Thanks Louisa, so tiny .but only four ounces below average 7 pounds.
Got to Bury today on the bus , to theTown Hall, so The Mayir will attest I am still alive! For my Belgian pension.
%Then a short bus ride to M&S and Superdrug for Atrixo Hand cream ,only £4-69 ,usually £6 ,so I got four pots.
Hope I get to use it all up!
I managed it but was whacked when I got back .
Son having steak tonight ,I will have some bacon opened for a couple of days.
Forgot to mention an odd thing in Church last week.
A few pews in front of me was a strange glow,a dull,silvery light .
I could not really see what it was .
After the service I went to it ,it was a cut out figure of a soldier,top half, with the high collar of WW1 ,epaulettes too.
Then it dawned ,still there from the Remembrance Service.
Cut from about 1cm thick clear Perspex ,the overhead lights shone down through them , the cut edges giving a giving a rather eerie outline.
There were several dotted about the church.
I was not scared,who would be by the presence of such a soldier ,!
I went right up to the nearest one and it was very moving ,such a distinctive outline ,an easily recognisable figure when I realised, but for a while I did wonder if it was other worldly .
Yes baby Lily is lovely ,her mummy was saying - as she held up the empty feet of the baby grow legs” Lily you are so tiny “.
Her eyes seem dark ,mummy’s are dark brown and Daddy ‘s very blue.
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However most babies seem to have very dark blue eyes at first.
Will hear more this evening when my daughter calls as usual every Monday.
Reading a book about the early - well just after WW1 - emigrations to Australia.Hiw ut was not really well organised and although passages were assisted ,the conditions on arrival at the promised “ farms” were hardly tolerable .No farms as such just allotted areas to be worked into farms.
Untouched bushland with no facilities at all.
I know nothing really of these emigrations ,but my paternal great grandmother’s five brothers went in the 1850’s to the gold rush towns of Bathurst and Sofala,N.S.W.
I would like to hear from anyone descended from the 1920’s immigrants.
Well had a rest and must start to prepare tea.
Look after yourselves folks .
Cheerio.
Viktoria.
