I have completed to the end of Genesis Chapter 21

 Time has passed so quickly and if one recorded all the births and the deaths one could know that but I am not sure that is what I am to learn whilst I re-read the Bible. I think it is the birth of Abram and then his son Isaac that is monumental in the Chapters of Genesis I have just read. Abram now Abraham is one of the great patriarchs of the Church to this day and is a patriarch in all three of the Great Religions of the World - Christianity, Islam and Judaism. As I read through these many chapters this morning it is the Tower of Babel that stands out for me as well. That always intrigued me as a child because at that point I had never heard anyone speak any language other than English. This was before television and in London, Ontario I was far away from the French language in Quebec or the First Nations and Inuit languages but that would change quickly as time passed. In eighty years our lives have changed so very very much. 

We were just recovering from the Second World War when I was a young child. My first real memory of my family is my older brothers pretending to be airplanes flying into Berlin to save the city from starvation as the Soviet Union had cut off access by land. Berlin was a divided city following the Yalta and Potsdam Conferences with governance by France, United Kingdom, the United States and the Soviet Union and already the bleak time ahead of us as the Iron Curtain tumbled down, which was created by the Soviet Union, was being discussed. We were listening to the radio and my grandfather, father, mother and siblings were all in the room. It was a tense time so is perhaps why it is my earliest memory. 

Does this lead my mind forward because that is what I am looking for I think. I seemed to be needing some special thinking these days and I have no idea why. But the reading is calming me because it tells of that deep past that is the ancestry of every Homo sapiens walking the face of the earth today. These written words date back a long way in time and Sodom and Gomorrah stand out for all time as the Creator's words with regard to how we live our life. We must show love for our neighbour which really means respect. 

It leads me to NATO in my thoughts as this organization has grown from its earliest roots  that fateful date 4 April 1949. It was and continues as a mutual defense alliance to defend our way of life from the Soviet expansion after Stalin had promised to withdraw the Soviet Union troops from the occupied areas of Eastern Europe. The founding members had three goals - deter Soviet expansion, foster collective security and promote European stability. And that is where my thoughts remain with this ongoing illegal war between Ukraine and Russia which Russia started. NATO has never been involved in aggression and that is not its mandate. The desire to protect children was the thought in my mind through these past couple of years but one realizes there is no protection for the children of the world where the laws of the Creator are not followed namely love one's neighbour as oneself. 

The Bible doesn't explain any of that to me in these early chapters but is really a collection of thoughts and details of happenings that were important to the peoples of the time at that time which is why they were written down. The Creator God no longer walked with man at the time of writing as far as we know and the need to remember all of this was important to the people who recorded it. Sort of like my grandfather passing on stories to me that I now recall because they were repeated to me time and time again. Why didn't he write it all down? One wonders that now but I think about my grandfather and I was a young child capable of memorizing great amounts as he had learned because we had such a close relationship and he enjoyed teaching me so many things. Would his writing have persisted was possibly the thought in his mind so he fell back on the usual mode of passage of information in the time that he lived although lots of books had been written but I was only a young child just eight years of age when he died. He chose well really as my mind was capable of pulling back all those stories from the hidden spots in my brain and I did share them in my recorded stories in files because that is the way and  they are backed up. Will they exist? I am not sure that matters because I have shared them in my blog which appear to be read by thousands although it has been suggested to me they are just bots reading. However the comments which I receive but do not publish suggest that real people do read this blog. 

I will continue with my reading until I reach the end of Revelations. I am a fast reader and sometimes as I read I wonder should I record that? But the actuality is the Bible is the most read book in the world so why would I record other than what God sent Jesus to tell us - to love God with all our heart, mind, soul and strength,  and love our neighbour as ourself. It is a while since I read the Bible although I read the Bible Reading of the day and until yesterday pretty much every day for many years. I can remember when I was ill after my first child was born that I was re-reading the Bible, my new Bible that I bought not long after I came out of the hospital. That is a vague memory as I had been very very ill but it also could be I used my Bible I won at a Bible Challenge for being the first to find so many verses when I was eight years old and first went to Bethel Chapel as they had a Bible study for children after school which I finally persuaded my parents to let me attend after they discussed it with our priest. The priest said let her go and follow her interests. 

Cloudy today and it is Sunday and I will try to attend my Church online and if not there are other services online or I can just read through the Service as I have it at hand.  

Tea all drank and must do my solitaire puzzles. 

I am able to be at my Church today and it is a special service - National Indigenous Day of  Prayer which is dedicated to the First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples.

Re-reading the Bible

 When I am doing my morning run in the basement these days I watch YouTube and the last few days I have been watching readings of Books of the Bible. In my mind, I feel I have not been reading enough but I could not decide what to read as I do read all day long more or less but my mind was searching for what I wanted to read especially. I have read the Bible before and parts of it are known very well to me but this is a different sort of feeling. I feel the need to re-read the Bible in light of the changes in our world both environmental, political and social. These changes have occurred particularly in the last two decades. Thinking about it I believe this desire to read the Bible once again goes back to the Crimea being taken from Ukraine by Russia back in 2014. I have felt somewhat compelled to write about both Russia's war on Ukraine and the attack on Israel by Hamas over the past few years. They are happenings that have created the world we are now living in - it is like a world out of control seeking to find that steady spot that was there in the early 1990s but we need to make it a better world; a safer world and a world ready to face the future - I feel as if we are sinking into the past. 

I believe the answer lies in the Bible which is the oldest collection of history of our world known to us. So yesterday I started reading Genesis with the experience of 80 plus years of living. Raised Anglican and I have worshiped Anglican most of my days (except for a brief period when I was a Volunteer Secretary and later other volunteer items like Adult Bible Studies at Edward's United Church). I did become distanced from my Anglican church during the conversations on the Residential Schools as I could see no value in the process that was being followed. When my Anglican Church accepted their responsibility with the problems in the Residential Schools which were under their care I found myself feeling once again a closeness to my Anglican Church. During the early part of our marriage we went to Edward's United Church and I went solo to early Communion at my childhood Anglican Church and joined my father who was a weekly attendant at the early service. Edward and I were both happy with my decision although we had always agreed that we would raise our children in the United Church and for a number of years we did attend the United Church as a family when we moved to where we are currently living. Edward was very involved singing in the Choir for about fifteen years and Treasurer for ten years. A chance mention in the bulletin of our local United Church took us to a lecture series during the regular service at Dominion Chalmers downtown and it was a time that Edward was feeling the loss of his only sibling (his older brother) and the rapidly declining health of his mother. His conversations after Church on Sunday with this learned Early Testament scholar who was also a United Church Minister helped him on his path. However this minister retired and a large change in the ministry resulted in Edward deciding to go to my Anglican Church since I had spent nearly twenty years at his Church. 

As I reflect on my Bible reading, I find myself thinking that the answers to so many questions that persist and puzzle many of us in the world today are in the Bible. Hence I began as I did as a child many many years ago reading Genesis (my latest Bible is the Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition, 1971). Although initially I was raised with the Revised King James Version I moved to this new Bible in the 1970s. In a way my religious life was unchanged from childhood as I had attended the Anglican church with my parents and siblings and the United Church with my grandmother, uncle and aunt as a child when I was at their home. 

I think the other incident that brought me to this was a storm the other day where lightning struck a tree next door and took it down. It stood right next to the wooden fence and yet it never touched it. The lightning cut it into two well down into the trunk (the tree was two stories high) but both sides fell the other way and yet it leaned towards the fence; its branches constantly touching it. It was weird but the storm was heavy and full of hail the size of peas. I looked at that tree and thought about that tree and finally it was cut off and moved away. 

So part of my day will be reading the Bible instead of the Bible Verses that come to me through the email. I feel the need to do a Bible Study for me pursuing answers to what is happening in the world. They will be my own thoughts and I may or may not share them over the months it will take me to once again read from Genesis to Revelations. 

Yesterday I reached the story of Noah in my reading and contemplated the role of Homo sapiens in our world as mentioned in these early Chapters of Genesis. 

Today I will continue with my reading. These first chapters encapsulate eons of time and give us a picture of the Creator God of many if not all of the religions of the World (my knowledge of other than the Christian and Judaism is weak). My Anglicanism was learned mostly at home to be honest from my grandfather and father although the priest at my Church at that time was Father Abraham and his booming voice from the pulpit still comes back to me on occasion. I did go to Sunday School all of my childhood until I began to sing in the Church Choir when I was eleven but it was the sermons of our priest that provided my learning as a child. To me the early chapters of the Bible tells us the stories that were passed down by word of mouth over eons of time. The Anglican Church has a deep past in the British Isles although the Christian Church of England dates from before 314 AD and was preceded by the Celtic Church in England and back into the shadows of time immemorial. 

The weather here is pretty normal for this time of year, still pleasant most of the time and rainy - June is like that and will continue like that to the end of the month and then July tends towards hot and dry. The more moisture the better and except for the hail, the crops are probably doing well.  The tree still mystifies me as I glance at it lying waiting to be picked up in the front yard of the house next door. I wonder if they will pick it up unorganized as it is - we will see as this is a new company doing the recycling and usually one has to bag the small things and tie up the big lengths of branches. 

I also realize that in my blogs I refer to First Nations but I am not entirely correct as my thinking includes both the Inuit and the Metis but in reality First Nations does only refer to the First Nations themselves who have been in the Western Hemisphere from time immemorial with the Inuit arriving about 5000 years ago I believe and the Metis are descendant of the first colonials and many of the First Nations. Just to clarify that and I will try to be more specific in the future.  At nearly 81 though I will probably not entirely succeed but will try.

 

 

Rain again but the ground can still absorb a lot more

Another rainy day with thunder storms expected and the sky looks very cloudy. Just  17 degrees celsius this morning. Friday as well and this will be a good working day. I tend to find that Thursday is not a day of big accomplishment although we made a few decisions on the house layout that we will follow through with the next couple of weeks. It will make working easier. 

 Contacted the Chilliwack Archives and they will take the box of BC Kipp material so will get started on preparing that material for shipment to them. Although Edward and I worked together quite a bit on genealogy I do not know anything about the Kipp family, do not actually know any members of the Kipp family other than Edward's nieces and wanted to ensure that this material was not lost as the year's pass. I will ask the Archives if instead of discarding any duplicates that they have in their collection they could ask the members of the family that have donated to their archives in Chilliwack (who still live there) if they would like any of the items that are duplicated in their holdings. 

One other item to prepare this summer is the Allen material which Edward took to Gravenhurst back in 2019 when he went to meet with some of his cousins. It was a long trip and the first time that I had even been driving in this area north of North Bay. We did take a bus trip that ended in Moose Factory and included a train ride back in 2011 which we greatly enjoyed but other than that our time in Northern Ontario was principally in the Wawa area and further west and north from there canoeing in the backwoods in our early twenties primarily. 

Just noting as I brought my tea up that this was the tenth time that I climbed up and down the stairs today already. I also did my usual yoga and calisthenics for an hour first thing with a cardio load of 35. Already 3000 steps on the FitBit so 1/4 of the way to my goal of 12,000 although generally I run higher than that around 15,000 steps per day.  I am trying to review what I have done on a regular basis to keep my memory in the present very active. I suspect that might be why older people remember things better from long ago than the present items simply because their active memory in the present just isn't utilized as much as when you were younger. 

I was always taught to be respectful of our politicians as they give up  their private life (and I certainly relish mine and protect it as much as I can) to work for Canada. I am getting tired of the constant criticism which is actually becoming quite unjustified in the current political climate. This picking apart of every word expressed is becoming quite boring and useless. 

We must be patient; it takes time to create and we must be ready to grab all the possibilities to make Canada the country that the founders wanted and planned for in the 1860s-1910s. Their ideas were huge and they paid off and now it is our turn to make the same sacrifices to bring to fruition the promise of Canada. We do not have to be lesser than what we can be; but it will take time and sacrifice. We have lived through two World Wars that decimated our young people but yet we managed to continue to grow and prosper and we still can especially as our youth is straining at the yoke to be that powerhouse of the future. 

So today continuing with my work project as I did not actually touch that yesterday. We went shopping and the day disappeared rapidly but there is now 6 metres of linen towelling to turn into eight tea towels and will get that going. All that needs to be done is the hemming and the sewing machine is waiting. I made tea towels from this very same linen toweling 50 plus years ago and the last of the dozen are pretty thin and really only good for rags one might say. It will be nice to have new tea towels. They will shrink when they are washed and will take a few washings to make them really useable. But it will be fun to do. 

I wondered if we would find tea toweling and there was actually quite a bit of choice. Not cheap by any means as it is now $19.00 a metre and I vaguely recall 29 cents a yard way back in those days. I made a dozen then and there are two left. 

Drinking tea and solitaire puzzles to do.  

 

 

Equal treatment in Canada

 The Editorial "Alberta just wants equal treatment in Canada" was an interesting read. With the highest salaries in Canada it will be hard for Alberta to be equal in terms of overall wealth (they are wealthier and do not pay the high Provincial Income Taxes that are paid in other provinces or the extra Health Tax which we pay in Ontario). In terms of representation in Parliament, Ontario continues to be the most under represented in Parliament. I still think the original idea of the founders to think in terms of region (the Senate is based on this principle) has merit. Each region has specific interests and when the Western Premiers gathered to meet I thought that is really a good idea. They are a large region land wise and potential untapped value in these areas is huge so looking towards the future as a co-operating group is a really good idea. Alberta and Saskatchewan are basically landlocked areas depending on passage to the east through Manitoba but also through the Northwest Territories or to the west through British Columbia but also the Yukon with its access to the Arctic Ocean. So the co-operation between the western provinces/territories is really very important (which the Founders clearly noted and planned for in the original drawing up of borders in the Prairie provinces). In the east we have my province Ontario with its huge population, Toronto forms the centre in terms of business (used to be Montreal but talks of separation caused that city to lose hugely at the time as the race to be in Toronto began and is still ongoing). Toronto is ideally placed within Canada with its access to the Great Lakes that can take it west to Thunder Bay (and we await the Trans Canada being widened!) or east to the Atlantic via the St Lawrence Seaway which we built ourselves in the 1950s as the Americans were not interested in building that with us; for a small country we have pulled our weight on this continent quite remarkably until the mid 1960s which was a mistake that we are rectifying. You can tell we are moving back into that direction because of the heavy use of the Bridge between the United States and Canada at Sarnia since the bridge at Detroit/Windsor has been inadequate for quite a while. Hence Canadian taxes paid to build the new bridge at Detroit/Windsor in its entirety (using 50% Canadian and 50% American materials) so that there was better access between the two highways for the truckers and they shouldn't have to make that huge detour all the way to Sarnia to go back and forth. Sharing the tolls with Michigan once the bridge is repaid to Canadian taxes is a good sharing between two friendly nations - the benefits huge for the population of Michigan. The needs of the many always outweigh the needs of the few because trickle down economics is a failed idea. It takes one back to the Dark Ages in the history of Homo sapiens in the Eastern Hemisphere. 

But I digress from Alberta. Certainly as a Canadian and an Ontarian I appreciate Alberta very much. The founders knew very well what they were acquiring with the acquisition of Rupert's Land and did due diligence in seeing that the original inhabitants (First Nations) were properly recompensed then and into the future. Billions of dollars have been poured into Alberta (particularly during the Great Depression as well as the explorations to use the oil in the oilsands) from Canadian taxes and Canada deserves to be recompensed in a reasonable way for that huge expense (the value of Alberta must be 30 trillion and likely more to purchase).  Since this is about Alberta I will not dwell on the other regions of Canada which include Central Canada (Quebec and Ontario) and the Maritime Canada (New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island which were joined by Newfoundland in 1949 when they joined Confederation and we linked Labrador with the new province). Each region has its own specific needs and one must always bear in mind that Quebec using the French language has been a challenge within Confederation however the use of the French language and culture has expanded far beyond the borders of Quebec and other provinces are now officially bilingual. It has enlarged our intelligence speaking two languages for sure. 

So yes we appreciate Alberta within Confederation; we are not jealous that you have the highest salaries in Canada. After all in Ontario we have lived in the shadow of Toronto all of my life where if it involved Toronto it got done and if it didn't then you waited and tried to work Toronto into the estimate! I lived in London until I was thirty and when we moved to Ottawa 51 years ago one could see how much that city has suffered from inadequate funding because it wasn't Toronto. The 416 was basically a two lane terror trip home for many many years having already driven the 401 for most of the way from London to Ottawa until finally a Premier from the north changed that and we have a four lane highway 416)! However that Toronto centralization is changing a little perhaps as I see the mine in the north that has been wanting to happen is going to happen at long last after more than two decades and the road apparently is finally going to be built according to Premier Ford. Thank you. 

So yes we want to see Alberta prosperous and will continue to pour money into future projects from the taxes of all the people of Canada. Just wanted to write that down in case anyone doubted how much Alberta is appreciated within Confederation. But personally if the First Nations are not satisfied with events in Canada then I think that is wrong; they have been at our side from the earliest days helping to make Canada great and we should respect their knowledge of the land. Am I descendant of the First Nations, no I am not simply an appreciative Canadian noting the great contributions that have been made by the First Nations and continue to be made. Helping them to re-establish their villages/towns with the same excellent conditions which we enjoy in our cities/towns/villages is very important. We were meant to walk together in this country just as Tecumseh walked (read that as worked together) with Brock to save Canada more than 200 years ago. 

As for Senate representation that is purely decorative but helpful on a regional basis which was the whole purpose of the Senate - to keep everybody happy within Confederation. With proposed unbalanced number of senators in the Western Region we might miss seeing something needed/revised in one of the four provinces or two territories. The presence of six senators in each of these four provinces is essential in order to know what is happening in these provinces. The Senate is large enough unless one is adding for the Territories. The voting in the Senate is not really consequential because eventually when the regions are satisfied with bills then the vote of the House of Commons will prevail. At the moment I do see Yukon and the Northwest Territories very under represented considering the role these two territories will play in the expansion of trade by Canada and the desire to work the valuable deposits within these areas over the next decades.  

Not what I planned to write at all. Today is a work day and will run my Copilot program to look at the Blake matches. Should be interesting. One item to note is that the files which Copilot produced for me had stripped out the formatting that I had in the Excel document.  Now that isn't a big deal as I can just put it back in by column but it is interesting to note that. Plus the file that was produced was out of order but I had a column which lets me restore the original order. Little items that are not consequential but would require me to have extra lines in the program in order to have the perfect file that I now have. The tradeoff though is excellent as producing the files myself would have required my writing a python program which takes time and has to be trialed taking up even more time. Eventually AI will have protocols perhaps that can be readily called upon but will probably always need the human eye to regard the file and ensure that what one has thought will be produced is produced. 

Like the advance into the computer age (I was into computers back in the mid 60s and watched as the world caught up) saving money wise/time wise is unlikely. What was promised as a time saver was certainly not that as the size of companies swelled in order to make use of all the advantages of computers. I think the same will be true of AI in the long run and sudden changes will be upsetting to the systematic flow of work in industries that try to convert overnight. 

 Solitaire puzzles are next. 

Another busy cleaning day

 The second day of cleaning completely accomplished and just the basement remains and will soon start the Robot vacuuming the rug. It is a nice way to finish the three day cleaning spree! The time commitment is just two hours at the most - one hour is done by the Robot although I have to prepare the area for the Robot to run effectively which takes maybe ten minutes. 

I finished looking at the four files created by Copilot and they are in good shape. The next step I will probably take on Thursday - my first working day of the week. Copilot will look at each of the files that are referred to by the Blake file it created just by matching the name on the file and the name in the file that it created. Within those files are lists of relatives in common/Matches and I will make a list of what to look for and then Copilot will make a complete list of those names along with a list of the matches that have those names in common. I should get a list of people who match within Blake and a list of people who match within Knight as well as a list of people who are matching Blake/Knight because I did not separate them. I will not have any decision made by the Copilot on this last group because it will be confusing and hence I will do that split although I could supply enough information for Copilot to do it there is a possibility of junk emerging so will avoid that. The human input is still more valuable in this case that the input from Copilot. 

The comparisons between "common areas" will also be made by me because that is indirectly what I am looking for in these sorts - matches deep into the past that take me back to Blake lines in Andover although few people do have that in their tree but some do. The 1700s was particularly small in my Blake line with Thomas Blake (born in the 1680s marrying in the early 1700s and having just one son Thomas and this son Thomas marrying in the late 1720s and having two sons but only one survived infancy and that was Joseph baptized in Andover in 1730 and marrying in Upper Clatford in the late 1750s. He married Joanna King of Upper Clatford and they had three sons. The second eldest died as a child (around the same time as Joseph) leaving the eldest son William who lived in Andover in the latter part of the 1700s and does not appear to have any children and the youngest son Thomas (born posthumously about five months after his father died) who married Sarah Coleman in the early 1790s in Upper Clatford. This very weak line in the 1700s is replaced by a very large line in the 1800s and up to the present. This Blake family of Andover/Upper Clatford is related to the Blake family at Abbotts Ann and I would like to determine the cousinship. I do know they are related through the King family because Joanna King's sister Mary King was married to John Blake, malster, Abbots Ann and all of this is mentioned in John's will in 1796. My thought is that John Blake of Abbotts Ann is descendant of John Blake of Andover who married Elizabeth (unknown) in the late 1670s and was the father of the ancestor of John Blake of Abbotts Ann and Thomas Blake mentioned above (born in the 1680s at Andover). This would make Thomas Blake who is mentioned in John Blake's will of 1796 likely 1st cousins ?x removed. I have yet to find anyone who descends from John Blake and Elizabeth (unknown) with a reliable tree other than my own line. A lot of people have these individuals in their trees but the link is questionable that they are using although by atDNA they are matching me (generally at least three of four siblings or more)! The fun is in the chase as always and as it turns out I do not have a lot of investment in the result other than curiosity. 

It is perhaps being Canadian that I do not particularly get excited about any of my ancestral lines. They are interesting even fascinating given my small footprint on this continent with my father born in England and coming to Canada with his parents as a child in 1913. Then my mother's father's mother was my first Canadian born in Upper Canada in 1839. Grace Gray (my great grandmother) was a first cousin to Sir John Carling heavily involved in politics in Ontario (was Upper Canada) initially and then into federal politics and was Minister of Agriculture hence the naming of the now torn down Agricultural Building and Carling Avenue. This area will now be part of the new Ottawa Hospital - Civic Campus (where I actually worked at the existing campus for six years). So first generation Canadian on my father's side and fourth generation Canadian on my mother's side and I was born before "Canadian citizenship" was created on the 1st of January 1947 so grandfathered to Canadian Citizen all on my own which I always found quite exciting actually. 

Why ever do I spend so much time on this? George DeKay is mostly responsible but there was a tug on my senses after my mother passed away which was a year earlier than George asking me to do a Pincombe Profile for the book he was publishing. My mother knew that I was so into DNA as a child in the late 1950s - found it so exciting and studied Chemistry with that on my backplate at all times. She reminded me of that in the late 1990s as she was going to the Family History Library and looking up items and wanted me to use this new thought that was breaking into genealogy with yDNA studies. I explained that we would need to test my uncle for that and that thinking was in the works but he passed away in 2003 (however a cousin of his did test for me) but I digress. 

The two elements came together with George DeKay asking for the Pincombe Profile and my mother's letters and discussions with me in that regard pushed me into doing the Pincombe Profile, joining the Guild of one-name Studies and reviewing what had been done with yDNA by Sorenson in the 1990s and early 2000s. As it turned out a known Pincombe cousin in Australia had tested his yDNA and I contacted him and an in-between person wrote back (perhaps that cousin had passed away no ideas on that as the writer didn't say that).  It was sort of weird so I just used his results comparing them to my uncle's cousin and they were a match and I just moved forward with the Guild study of Pincombe and Siderfin at that time. 

Who would of ever guessed that I would be so deeply into genetic genealogy at this time in my life! I had always said that when I retired I was going to knit baby outfits and sew clothes for packages going to the First Nations Reserves in my old age as my grandmother had done in her old age. I haven't sewed or knitted very much since I got into my course work at the National Institute for Genealogical Studies and graduated with my PLCGS in 2007 in English and Canadian studies. Funny in retrospect as I continue down this path really with my mother at my side leading me onward. Then my grandfather's memories came into play as I took on the Blake study in 2011 after giving the Siderfin study to a cousin in England as he wanted to pursue it and he was much closer to the repositories than I was in 2010! So Grandpa's stories of his Blake line tumbled out of my brain and I was into Blake and Pincombe pretty much 100% from 2011 on. I continue there actually. 

At 81 nearly I had thought myself to be winding down and I have quite a bit done with that but the intent is to publish all of this on Pincombe and Blake in the next two years and then move forward into Buller and Rawlings my other grandparents to publish their information - the Rawlings because my cousin John Rawlins sent me all his research perhaps thinking I have come to the thought in retrospect that he thought I would write a book. Amazing really as I go down memory lane  - I am beginning to think that is a habit of over 80 year olds.

Must do the solitaire puzzles, tea all drank.