The Diary of Nathaniel Bryceson (Part 8)

[nestagj]

Where is everybody ? I know I don't say a lot (well in the virtual world - lol) but I;m missing you !
Nesta

[alpinecottage]

Hellooo,

I was amused by more of NB's tortured prose again today   

[Daisy Loo]

  Hi Nesta...et al! 

So Old mrs Lea was coming to visit for a few days it seems...and Dame (if you please!) Granny goes to visit - perhaps to thank her for the shilling for her daughter.  I wonder why Mrs Lea didn't visit Granny/Mary herself...

wonder why NB refers to her as Dame?  has he done that before?

[nestagj]

Hello all 

I thought it read like the poor relation being allowed to visit just for a day ! Did he take granny to tea or did she have to go home first I wonder .

N

[deb usa]

Hi

I wonder why Nat refers to Mrs Lea as such and not as Aunt Lea or Aunt Lydia? She is after all the wife of Granny Sheppard's brother, Charles! Maybe that was the way you did things in those days!

was there no Guy Fawkes celebratons in those days??

deb

[deb usa]

Where is everybody ? I know I don't say a lot (well in the virtual world - lol) but I;m missing you !
Nesta

Nesta    ...we are always around but waiting for Nat to take the lead! 

[snowyw]

UUUmm!  I looked up Guy Fawkes night and found this picture from 1864.
I would assume from that, that it was celebrated in some form in Nats time.

[nestagj]

Hi Deb 

He is being a bit slow atm - bless
x

[Ruskie]

We are all most definitely here Nesta. 

Maybe Nat doesn't approve of Guy Fawkes celebrations - he's a fairly conservative lad and make not like the festivities.

And yes Daisy, Nat has referred to Granny Shepard as "Dame" before.  I think it's his little joke. I get the feeling she is the matriarch of the family - probably does all the cooking and cleaning for all the families "rooms".

Nat hasn't written about the family for a while except that brief mention of his mother's illness. No random stranger has had a birthday for a while either.