Grave Digging

Spent Sunday afternoon in London Road Cemetery, Coventry looking for my great grandparents grave. Inspite of getting a map and advice on where it is I could not find it so will seek more advice and look again another day

 This cemetery is very attractive on a sunny spring day with about 2000 graves, many of them Victorian ,  they are very elaborate with interesting inscriptions.Primroses, violets and bluebells have grown up among the gravestones and squirrels and baby rabbits play happily in the grass.

Manchester

Grandma is in Manchester where Grandpa has been working.
Grandmas has been seeing old friends ,shopping in the excellent shopping centre.
The City Art Gallery is a good place to visit, very focused on Victorian and northern artists.
Grandma has not won any money on the Grand National but Grandpa has.

Cambridge Weather

Cambridge was the warmest place in England today at 23 degrees.
Had to look out some cooler clothes.
If you are thinking of visiting Cambridge remember that it can be very wet and rainy in the spring.

Cambridge Today

The Grand National

Grandmas everywhere have a flutter on this race.Even though she never watches another  horse race all year  this one is a national event and this Grandma backs  horses for herself and several family members so they can gather around the TV on Saturday afternoon and scream hysterically for their horse.

Grandma fancies Midnight Club.
Grandpa fancies State of Play

It  is easy to do online, not like the old days when you crept into a book makers hoping the neighbours would not see you.
My Grandmother, Henrietta Hancock owned a bookmakers premises next  to her corner shop in Adnitt Road, Northampton when I was a little girl.
She often had a flutter for me -- I would get the winnings quite frequently.
Always nice to have extra pocket  
ladbrokes.com makes it easy

The New Phone

Still struggling with new C3 Nokia and Emails. Asked a professional to help, partial success. Emails can come in but not go out.Downloaded a 32 point advice plan from Nokia .
Grannies at the life drawing class all admitted to difficulty setting up new phones. These are very intelligent ladies, it must be the phone companies salepersons and confusing instructions that defeat us.

Mothers Day

Visits from children and grandchildren.Nice cards.

Pleased to see them after a busy week.Bought a new mobile phone, Nokia C3-- must now attempt the 15 point instructions on how to get set up Email.

Swinging

Today I can see Grannies in the park watching their grandchildren on the swings

Tate Modern

Grannying  yesterday included taking 8 year old grandson Luke to Tate Modern.The skull advertisement  interested him and wanted to see it in the Orozco exhibition.This was a good art exhibition for boys with sculptures featuring a car, bicycles and car tyres.He could see how the artist used everyday objects to create his ideas about modern life and this had a lot more appeal  than classical figures chipped out of marble

We also saw op art work by Bridget Riley and then collapsed in the members room with a nice lunch of smoked salmon bagels and cake.

Membership of the Tate Galleries is a good investment for grannies.

Royal Wedding

The knit your own Royal Wedding knitting pattern book by Fiona Goble is the best Royal Wedding souvenir that I have seen .
Even if you cannot knit the figures are hilarious and include the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Queen with her corgies.
You can knit a newly engaged Kate, right down to that ghastly spooked ring.

The Census and Old Photographs

The Census has to be completed this weekend - make a copy
Once you have posted it off the 100 year rule applies and neither you nor your descendents will be able to see this account of your family life and structure until 2111.
Take a copy and print it out before you send it off . Put it an archival quality folder and in a separate folder include some family photos showing the people named on your census return.Name the photos using archival ink.
Your great grandchildren will thank you for this
Archival quality materials can be bought from genealogy suppliers such as
http://www.cab-search.co.uk/

This is how some of my ancestors looked 100 years ago