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JEANETTE

HAPPY BIRTHDAY !

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Jeanette is daughter to John Mildon, son of Fred & Ethel

KEEPING COOL

For all you poor people in UK who are suffering from this temporary heat wave I have a message from my former GP in London.

Dr Rosemary Leonard gives advice on how to stay cool.

WELCOME

Please welcome Jeanette who joined the Blog in June. Jeanette is the daughter of John & Marina Mildon. John is the son of Fred & Ethel pictured at the head of the Blog and brother to Joyce (Houghton) and Doreen (Discombe)

To all Blog authors:

Please encourage other family members to view the blog and join up and contribute.

They can do so by sending me an email from the email account they want to use for signing in, (or naming that account in the text) and I shall do the rest.

RIDGE

Ridge will always be the home I associate with my grandparents, Fred & Ethel Mildon. I thought there would be interest in showing an aerial photograph of the property (courtesy of Google Earth)

"Ridge", Cheriton Fitzpaine, Crediton, Devon

[click to enlarge]

The east wing appears to have had one or even two extensions judging by the colour of the roof tiles. The fruit and vegetable plots and the orchard have all gone.

There was a cement path all around the house and the section outside the coal shed made a funny noise as you ran over it. I left my sister hanging upside down in an apple tree in the orchard whilst I went for help to get her down. It was lovely picking and shelling peas from the garden and eating rasberries from the cane. I think grandpy found a gold coin in that large field to the west.

Uncle Ron's (husband to my late aunt Doreen) brother (Frank Discombe) had a workshop to the north of the property. There appears to be similar activity still going on there today.

I remember playing whist, Newmarket and dominoes with my grandparents.

Who remembers the round tin of buttons? Then there was the wooden stool next to the cream coloured Aga in the kitchen where the radio would play "Mrs Dale's Diary" and "The Archers" (Jack Woolley had all his marbles then and Walter Gabriel was still walking the fields).

RIGHT UP SALLY'S ABBEY

Better late than never - back in May 2009 Sally had the priviledge of participating in a flower festival in Westminster Abbey - she finished creating this design at 2.30am - very spooky in the Abbey at night!

The arrangement was destined for the commemorative window for Stephenson. Hence the display is influenced by the engineer's Menai bridge.

PHOTOGRAPHS OF NATHAN'S DEDICATION. JUNE 2009

Here are some photographs of the event courtesy of Great Aunt Sally:

NATHAN

Nathan with his mother, Uncles Dorian and Jonathan and Great Aunt Sally

Nathan & Great Aunt Sally

Nathan with Mummy & Daddy

Its mid-summer's day (in the north)

which means its

Karla's birthday

She was born in

Swaziland

29 years ago today

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KARLA !

CONGRATULATIONS!

Tracey & Martin

on your

12th Wedding Anniversary

17 May 2009

WANTED: UK STORAGE SPACE

Since leaving UK in September 2007 my household effects have been stored in a garage in Eastbourne. The owner now wants to sell the garage and I need to vacate.

I have two choices:

Ship to Philippines or

Find new storage space.

There is stuff that I definitely want here (family silver, heirlooms, photographs, CD collection, books etc), but there is much that I can now do without. So, before I ship I need to weed. In the meantime, I must find approximately 10 cu metres of new storage space. It should be secure and dry. I am prepared to pay. Can anyone help?

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A belated

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

to

JOHN MILDON

who was

82

on Saturday 11 April

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