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Subject: Re: Ancestral scenarios....
From: Debbie Feder
Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2004 22:27:05 -0000
    


--- In , "Chris Highcock" 
<chrishighcock@y...> wrote:
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> I have not contributed recently - bit of a family crisis diverted 

me. My Mum was rushed into hosptial with a ruptured bowel. She is 
ok now, but my parents are about 225 miles away so visiting the 
hospital was a bit time consuming!

...Dear God! Chris, that must have been quite a horrible ordeal! 
Glad she is better.

"labourer at coke ovens".
What the heck is "coke" (I know you are not writing about the drug 

or the soda) I have heard about "coke and steel", is this some kind 

of burning material, like coal? Well I guess I'll consult my 
dictionary.
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> Needless to say, this transformed my next SG session, with me now 

visualising life in the 1890s/1900s shovelling around the coke 
ovens....
> 
> If I keep digging round the archives I might find the ancestral 
lumberjack, and those 14 minutes will never be the same again!
.....Make history now man, future Highcocks need a lumberjack 
ancestor...Now chop down some trees! LOL

Okay enough preaching. I'm getting to work :)
Good to have your company Mr. H. God Save the Queen!
Peace,
Deb

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