The days are getting longer and brighter – hooray.
Home Front – Wartime recipes (2)
We discussed rationing and we’ve discussed just how well our parents and grandparents ate – despite the rationing and time of war when all the “good” stuff was going overseas! So …. as promised, here are some more of the wonderful recipes from the 1940’s.
Please thank Carolyn on her website for putting these delicious meals on-line!
Recipe 31:Farmhouse Scramble (version 1)
Recipe 32:Cottage Pie
Recipe 33: Potato and Cheese Bake
Recipe 34:Boeuf Bourguignon 1940s Rations Style
Recipe 35: Potato Floddies
Recipe 36:Bread and Apple Pudding
Recipe 37: Danish Apple Pudding
Recipe 38:Vegetable Stew
Recipe 39:Wartime Welsh Cakes
Recipe 40:Cold meat pasties
Recipe 41:Quick chocolate icing
Recipe 42:Potato Rarebit
Recipe 43: Mock Cream Recipe 2
Recipe 44: No Cook Chocolate Cake
Recipe 45:Mince Slices
Recipe 46:Marmite Mushrooms (a modern creation?)
Recipe 47: Eggless…
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The British Unsung Hero of Burma
Major Hugh Paul Seagrim
Major Hugh Paul Seagrim
For all the heroes that became famous, there are just as many that did heroic deeds which, for them, was their duty. One of them, British Major Hugh Paul Seagrim, dedicated his life to resisting Japanese forces when they invaded Burma.
Seagrim was born in Hampshire, England in 1909. He was schooled at Norwich and then joined the Royal Military College at Sandhurst. In 1929 he obtained a commission in the British Indian army. He was sent to Burma and before long was accepted by the Karens, forming close friendships.
British in Burma
Burma, now called Myanmar, is situated west of Laos and Thailand in Southeast Asia. It was a colony of Great Britain from 1886 until 1948. The different major ethnic groups living in Myanmar are Burmans, Karen, Shan, Chinese, Mon, and Indian.
Most Indonesian countries regarded the British as haughty foreigners…
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Latest Statistics in my Genealogy Research
Total ancestor count – 17,247
Number of Immigrants to North America – approximately 300
Life in Belgium
Did my ancestors have braided rugs?
Some symbolism here between tree stumps and family trees
CHRISTMAS DAY
TO ALL THOSE THAT BELIEVE IN FREEDOM AND PEACE: MERRY CHRISTMAS!! FROM: PACIFIC PARATROOPER!!
PLEASE… REMEMBER THOSE THAT FOUGHT FOR US IN THE PAST…
AND THOSE WHO CONTINUE TO PROTECT US TODAY!!!
AND FOR THOSE SPECIAL PEOPLE WHO WAIT PATIENTLY AT HOME…
TO ALL THOSE WHO DO NOT CELEBRATE THIS HOLIDAY … I WISH YOU THE WARMTH AND PEACEFUL CONTENTMENT THAT IS REPRESENTED BY THIS SEASON !!!
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Military Humor –
Humor from deployed Marines
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Farewell Salutes –
Gerard Azemar – Lafayette, LA; US Army, WWII
Dick Bowersox – Tiffan, OH; US Merchant Marines, WWII
Darrell Dilks – Temple, OK; US Army, WWII, 2 Bronze Stars
Merlin Hicks – Iron Mountain, MI; US Army Air Corps, WWII, PTO, 11th Airborne Division
Dwight “Bud” Hudson – Berry, AL; US Navy, WWII, PTO, gunner’s mate, USS Charrette
J.B. Jones…
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Collecting …….
There used to be a BBC program called Collector’s Choice, This was broadcast in the afternoon and was one of our favorites. People collect all sorts of weird and wonderful things – from teddy bears to insects, for example. My folly is collecting postcards. Here are a few of my latest acquisitions.
This one falls into the cat category, obviously.
Belfast Northern Ireland – My husband’s “home town”
A colorful scene in the Netherlands – people and places category
People and places – Sporting Activities
The Joy of Collecting Postcards
More cards to add to my collection
In the DOGS category 
Such a handsome dog
I just finished……
I just finished printing a 78 page document that I have been working on for a long time. It still needs some editing/tinkering but I’m basically ready to move on to the next stage. I want to input the information to Excel and then do some sorting into different categories. These are my 300+ immigrant ancestors by name, birth and death dates and location, generation, marriage, arrival date and place, miscellaneous information.
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A Short Analysis of Emily Dickinson’s ‘A Bird came down the Walk’
‘A Bird came down the Walk’ focuses on a popular theme of Emily Dickinson’s poems: animals. As ever, she looks at them in her own way, offering an idiosyncratic perspective on the bird, in this poem.
A Bird came down the Walk—
He did not know I saw—
He bit an Angleworm in halves
And ate the fellow, raw,
And then he drank a Dew
From a convenient Grass—
And then hopped sidewise to the Wall
To let a Beetle pass—
He glanced with rapid eyes
That hurried all around—
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My Ancestors (30d) – Rev. Elijah and Clara Maria de los Dolores Marina de Beck Guion – The First Two Daughters Marry – 1860’s
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) Clara Maria de los Dolores Marina de Beck Guion; (2) Alfred Beck Guion; (3) Alfred Duryee Guion; (4) Alfred Peabody Guion; (5) Judith Anne Guion
All during the girlhood’s of my mother and aunts, the slavery issue was coming to a head. New Orleans had the biggest and worst slave-market in the nation — the one that Lincoln saw as a young man, and never forgot — but here was one moral issue on which the Rev. Elijah Guion sided with the South. Northerner as he originally was…
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