Woven Threads

A huge thanks to Numenius for getting us up and running on TextPattern. This was really painless for me: I was off counting scoters in Bodega Harbor while he slaved away. This system is “lean and elegant” (programmers apparently know what that means); it’s certainly easy to use and no spam so far.

While at my mother’s I helped her go through some papers, among which were my grandmother’s birth certificate, her marriage certificate to my paternal grandfather, the latter’s induction into the Blackburn Grand Lodge of Masons (interesting date system they had/have, those chaps), his obituary, a note attached to the obituary listing a relative, I’m assuming, whose address changed mid-note. I have never heard of this relative.

This kind of thing is the stuff of nightmares for declutterers: how do you know what someone might want later on? The answer is you don’t so you keep it, at least the pieces of this that aren’t duplicated elsewhere.

Such as the fact that my grandmother’s mother Augusta who was born in Halifax, Yorkshire, was living with her unmarried uncle, a “wool sorter,” in Bury, when she was eleven. Plots arise unbidden in my mind.