As I watched from the shadows as the volunteers carefully plucked the ceramic poppies from the muddy ground and into the safety of their cardboard nests - I was disappointed that no poppy would be finding its forever home with me.
Musings
Heigh Ho! It’s To Bow I Go!
One rainy November weekend and in the company of my genealogical assistant - I took a wander through the past during a visit to London as I strolled up and down Fairfield Road in Bow...
Late for an Important Date!
Although I don’t usually enjoy receiving brown envelopes through the post - I will make an exception when one arrives from the UK General Records Office!
Desperately Seeking Clarice!
Many years ago as my Grandmother would regale me with a myriad of family history tales that I can recall that my interest was REALLY piqued at the first mention of "Poor Clarice".
Tee
As a child, 'tis true that I loved to shock others with the tale that I had been abandoned at birth by gypsies and raised with kindly mice in the crypt of an old church...
The Polite Tourist
What kind of mischief could possibly be unleashed by one lowly professional genealogist and grave hunter with an unseemly fascination with the history of death; a passion for Victorian true crime, the tales of long forgotten folk and a love of storytelling?
Peace Under a Scarboro’ Heaven
I have been musing on the fact that in less than a week after CLARICE TIBBETT died in 1962 - her inquest had been opened with a verdict rendered and on a cloudy afternoon the day following, her funeral had taken place.
Suicide is NOT Painless!
Even though 'Poor Clarice' breathed her last on Tuesday June 19 in the year 1962 - her final journey had begun some three days previously on a cloudy but warm Saturday afternoon.
You Want to M*A*S*H It Up?
One cloudy June day in the year 1962 - the loved ones of Clarice would experience the heartbreak of knowing that suicide is NOT painless...
From Sleuth to Solopreneur
My TEE TALK - FROM SLEUTH TO SOLOPRENEUR is the cautionary tale of a company founder and tombstone tourist wandering unquiet graveyards and haunting the archives.