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I cannot quite believe that a whole year has passed since I took on the #52Ancestors challenge – and this is my final #52Ancestors blog of 2014. […]

How many times have you considered starting over in the New Year? Made a few resolutions and within days/weeks, they have fallen by the wayside….? Well […]

Charles Roger Buckridge was baptised on 10 April 1802 in Inkpen, Berkshire – a village in West Berkshire, centred 3.5 miles southeast of Hungerford: [SW Berkshire mapped […]

Yesterday, I saw an interesting article entitled Snowballs, Santas and Sleighs: Liverpool residents’ festive surnames in the Liverpool Echo, about the number of people called Chris Massey and […]

All that planning…. and now, it’s pretty much over already! Boxing Day is upon us. If you missed it this time last year, take a look […]

….Merry Christmas and we hope ‘everybody’s having fun’! ‘Look to the future now, It’s only just begun….’…. This time of year is definitely one for reflection […]

One more day until the big event that we have all been planning for for …. hmmm! Well, some people for months, some for weeks and […]

‘Christmas time, Mistletoe and Wine’…. sang Cliff Richard, way back in 1988. Heavens…. That makes feel rather old! The single was Cliff Richard’s 99th and it became his […]

Having travelled around a bit this year, I am told that we – the English – are world-renowned for our ‘interesting use of language’. I don’t […]