Category Archives: Miscellaneous

Wishing my readers and followers, near and far a happy New Year. May all our dreams come true and 2016 be full of successes and happy moments!

Thankfully we have not moved house, but I have moved the Anglers Rest blog, and all 2000+ posts. I feel quite exhausted! Having procrastinated for several months I of course wish I had moved it earlier, especially as I now … Continue reading →

Image from carisasource.unblog.fr In the middle of August 2001 I was contacted by the friend of a friend. The email started “Hello, You don’t know me, but I was passed your email address and details from a friend, who is … Continue reading →

My main blog is hosted at Anglers Rest, please join me there. I usually post daily and share a mix of genealogy and books along with whatever else takes my fancy!

About a year ago I completed a small project of transcribing a research notebook and placing it on line at this blog. A kind of experiment if you will. At the point it was completed I had not planned on … Continue reading →

Just yesterday I was reading a post written by Jen at Ancestral Breezes in which she named 3 words for 2013. I read Jen’s post twice and then followed the link to the site Jen mentioned, called Chris Brogan, after … Continue reading →

Last week, Vikki over at The View Outside mentioned that some one suggested at her Faber class that people do the Who Am I? process. This is a recognised psychological test. “What you do is ask someone Who Are You 20 … Continue reading →

One day last week I walked to work, thankfully it was not raining, as we headed into a cooler phase before the rain came back again. Ahead of me I spotted two teenage girls, probably about 13 years old or … Continue reading →