Deteriorating with my Blogs, and no real reason, always a lot to say, but then either forget or my thoughts go elsewhere..

Then I choose today to write,  a milestone ten years that Franco and I learned of what was to come..

Ten years? It is actually impossible.

What have I been doing, not in the last ten years... That's written and past .. I mean since my last Blog.. 

I've walked, and walked! Had a recurring shin rash, had a massive blood blister on the back on my heel, still there and it got bigger on the next long walk! 

I've seen two hair pieces in the last few days, and not on people, randomly on the ground!! Scary eh? Maybe leftovers from Halloween! 

It's been Guy Fawkes celebrations for the past two weeks!

Nottingham has it's Christmas market, ice-rink and big wheel nearly ready!

#1 son called me the other morning to tell me to grab and box and get down the road to him.. I obeyed asap, and found him stood next to an Eurasian Woodcock! Poor thing had flown into the wall right next to him... It came too and tried to fly again, wham into the opposite wall, tried again to pick him up but he flew away, very low over neighboring gardens..

I notified the bird watch people.. Now I feel like an official bird watcher! 

Just to add to my past stamp collection, coin collection, and, finally, post card collection!

Seems my whole life I haven't been able to focus on one thing! I laugh at myself, well, someone has to! I watch tv, and either play a game on my phone or Kindle, I listen to books walking, or music around the house... 

Always doing two or three things at the same time! 

Gripe warning! I have realised I don't actually get any Asda points? I thought every time I shopped I was accruing points! Seems you have to either spend a lot! Or one of their offers on the app! 

Last two days I have been on my Ancestry .com, it's been updated and a link called Thru lines© I have 798 pages of 20 per page, of cousins! 3rd and 4th.. a small percentage, so far, still a hundred pages to go.. have the words connecting names, so I click on that, and add their information to my tree.. added a couple of hundred today, so far! 

And of the others a mix, some have unlinked threes, they haven't linked their DNA to their tree, private trees! Why?! Lols that makes no sense to me.. But then I'm an open book.. 

There are public trees, some with thousands of names per tree, incredibly! 

I have tried to just scan the pages only clicking on those where I can easily add names.

Even so, occasionally stopping on a paternal link, in the hope of finding a sibling.. I know it won't have my dad's name, or his second wife.. because of course it would be on the connecting names bit.. but.. I still look, still hope...

I have also now found today five more DNA matches for both sides, in one person! So far now that's six people who match on my mom and dad's DNA!?! Isn't it weird? How can that be? I am just hoping that these five people come from one person down the line... They all have different surnames.. and I have written to every one.

I am thinking there may be more because I only noticed the 'both sides' words where paternal and maternal should be.. by glancing over.. 

When I go back and look down that line of each page there may be more! 

Today has shown me my family here in UK over the hundreds of years have travelled as did my Italian grandparents.. Our line is all over the UK, America, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.. all people around the world, travellers.. always exploring this beautiful blue planet.

M.

Change can be beautiful when we are brave enough to evolve with it, and change can be brutal when we fearfully resist.

Bryant McGill - Author