Yes, I'm so Happy! 2012

[Hoy]

My daughter was trying to explain to her French friend what 'Yorkshireness' was like. The best she could do was tell her how her grandad made his new shed door out of his old shed door!

Then my uncle was a Yorkshireman  -  he made a outhouse of an old kitchen cabinet. You had to back in to seat.

Proof, I think you will find... that the Scots have infiltrated everywhere! 

Or vice versa!
BTW, King Gillebrede of the South Isles is my 24th great grandfather

[Maggi Young]

Or vice versa!
BTW, King Gillebrede of the South Isles is my 24th great grandfather

No,  not vice versa ..... the Scots are the original "careful" people I'm sure 


King Gillebrede, eh?  I thought you seemed to have a regal bearing 

[Hoy]

Or vice versa!
BTW, King Gillebrede of the South Isles is my 24th great grandfather

No,  not vice versa ..... the Scots are the original "careful" people I'm sure 


King Gillebrede, eh?  I thought you seemed to have a regal bearing 

Strange nobody has noticed yet - especially my wife seems to ignore it completely

[Maggi Young]

Of course! It is not fashionable these days to be impressed by aristocratic lineage.... your wife is playing it cool.  Or perhaps she is embarrassed by her husband's Scottish ancestry.......

[Tim Ingram]

What do us poor serfs in the south do faced with all these Yorkshiremen and Scots? It seems if you can't beat 'em join 'em!

[Lesley Cox]

My daughter was trying to explain to her French friend what 'Yorkshireness' was like. The best she could do was tell her how her grandad made his new shed door out of his old shed door!

Says it all really. I notice David that you have no comment to make regarding my assessment of Yorkshire WEATHER!

[Martin Baxendale]

Recently renewed contact (through a facebook search she did - social contact websites do have their uses!) with my now 35-year-old adopted daughter who first contacted me when she was 18 but with whom I then  lost contact again, only to find that I have a little granddaughter I didn't know about - so I now have twice as many grandchildren as I had before Christmas. Unfortunately they live in Perth, Western Australia (my adopted daughter and her little girl that is, not my grandson and his mum, who live just down the road). To be clear, I didn't adopt her. She was adopted. Does that make sense?

[Maggi Young]

How exciting, Martin.... that is a good news story from facebook.
And aren't they a pretty pair? 

[Martin Baxendale]

How exciting, Martin.... that is a good news story from facebook.
And aren't they a pretty pair? 

Indeed. Life gets messy sometimes, but it can still throw up nice surprises. 

[Martin Baxendale]

And through the medium of facebook I'm finally getting to see scanned photos of my daughter Jo's childhood with her adoptive parents.

 

[Martin Baxendale]

All quite emotional. But also very lovely.

[Lesley Cox]

Martin, the two youngest of my 5 grandchildren live in Perth too. Too far even from here. And their mother has - as we might say here - thrown a wobbly, and won't let them come home for holidays as was agreed, even though my son is happy to pay all costs. The "b" word has passed my lips on several occasions. John went over pre-Christmas to see them only to find they had been removed to another state for the duration. Not a good situation I'm afraid.

I'm happy for you with your new-found daughter and hope you can both share some good contact and friendship in coming months and years. Families can be such fragile things.

[maggiepie]

Martin, looking at those pics, your daughter has not changed much since she was 8.
I can only imagine what sort of feelings you must be experiencing.
Glad to hear they are good.

 

[Martin Baxendale]

Thank you. I knew nothing about her until she contacted her birth mother and then me after turning 18. Her mother was a girlfriend of mine when I was in my early twenties who found out she was pregnant after we split up. Her parents apparently persuaded her to have the baby and put it up for adoption. I knew nothing about it until she phoned me when she was 18, having got my name from her birth mother and found me by searching the Gloucestershire telephone directories.

[David Nicholson]

My daughter was trying to explain to her French friend what 'Yorkshireness' was like. The best she could do was tell her how her grandad made his new shed door out of his old shed door!

Absolutely typical, but I'm a Yorkshireman without the necessary technical skills