It only took 5 minutes after walking through the flat door to realise I didn’t want to be back in London. London stinks, literally, and the roads are paved with rubbish. On the plus side, we did visit may dots on my family history map: Clyffe Pypard, Broad Hinton, Ogbourne St George, Uffcott, Marlborough, Draycot…
The Quality Chop House – London
The Quality Chop House – London I have to write a quick post about this place. We went there for dinner after I forced my boyfriend to help me with some research at The Family Records Centre (which he didn’t really enjoy!). The food was brilliant, as was the service and the wine. Go there!
I love BBC News 24
I made the mistake of channel hopping to see if anything was happening and it is. This is what I like to see, the police doing their job. I spent the first day of my holiday cleaning the flat. Not very exciting you may think (and you would be right). However, my boyfriend lent the…
Holiday!
Yippee, my holiday from work has officially started, I now have 11 days until I have to get back on public transport. My holiday has grown to epic proportions in my mind for some reason. Not that my job is stressful or hard but I am looking forward to having a break. I have to…
I love the weekend
I have had such a lovely weekend, I almost managed to get away without leaving the flat today. I spent most of the day scanning: photographs, certificates and bits of ephemera. My lovely boyfriend photographed all my medals, buttons and other bits and pieces. I also put a few more people into my family tree,…
I’ve drunk too much wine :)
Today I’ve been mainly sleeping. Two weeks of worrying about how to get to and from work safely have taken their toll and I’m absolutely knackered. I’ve been thinking how nice it would be to be a Victorian lady. I would wear lovely clothes, a corset and have strange hair dos. More importantly, I’d be…
If I wanted to live in fear I would have moved to Baghdad
Another day of learning to live in the new London. I should explain my selfish reasons for wanting a blog. It’s because I don’t want my life to be reduced to a photograph in the Evening Standard or at the end of the evening News because I’m not here anymore. I’m a person, not a…
What’s it all about?
My name is gingerbreadhouse, I work in the City for the best known NGO in the world and I live in leafy Norf London with my boyfriend. I’m obsessed with News 24. The idea behind this is to keep a record of my research, exciting finds (for me anyway!) and things to remember and go…
New blog!
Welcome to my blog and the history of my family!