Oh, how wonderful!
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Oh, how wonderful!
Rain clearing - early promise
5th December 2025 07.43
'My' robin took a *very* thorough bath this morning!
Ah, I remember my mother baking her own bread daily during the bakers' strikes. Cottage loaves rising gently under a clean tea towel on top of the floor standing boiler. Dipping the last crust into a mug of cocoa at supper time. Fun for us kids but hard work for her. Feels like a long time ago...
A cameo appearance
18th November 2025 07.48
Matt Houlbrook's book is on my wishlist, but also I'm so interested in his thoughts on the use of microbiographies. I have been intuitively doing something similar in my #OnePlaceStudies but lack the wider reading and vocabulary to fully understand and articulate my approach.
Thank you for writing so openly about breakdown and recovery. And thank you for the Rilke quote, it's very helpful.
So many wills have I ordered! My bank balance says I'm done... but maybe I'll add just one or two more...
Details matter! #FamilyHistory
A pair of mallard ducks snoozing in the grass between the headstones of Rutherglen Cemetery, Lanarkshire
A municipal cemetery is maybe not the first place you'd go looking for a pair of sleepy mallard, but here they are!
#DucksOutOfWater #RutherglenCemetery
Squirrel with acorns in the porch at St Kentigern’s Church, Crosthwaite near Keswick in Cumbria.
#Woodensday
Presentations from #WikiTreeWeek2025 will be available for 30 days. Glad to be able to catch up after the event - last week I was too busy to watch live but this week is much quieter. Time to review how I'm using WT for my #OnePlaceStudies and plan my next steps.
#PutTheCoffeeOn #OnePlaceWednesday
The combination of #WW1 and #Cumbria puts this one on my Christmas book list.
CWGC headstone for Lance Corporal David White, tucked in amongst private grave monuments in Rutherglen Cemetery, Lanarkshire.
Honoured to lead a tour of #WW1 war graves in Rutherglen Cemetery on Saturday morning and then give a talk about the work of #CWGC to 221 Sqn, 154 RLC in Cambuslang in the afternoon.
We will remember them.
I'm hoping to attend the wreath laying tomorrow morning. Happy to run an impromtu mini tour afterwards if anyone would like that (although I think the weather may be a bit of a deterrent).
Cropped photo showing text and image, under the title 'Arthur Churchill: a Petersfield railway signalman's story'.
Newspaper masthead, for 'Petersfield Post', with words in red.
Pleased to see project research featured in this week's 'Petersfield Post'!
It looks at the life of signalman Arthur Churchill, from time in the LSWR orphanage to his work on the railway & his family.
The best bit is it was co-written with Arthur's son, Gordon! #Railway200
December 2020 soon after installation. Some of the wooden crosses on the upper slopes of the cemetery. These war graves had been unmarked for the previous 40 years.
A concrete base and hole were all that remained on some of the war graves after CWGC removed the memorials in 1980.
The Wardsend screen wall at City Road Cemetery. We always go up to lay a second wreath here after our Remembrance Service at Wardsend.
October 2022, two years after installation. Dappled light on the upper slopes and the crosses. It's the highest (and my favourite) part of the cemetery.
In 2020, forty years after the CWGC memorials were removed, in a joint project with Wates Living Space, Victoria Cross Trust and the Royal British Legion, the Friends of Wardsend Cemetery found and marked the 16 graves with wooden crosses inspired by the temporary markers widely used in WW1.
@rutherglen900.bsky.social this might be of interest to your followers
Cross of Sacrifice at Rutherglen Cemetery, photographed on a lovely sunny autumn day. Fingers crossed for similar weather for our next war graves tour at 11am on Saturday 8th November.
Lots of war graves tours taking place over the next two weeks to mark #RemembranceDay, including a tour of #RutherglenCemetery at 11am on 8th Nov. Come along to find out about the work of the #CWGC and the stories of those they commemmorate. Free but booking is required.
www.cwgc.org/visit-us/eve...
Grave monument of Minnie Walker, beloved daughter of Mary and Peter Walker, who died on 15 April 1915, aged 10. A stone figure of a young girl holding out a flower in her right hand as if she is about to let it fall. Photographed against a darkening sky, with the hazy orange glow of sunset on the horizon, a crescent moon and Venus rising above.
#31DaysOfGraves
Day 26: Figure
As the nights draw in, I like to walk up to the top of #RutherglenCemetery to watch the sun set. One figure stands out against the skies over Glasgow. I've photographed her many times. Here she is with crescent moon and Venus. Her name is Minnie.
Day 19 #31DaysOfGraves and the prompt is 'Social Group'.
I dont know anything about this grave marker, but I like it.
📍All Saints, Faringdon, Oxfordshire
Gravestone of Christina Gray Beueate, wife of George Berry, who died on 18 February 1923 and is buried in Rutherglen Cemetery, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. Black granite with gold lettering.
Marriage record of George Berry and Christina BEWETT dated 29 April 1864. Christina made her mark rather than signing her name, suggesting that she may not have been able to write her own name.
Entry in the parish register for the baptism of Christina Gray BEWEATE, dated 19 September 1842. The entry for her parents' marriage a few years earlier gives her father's surname as BEWITT.
Marriage record of Christina's daughter Jessie Berry to Archibald Sharp, dated 23 June 1899, in which Christina's maiden surname is give as BUTE.
#31DaysOfGraves
Day 18: Mistake (a day late - oops!)
Nobody really knows whether the spelling of Christina's surname is a mistake, because it seems that nobody ever knew how to spell her surname in the first place. I'm willing to bet that it wasn't BEUEATE though!
#RutherglenCemetery #OPS
A stone marker inscribed with the number 72. It is located in a remote woodland area with leaves, moss and ferns in the foreground and trees behind.
#31DaysOfGraves day 18. The #Mistake would be yours if you thought this was a gravestone hidden in the woods. It is, in fact, a gale stone, marking an entitlement granted to a #FreeMiner to mine coal or iron-ore in the #ForestOfDean.
See: www.forestfreeminers.org for more information.
My Lamcashire great grandma could knit beautiful children's gloves (with little tiny fingers) on four needles with no pattern. And she was a lightweight compared to the Terrible Knitters of Dent!
Grave monument for General Juan Manuel de Rosas of Argentina, who lived the latter part of his life in exile in England and died there on 14 March 1877. He was buried in Southampton Old Cemetery but was repatriated to Argentina in 1989.
Family vault of the de Rosas family, La Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires, Argentina. General Juan Manuel de Rosas was repatriated from England and re-interred here on 30 September 1989.
#31DaysOfGraves
Day 17: Relocated
Grave monument of General Juan Manuel de Rosas of Argentina, who died in exile in England in 1877 and was buried in Southampton Old Cemetery. He was repatriated in 1989 and interred in the family vault at La Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires.
Our kirkyards are at their very best just now so get your bones along to catch an angel or two
Yes, there's an option to record audio separately for each of your slides, so you can do (and if necessary redo) the speaking part one slide at a time. It's very straightforward.
Thank you, it's been a good year for it.
