Monday and cleaning day and it will be the top floor. Separating out the floors with the basement attached to the main floor has worked extremely well. The water meter has a new counter installed this past week and I can put everything back now as it was. I moved everything to give a clear path to the meter and the rugs were moved away as well. A lot of work but I guess a new meter is a step forward in time! The last meter was on for 47 years. The people who bought the house next door appeared to have moved in.
The Church Service at Hythe on the Dover coast was very much a trip back to my childhood days as the service was very like those of my youth. The priest gestured to the window whilst talking mentioning that you could see the coast of France across The English Channel (or La Manche as the French name the Channel (in English that is The Channel)). That was a surprise as we stood on the White Cliffs of Dover to discover just how close the French shore was. I mean I have seen pictures but being there is something else. We were taking the ferry to France on our way to our European Tour back in 2010.
The Fifth Sunday in Lent has now been celebrated and next Sunday the last in Lent and more commonly called Palm Sunday as we begin Holy Week which brings us to Easter once again. The most important Feast Day in the Christian Church Year. Prayers continuing for the peoples of Myanmar with a death count well over 3000 now and still searching for survivors but mostly recovery now. Prayers for the Americans living in areas threatened by flooding. That is the new world of the 2000s really where we know everything that happens as it happens and we are part of it because like John Donne wrote back in the early 1600s:
"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends`s or of thine own were. Any man`s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind."
The world has changed a great deal and so many peoples have moved from one continent to another. The largest percentage of those who have moved have been the Europeans but this past century has seen huge movement out of Africa once again as the lands there become so affected by Climate Change. America is and remains the most mixed set of Homo Sapiens on earth with peoples from all over the world forming the nucleus of their population.
Today continuing to work on the matches as I move towards the re-phasing of my grandparent's DNA. To date the changes have been slight or none mostly but occasionally I do find where I was mistaken in a placement in the past and it is clarified by new matches from second or third cousins in a line that just hadn't appeared in the testing companies earlier. But it is rare for sure. I re-phased every year from 2014 to 2020 and now five years later I am finally getting back to it. I have made a couple of starts at it but time and circumstance rendered them incomplete so back to the 2020 drawing board. I still need to draw out the matches in FT DNA and Living DNA not yet collected. Blake does tend to be the largest set of matches mostly because John Blake and Ann Farmer had ten children and over fifty grandchildren which quickly became over 300 great grandchildren and they married in 1823 so a lot of descendants of that couple.
Must make my tea, early today just 5:27 am. Minus 4 degrees celsius and we are in for a colder spell and perhaps snow as well but it is just early April and pretty normal conditions for this part of Canada.