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Elsa Peters
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Tuesday 11th October

Mid temperature day and cloudy, very little wind but no reason to go out and find anything to do apart from throw the slightly tinged bread over the wall for anything that was wanting it.  So without bread I decided to make an omelette for breakfast and put a couple of cheese triangles in it  and that has seem me through the day.  I had every intention of going in to Djebel this afternoon for my student's lesson but fate had other ideas and it just didn't happen.

When I was checking out my ancestry chart last night I noticed that somehow I'd attached my grandmother to her mother and father in law as a daughter along with my grandfather.  I haven't a clue how it happened and despite trying different linking it wouldn't allow me to edit the connection so at eight last night I gave up, slept on it and set about sorting it this morning and I did.  It was a little complicated but I managed it, but this meant that the parents and other relatives of my grandmother were no longer in the chart and it took some resolving and fortunately I'm back even further than I was before.  I think this is mainly due to the fact that you are now able to access other people's family trees and providing you have the correct links, you are able to get back further.  You do have to be really careful though and check the links completely, no point in carrying over their mistakes into your tree.  One thing that really saddens me about my history is the fact that I have two brothers within the space of two years that just didn't make it to adulthood and I think I've mentioned that I first found out about one of the brothers from a clairvoyant and when asking my father he confirmed that a brother was born just before me but never mentioned the second one.  It's always bugged me why they died, they must have born and breathed since they were given a name and a reference number for the death so today I decided to order the paper copies on the internet more out of curiosity than anything.  

I found the website to make the purchase, found the reference codes and ordered the documents and tried to make payment and this is where I came unstuck.  The company handling the transaction was Worldpay and I've had lots of experience with them and they were running trued to form.  The first time the transaction was refused and the message was that my bank had refused it which the bank denied when I made the phone call.  My history with this company goes back to last October when I was trying to renew my ancestry search company and it took six weeks, many phone calls to both my bank and the ancestry company and eventually after throwing a wobbly, someone gave me another method of attacking the problem and the payment went through.  After five attempts I phoned the company that I was buying the records from, explained my problem and I had to choose to buy original records not electronic copies, more money and they have to be delivered to the UK not here.  We worked through the ordering process together and with fingers crossed I gave her my card details and 'bingo', the payment went though and we were both relieved.  I checked the account it was being payed to and it was totally different from the internet account  I found out about these boys, my brothers around twelve years ago and at last I shall be able to find out why they died.

Unfortunately, this threw my day completely out of kilter.  When I looked at the clock it was approaching four and I was late for the lesson so cancelled for this week.  I didn't manage to get into Djebel, I shall have to find the bread van in the morning and buy some eggs since I used them up on breakfast, the whole day has left me feeling annoyed.  My anger with the payment company is bubbling under the surface and when I tried to get through to it for an explanation, all it's interested in is new business....no help lines for payment issues.  LN.....No supper required tonight, just a good night's sleep to calm down my blood pressure.....LN
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Wednesday 12th October

Another reasonable night's sleep but the sky didn't look very promising this morning.  There was only a thin sliver of sun light when I opened the curtains and I thought that was it for the day.  The terrace was damp but not really wet as if we'd had some rain but not enough to write home about so added to the list was watering the pots on the terrace.  The wind has been very drying, the grass looks really bad and the yard is a dust bowl but at least the weeds have stopped for a while.

I didn't manage to catch the bread van so it was breakfast cereal, not my favourite but it filled a space and I planned to go into Djebel at some point but that didn't materialise either so it must happen tomorrow.  I shan't starve, there's lots in the freezer and plenty of tinned stuff but not much fresh around the place...last night it was tuna mayo with beetroot and potatoes cooked in the microwave and there was enough of it left to have as lunch today so that's me finished for tonight.  It's eight my time so I shan't want anything otherwise I shan't sleep well.  The weather did clear up so I went out and watered the pots to give them a good start for going into hibernation in the little house.  I didn't stay out there long, the wind was cold despite the sun but I did take out a bubble making kit that my daughter left behind and sent some on their merry way.  It's surprising how far some of them travel.

I got stuck into family history chart again today and I was intending to do it on the computer so I fixed up the old one in the third bedroom and started entering the details into an old version of PowerPoint.  It's been a long time since I've really used the program and it was quite a strong learning curve today.  I used to use it for developing training documentation for the various companies that I worked for but by eight this evening I could see the wood for the trees.  I've started with my great grandparents and am going to chunk it with hyperlinks to the families that married into the line that I'm following and so far so good.  I'm not putting in the partners of brothers and sisters of the direct line descendants but will hyperlink to my ex, my sister's partner, mother's family and grandmother family.  Lots of work and it will take some time but with winter coming on...it's a challenge.  It will also allow me to hyperlink into photographs so when I go back to England I can look through the pile that I left with my daughter and borrow some back.  I suppose really I should be doing it on a later version of PowerPoint...I'll have to try to get one.

So as I said, it was pretty late when I put the computer to bed tonight but I feel I've achieved quite a lot today.  It's bringing together about four years research and if it works, the family can have copies and I might even follow it up with a written chart or print out the pages on to labelling paper and stick it on to extra large sheets that can be rolled up.  Such possibilities.  LN.....Now this computer is going to bed and I shan't be long following it.....LN



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Thursday 13th October

The sun had just come up this morning when I opened the curtains and it was looking to be a sunny day.  I meandered around a little this morning, had nothing quick for breakfast so started to make a list of things that I would go into Djebel and buy.  I had two phone calls to make, I wanted more detail about going on to a pro-subscription for my ancestry programme, my subscription is getting renewed in December but if I renew now it's going to cost me almost twenty pounds until the end of my subscription and then another twenty if I want to take it out for the year.  I feel they're really a greedy bunch, I understand it's a business but I feel they don't tell customers about raising subscription levels prior to taking automatic renewal and most of us do this for pleasure but sometimes the money outgrows the value of the pleasure.  Anyway, they will probably not be able to take it, last time it took six weeks before we could get the transaction to go through and since I've had my card declined using Worldpay only yesterday, their systems have an aversion to payments from Bulgaria.

I eventually got ready to leave at twelve, headed to the flower shop to check if the tour to Turkey was going ahead on the twenty first and unfortunately it isn't so I've not had much success recently with holiday bookings.  I bought three plants from the shop, one for me, one to take to England and one for my student's mum which I delivered.  She's got lots on at the moment, family business and so I didn't stay long.  My student came home from school and gave me a big hug and then carried on to the flat to get changed for football.  I moved on to the hardware shop and my phone rang and it was the garage shop.  Student's mum had forgotten to tell me that her husband had sold my old Renault (Beauty) and had put the money towards buying me replacement winter tyres.  What a surprise, I never expected anything for it, it's been about three years since I dumped it on them.  Came out of that shop and ran into my painter and mentioned that I wanted help with a few jobs around the house.  I offered him a lift since he's from the next village so I just went in to the nearest supermarket and brought bread and mayo, the rest can wait...I need a trip to Kardjali.  I drove us home, dropped him off and he's going to phone me when he can offer his services and I won't hold my breath.

As I was closing the gate after putting the Nipper away I saw the lady from the next garden to mine walking along the road towards me.  As I was opening up this morning I found around two kilos of potatoes near the door and guessed where they'd come from.  We stood talking for a while and she mentioned tortoise and I confirmed that mine were already looking for hidey holes and she said that she'd found three in the garden while she was working and one hadn't completely lost it's shell.  She went back to her garden and reappeared clutching a plastic sack, opened it up and there were three tiny tortoise, they were moving, just, the little one was still incased in a very decrepit looking shell and she handed them to me....and I couldn't refuse.  I guess they've got more chance with me that her and her cows and off she went.  I put them in the bottom of a plastic bin, put some water in there since they all looked dry as a bone and then went to the internet to see what I was supposed to do next.  They're supposed t like Aloe Vera so I found a very young plant and stripped it of leaves, found some dried grass and put it in the bin, sliced a carrot very thinly and put them in the sun to warm up.  I don't know how long she's had them wrapped up so now they have a bit more freedom and they're now in my upstairs bedroom by the window and I've collected more hay and covered them over.  Two of them seem to be moving around, the third is not doing well at all so I'll leave them overnight and probably keep them for a could of days where they are and then probably put them at the bottom of the garden where the others hang out in a very sandy spot and let nature take its course.  

Chicken wings and roasted vegetables for supper tonight and it should be ready any time soon, I'm trying to get into the habit of eating early.  As I said, Kardjali tomorrow and I've found out that it's our local village fete on Sunday so I shall have to put in an appearance for that to keep the flag flying.  LN.....I smell supper.....LN



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Friday 14th October

Horrible night's sleep,,,,it must have been three thirty before I eventually got off.  It was seven thirty when I woke up and my first port of call was to check on the tortoise and move them up into the sun in my upstairs bedroom.  I'd put lots of hay on top of them so had to search for them, one seems to have more life in them than the rest and the one that still had the shell attached seems to be under-developed but I think what I was doing wasn't doing them any good.  I made a decision, it's getting time for them to hibernate so I took the garden fork, headed down to the bottom of the garden near the bonfire and dug out near the bank near the wall.  I created an underground nest for them, put the three of them in and put the rest of the hay and food near to them.  I couldn't look after them properly so I've left it to nature,  I'll check on them tomorrow and hopefully all will be well.  

I had a shower and washed my hair and had a very slow morning and didn't get out to Kardjali until getting on for twelve o'clock.  I intended stopping off at the garage to see how much I owed after he had partly paid for my new tyres with  the money from Beauty  but after negotiating the traffic in Djebel I completely forgot all about it and carried on the straight and narrow.  The rest of the journey was quite uneventful except for road works on the narrowest bridge on the route but I wasn't held up much.  First stop was Kaufland and first problem was differentiating which button on the scales belonged to my pears that I'd selected.  Maybe if they sold just 'pears' there wouldn't have been any problem.  As it happened, the cashier at the cash point noticed my mistake, said nothing to me but checked with the girl at the next till, made her way to the customer scale near the front window, found the right button and repriced them.  I felt a little guilty incase I'd underpriced them but on checking as I loaded them into the Nipper, they were cheaper after she'd made the adjustment.....and not a word spoken.  Next stop Lidl and this time I stuck to my list, it is really turning into a rubbish store but there are just a few things that I can't get anywhere else so I suppose I shall still keep going but my main bug is that they have shelving at the junction of each fridge cabinets and this shelving is very unstable.  Each time I slide open one of the fridge tops I have to hold on to the shelving system so that it doesn't fall into oblivion.  I really should take the store manager to task over it, not that anything will happen but at least I will have the satisfaction of having mentioned it.

I drove back to Djebel, remembered that I needed to go to the garage, drove down there and the gates were closed so I turned round and headed for the main road.
As I drove passed the shop I saw the man that I wanted to speak to but it will have to wait for another day so I carried on to the last supermarket in Djebel and made my final purchases.  The bread that I'd bought yesterday was rubbish and had gone over the wall this morning and now I was going back to my usual brand.  Home for three thirty, shopping unpacked and put away, chicken breasts individually packed, a bag or coquette potatoes split up into individual bags ready for the air fryer.  Shopping away, I poured a glass of Coke, settled on the sofa with Countdown and promptly fell sleep for an hour so obviously catching up on lost sleep.  

I woke up to very heavy rain, no sign of the mountains and it's cold.  I'm hoping that my painter contacts me tomorrow....I need to get the chimney sorted, I would have had my first fire of this autumn.  No supper for me, I bought a very large filo pastry ring filled with cheese and settled in to it on the way home from Kardjali.  That should do me until morning and my goody box is stuffed to the lid and beyond so I have plenty to go at.  LN.....Shopping out of the way for another couple of weeks.....LN
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Saturday 15th October

Another funny night...I fell asleep watching television in the lounge, thought I was still asleep enough to make it to the bedroom and carry on where I'd left off but wrong....another hour or so playing games and then I managed to drop off again.  Seven thirty start, didn't exactly burst into life, decided on the remains of the filo and cheese for breakfast, warmed it up in the microwave and was sitting at the table in the stairwell watching breakfast television and swearing at the news and looking up I saw my painter watching me on the terrace.  I was still in pale blue fleecy pj's so I went out and greeted him and he'd come round to do the chimney.  Joy oh, joy.  He didn't want to use the piece of kit that had been left at my house despite my pleas, he was happy to go up on the roof and attack it from the top.  He'd bought round a weight to attach to the brush but I was concerned.  The weight that he had was around eight inches long but I had visions of it jamming in the chimney and having to break through to find it again.  He set off up the road to ask another of our neighbours for the ball shaped weight that most use but he didn't have one so while he was away I checked out my heap of old metal and found something shorter in length, just as heavy so we set about attaching the brush to it to pave the way for the weight.  I found a long rope, we both struggled remembering how to straighten out the sectional ladder and had a smile about it, he heaved it up onto the balcony and I set about preparing for the rest of the task.  I removed the woodburner pipes so that they wouldn't get in the way of the weight, found some heavy duty tape and attached a black plastic bag to the soot outlet box and supported it on an upturned storage box.  I was ready,

Up he went on to the roof, removed the top of the chimney weather shield so that he could get the weight and brush down and of we went.  I went back down to the bathroom to remove the soot and clinker as soon as it fell to minimise the mess in the bathroom and eventually the weight came through and the chimney was clear.  That said he was about to start the other when the owner of the other piece of kit came round to supervise my use of it not knowing that my painter had arrived until he saw him on the roof.  I settled him in the house with a coffee and carried on with the other chimney which took no time at all, I'd only used it as an emergency when the power had gone off and I couldn't use the main woodburner.  Weather shield replace, ladders away, kit stored in the wood shed for next time, paid the man despite his objections and off he went.  I left the cleaning up and made more coffee and we sat in the lounge, chewed over the fat, set off for Kardjali to go to the new store in Kardjali, he wanted curtains as a shield for one of the alcoves and we managed to find them, he dropped me off and off he went taking his chimney kit with him.  

I cleared up the mess and lit the fire just to check that there was no problem with the boiler, pump and radiators and everything went like a dream.  The hot water was circulating within half an hour so I went out and filled up a container with logs and the temperature of the house is just as it should be.  It's been cold and damp all day with a very keen wind so it's good to be back in control where I can light the fire as and when I want.  That late breakfast has sat with me all day and I'm not sure if I want any supper or not at the moment.  The boiler thermostat is on and I'm going for a bath to get the smell of soot off me and then settling down in a warm house to watch Strictly at eight thirty my time.  LN.....It's good to have friends that appear and get on with things......LN



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Sunday 16th October

Much better night's sleep.  I had a late bath, straight to bed while sleepy and through until six thirty this morning.  I meandered through until seven, washed and dressed to face the day, made poached eggs on ham for breakfast, cleared the kitchen and everything was going well in my little world.  The washing went into the machine, pegging it out by ten and by now the sun was out, a reasonable wind was blowing and I knew it wouldn't take long for it to dry.

It was the village fete today and I had every intention of going but didn't get there.  I somehow started looking at my ancestry records and decided to solve a few outstanding issues but didn't manage to achieve it.  I swung over to television and fell on to several celebrities on a pilgrimage walk to Istanbul and they were passing from Serbia into Bulgaria and heading for the top of one of the peaks before dropping down into Samokov near the ski resorts.  Interesting characters including Edwina Curry and Fatima Whitbread, I've seen the program once before but was fascinated by one of the caves that they visited and it might be worth the trek.  I heard a shout from outside, thought it was someone on their way to the fete so just headed to the porch door and was surprised to see Bekir clutching a black plastic bag.  I obviously went outside, he handed me the bag and he'd brought me a jar of acacia honey from his bees.  He asked me how I was and told him that I'd had Covid and it had taken me a long time to get over it and he recommended taking the hone with a little warm water, not hot or it wouldn't do the trick.  We sat on the bench on the terrace and I said that I'd seen his photo of the grandchildren on the web and of his son with his girlfriend at their engagement ceremony.  They do it differently here, it's more an acceptance by the families and the wedding comes later.  We discussed the work that I needed doing with the first on the list being the roof near my bedroom  balcony and I said that I really do need it fixing before winter and he agreed.  He'll be phoning me, reckons it will only take a day but the whole roof under eaves want covering in wood preservative to maintain it....and I managed to get a promise out of him.  Off he went back to his friends at the fete and I went back in the house and stretched out on the sofa and had forty winks...maybe even more.

Just after half seven my time, I watched the Scots get thrashed at rugby by the Italians and next on the agenda is the results show for Strictly.  Quite a few contestants pulled out cracking performances last night so let's see how the public vote as to who makes it through and who goes into the dance off.  Supper might be a picking session tonight, I finished the remains of the ham on a sandwich late this afternoon and not many hunger bugs out and about at the moment.  LN....Pleased that the repairs to the roof is on someone else's agenda........LN



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Monday 17th October

Another seven start but this time I slept all the way through...fantastic.  I didn't burst into life immediately, put yesterday's washing away and at about ten decided that bacon and a fried egg was the way to go so I did.  I sat in the stairwell watching the morning television eating my breakfast, sipping my coffee, took my blood pressure and everything was good and so much for tablets...three months without now and much better than before.

I meandered up to the second floor and settled down to solve a few more queries with my family tree and somehow I've managed to more or less complete the tree going back to seventeen ninety one of my sister's husband.  This research is going to be useful as I continue the family tree with hyperlinks, I shan't put all the brothers and sisters in it but it will give depth to the chart for my nephew and nieces.  I did have one bugbear, each time I exited from a search screen it took me to a screen suggesting that I took out the upgrade for the nineteen twenty-one census and I've made a decision that I'm not doing it until December so stopped slipping the screen in every few minutes.  I wrote on the Facebook page my feelings and the post never got by the censor....all issues regarding subscriptions have to be dealt with by the on-line help so I didn't bother reporting it.

The day has just fled by...it's five thirty my time, I'm still in my track type bottoms and top, I never really got dressed for the day.  Mid afternoon I had a message from the Royal Mail that they were unable to deliver a present that I'd ordered for my grand-daughter so it looks like I shall be going back to Gift vouchers...much less trouble.  I've let my son know, after ten years away I have no idea of pick-up points or how to re-organise the delivery. The weather has been good today, wall to wall sunshine but that wind has been exceptionally cold and probably the reason that I only put my nose out, came in and put an over-jumper on.  Student tomorrow and I may couple that up with a visit to Momchilgrad market, depends on tomorrow's weather.  LN.....Time to cook Turkish kebabs and croquette potatoes for supper.......LN
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Tuesday 18th October

Another good night's sleep and another very lazy morning.  I did managed to have a bonfire to get rid of the rubbish, find the curtains out to get the winter one's ready for putting up in the stairwell, cook a bacon sandwich for breakfast and that was about it.  It took a while for the sun to burn off the mist from the valley between the mountains but despite the sun, the wind was really cold so I stayed in the house where it was really warm.  Outside this morning it was seven degrees, in the house it was twenty five in so what would you choose!!

At about twelve I checked out the texts that I'd previously prepared for my student and one was a football mini-story in seven parts so that's set for the next seven weeks.  At one thirty I received a message from my student's mother and it was a pair of eyes, I thought it was reminding me that she'd seen the last message that I'd sent her but when I questioned her when I arrived for the lesson, she said that it was a message to let me know that she was looking forward to seeing me. What a nice thought.  My student wasn't there when I arrived so his mother phoned him at school and a few of them had been kept behind for a small incident that I didn't question, the conversation was held in Bulgarian and too quick for me to really understand but from the body language, he wasn't very happy about it and for me it was amusing to watch his little indignant face.  

Eventually he went up to the apartment and I gave him ten minutes before I followed him and we had a catch-up...it's been a few weeks since we've had a lesson so we had to break it in slowly.  I produced the text and we worked through it, we picked many holes in it, a lot of it was talking about times that things were done and it was very inconsistent.  At the end of the lesson we talked about new equipment for his home gym and the treadmill that was able to calculate fat index and he persuaded me to get on the machine and calculate mine....I need to get mine down and this might be the nudge that I need.

Going back on the sale of Beauty, my contribution to four new winter tyres was only eighty five leva which wasn't bad.  After all I'd written the value of the car off and I think it's actually coming back to my village and I shall see it out and about.  So home, I didn't have to stop for anything from the  supermarket, supper was the remains of the boiled ham in a sandwich and I cooked more of the croquette potatoes as a side dish.  I'm going to have my winter tyres put on the Nipper tomorrow to take that item from the list and I might go into Kardjali first.  On the other hand...there are plenty of jobs that I can get on with here.  I lit the fire so take the edge off the inside temperature, it really doesn't take long to make it comfortable in just a lightweight sweater.  LN....I've enjoyed my day....LN



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Wednesday 19th October

Happy birthday to my dad, Harry, I've just calculated how old he would have been and it's shocked me.  I forget how old I am at times....where did those years go?

Lovely morning with lots of mist around, three degrees outside so maybe I should be thinking about bringing the pots in before we get the sudden dip.  I did manage to get my backside into gear, dressed for town, ignored breakfast and settled for the second cup of coffee and into the Nipper by nine thirty.  I got stopped by the police on a routine check on my way out of Djebel.  I produced my driving license and registration card for Bulgaria, he checked my insurance displayed on the front window and he said he didn't need any other documentation but two of them seemed to have trouble finding me in the hand held iPad.  After what seemed like a long time he handed me back my cards and said that there was no problem so I questioned him as to why it had taken so long and he didn't explain, just repeated that there was no problem.  He said that he did speak some English so I suggested that he stopped me every Friday and he would be able to speak it better.  I had a cheery greeting from the third policeman hanging around and off I set for Kardjali.  That said they were really out in force and stopping everyone coming the other way when I got to the Momchilgrad turn off....the coffers must be running dry.

Straight to the curtain shop and decided against them on closer inspection and my existing ones seem much thicker so will get hung tomorrow.  I looked at the picture frames that were on offer but it wasn't glass fronted but plastic so they went by the way too but I did buy two pretty smelly candles...my first pressies for Christmas.  Next stop Kaufland and they had Gold Blend on offer so I topped up the store cupboard and didn't have an enormous bill, over to Lidl and the same applied.  Back to Djebel didn't have much to do and straight to the garage, winter tyres fitted so the snow can come when it likes.

Home for two more or less, shopping unpacked and noticed a missed call from my new Bulgarian travel companion telling me that the trip this weekend is not going ahead but said that she would be contacting me if anything came up'  I told her for my plans to Christmas in the UK so any time before or after those dates I would be willing to make up numbers.  I settled down and watched Netflix and lit the fire around five o'clock to make the house cosy.  The hot water was soon circulating around the radiators, supper is in the oven, I've got barbecued belly pork and a jacket for tonight, I can smell it so it's time I went down and checked on it.  LN.....Carpets and curtains tomorrow....LN



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Thursday 20th October

What a good day.  The curtain was up before breakfast with only one or two hiccups, the joint of meat that I'd taken from the freezer last night went into the slow cooker, I added a stock cube and some Worcestershire sauce and it's now turned off so that I can poke through it tomorrow morning when it's cold.  When the locals butcher a beast for their feasts and fasts they don't appear to have much idea of butchery....you can get all sorts and I think I did.  So tomorrow when the fat has solidified, I can remove it along with the bits of bone and then do something with it.  I had a pit-stop, made myself a ham baguette and fed the remains of last night's supper to the cat.  I guess she must be sleeping under the honeysuckle, it's very sheltered and it must cut down on the wind.  Last night did go down to three degrees again but it's been OK today.  I laid the fire ready for tonight and set it going around six, thought I'd lost it but managed to salvage it.

Not only did the curtain go up, the carpet went down in the winter lounge as a temporary measure and I'll measure it up in the morning and buy a replacement.  It looks OK but I want it to look better than that.  The carpet that I took up from the upstairs landing, washed, dried, rolled up and stored in the little house is now unrolled and sited and tomorrow the hoover comes out and the whole house gets done.  Only one small carpet to get put down in the stairwell.  I had to take most of the computer apart to get the carpet underneath the table and I was surprised when it all went back together again successfully and it all works...result.

The rest of the afternoon was spent searching for  the death certificates for my two brothers.  I since found out that there are lots of records that are still waiting to be made digital but I did have it confirmed that if there is a birth certificate there has to be a death certificate which as yet hasn't been entered in any system.  So after going to all the effort of ordering the records, Worldpay have sent me refunds minus an administration cost from the GRO.  And now I have to try to find out who holds the original records films and try to see them or get someone to locate them for me.

Nice sunset tonight except that the camera just didn't capture it properly but I tried my best.  Carpet under my feet at my desk on the landing makes it feel cosy again....the cold tiles are great in the summer but not good for the feet in the winter.  So nothing pressing tomorrow, I've got plenty of food in so need to grace the shops with my presence.  LN.....Winter is coming John Snow......LN



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