Comments | kathyh: What day is it today?

kathyh

What day is it today?

Dec 29, 2021 15:32

I believe it is Wednesday but I'm not quite sure as it is one of those post-Christmas days when time seems to cease to have much meaning. I hope everyone had a lovely Christmas. Ours was very peaceful but we did go to my brother's house on Monday for a family do. It was wonderful to see everyone again and meet our new great-nephew H. H was born ( Read more... )

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brunettepet December 29 2021, 16:51:23 UTC

The Monday get together sounds lovely.

kathyh December 29 2021, 22:34:46 UTC

It was lovely. It felt very strange to be socialising after so long!

kazzy_cee December 29 2021, 17:53:11 UTC

I have to keep asking Mr Cee what day it is..... *eyeroll* It doesn't help that he's got the week off....

Family history is quite frustrating as there are always question you wished you'd asked aren't there. My grandmother had loads of stories and we did go through her photos with her sometime before she died so we know who was who. We don't always know the relationship though....

kathyh December 29 2021, 22:38:56 UTC

I have spent most of today convinced that it was Thursday!

I've inherited masses of family photos and I can identify a lot of them, mostly because my dad wrote the names of his mother's family on the back of *one* group photo. If it hadn't been for that I wouldn't have had a clue who they were.

curiouswombat December 29 2021, 23:01:00 UTC

Sounds like a lovely family time.

I wish I had more of my parents reminiscences, too. There are still so many times when I think 'Oh, I must ask Mum, she'll know...'

kathyh December 30 2021, 11:10:00 UTC

I am so glad that my dad did write some things down, particularly memories of my grandfather, who died when I was 10, but I wish he had gone on and written about his own experiences. He was in the army in Egypt after the war but apart from dire warnings about drinking port he didn't talk about it much though I have half memories of him saying he'd been into the Great Pyramid. It's the half memories that are particularly annoying as I know there was a story about my mother refusing to wear a gas mask at school and getting into trouble but I can't remember the details. I'm glad for what I've got but you always want more :)