Sad watching the news today which I just finished doing. The little girl who was shot in the head and the neck remains in critical condition. How cruel for the parents to have raised their daughter to the age of twelve years and seen her be so successful to now have her so injured. Prayers continuing for the souls of the murdered and for all the other injured people from that dreadful day that will go down in history as we remember in particular those little murdered ones just into their teenage years. We quickly forget those who harm us but the ones lost because of that one act we never forget - in our hearts for ever. Leaders of the parties (Prime Minister, Leader of the Opposition, Leader of the Green Party, and the others are invited and I do not know where that is at) are going to a vigil in memory of the lost in Tumbler Ridge, BC and praying for the injured. Dear God please keep the little murdered ones especially close wrapped in your loving arms.
On with the day remembering the loss. I must say that I do find it annoying to have anyone ring my phone that I haven't asked to call me or arranged to call me. These rude ignorant spammers probably trying to steal people's money should actually get a job and work and stop their ignorance of ringing a telephone randomly with a fake name. My pet peeve of the day. Basically I do not know anyone in the world that I want to talk to on my phone when I haven't arranged it in one way or another. That way is called email and my delete finger works very well. I do occasionally answer the phone when it is a number I recall attached to a name I recognize. But generally I leave it to go to voice mail. It is exhausting doing phone calls perhaps a hangover from my breakdown; no ideas on that. Everything is so much easier when it is written down. It is interesting that we seldom or never hear the names of dictators (except when mentioned with disgust) or tyrants or murderers who care nothing for their people once they have met their fate. If we do it is remembering them with hatred and disgust which they deserve for their sins.
Good accomplishment yesterday and I am well into the Js now but still more than half to do. I also did the Hunter Gatherer thing and got food. I had to buy a big plastic jug of white vinegar as I was all out. I am trying to keep these big jugs down though and it looks like vinegar, bleach and floor cleaner are the three left.
A big pile of brochures from restaurants, stores etc was in my mail box yesterday. They will go to the paper waste next week. I dream about having everything paper on line. This is Collection Day and it is the recyclables. I have very little to put out once again but do try to do it weekly to keep that cleared away since I freeze the recycled food waste in my freezer until I put it out to the street. Keeps any odour down and the animals do not appear to try and get into the container.
A couple of interesting matches yesterday that fitted so neatly into the Knight family. There are so many Knight matches due to the endogamy in this family in my lines going back. I wonder about these ancient Blake matches (do not appear to be Knight in a couple of lengths) in the Colonial United States descendants but Nicholas likely married his first cousin Margaret (daughter of his uncle Thomas) giving those descendants a double set of Blake and then Richard Blake married Jone Blake (second cousins) just two generations later again boosting the level of Blake in this line so it is conceivable that particularly common areas might just be amplified by this marriage of cousins frequency. I am suspicious that I would see any sharing with cousins more than seventh cousins apart but having so many in two particular areas is very suspicious especially when their trees are so deep going back into Colonial America where the chances of marrying a closer relative would be much higher. All of these Blake lines would be descendant of Robert Blake of Enham who left his will in 1521. There is a John Blake in earlier records in the Andover area prior to 1521 (1300s actually) so it is finding information to link this earlier line with Robert. Finding a John Blake in the 1300s was rather fascinating as the Doomsday Books do not have a surname for anyone in this area of Andover in the latter part of the 1000s. By 1200 there are records for Blake in England but they tend to be in the London area or into East Anglia. My suspicion is that the John Blake of the 1300s was the first to use the Blake surname and married a daughter of Richard le Blak which would account for the relationship between the Blake family in Speen, Berkshire and Andover, Hampshire in the mid 1500s when no close cousinship is mentioned (the English people tend to recognize 1st cousins as close and 2nd cousins as some what distant according to my cousin Ivan).
Tea drank and time to do solitaire puzzles. Exercise went very well but it is actually my older daughter that has given me all these new exercise hints as she, like my younger daughter, is very into exercise. It is important to do lots of exercise especially given our tendency to sit about so much. Both are very busy though but I do chat with my older daughter every night for about an hour. It is kind of her to take so much time out of her day but as she is an academic only and we have a lot in common discussing our books and such that we are into and occasionally I do have an idea for her. My younger daughter is very busy and I do not clutter up her phone with my book writing.
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