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Thursday 24th August – Family Tree Collected

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Posted by: knightrider45 Friday 24th August 2007, 12:10am

TodayÂ’s the day the mother-in-law, my wife, and her cousin, left me and the cousins husband at home as they went to see a man in Bury St Edmunds who has done years of research on the family tree.

This man, Ray, is another cousin (something) removed, so again, the Australian cousin met another (distant) member of her English family.

And the family tree they brought back with them is massive, two A3 pages of dates, births and deaths.

After the visit to Ray, the ladies trio converged on another cousins house who was present at the barbeque last Sunday. This time it was the wife's time to shed a few tears, as this cousin had some videos of our wedding, part of which included her dad giving the bride's father speech - he died in 1993 (ish). The video we made snapped some time ago, so this is the first time she has "seen" her dad in years.

As I and the cousins husband spent the day together, we have hatched a dastardly plan for Monday, which is the Australian cousins 59th Birthday.

We've arranged another family get together for her, but this time it's going to be at our house. Top Secret! The cousin will be taken out for a birthday drink by her husband at 3pm, bringing her back home at 4.15pm.

The house will look normal until she walks into the kitchen - where everyone will be waiting for her. I'm getting the Christmas lights down from the loft sometime over the next couple of days, ready (and hidden) for the big day.

This is the first birthday our cousin has spent away from home, and her children. I hope this goes just a little way to make her feel appreciated.

Tomorrow, we're off to Kings Lynn in the morning to collect the repaired DVD Camcorder, (Good News!!) then we're (probably) going to the priory ruins at Swaffham for a look around. After that, who knows?

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