A lovely walk at the beach again late last afternoon. This time of year the parking fees are waived at the beach but some confusion exists because the sign is still there (easy to remove the pay machine) so a polite young man (the couple was Muslim) asked if they had to pay (I guess we looked like seasoned regulars with a kayak) and we replied no the pay machine is gone; free parking for the moment. Glad to be of help of course. The walk around the beach was lovely although I do walk very fast and must pass people who are strolling. The one item that Edward and I seldom agreed on was walking - he liked to stroll and fast walking did not appeal to him. So when we walked we strolled and when I walk I am moving very quickly but I had brothers to keep up with and most of my time spent with them as a child was running behind them keeping up! Thinking back on our days before marriage I can never remember Edward complaining at the pace; funny in retrospect. Perhaps he thought he could convert me and when I was with him I was converted one might think but the desire to walk fast flowed quickly in the veins for sure.
No work on the databases yesterday; the day simply flowed by very quickly. In retrospect it was a thinking day partially. Contemplating the good match at ancestry and a 2nd cousin once removed since he is just ten years younger than I am but has an extra generation to me. The amount of Blake/Knight that passed to us on Ancestry is regulated by TIMBER so any area that is considered to be consistent with region would have been stripped out so the 140 and 150 cM of my brothers in their matching could be as much as only 50% of the actual with my sister and I being in the range of 43 and 57. But generally when these matches move to Gedmatch as they do on occasion one can see the entire match. But a tree put up by one of his first cousins on Family Search traces the Blake back to Nicholas correctly but further back with the errors committed by Horatio Gates Somerby and hence back to the Calne Blake family. But no one has actually tested who is a known traceable descendant of the Calne Blake family as far as I can tell at the moment but judging by the likely Norman ancestry of this Blake line one would expect to see I1 rather than I2 as the haplogroup. With I2 being the ancient Deer Hunter (Western Gatherer) predicted to be in the British Isles 8,000 to 12,000 years ago. Whereas the first signs of I1 followed the Norman invasion of England. How different Europe was right up to the mid 1900s and now it is a unified group with a military arm of NATO (purely self defense as they prove time and again as Russia gnaws away at Ukraine in a barbaric way).
Along with some really good exercise yesterday including weightlifting, walking and running, the day passed quickly.
Sunday today and I am hoping that the Church Service works well on YouTube today; I did listen to the sermon on the recorded version of the Service later in the day but attended the Church of England Service in England for the Anglican Church which was most interesting and informative.
Slight frost again last night as the hostas are slowly getting touched by frost but some of the weeds I would like gone are still hardy and will need a much deeper frost to kill them off and let me get to work clearing them away. Looking forward to winter and all those work days.
Drinking Tea and soon the Solitaire Puzzles for the day.
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