I only really got into Twitter a few weeks ago. Upto now i’ve won 3 books by either following people or retweeting.
Anyway my 3rd book win was this morning. The book publishers “tweeted” all the names of the winners, including my name. One of the other names stood out because its actually the nickname i’m known as, so i had a look at her profile and discovered she is from East Yorkshire like myself.
We got chatting and she mentioned the town she lives in and i told her my Dad was born there and then I mentioned the house he lived in… What do you know, This lady has a older brother who married my cousin!!!
What’s the chances of me finding a relation on Twitter like this?
A big thank you to all of you for the comments on my last post.
Tuesday i was in a bit of a turmoil but only a bit.. Today i’m fine. I’m not thinking of Cancer, i don’t “do” cancer. I’ve been busy all week and my mind is in good places.
Hopefully, if i can get it sorted, i might be able to start researching my family tree again after a short stoppage due to my old laptop dying on me.
I’ve had my hard drive from my dead laptop put onto a external hard drive enclosure which means i can plug it into my new laptop and try to find all the 20+years of data from my family tree. problem been. the actual programme i use is from 2005 and as yet i’ve not discovered if it’ll work with a special patch on my Windows7 operating system.
I have a very nice man helping me so hopefully i’ll be able to pick up where i left off.
fingers crossed
I almost forgot to mention too that on Wednesday i received a letter from Target Ovarian Cancer asking if i would go along to a meeting in June and talk about my experiences with Ovarian Cancer. Unfortunately i am away on the date specified so emailed the Dr who had wrote to me explaining this.
Yesterday i received an email from her saying how sorry she was that i wouldn’t be able to make it but they are currently compiling their newsletter and wondered if it would be ok to feature me as i’ve been in both the local and national papers raising awareness of Ovarian Cancer. Of course i said YES.
I'm sat on the sofa at Dave's, with all the windows open and a lovely breeze blowing in.. also an added bonus is the smell of the chocolate factory blowing this way.
It's such a magnificent smell kind of chocolate and toffee mixed, i wish i could bottle this smell, its one that makes me say "Mmmmmmmmmm"
We're trying to decide whether to go and watch Newcastle Utd play on Saturday at St James' Park. The dogs will be away this weekend so we don't have to worry about them been home alone and barking the house down. I think it sounds like a plan, a full sporting weekend as we're going up to Scotland on Sunday to watch the BTCC at Knockhill. Who knows if we get to the football too we could be on television all weekend.
Last weekend we had a day at the beach, packed a picnic and the quick erect tent ( ooo err missis) its one you undo and throw and voila its up and ready to climb in.
Dave sunning himself by the tent
The dogs had a great time swimming and running. Molly at one point decided to run into the sea for her ball at the same time as a wave came!! she loved it been underwater but wasn't too happy at us 2 laughing at her, so she grabbed her ball and took it to the tent. She was like a kid sulking.
On the way home, we drove on the coast road and came upon the annual kite festival at Whitley Bay, the site of all those kites was ever so colourful.
And now i can't get this song out of my head!!!!
As some of you may be aware, i have another blog which i'm just messing about with. Its all on my family history. I've been tracing for 21 years now and every now and again i decide to go back to it. I decided to blog bits as, you never know, some of my readers may well know someone with the same name's i'm searching as my family are well travelled.
