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I love delving into old newspapers to find ancestor stories. Motivated largely by that old saying, those who forget history are doomed to repeat it, I'm digging up tales from yesterday that still speak to us today.

I've spent the past week on the road with plenty of time to think.

My first father-in-law was Cecil James Crawford. He was what you used to call a good, old-fashioned neighbourhood cop. In the fifties, his beat was where he lived. And he kept a lid on an area that had the potential to turn rough.

Some interesting thoughts and teasers to keep you up at night.

Mighty Rome decided that the system in place was just to difficult to manage and the Romans needed something that would become world wide in use, so they set to work make a calendar that would be used throughout their whole empire.

We have been researching these scams now for more than two years and we have yet to come across one that is bona fide in other words for real.

A little collection of jokes, facts and funnies from Marie Higgs.

The primative man discovered he could fish in deeper water when he placed himselfon a tree trunk and ventured out into the deep water. Needing some place to put his catch he hollowed out his log then added a paddle to guide his craft where he wanted to go

We've got a new gizmo at our place - something that converts old 35mm slides and negatives to digital format. Genius!

A Christmas Poem from Marie Higgs.