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The Lurdy Blanket

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Great mix and compilation/completion.

Elizabeth Lovick's avatarNorthern Lace

When I was still living on Flotta, the island heritage centre was being
planned. It consists of a typical Orkney
house and byre, and the plan was to make the house as it would have been during
WWII, when there were so many servicemen stationed on the island. The byre was to be a museum.

The house still had box beds, and the craft group decided it would be
nice to make squares for a blanket for one of the beds. At one time most beds had this sort of cover,
made from either scraps of fabric or from ends of wool.

It was decided that our blanket would be made up from 4″ squares,
in all shades of blue and green. The
knitted square was done diagonally so that tension or yearn weight would not
matter. The yarns used were all Shetland
wool, 4 ply and DK from both…

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Day 50 – Arrival in New York, Friday July 27, 1934

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The sisters got up at 7:30 after she and Lib had laughed and laughed about their trip and getting home. They were in New York Harbor with six or eight tugs playing around.  Saw the Monarch of Bermuda go out, later the Majestic.

They got their passports checked and their landing cards before breakfast.

Saw the Statue of Liberty.

Said goodby to people and waited on the boat for a time while the crowd got off, then disembarked and waited and waited for our baggage.  American Express man was there. A nice steward helped them.

Virginia met them and rode in the taxi with them to Grand Central where they had lunch.

They got the 3 o’clock train.  Hot.  They were in an unairconditioned car.  Train was full.

Met by the family at 8:15 in Back Bay.  Rode home and talked until twelve.  She felt rotten – still traveling on the ocean.

01-FrontCover-250 Cunard Line Passwnger List    sample passenger list (I can’t find the list for their particular trip)

1934_lowermanhattan004.jpg Lower Manhattan, New York Harbor 1934

 

My Ancestors (33i) – Alfred Peabody Guion – Married Years in Trumbull

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I think I’ll take up the challenge of 52 ancestors 52 weeks. Thank you Judy. You set a high bar.

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Last June I  read about a Challenge, 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks, and I was intrigued. I decided to take up the challenge. Some Ancestors may take more than one week, but I still intend to write about 52 Ancestors. I hope you enjoy reading about My Ancestors as much as I am looking forward to researching and writing about them.

(1) Alfred Peabody Guion; (2) Judith Anne Guion.

From Life history of Alfred P. Guion:

Dec. 1945 – present (April, 1946)     Trumbull, Conn. – Reconditioning property, working with Guion Adv.

When my father returned to the United States in August of 1945, he spent about two and a half months stationed in Aberdeen and Fort Meade, Maryland.  He was close enough to come home most weekends to be with Marian, his wife of two years.  After he was discharged in December, he used his handyman skills to make repairs…

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The Case of the Gilded Fly (1944) by Edmund Crispin

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I’m reading this book now.

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This is the first book of my re-read project and it was also Crispin’s first mystery novel. Six years has enabled me to forget pretty much everything about this plot, so I was by and large coming to this book with a clean slate. Though having said that I think there were a number of things that I noticed with this book that I didn’t really pick up on with my first reading. One of these things is how Crispin’s novels do not necessarily have the same light hearted breeziness of earlier 1930s comic crime novels. Written in 1944, with the plot set in 1940, there is a decidedly darker hue to this book, which I hadn’t fully appreciated on my first read. However I am getting ahead of myself…

Over the course of a trying railway trip we are introduced to 11 passengers heading into Oxford. One of course…

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A Very Happy Easter

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This year I decided to follow the German-speaking tradition and have an Easter tree.  I have been in Switzerland around Easter several times, and love the little scenes they set up in shop windows, cable car stations and everywhere else.

The decorations for my tree, the wreath and lights have come from many countries, from Latvia to China and back to the UK!  So enjoy some photos of them on this happy day.

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2019 #AtoZChallenge – My Literary BFF #HarryPotter

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MY LITERARY BFF

HARRY POTTER

Throughout the month of April, you can catch up on my posts for this year’s challenge as well as all my alphabet offerings from previous years on my Blogging from A to Z page HERE.

When I read a great novel or a series of novels, sometimes I wish I could step into the book and join the world experienced by the characters. I just know that if I were there, I’d feel at home and contribute positively to the plot. I think it is those characters that keep me returning to works by the same author and even read those same novels over and over again.  For this year’s challenge, I plan to visit those characters we all know and love.  Those characters that we want to step off the page because we know that if they did, we’d be best friends forever. …

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Day 23 – Loch Awe – Ford – Oban – Loch Feochan – Loch Awe

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loch awe hotel  Loch Awe Hotel

loch awe  Loch Awe

Off in the bus again foran editing ride.  They stopped at Ford for lunch.  Weather very pleasant.  She felt lazy.  They had a rather different lunch with fluffy rice pudding with jellying Gorgonzola cheese.

Change of tempo stopping in Oban.  It was more alive after the serenity of the lochs in the Highlands.  People strolling about, sailors.  She had good fruit cake at a nice hotel for tea.

Visited Castle Dunuffinage  ??

Viewed sheep moving along a narrow path high above the black River Awe.

St. Conan’s  Church   LOCHAWE CHURCH

Church of the Campbells – she notes that Mrs. McIntyre who showed them around was darling.  (I can just hear my mother saying this)

She and Lib and Mrs. Duncan walked home – 1/4 mile.  (Home being the Loch Awe Hotel) She saw a double rainbow on the walk home.

Dinner consisted of Scotch broth, fish, haggis, duckling, ice cream.

She went for a walk later and saw motorcycles, bicycles, walkers.  The clouds were like pink lihjys in the sky at 10 o’clock.