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Ancestry revelations

A day of very mixed emotions. As an adopted child I have always had a full and loving family but until recently had almost no knowledge of any blood line relatives beyond my birth mother’s details. Through ancestry research/DNA test results I have discovered she had a sister and I have now made contact with… Read More »

Royal Mail complaints

What a frustrating session in trying to find the RM complaints option, eventually discovering that the only option for a non-standard one is to phone up.  After phoning and going through the inevitable grind of automated options the call wait queue was anticipated to be 50mins! I hung up. An annoying but simple thing –… Read More »

Modelling Rufus Castle – Portland (Updated)

The blog may well drift into being mostly model railway posts. This post will be expanded but here is a holding link to a description I posted elsewhere. https://www.rmweb.co.uk/topic/141337-phoenix-yard-including-related-builds-and-stock-mods-etc/?do=findComment&comment=4800753 The real castle The Castle is on the west side of the Island of Portland in Dorset. It overlooks Church Ope Cove. Although often attributed to… Read More »

Scrambled pages (Again duh!)

In deleting what should have only been the dead file folders left over from the site reload some live one’s were also detected and deleted in error. I have had to reload a back-up so please forgive the currently scrambled WordPress side of the site. The older hand coded html pages should be OK although… Read More »