Steps Beyond
Posted: Saturday, 06 January 2007 |
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Have been heartened to have such welcomes here and thank you . I will feel much more at home in the world of Island blogs now.
Have been to a family funeral in Glasgow. Stepping back into a world of family only now seen at such events. Those hatches, matches and despatches where all the generations seem only now to fully come together because we are all scattered world wide, North to South and East to West. I find myself asking - just exactly who am I related to here? Then as all we meet and talk, sharing memories and laughter there more discoveries. One in particular about an old family secret, long buried but now able to be opened up so that greater understandings of old schisms can be brought to present time.Never realising that why that branch of the family stayed separate from the rest of us was because the father never married the mother although they lived together for 60 years and had three bairns. But such was the entire family shame.
Gracious me!
But a second cousin has been doing more genealogy research and for a change concentrated on one of the great grandmothers. And, wow! A whole new crowd of folk from Skye has entered my past.
I wonder what they would all have to say on the Island Blog.
Posted on Northern Light at 10:39
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All these new relatives will cost you more on the Christmas Card Postage in 2007. Start saving now. Only 350 days to Christmas.
Muness from Fetlar
Forgot to say that I spent a day (well 6 hours) on Yell doing a tour of some of the scenic bits: Breckon, Gloup & West Sandwick were the areas I got around yesterday. I went to see all the bits I always drive past thinking I should go and visit that! Even saw some Selkies bathing up close from the car window.
Muness from Fetlar
Muness - whats all this I, I, I? Should it not be We? Or am I an irrelevance? Or is it just that I take better photos? Did my sandwiches mean nothing? Or my flask of tea? (Even if I did forget the tea bags and have to borrow some from a ferry man.)
Ruthodanort from tryin not to be offended
You're so vain, Ruthodanort, you probably think ALL the blogs are about you! There's not been an answer yet, as to whether you are pretty or not.
Muness from Fetlar
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