Cleaning and the Pincombe Newsletter

 Two items for today of high importance - the cleaning and the Pincombe Newsletter due tomorrow. It is raining so will not work outside that narrows down the work that can be accomplished. Hopefully the grass will grow as it is now 7 degrees celsius. We will see. It is old grass seed but will soon have new if that does not grow. 

I grind my teeth apparently when I sleep. That was interesting as I didn't use to do that. Too much going on I guess or maybe old people grind their teeth - no ideas on that. Both my parents kept their teeth well into their 80s so will strive to do that - I am cleaning them three times a day. Sometimes it seems easier to just have false teeth as my grandparents did and they didn't seem to mind but would they really have told me the truth on that. Hard to say. They were pretty honest though in what they said to me as I recall. Perhaps it becomes more of a nuisance to go to the dentist when you are old. Again no ideas on that; it is just something I can always remember doing like clockwork as a child going to the dentist every six months for a checkup and cleaning. I remember when I was eight and I went to the dentist all by myself. He was downtown so I had to catch the bus and get off at the right stop. If I went past the library then it was too far but that was just one stop too far so I could just get off and walk back along Queens Street - it was pretty straightforward. I liked the dentist, he took a great interest in my schoolwork because I talked about science a lot and he did rather encourage me to think of science. Very nice person and he had been one of my mother's cubs when she was a Cub leader. He was the only dentist I remembered and I went to him until I was 29 years old when we moved here. Finding a new dentist was one of my first tasks and when I called the receptionist said did I want dark or light; it was weird really. I said it didn't matter (as I was thinking hair colour probably! no ideas on that). When my daughter (then 1) and I arrived I discovered that he was black. He was the nicest dentist and I suggested he look at my teeth first and then my daughter was quite relaxed to have him look at hers because she had never seen a black person before. I was sorry to leave him when we moved to where we now live; it was just too far to go back on a regular basis unfortunately. I felt the same way about our doctor there actually; I did miss them as well - the Family Medicine doctor and the Pediatrician that worked together in the same office. Coming to a new city I was most fortunate with the clinicians that I found in those first few weeks. The only problem with the area was the children were bussed for French Immersion and it was a long way so it was just easier to move to the area which was closer to Edward's employment at the National Research Council. I did leave it all behind regretfully including St Thomas the Apostle Church although we only went occasionally as Edward really wanted to go to his United Church. 

The day is rainy but that is good; puts out the forest fires. Canada is suffering from Global Warming. First the cleaning and that is an all day event pretty much. But I can be thinking about the Pincombe Newsletter. I will be talking about the book for sure. I will have to think if there was anything else that I wanted to discuss. I do wish that I had some Pinkham articles but I do not have time to research that overly. Likely I will put in the work that I did do on the Tinkham/Tincombe/Tyncombe, Tynecombe families. A couple of my co-colleagues in the Guild of one-name studies did mention this possible derivative of the family but I did ascertain a while ago that this family had arisen in the Teign River area and likely took their name from this local spelling since they were there well before the Pencombe in North Molton. I should look to see if their is a yDNA study for the Tinkham, etc. family actually. Can not remember if I did that. In the end yDNA does rule surname research these days. 

Teatime and latin are next.