This morning started in a very strange way. I received a phone call from my dad. As we are now in December I had assumed that it would be about meeting up at some point for Xmas. Turned out it was nothing of the sort.
The headline news is that I have another uncle that nobody knew anything about. Turns out he was born in 1938 (six years before dad) and was put up for adoption. Nobody in the family has every mentioned this or knew anything about it.We now know because Uncle Tom (insert cabin jokes here) decided to research his family and on discovering that he was adopted decided to put out a search to try and track down existing members of the family down his birth mother's side. As a result contact was made with dad and things are progressing for him to make contact.
It's all quite exciting although there are lots of questions that will remain unanswered as most of the family who might have been able to fill in the blanks have now passed on. It was one hell of a way to kickstart a Saturday morning!
After this exciting news Toni and I went into Eltham to meet Bob for coffee which then extended into breakfast/lunch. Nick and Gemima turned up as it's a regular place for them to go on a Saturday. Jade called and asked if she could come and join us. We then called Aaron and asked him to come up. Next thing we knew Antony came in to the shop with Indy and Shivaani (Leanne was trying on wedding dresses over the road). Leanne then popped in once she was done. After this mass meet up we went our separate ways only for a load of us to see each other again in Sainsburys (and we also bumped into Jamie and Iain).
After all the fun and games Toni, Jade and I went back to Toni's to chill out. I ordered chinese and we settled down and watch Once Upon A Time. It's a fairly new TV series that is actually really rather good. Well worth checking out.
Here's the trailer:
2 comments:
Grimm is worth looking at as well (see my blog entry for 29th Oct)
I have Grimm queued up on my list next!
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