BlogHide Resteemsthejollypilgrim (32)in covid-19 • 5 years agoThe Great LurgyI’d like to offer a perspective on the plague which has torn across the world, spreading havoc in its wake. I think it will make the human race stronger. Short term (possibly for the lifetimes of…thejollypilgrim (32)in writing • 6 years agoThe Ancestor Chest, Part 3 - Picture AnalysisOne hundred and forty-three years of information about my family were contained in the Ancestor Chest. That’s the time between the oldest unambiguously dated document it contained (1867) and the…thejollypilgrim (32)in writing • 6 years agoThe Ancestor Chest, Part 2Blanche "Betty" Donnelly, my great aunt - c. 1935 - she made that dress herself Using a chest of photos of dead relatives to peer into the recent past was proving insightful. Following my…thejollypilgrim (32)in writing • 6 years agoGreat Grandfather Don's 100-year-old StrongboxWhen Mum and Dad died, the most interesting artefact they left us was the chest of old family photos and documents, accumulated across more than a century (" The Ancestor Chest "). I was carrying…thejollypilgrim (32)in writing • 6 years agoThe Ancestor ChestMy mother once told me that you’re not a proper adult until both your parents are dead. Thanks, Mum. Could have done without that particular life opinion. Some years later, on Radio 4, someone…
