Family Tree Frog

  This is the third blog post for the #NationalFamilyHistoryMonth blogging challenge.  You can find out all about it here. Week 3 - Share - tips for smashing brick walls, or your opinion on what needs to be fixed/changed in family history - "If I ruled the world!".  Tell us what you can't live without - maybe it's a piece of tech gear, your society or group, or your library. It's so difficult to choose what you can't do without but I'm going to perhaps choose something that may seem a bit unusual or different.  I can't do without my family history podcasts.  There you are. I was going to say I can't do without the internet and yes, of course, that really would be a dint in my family history research.  I wouldn't be able to access my databases, search library catalogues or great websites, blog or send emails to my cousins or share stuff on Dropbox or attend Special Interest Groups at my Society or attend workshops or meetings via Zoom.  So defin...

On reflection, yesterday was one of those "balanced" days.  It was my RDO or Rostered Day Off. I tried to be good at the outset by not being "shockingly lazy" as revealed in one of my previous blog posts.  I jumped out of bed, got dressed, opened the front door, looked at the sky, went back for my brolly and went for a walk.  It started to rain by the time I got to the bottom of the street and it continued to pour for the next 45 minutes.  Undeterred, I ploughed on, returning home in soaked sneakers and vowing never to wear those particular gym pants again (they would be the ones with the bell bottoms that have always been a bit too long in the leg for me).  They soaked up all the water in the puddles and made a sickening slap slap sound on my ankles as I "burned" up and down the hills. Exercise done - tick. Humiliation - done - tick.  Washing yet to be done. Next - the Dentist.  I am very lucky with my teeth (as mentioned in a previo...