Born too late

Born too late (mother more than 50 years old)

Matches: 1 to 15 of 15   

Person ID	Name	Birth Date	Mother's Birth	Tree ID
I6380	Laurie ARMSTRONG	1957	2 AUG 1889	gg
I6378	Lynn ARMSTRONG	1946	2 AUG 1889	gg
I6379	Stephen ARMSTRONG	1951	2 AUG 1889	gg
I24781	Stuart Greenwell BURNEY	16 Mar 1960	8 APR 1875	gg
I500138703839	Doris Annie JOHNSON	24 Dec 1913	22 Jan 1859	gg
I24817	George Thomas JOHNSTON	27 Mar 1892	01 Aug 1803	gg
I500138703616	James Brownlie LINDSAY	16 Jun 1866	08 Feb 1798	gg
I500138703612	Robert LINDSAY	1959	19 FEB 1835	gg
I9233	O'SULLIVAN	Bef 1902	1 MAR 1847	gg
I1835	Nicholas John RICHARDS	21 AUG 1986	19 JUL 1935	gg
I500138716226	Grace Thorn	1893	30 NOV 1842	gg
I12187	Doreen Elizabeth WEBSTER	1899	4 NOV 1848	gg
I1099	Sarah Ann WHITEMAN	1 DEC 1841	3 JUL 1788	gg
I5482	Stanley WILLCOCKS	Bef 1974	28 JUL 1908	gg
I122	Sarah Emma WRIGHT	5 AUG 1878	12 OCT 1813	gg

 I had forgotten all about this blog ... no-one looks at it so I'll let it sleep for a few more years.

I found this photo recently.
Love it!

The last day of August

So it's now just 19 days till I fly to the UK!


Today I found a recipe that I used to make quite often and it has been missing, despite me searching everywhere.
It turned up in the little book where I handwrite recipes which I use all the time!

It's an old favourite!  I use a biscuit forcer to make a nice oval shaped biscuit.

Butterscotch Pecan Thins

Ingredients:
¾ cup butter
1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1 large egg
1½ teaspons vanilla
1½ cups plain flour
¾ teaspoon baking powder
½ teaspoon salt
about 48 pecans

Method:
1. Cream butter and sugar till light and fluffy
2. Beat in the egg and vanilla
3. Sift in the flour, baking powder and salt.
4. Halve the dough and on a piece of wax paper form each half into a 15cm log using paper as a guide.
5. Chill for at least 4 hours or overnight.
6. Set oven to 175°C.
7. Cut about 6mm thick and place on baking tray about 7.5cm apart.
8. Press a peacan (half) on each biscuit.
9. Bake about 10-12 minutes.


EMH 31.8.18

Sophia Stanger

Today I chanced upon a comment  about my great-great grandmother, Sophia Stanger, which I had written on another blogging site . - Warrimoo history.

In the process I was reminded that I had set up this blogging space some years ago.

I had completely forgotten about it.

But I may start writng to it again because it does let me write wiithout compromising my privacy like I feel facebook and twitter do - and I don't have accounts there.

In the early 1980s, long before the internet, I bought a Commodore 64 computer. It came with a casset recorder - no floppy disk or hard disks - and no software was available when I bought it.  So I made my own  - and I soldered up a contraption that I enabled me to hook it up to a modem. - 125 bits one way and 300 bits the other -- we didn't know about Megabytes or Gigabytes then!.

Anyway, I signed up with a service known as fidonet where we discussed how to use our computers and I also found some people interested in genealogy.

The stuff I wrote there is STILL be found on the internet.  Much of it is wrong. Much of it identified me and my family and much of it I wish I had never written.  It is impossible to delete it now.

That's why I don't use facebook, instagram, twitter - and I'm reluctant to try blogging.

I like personal, one-to-one communication - and that's the only communication I really need.

I'll be interested to learn if anyone ever reads this .  It is likely, anyway, that it and my blogging account will soon be deleted.

Bye from Me

Trying to get motivated to do some of the things that have been waiting for months to be tackled. But how?

The very first blog

My first blog:

This is just a way of filling in some time and doing something new.

There's something worth looking at where Lindy & Yoshi were - wonder what it was?