Family and photos - catch up #1

Back home after nearly a week away at Granny's.  It was a busy one!

We went down on Easter Sunday and saw Big Grandad briefly before he headed off to go to France, an annual thing with Uncle B, his brother.  This was one of the reasons for the timing of our visit, it's much easier when he's not around as he doesn't really appreciate what is normal for children and 'best behaviour' for an extended period of time just isn't realistic!

On Sunday afternoon we went visiting, first we went to see Great Grandma and then Great Grandad.  The contrast between the two visits is rather pronounced, Grandma is always clearly delighted to see us and interested in what we're up to and has things to talk about, whereas with my Grandad conversation is like pulling teeth and he continued watching the snooker that he had on the telly.  Snooker on telly meant a bit of maths, as we talked about the point score for the different coloured balls as well as some geometry.

After that we went home and Granny showed K & M some old family photos, of her parents' (both of whom we'd just been to see) side of the family.  She's been doing research into her father's side of the family, but also has lots of information about her mother's side, because her cousin has already done a lot of research on that side, so she could tell them quite a lot and they also talked about the clothes that the people in the photos were wearing.

The girls' Great Grandma (born 1922)

Her parents.

Her father in his dress uniform.

The girls' Great Grandad with his parents.

His father as a boy - he was the son of a Coastguard.

The girls' Great Grandad's maternal grandfather.

This dapper gentleman was the headmaster of the local school, which I went to (although by then it was just an infant school and sadly, along with the school house where he lived, is no longer there), and he was also the organist at the church my Mum goes to and where my Dad now sings in the choir.

Apart from that we also finished off The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, which ended most satisfactorily.