did.  They added a second archbishop to the one we already knew about and took the line right back to 1066 when that line of the family arrived in England illegally having crossed the Channel in the company of several thousand of their mates all working for a bloke called William.  They did quite well out of William and got their own small bit of Yorkshire in return for helping him destroy other parts of it and adjacent counties.  And that really was where the family was centred apart from a branch in Gloucester and, of course, the one who went to Scotland plus others gradually going elsewhere.  My day came south just before the war to live with an uncle whilst he did his year as journeyman having just finished his apprenticeship. (that uncle had won the Military Medal during the Great War and finished up that war as an RSM in the Canadian Army which he'd joined in 1914 not long after he emigrated to Canada, he remained in England after the war).

 

Over the years the name has changed mightily varying between containing either a 'y' or an 'i' until  both eventually disappeared; having or not having an 's' on the end usually preceded by an 'e' until that disappeared in the same way as the i/y had gone; also containing an 'e' in the middle which at some time became an 'a'.    So basically French origin of that line and the surname (which in one of its various forms is shared with a town in France).  My mother's family were fairly consistently Vale of the White Horse but I don't know how far back that goes although at one time they were known as 'the Giants of Ashbury'.  Meanwhile Mrs Stationmaster claims long standing Cornish ancestry with a smidgeon of Devonian.  No bishops in her lot but one was transported to Aus for sheep stealing while another had a while in Bodmin gaol for committing an act of arson in Penzance. there is also a more teniuous link with the Pellews which she has yet to run to earth.

 

Tight bins to get round teh back, greenhouse contents to water and so on; curry for dinner tonight.  Enjoy the rest of your day folks and it looks like Belgium is the best place to stay safe.

[tigerburnie]

13 minutes ago, The Stationmaster said:

Afternoon all,

 

And HH please pass on my best wishes to HH for a good and quick recovery.

 

And to trees of the family.  the one, or part of one my dad did sits on the desk a few feet from me and that goes back to 1643 for the direct line.  however years back in his direct research he came across a distant cousin living in Scotland who line of the family had moved northwards out of Yorkshire when the brother of dad's great grandfather (or grandfather?) had moved to Scotland for work.  This distant cousin was even more bitten by the genealogy bug than my dad and eventually hired a pair of prefessional genealogical researchers to have a real go - which they did.  They added a second archbishop to the one we already knew about and took the line right back to 1066 when that line of the family arrived in England illegally having crossed the Channel in the company of several thousand of their mates all working for a bloke called William.  They did quite well out of William and got their own small bit of Yorkshire in return for helping him destroy other parts of it and adjacent counties.  And that really was where the family was centred apart from a branch in Gloucester and, of course, the one who went to Scotland plus others gradually going elsewhere.  My day came south just before the war to live with an uncle whilst he did his year as journeyman having just finished his apprenticeship. (that uncle had won the Military Medal during the Great War and finished up that war as an RSM in the Canadian Army which he'd joined in 1914 not long after he emigrated to Canada, he remained in England after the war).

 

 

 

 

You and I are either related or our relliies were mates of Bill le Franc as some of my mob came over the channel in dodgy boats

[JohnDMJ]

 

2 hours ago, Happy Hippo said:

Thanks for the message of concern. I'll keep you updated.

 

Cheers

 

Dave.'

 

I'll pass on everyone's best wishes to Dave, and will pass on any messages.

 

HH, Please pass Dave my Best Wishes for a Speed Recovery!

[polybear]

10 hours ago, AndrewC said:

One annoyance we discovered is just how much our cat sitter was taking the p!ss. £10.50 a 20 min visit is what he advertises. Will feed, clean, play, water plants. etc. With a Ring door bell we were able to see that he averaged less than 8 minutes per visit. The garden cam showed he never went near the greenhouse, or watered anything. SWMBO has now lost several tomato plants and 3 hanging baskets. A rather curt nasty-gram to be sent after we get our keys back. The search for a new cat sitter for future trips is underway.

 

 

Personally I'd also consider changing the locks - getting a set of keys cut is all too easy these days.

 

Best wishes to our resident Tom Cruise for a speedy return to fully serviceable once more.

[New Haven Neil]

Evening.

 

A full day without the interweb here, it has been three days for some parts of the island, after a hardware 'upgrade'. Ahem.  Manx Telecom are in the doo-doos it would appear.  So apolos for anything I have missed, but best wishes to Dave, whose writings I have always enjoyed fully.

 

My paternal family history goes back to the Romans, Hadrians Wall and all that, not Mike's lot,  the maternal side includes Fletcher Christian, as in the Bounty, my Mum's maiden name  was Christian.

[PhilJ W]

Afternoon all from Estuary-Land. Best wishes to Dave and get well soon. 

4 hours ago, tigerburnie said:

I have found family were living almost within walking distance of where we lived in both Leicester and Derby and never knew they were there, my maternal Grandad had loads of brothers and sisters his children didn't know existed, most odd. We were called by some solicitors some years back to go and clear a house in Derby, that turned out to be my mothers Aunt and she'd never heard of her!!

 

3 hours ago, Andrew P said:

Any money?

I used to watch Heir Hunters on mid day TV. My surname came up in one show but no relation unfortunately. There was one chap who died intestate and they couldn't find any relatives despite his estate exceeding a million pounds.