Website updated

I have updated my website and the Companion Charting Book for the Siderfin Family of West Somerset is now available. It is basically an update of the Pedigree Chart that James Sanders published in his book "History of the Siderfin Family of West Somerset" in 1912 at Exeter, UK but at 170 pages considerably longer. Please do let me know if there is anything that you do not agree with and I will sort that out. Other than that enjoy and it is the end of my forays into the history of our mutual family - the Siderfins of Loughborough, Somerset, England and their descendants. It is licensed in the same manner as the first book I published as a revision of James' work - a fantastic accumulation of information by him for his descendants, his cousins and the future. A much appreciated time and effort on his part by his family for sure. 

The book:

http://www.kipp-blake-families.ca/Companion Charting Book with notes for The Siderfin Family of West Somerset - Elizabeth Kipp 4600.pdf

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Go to my website:

http://www.kipp-blake-families.ca/elizabethmain.htm

and select from the list of 3x great grandparents: SIDERFIN and go to the bottom of that section where the two books are listed. 

I have enjoyed the last six months putting it together in a rather slow fashion following my cataract surgery taking my time so as not to strain my eyes unduly. It did seem to be taking on a life of its own for a bit as it was much slower than I had anticipated but hopefully the results are useful to the many researchers around the world as they link back to their Siderfin family. 

I have also written up the Pincombe-Pinkham Newsletter but still have a little work to do that I shall complete today and publish it although the email from FT DNA may not arrive for a couple of days in your inbox. I shall begin work on the Blake Newsletter either today or tomorrow. 

It is cleaning day two and I have just the top floor to do as I did the main floor with the basement - I may not do that again it seemed to take me a longer time or I am getting older. 

Happy New Year's Eve to come and 2025 is around the corner for sure. When my children were young I used to have a little song that we sang - [insert season like fall, winter, spring, summer]'s around the corner waiting for [their name]. They loved it and was one of their earliest songs long before the memory chords click in and it gradually disappeared from their day. But we did sing our way through the day until they went off to school and life changed never to go back to those fun and work days. I taught them to read, to write and the beginnings of arithmetic as, to be honest, I really would have found the days very long in constant play. For some constant play works but for me I needed an organized system by which to raise children in order to get my work done as well. Whatever suits really and keeps a family happy and together. 

Teatime finished and on to the first set of Yoga for the day. I notice my FitBit now has a Cardio Load for me. Yesterday, in spite of cleaning for more than eight hours, my cardio load was lower than normal. I used to enter cleaning into my FitBit on the desktop app but do not see that ability with the phone app. But I know I did it so that doesn't matter; interesting though letting cleaning disappear from the schedule or perhaps I have just missed seeing it. When I get my new FitBit I will try and set up something to cover "General workout" or something like that. I do like the FitBit for sure; it is a marvelous tool although mine no longer syncs with my phone for some reason but that too is not a problem as it seems to randomly sink. When one is old; the worries diminish considerably as we work through our time on earth before we become part of the past in God's world. On to the Blake and Pincombe books; I have been waiting for half a year to re-commence them. 

I see there is a letter in the news today saying that the Governor General should recall parliament. Is that a prerogative of the Governor General (the King does not recall Parliament)? I wonder if that is not inflicting something on an appointed Head of State that really is part of the Democratic System. A date of return was agreed upon I assume; I have not been paying attention. I do look forward to the election coming as soon as possible following the return on the 27th of January 2025. I think that the Premiers of the Provinces should be more involved in Parliament as the National Parliament, at the moment, seems to have lost the confidence of the people as it currently stands whereas the Premiers are in control of their provinces and perhaps should have more input in how the government runs - we have now experienced in the last couple of decades both the Conservative government under Prime Minister Harper and the Liberal government under Prime Minister Trudeau not taking the opinion of the Premiers of the Provinces as seriously as I think they should. I must admit to watching how the United States operates these days with regard to the Governors of the States there. But I think our Parliament has failed us in the last month especially; it can not be an ostrich with its head in the sand nor can it be so far to the left that one feels like a welfare state is forming (and they do it to gain votes which I find somewhat despicable) which one can look at Europe and see that that does not work well in emergencies. I especially dislike this last year the way that the current government has handled the rights of Israel to defend itself - first and foremost we believe in that as a people after all we were there immediately (in that case both verbally in support and physically in place) when war was declared both times in Europe because we believed in the rights of democratic societies and our need to defend them even though the battlefield was not anywhere near us. None of us liked seeing the loss of life in Gaza but the opportunity to bring thousands of children here did not happen - we did do that during the Second World War to protect the children of the United Kingdom from total War against them. Gaza as the aggressor had an opportunity that they did not take to protect those children and I shall forever feel that the Muslims in North America failed Gaza in that regard. All that was needed for young children was their DNA so that we could return them to their country of birth. Young children need very little space to live and seeing so many deaths was quite devastating actually. 

The Bible Reading for today is especially poignant (Numbers 6:22-27) as once again Hamas refuses to release all of the hostages unconditionally as ordered by the International Court of Justice nearly a year ago now:

The Lord told Moses, “When Aaron and his sons bless the people of Israel, they must say:

I pray that the Lord
    will bless and protect you,
and that he will show you mercy
    and kindness.
May the Lord be good to you
    and give you peace.”

Then the Lord said, “If Aaron and his sons ask me to bless the Israelites, I will give them my blessing.”