New Ancestors

I received an email informing me of my father’s, father’s, father’s, wife’s parents and siblings. i.e. "new" great-great grandparents and all their children.

I already knew about my great grandmother, Florence Jessie Toms, but the new ancestors are her parents who (with her siblings) are given in the graphic below. Note you can click on any images below to see larger versions:

Here's a photo of Florence Toms and John George Locks and various relations (I hadn't noticed I already had photos of Florence Toms' siblings!):

More to be seen at my family tree website.

Amy's Rules

I left Amy at the computer where she forbade me to look apart from the occasional help with spelling. After about 20 minutes I discovered she had written the following:

Amy's Rules

1. When Tom'’s asleep I can play in my room.
2. Listen to what mummy or daddy is saying.
3. Tell mummy or daddy if something has gone wrong.
4. Say pardon me when you burp.
5. When you do a pump say excuse me.
6. Give your toys to charity if you don'’t want them.
7. Say please and thank you.
8. Be kind to everybody.
9. Do not hurt small animals and big animals.
10. Don'’t be glued to the telly.
11. When you are doing something and someone tries to help you do not get cross with them.

Amy gave me permission to post this excellent work on the Blog.

What would you score out of 11?

Accosted by Santa

Amy and Tom wanted to see Santa but were warned that this was the first day he was in the shops, so there might be long queues and if so we should try again later.

Little did we expect to be accosted by Santa touting for business!

The cheeky "hairy man" (as Tom calls him) secretly put chocolate gold coins in the children's hoods - much to their amusement when they fell out later on!