......... or I get interrupted. (I did start this post at 1.30pm today but a little person decided he'd had enough sleep so it's now 6pm and he's busy watching the Bedtime Hour on Cbeebies - I know dreadful parenting eh!)
Anyway, this week has been busy with getting back to work, catching up on everything that went on when I was off and getting back into our normal routine. So all fun stuff has kind of taken a bit of back seat but I have been getting on with my hexagons. This is 71 of them sewn together, I not sure what I'm going to do with it to be honest. I did have a bit of an idea of making them into a cushion cover but I'm not sure about that now. It's a funny shape of I need to cut out more and then see where I get too.
I've also been spending some time this week doing a little bit of family history research which has been really interesting. It's something me and my dad have talked about doing for years but never really got round to doing anything about it. But with my grandad's 93rd birthday coming up my dad wanted to find out if he will be the longest living of all his siblings, he was one of 7 and is the only one still living. So that has meant a bit of digging about to find out birth dates and then that led to finding out marriage dates and similar information. So in a short number of hours the other night I discovered that when my grandad's parents married in 1906, his mum was 25, 3 years older than his dad and both her parents were deceased which my dad didn't know. In fact there seems to be quite few marriages in my family history where the bride was older than the groom which I think is quite unusual.
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Family history research can be totally addictive - but great fun! Wish it wasnt so expensive for us scots though, thats just not fair...
In my family most of the first borns seem to have been 'very premature'. So when I rang my dad to tell him I was getting married (eleven years ago) and in the same conversation told him I was pregnant he just cheered and said I was continuing family tradition!
Your hexie count is doing well, I am only at about 50.
My sis is really in to family history, I think it gets more interesting as you get older.......
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