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Advent Calendar 2010 – Christmas Cards

Posted on December 4, 2010 by Julie Goucher

I remember both my Mum and Grandmother sending cards, but not how many or what happened to them. I have a few old cards, perhaps the last one received from a particular relative, or those with a photograph or letter. … Continue reading →

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Advent Calendar 2010 – Christmas Tree Ornaments

Posted on December 3, 2010 by Julie Goucher

The collection of tree ornaments we have are ones that we bought from our first Christmas together. There are others that were given to us by my Mum and each year Stuart and I buy at least one ornament to … Continue reading →

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Advent Calendar 2010 – Holiday Foods

Posted on December 2, 2010 by Julie Goucher

My Grandmother always used to buy hamper coupons from the Unigate milkman, I don’t know if she received any special discount as my Grandfather had worked for them up until he retired, but she always had the coupons and then … Continue reading →

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Advent Calendar 2010 – The Christmas Tree

Posted on December 1, 2010 by Julie Goucher

As a child we always had an artificial Christmas tree I think, usually a traditional styled green one with pretty coloured fairy lights and the fairy that my Grandparents used to put on their tree. When I married we purchased … Continue reading →

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Start of the Advent Calendar of Christmas

Posted on November 30, 2010 by Julie Goucher

Starting tomorrow I shall be keeping an online Advent Calendar of Christmas as “advertised” on Geneabloggers – here are the prompts: December 1 – The Christmas Tree December 2 – Holiday Foods December 3 – Christmas Tree Ornaments December 4 … Continue reading →

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Swans on the Wey

Posted on November 29, 2010 by Julie Goucher

I periodically do a Google search with the words Swans on the Wey to see what it displays. Usually I get a whole pile of entrys which reflect each of the words individually, even with the phrase in quotes, but … Continue reading →

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Who was Rani Maharaj Singh?

Posted on November 27, 2010 by Julie Goucher

As I said in an earlier post I managed to photograph some images that were originally camcordered back in 1993. This is two of those images. These photo shows my later Father in Law, Derek Goucher’s first cousin Florence Ramage … Continue reading →

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Goucher Video / DVD

Posted on November 27, 2010 by Julie Goucher

Back in 1993 we had the opportunity to video a selection of material that my father in law had of his family. We recorded the material initially on a camcorder tape then transfered it to Video and more recently to … Continue reading →

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Recipe – Wheat Wine

Posted on November 26, 2010 by Julie Goucher

Recipe written by my Great Grandmother- Annie Prudience Butcher nee Harris. Written circa 1965 Recipe – Wheat WineOriginally uploaded by AnglersRest

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A glimpse from the Antiques Roadshow

Posted on November 22, 2010 by Julie Goucher

I was catching up with my viewing of the BBC Antiques Roadshow from last week (14th November 2010) when a rather interesting item came upon the screen. The item was described as a ham stand, and of slickware and contained … Continue reading →

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