Information about my Irish ancestors is thin on the ground. Little is known about the ones from Donegal but even that is far superior to that known about those further south in Ireland to the extent that I only went to Donegal. My great grandmother named her house in Sydney Bunbeg and there was a suggestion that […]
Soon after the evening at The Shard we drove south of London to Longcross motor track to provide Son Number 1 the experience of driving a McLaren car, a birthday present. It was a major event with lots of others queuing up to drive their car of choice or to be driven around in a racing car. […]
After a brief time in Derby which included 2 daily visits to Matlock, a country town about half an hour up the train line to visit the Derbyshire Archives, I adjourned to London for a few days. A family member had a birthday and some of us celebrated in the Chinese restaurant at the Shard. While I have been there […]
I knew the church at Chaddesden in Derby would be open for the Sunday service so I planned a bus trip there for that day. At least several generations of ancestors are known to have lived and died there so I was keen to see the church and churchyard. Chaddesden used to be a rural […]
The next day had me up early and going for a walk up and down a hill with my friend. It was a very innocuous hill for someone fit, possibly wearing hiking boots and possibly carrying walking poles. It started off alright with need for a rest possibly camouflaged by photography. However, the going got […]