Family Tree Frog

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...

Today is week three of what is going to be a 15 month project. The Book of Me, Written by You is a real opportunity to explore your memories, thoughts, information from your life, things that you can remember, and perhaps the passing on of oral history.  Thanks to Julie Groucher at Angler's Rest for this meme. Describe your physical self. Your size – clothes size Scars Eye colour Draw your hands Finger Prints Ooh this is a tough one.  Being middle-aged and obese and probably terribly vain, one does not like heading into this territory at all.  But them's the breaks and may it be a lesson to the young ones - not to sit in front of a computer all day doing genealogy ;)   What do you see in the mirror asks Julie? Well, I see this...me and a messy bedroom.... I've been told I look Irish.  Many people think they have met me before but they haven't.  I'm afraid I look very ordinary. Size 5 ft 4 and 3/4 inches or 165cm. ...