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25th July 2014
... to Louise Brown – now Mullinder – thirty six years old today! She was the world’s first ever ‘test tube baby’, born in Oldham General […]
24th July 2014
This week has been a week of heavy duty research for us here at Family Wise Limited and we have discovered that we have a problem. […]
23rd July 2014
40,000 spectators in the stadium and over a billion people worldwide are about to be treated to a stunning night of entertainment from Scottish icon Rod […]
22nd July 2014
22 July is the feast day of St Mary Magdalen who was the patron saint of pharmacists, hairdressers, repentant sinners and reformed prostitutes. A strange concoction […]
21st July 2014
Life …. work …. life …. work …. what is the right balance? Well, we (me and Mr FWL) are trying to tip the balance a […]
20th July 2014
Margaret Robson was the second – but the only surviving – child of William and Ann (nee Codling). Baptised in the parish of Morpeth, Northumberland on […]
19th July 2014
Born today in 1860 in Fall River, Massachusetts, Lizzie’s mother died in 1863 and her father, Andrew Borden, married Abby Gray two years later. In 1892, […]
18th July 2014
Today marks the anniversary of the Chappaquiddick incident. Shortly before midnight on 18 July 1969, Senator Edward M. “Ted” Kennedy left a party on the island of […]
17th July 2014
And we really have gone a bit bonkers today in this heat….. Black Sheep. There is (at least) one in every family and there are some […]