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I'm glad your mother is better now.

My ancestors were butchers. It's interesting that I dedicate a few 
minutes every few days to working one handed with a four pound 
setting sledge... just a little heavier than a cleaver. :0)

--- 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!
> 
> Anyway, while chatting to my Dad the other night we ended up 
looking through a load of old family papers - birth and marriages 
certificates etc. On my grandmother's birth certificate I found out 
that my great grandfather's profession was a "labourer at coke ovens".
> 
> Needless to say, this transformed my next SG session, with me now 

visualising life in the 1890s/1900s shovelling around the coke 
ovens....
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> If I keep digging round the archives I might find the ancestral 
lumberjack, and those 14 minutes will never be the same again!
> 
> Chris 
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