Notes of Life

For footnoteMaven…

Taken nearly a month ago. I kept meaning to add it to a post here, but have only just got around to it.

I’ve finally had my results back from the hospital. Wheat intolerance. Yet more food to cut out of my diet. Pineapple and a few different fruits also give me trouble, so I’m beginning to wonder if a diet of rice, potatoes & water is where I’ll end up! Currently spices, herbs, lactose and wheat are off the menu. What’s next?

On the subject of food intolerances, I have a recommended link…

Pig in the Kitchen is a recipe blog containing many “free from…” recipes. Ideal for anyone with a food intolerance or allergy! There’s everything from Apple and Cranberry Half Term Muffins (egg free, dairy free and gluten free) to Guy Fawkes’ Roasted Pumpkin Soup with Croutons (egg free, dairy free and gluten free). The photos make the food look delicious and they sounds delicious too. There’s certainly a few recipes there that I want to try. Definitely a blog worth checking out!

Just a quick message to say welcome to the new domain.

A proper post shall be written shortly.

Happy Easter!

My arms are aching!

After much debating (and checking my finances) I decided to treat myself to a Nintendo Wii. I got mine from Argos yesterday as they’ve currently got a promotion on - spend over £100 and get a £10 gift voucher (which I used to get £10 off the 2 games for £30 promotion!).

So far, I’ve just been playing on Wii Sports and it’s certainly energetic (if you’re not a sporty person). My favourites are the tennis and boxing, although I’m not so good at baseball (but then I was never any good at hitting the ball in rounders at school!).

Even Dad has had a go (he’s in his 70s!). He chose boxing. He kept getting closer to the TV and I was getting worried he’d punch the TV if he got much closer! He certainly got into it.

I may invest in a Wii Fit when my birthday comes around in June. We’ll see…

We have a couple of boxes of old family photos. We don’t know who some of the people are in the photos, but others provide small windows in to the lives of ancestors.

The photo on the right is one I scanned in on Sunday afternoon. It shows my Great Grandparents stood outside their home on the Shropshire/Cheshire border. It helps show how my Grandparents lived. Unfortunately, I’ve been told that the house has long gone so I can’t see what it looks like today. However, the cottage they moved into in their later years still stands and looks a lot like it did back in their day.

The photo needed a bit of a tidy-up. It was under-exposed and torn around the edges. So I cropped it down and use a couple of different adjustments (in Photoshop CS3) including Brightness/Contrast and Exposure.

Other items I scanned on Sunday included a couple of family wedding photos, my Great Great Grandmother Mary Jane’s obituary and a wedding notice for a Great Great Aunt.

I really need to set aside more time to sit and scan more photos. Something which might help with this is the Spring Break Scan-a-Thon (29th March - 6th April) and the next Scanfest on 30th March (as mentioned by Miriam at Ancestories). I think I should mark those dates in my diary and maybe I’ll get through some of those photos.