She Writes Blog Hop Number 6!

Posted on August 17, 2011 by Julie Goucher

She Writes
Blogging about Books and Writing Blog Hop

Over at She Writes, Meg who hosts the 1st Books blog thought it would be great to host another online Blog Hop as a get to know you event – great idea! So here’s the deal:

  • Add your own blog using the Linky, leaving a description of your blog

  • Add a post on your own blog by way of introduction
  • Visit the other blogs and leave comments!


Welcome to Anglers Rest, where I describe my blog as The Rambling Obsessions of a Fisherman’s wife! ~ a real assortment, with snippets of genealogy,books, cross stitching, scrap booking, web pages and general ramblings. Really the blog reflects the two big obsessions in my world, reading and books and genealogy, and if I can merge my two obsessions so much the better!  Have a browse!
To see the original post on Meg’s website click HERE
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Wordless Wednesday & Silent Sunday

Posted on August 17, 2011 by Julie Goucher
Samares Manor 13th July 2011

Submitted to Wordless Wednesdays

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Tea Cup Tuesday – Almost Snap!

Posted on August 16, 2011 by Julie Goucher
Welcome to Teacup Tuesday!
This little beauty is part of another set inherited from my Grandmother. The set comprises of cups, saucers and side plates. I don’t know if there was a teapot, sugar bowl and milk jug.
Then about five years ago, in a small antique here, in the South Devon seaside town where I live, my Mum spotted this.

It matched the original set, although was much smaller, and made by a different company. In view of the experience of regret I felt with the Flying Pheasant set Mum bought the set for me as a birthday present. The smaller set comprises of a very sweet milk jug and sugar bowl, a small teapot and side plates, cups and saucers. It now sits along side the original set as a complimentary set rather than an addition to my original, treasured set.

Submitted as part of Tea Cups Tuesday hosted by Artful Affirmations

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Creative Bloggers – The Contents of a Box!

Posted on August 15, 2011 by Julie Goucher


Several years ago, whilst visiting a local town called Honiton which is in East Devon and famous for antique shops, I came across a selection of market stalls. I spotted a small box and was curious.

The outside of the box reads:
From the CWS Margarine Works
and Lard Refinery Higher Irlam

I opened the box …..
…..and the contents were revealed

A lovely set of three teaspoons, produced for the CWS in commemoration for the Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1887. These sets were given to the employees of the margarine and lard works.
Submitted as part of the Creative Bloggers blog hop hosted by Homemaker on a Dime
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Jersey Photos – July 2011

Posted on August 14, 2011 by Julie Goucher
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Jersey July 2011, a set on Flickr.

The complete set of Jersey photographs. Taken with either iPhone or Panasonic camera between 12 – 19 July 2011.

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Saturday Night Genealogy Fun – Organisation! – True Confessions about Genea-Assets

Posted on August 14, 2011 by Julie Goucher

This is the first time I have taken part in the SNGF, hosted by Genea-Musings.

Here is the mission!

  1. Do you know where ALL your family history information is?
  2. Grade yourself from A-F on how you have done with the filing of both tangible and digital genealogical material. A grade for each.
  3. Look through your material and find something you had previously lost, forgotten or over looked. How does it add to your knowledge. Explain what you have found and how you will use the data, name the source.
  4. Write a blog post and link to the thread on Genea-Musings
The short answer is that all my genealogical material is in my study. Sounds impressive, well that is, until I have to look for something. I have been researching since 1986, so during the last 25 years I have collected vast amounts of paper, letters, books and digital files. 
I have two filing cabinets containing files for family lines. I also have a set of files with information on genealogical software, church leaflets and perhaps some random genealogical bits. I also have another set of drawers which house my genealogy photographs – those I have inherited from family members and those taken at cemeteries. I also am conducting a one place study and the material for that is housed in a drawer in the filing cabinet.
I also have a series of floppy discs which contain an assortment of material. My elderly desk top still has a working floppy drive and last year I transferred all the contents to a folder on an external hard drive. I have various files on both my laptop and external drive all relating to my family history. I am sure that I have many duplicates of digital and paper copies and I need to weed out the duplicates and organise them better. 
Sometime ago we were sent a copy of an article from the local newspaper. A reporter had interviewed my father in law about his time in the Navy during the Second World War.  My father in law passed away last year and as a result my husband now wants to explore his Dad’s military life. I hunted for that newspaper cutting for several weeks and found it thankfully, in the filing cabinet in a random file of newspaper cuttings. The cutting has now been scanned and placed upon my blog in memory of V J Day
My grades for digital and tangible material is a D. I have graded myself harshly as my work is in need of a serious overhaul and is simply crying out to be organised better……I have been in the middle of that for at least 6 months and keep being distracted. I think back to my management training – SKILL, WILL  & FOCUS!
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Weekend Cooking – Foods & Stamps

Posted on August 14, 2011 by Julie Goucher

Over the last few weeks I have been taking part in a weekly meme called Sunday Stamps. It all started as I contemplated what to do with my childhood stamp collection. I am digressing slightly, but I am sure I will be forgiven? So, I pondered and then made the decision to pass them onto my Cousins children in Australia when I visit next year. I shall use the weekly meme to share and enjoy my collection before passing it on to another generation of my family to enjoy.

As a result of the weekly meme I stop by other blogs to see what they have written about; and that is the link to weekend cooking comes in! I visited the blog called My World of Stamps and saw the fasciating set of Malaysian stamps depicting traditional foods. This was also the theme on another blog, hosted by Ian and called Ian’s Collection where the focus is the secret code which features in the mirror stamps. Have a look at the great and imaginative stamps and foods in the Traditional Festive Food post of 2010.

I tried to remember if there had been a UK set of stamps depicting foods and I can not recall any. A quick Google didn’t reveal any either.

I wonder what food subjects I would reflect on stamps if I had the choice? Would I focus on foods typically thought of as “British or English foods”, would I focus on foods that I particularly like or that had special memories or meanings to me? Would the focus be on perhaps regional foods? I guess the possibilities are endless. What would you choose?

Remember these?

Picture from Wikipedia

I remember my Grandmother, in the 1970s visiting the Co-Op store in Guildford and collecting the stamps. I am fairly sure that if I look in the loft there is an incomplete book of the stamps. I am guessing they were saved and then handed over for either special items or perhaps for Christmas groceries. These are perhaps the forerunner for the points systems operated by Tesco and Sainsbury’s supermarkets here in the UK.

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Day Eight – Jersey – 19th July 2011 – Elizabeth Castle – Part Four

Posted on August 14, 2011 by Julie Goucher

It is rather hard to imagine exactly what the life of these soldiers was like. It was a hard life, but in return for serving King and Country they received pay, food, clothes and in some cases a longer mortality rate. Have a look at the following pictures. Imagine being on sentry duty here.

There was barely enough room to turn around, no where to sit, no drinking facilities. It was blowy here on the day we visited. Imagine in the middle of winter.

There are still lookouts from the Castle, not military ones, but tourists and these little chaps!

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Remembering V J Day

Posted on August 14, 2011 by Julie Goucher
Memories my late Father in Law shared with the readers of the Annandale Herald
(Dumfriesshire Scotland) 18th August 2005
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Sunday Stamps – Set of Six dogs!

Posted on August 13, 2011 by Julie Goucher
Welcome, to the latest Sunday Stamps posting.

Following on my last week’s post I dropped my cousin in Australia a quick email. Would her children like my stamp collection? I had the email back yes they would love it, as it would compliment the childhood collection that their Mum has given to them. I am delighted. We are not off to Australia until the Autumn of 2012, which gives me many months to share my stamps here, and have a pictorial view of them before I pass them on to be enjoyed by another generation of my family and to share the memory of how the collection started.

So, as I was preparing to write this post I wondered what stamp I should kick off with. I initially collected stamps world wide. Then I recall parting with some of the non UK stamps and kept some special ones. So mainly my collection comprises of UK stamps, with a smattering of overseas ones and a few “different” or “special” sets.

I am really going to enjoy writing for this meme and sharing my collection……

Submitted as Sunday Stamps hosted by Viridian’s Postcard Blog
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