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steepholm ([personal profile] steepholm) wrote2012-09-04 01:03 pm
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"Wonderful Things!"

Yesterday I drove to Rugeley and back, which is a long way for me. I was returning to my Aunt Naomi's house (now being cleared by her children), in order to pick up the family archive, of which she'd been the unofficial custodian in her generation. That role, by mutual consent among my various cousins, has now passed to me - more by default perhaps than by acclamation, as I seem to be the one in whom the flame of genealogical nerdishness burns brightest.

I have many boxes of papers to sort through, and photographs, and intriguing objects as well, and over the coming months I'll post anything that I think might be of more general interest here. Amongst other things, I now have in my possession the two books I blogged about here with sadly out-of-focus pictures: I hope to remedy that. But also quite unexpected things, like a wonderful picture that my uncle Dan took of my grandfather in 1957, having his ear bitten by a sparrow.

At least, I think it's a sparrow - any correction gratefully received.



M. C. Butler
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[personal profile] lamentables 2012-09-04 03:56 pm (UTC)(link)
It is a wonderful picture!

For some reason it has evoked memories of budgerigars selecting fortunes, written on pink and blue papers. There's a clear image in my head, from a Ladybird book, I think. I don't remember a narrative, only the image.

[identity profile] cmcmck.livejournal.com 2012-09-04 02:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh that's just delightful :o)

We picked up my other half's family pics when we cleared my MiL's place and there's stuff going back to the early days of photography- calotypes and tintypes and stuff taken in India (Rawlpindi in what is now actually Pakistan) China, South Africa and Palestine- a lot of it on military duty or in the case of China, building the railways- in the twenties and thirties which all need sorting out.

[identity profile] sartorias.livejournal.com 2012-09-04 02:55 pm (UTC)(link)
What a wonderful photo--thank you for posting that.
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[personal profile] sovay 2012-09-04 03:10 pm (UTC)(link)
But also quite unexpected things, like a wonderful picture that my uncle Dan took of my grandfather in 1957, having his ear bitten by a sparrow.

That is wonderful.

[identity profile] nightspore.livejournal.com 2012-09-04 03:23 pm (UTC)(link)
It is wonderful. Looks like the photo was taken indoors, which makes me wonder whether it's a fairly young chick of some other bird, being raised hand-fed?

[identity profile] nineweaving.livejournal.com 2012-09-04 03:44 pm (UTC)(link)
A wizard and his familiar!

Wonderful.

Nine

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