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Morning all, from a cold, wet and windy Melbourne!!!!

Well Blackpool sounds very interesting...I had heard of it but for some reason (probably only based on UK tv series!) I thought it was something to do with a pier.

:-)

Congratulations on your new arrival Jonesey! Nice name as well. I love babies, would if I could have lots and lots myself!

Well done Jonesey and Lexi is a lovely name...

Unlike you Gracie, I never wanted to have lots and lots of babies... I took a long time to even consider having a second child.. there is over a 5 year gap between them.

>> we have just got back from being out again and as I won't be here tomorrow evening (morning) I guess I better look for some food for breakfast.

Hi Gracie~~~~~~

Pers, have you found some yet?

:-D

Sorry I lost my connection.

Breakfast on the go: Danish Pastrie and a coffee.
Or

Option 1) 3 weet-bix with sliced banana, trim milk, low fat yoghurt and sliced almonds.

Option 2) Natural muesli with trim milk, low fat yoghurt and blueberries.

Option 3) Large smoothie, trim milk, low fat yoghurt, banana, mixed berries and a drizzle of honey.

Option 4) Poached eggs on grainy toast (can be gluten free) and avocado and sliced tomato.

Option 5) Bagel with low fat cream cheese & berry jam or smoked salmon.

Option 6) Spinach and ricotta baked mushrooms with 1 poached egg. & 2 kiwifruit .

Option 7) Pancakes with berries, reduced fat Greek yoghurt and sliced almonds.

Juices, trim lattes and tea available....
We are on a diet...... ha ha ..... there is some bacon in the fridge Dea if you feel deprived.

Spinach and ricotta baked mushrooms with 1 poached egg.....oh yes indeedy!

Theres always something nice on the menu for us vege weirdos!

Thank yoooooooooooooooooo

Ah I think I'll go the bagels with cream cheese and smoked salmon!

II was having a trawl through some old newspapers as some of the little articles etc really interesting and I thought I’d follow one small case through which sounded a bit interesting. So if you have a spare few minutes read on…

In a nutshell… and I have made up the names (Just in case)!

It is 1932, there is a husband (Charlie) and wife (Annie) running some sort of boarding house in an inner city.

The wife begins an affair with another chap (Harry) who has left his wife for her. The articles state that they were very much in love. He moved into the boarding house and the husband Charlie didn’t seem to mind. Harry however still sent money to his legal wife.

Annie then asks Harry to draft a new will which he does, and leaves everything to her. Upon his death Annie advises she has destroyed the will and his estate reverts to his widow but does not explain why she asked him for a new will.

A month later Harry passes on from a mysterious illness and Annie later delivers a baby who apparently resembles a strong resemblance to Harry and not her hubby.

Two new boarders arrive, one a male (Fred) is apparently staying with her despite having a wife and 5 children at home. Witness statements stay he seemed very possessive of her, and he took her away on holidays etc until his wife write to him and complained. He insists he never exercised his rights but he was attracted to her kindness…and he advises the husband never minded either…

Another boarder arrives (Jean) and she sees Fred occasionally moving the bowls of water with the arsenic fly traps in them and replacing them with clean water. Jean does not like Fred so there is some dispute about this.

Next Fred collapses and is taken to hospital. On arriving back at Annie’s house he suffers a relapse and is admitted to hospital. A scientific examination for the time, shows arsenic poisoning.

Jean then collapses and is admitted to hospital with suffering similar symptoms.

Annie is arrested and is held on remand. They exhume the body of Harry and cannot determine a cause of death although he does have traces of arsenic in his body.

Annie is then released from the attempted murder charge of Harry and is set to face charges on Jean and Fred, when she is released on lack of evidence.

Hmmm so this is real life…was the person who committed the crime:

( A )Annie – although she had nothing to gain from their demise and insisted that Harry had pneumonia and Fred was poisoning himself to stop his own return to work..

(B) Fred – perhaps he was angry because he couldn’t or didn’t or keep going what he wanted? Witness statements place him in a pharmacists’ trying to purchase arsenic although he claims no memory of this. Why did he swap the water with the fly papers in them, although he denies this. He was also a serving member of the police force,

(C) No one - Perhaps just a series of unfortunate coincidences

(D) Charlie - the husband who didn't mind..perhaps he did!

I thought I’d take a look and see if I could find anything of them on the sites. One person has Fred in his tree, and his children but very few details.

Jean I can track only on one electoral roll and an earlier marriage, although statements advise that she was a divorcee

Nothing at all on Annie or her husband, or the child resembling Harry

Fred I could trace on a few more electoral rolls and then nothing.

See you just couldn’t make all this up!

So would you pass all this info onto the person who has Fred in their tree? I can imagine it may come as a bit of a shock if you never knew all this about your relatives! It is a bit of a sad story for all concerned…

I can only assume that they all changed their names or remarried etc. Annie was only 40 and must have been a bit of a looker I assume! Fred was in his late 40’s and I don’t know about Harry or Jean..

Well Miss Marples...

There has to be an answer in there somewhere...

Me I read about this chap aged 35... worked as a miner... this was a long long time ago... he got up one morning made his wife a cup of tea and took it into her in bed. He then returned to the lounge lay down and blew his head and hands off with dynamite... There was apparently no reason for this suicide, that anyone could come up with.

I think in modern day times Qantico would be called in and a profile done on the wife and others...

Persie

LOL, me too!

It took me ages to follow up all of the newspaper articles and there are a lot of unanswered questions, OR a lot of careless people!

Myself, I'd probably be a bit wary of someone who kept asking me to make a will!

Wth your case...must hae been a BAD cup of tea!

There was one bloke who kept turning up in the paper for stealing etc and being drunk and disorderly, abusing various women and then one where he got fined for abusing his wife as well, another where she went to court and paid the fine because he wasn't well. 9 years later, after him abusing her was publicised, she died and the funeral notice put in was much loved wife of xxxx....


:-S :-|

What a lot of mysteries and unanswered questions!

FAR too complicated for me at this time of the morning :-D

Very interesting though! - Don't you just love reading through old newspapers?

Yes, Persie - I was feeling 'deprived' until I found the bacon in your fridge- I cooked up a few sausages too and some tomatoes and mushrooms - Now that's what I call a breakfast !!! ;-)

See you all later,

Dea x

Makes you wonder...

Mind you I am suprised at the number of events that people found themselves in and were able to explain it away...

ie. a relative had a gambling debt, he couldn't or wouldn't pay..hmm he ended up in the middle of nowhere having drowned..(in a puddle only a couple of mm deep) Young fit, healthy man, worked as a drover so would have been familiar with bush conditions,..

This was in the 1890's..myself I would have probably questioned the circumstances a bit more! Nope just put down as drowning due to "unforseen circumstances' I BET

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You are up very early Dea!!!!

It is 4.34 in the afternoon here and I am about to sign off for day.

Have agood night enjoy the mystery!

Dea, has just eaten OH's sausages ..... oh boy......

We had creamed corn and courgette (zucchini) fritters and fried tomatoes and he had red cod tonight.

Good thing I cooked too much fish.. I have put some in a plastic container and will make him fish pie tomorrow... won't breathe a word where the sausages have gone to. ;-)

That bacon is really nice Dea... I had some last night... made myself a bacon buttie. love them <3.

My grandmother organised the local old people's club amongst other things.
She arranged lots of coach trips for them including a regular trip to Blackpool each year to see the lights.
She would take my cousin and I with her. I have a vivid memory of my grandfather taking me on the log flume in his late sixties.
There were regular trips to Southend too.
She also ran a local youth group
One of the members was a young man now known as Boy George.

Before she died she got involved in the local history group and she helped write a book of reminiscences of the local residents. I often see the book on sale at WDYTYA live and other family history fairs. Her picture is on the back cover.and there is a photograph of one of the coach trips in it. She is holding my sister's hand who was about two at the time.

If all these reminisces of trips to Blackpool have by any chance planted the seed that it might be fun to go back there sometime may I recommend a private hotel to stay in. The Canasta, which is situated on the Promenade just north of the North pier. That part of the town is less rowdy at night. I have stayed there myself on several occasions. It is clean, comfortable and reasonably priced and its owners, Doug and Mandy are lovely people. Doug is a real live wire always up for a bit of fun, we even persuaded him to come out clay target shooting with us (Much to Mandy's disgust) on one of our trips .

The hotel has a website, www.canastahotel.com which as well as being very informative gives a good indication of the character of its owners. The guestbook comments section (where you will see some of mine, starting in 2002) will give you a good insight.

Keep tabs on your bar bill though. ;-)

Jonesey

Looked at Canasta look v. good --

I really like the beauty treatments offered -- amazing selection and superb prices ------perhaps I should have gone on my own !!!!!

Maybe next time we should all go to Blackpool ------and stay at Canasta

Also looked at Mammas ----- lunch menus looked real value for money

Thanks

Renes

Evenin all

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