Hello everyone, just to let you all know Helen and I have paid a reservation fee on a new build house in Birmingham. Follow this link to see it for yourself http://www.persimmonhomes.com/regions/west-midlands/abode-birmingham/the-brockton-plot165.aspx then get back to us to offer opinions. It's quite small but it's 3 bed with a garden and 2 paring spaces so it's quite a stepup for our… Continue

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I was thinking that it is about time to start to consider what we may all like for Christmas. I thought we could add posts to this blog to suggest things that we may all like to recieve?!

I'll start to think of things that I'd like although the list may just consist of PS3 games, even though I am finding it is a rare moment when I get a chance to have a good gaming session.

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That pic of super gramps was really curious! Could see all of us in it: bit of Tom, dad, jamie, me, pete, lottie. Kinda wierd when you stare at it, you start seeing all the family a bit. Gentics eh! Just another random dude scared of death, and wanting to feel good! But now is gone. Thinking of it now I suppose as its "Pachum Bhen" at the moment here, which is the ancester holiday, you go and give food to your ancester ghost, or they make your life difficult! The chinese apparently to give to… Continue

I came across the Whitworth Book in which your Greatgrandfather Hammant had made an entry as he had won a Whitworth Exhibitor award in his studies. You can visit the webpage at (http://www.whitworthsociety.org/). Here is his entry:

Here is a photo of your Greatgrandfather Hammant as a young man:…

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Before going to the Klondike, I had a discussion with Dave and he seemed to think that the first name of our great uncle (your great great uncle) was Al something, possibly Alvin. All documentation in the Yukon was simply A. Jefferson. I checked with your Aunt Marjorie Bondy (née Mitchell) about your Great Great Uncle who went to the Klondike to find gold and she said his name was Albert. I have checked with Dave and he agrees. So please make that correction. Apologies to all, especially… Continue