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Okay, found some suitably old/dead photos to post. My great-grandparents, married in 1909. Their son and his school in 1918. My granda's that one down the front. He ran home on the first day.

Perhaps to make this a little easier to keep track of next time, perhaps we should use DATES - like within a two month period. So we could have said, for example, 16. March. 3.April, etc. That said, I choose the number 31.

This is my great granny and grandad, he was the Mayor of Calne in the 60s some time.

Looking on the positive side, you might not need the pension.

End of the month so bringing this forward: Who The Flack Is Next? Round Up #3: Caroline Flack: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-51517973 Pearl Carr: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2020/02/17/pearl-carr-one-half-popular-1950s-singing-act-husband-teddy/ Harry Gregg: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/51400376 Henry Gray: Awaiting Obit. Jean Daniel: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/jean-daniel-obituary-rcvfh75lk Andree Melly: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8062137/Last-surviving-cast-member-Hancocks-Half-Hour-Andree-Melly-dies-Ibiza-home-aged-87.html. Chitetsu Watanabe: https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/breaking-worlds-oldest-man-watanabe-21570400. Katherine Johnson: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8038399/Legendary-NASA-mathematician-Katherine-Johnson-dies-101.html. Sonny Franzese: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8038623/Notorious-Colombo-crime-underboss-John-Franzese-Sr-dies-aged-103.html. Diana Serra Cary: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11034752/silent-film-star-baby-peggy-montgomery-passes-away-at-101-close-to-a-century-after-the-child-star-retired/. Hosni Mubarak: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-51630142 Olof Thunberg: https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1247377/greta-thunberg-latest-news-instagram-update-activist-climate-change-grandfather-sweden. Nexhmije Hoxha: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/26/nexhmije-hoxha-widow-of-albanias-dictator-dies-aged-99 Clive Cussler: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-51644229 Michael Medwin: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-51649817 Sudhakar Chaturvedi: Awaiting Obit. Freeman Dyson: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/mar/01/freeman-dyson-obituary. Pete Felton: Awaiting Obit. Lenox Hewitt: Awaiting Obit.

I'm in - round 2 sponsored appropriately by Corona coming up in 32 hours.

I just realised that because I use the old family computer and there are saved stuff from when mum was using it, the back up of family tree photos would be here. Low and behold and 20 minutes of searching I have some images - though not sure on everyone's names or when they were taken: This is titled - "Walker family with Daisy" My mum was born 1953, this is her parents, brother and two sisters in 1951 on a seaside trip. Now only my two aunts are still alive in the photo. I don't know who these people are but it is titled "4 generations" And of course I had a relative with this name. Meet "Percy Charles with his mother Fanny Tutton":

1920 Fanny Waterman /Arnold Yarrow 1921 Elizabeth Kelly/ Ray Lawler 1922 Betty White/Dilip Kumar 1923 Gloria Whelan/ Chuck Yeager 1924 Zizi Jeanmaire/Sheldon Harnick 1925 Ysanne Churchman/Pete Murray 1926 Gudrun Ure/Leonard Fenton 1927 Leotyne Price/Frank Windsor 1928 Estelle Harris/Tommy Docherty 1929 Patricia Routledge/Eric Carle Thanks @YoungWillz

Well...nowt to hide if your mob are lined up too They're tilted against these titans, or summat: 1. Hans Sommer 2. Eileen Ash 3. Frankie Banali 4. Anne Buydens 5. David Gulpilil 6. Nick Hitchon 7. Lee Kerslake 8. Genesis P. Orridge 9. Tom Smith – joker 10. Nobby Stiles 11. Peter Tobin Sub Alex Trebek

You don't think her Majesty could be posting on the forum in disguise do you?

PM sent Joey. My team is entering the field of play.

As an Arab, I finally got to witness the first Egyptian president to die of natural causes.

I have my theories. Italy never found Patient Zero, from which the contagion started. It is very likely that patient zero was someone who went to a Chinese "massage center" (read: prostitutes) and got it there. Some weeks ago regions in the North asked the government the right to quarantine everyone comig back from China for 14 days. Government denied, defining these measures as "unnecessary" and "racist". Ironically it would have probably prevented the whole thing. Anyway come back to patient 0. An elderly farmer from Codogno zone, or whatsoever. He goes to the massage center, and in the following days he develops fever and pneumonia. He doesn't think at all to be checked, so he continues working and infects dozens of other people. These people infect hundreds of other people. A great number of them probably dies in hospital, their deaths being classified as due to "pneumonia". No one in the hospitals even thinks about checking coronavirus. Government insists there is no coronavirus in Italy. This goes on for weeks, maybe a month, with hundreds of infected people who think they have a common flu. Then so-called Patient 1, a 38-year old manager from Codogno, goes to hospital with acute pneumonia. Once, twice, they never consider him. By the time he goes to A& E twice he infects many patients with coronavirus. Some of them will later die. The third time he goes to hospital, with his conditions rapidly deteriorating (he is currently still on life support), his wife says he has met a colleague who came back from China, some time ago. They test coronavirus and it is positive. His pregnant wife is infected too. From there hundreds of infected are found, 17 deaths happen (but may be many more). Surprisingly the manager who came back from China never had coronavirus, so he is not Patient Zero, though members of his family are infected too. Seeing that the virus has circulated for weeks, and mainly for their fault, government goes postal and decides to quarantine a vast zone. A week later, seeing that this is damaging economy and international relationships, they turn to the "it's a common flu" thing, in a very clumsy way. Reality is different: 1)It is a flu-like disease, but has a mortality rate 1000 times higher than flu. If it spreads virtually to the entire population it will cause thousands of deaths. Statistically. 2)Deaths won't be restricted to the elder/ill (as their lives count less), but young people will statistically die too. It could be everyone and nothing can be done. 3)Most of Italian population will actually get coronavirus, me included. So don't be fooled, government never had the situation under control.

Leonard Nimoy, who lived long and prospered, died on this day 5 years ago, aged 83.

The Japanese man being reinfected is worrying. Could be once you get it you never defeat it? Unless they develop a vaccine. Could be the cold equivalent to HIV. Rumours the second reinfection gives you a heart attack. Look out for that. Of course it was once a rumour you could get reinfected. https://www.businessinsider.com/wuhan-coronavirus-risk-of-reinfection-2020-2

I wonder if some members of this forum decided to prep. Buy masks, antibiotics, non-perishable food etc. I'm going to start spring-cleaning tomorrow, I swear. So that I won't be embarrassed to let paramedics in.

Italy's government is downplaying the emergency, saying "it's a normal flu". It is quite evident there are THOUSANDS of infected now and there will be HUNDREDS of deaths. Still government is DELIBERATELY going to hide numbers (as announced by Spallanzani hospital in Rome) because they fear for economy and tourism. Yeah, tourism is their main worry. I don't buy the "it's a common flu" thing. Mortality of coronavirus is around 1000 times that of normal flu and if the contagion is not controlled (as it will happen soon, to "help economy") on all those deaths even younger people will "statisticaly" die. But they give a fuck about you who died at 23 of coronavirus, for them it's just "statistics". 17 people already dead (probably at least 100), they insist they were old and would have died anyaway. Things that their families strongly deny. But people is more reassured if they believe the snakes who run this country. Fuck it, I'm angry.

William Cross Smithson - a lovely Englishman - and his Metis (half-breed) wife Julia (no surname known), were a couple of the original pioneers that settled Kelowna, BC in the mid 1800s. In fact he had the first orchard (Kelowna now famous for) and gave property for the first school. They are my GG-Grandparents. There are no photos of their eldest child, my G-Grandmother Rose Smithson (b 1868). There is, however this fantastic photo of her sister, Eusebia Smithson. Is that Injun enough for you?! She was born in the late 1870s, putting this photo 1900? Rose Smithson would marry François Bouvette, a Metis who came from Pembina, ND. Their eldest daughter Emma (the first child ever born in the new Kelowna hospital) would marry some crazy Irishman from Belfast, Charles Armstrong, who after graduating military school was serving some military something-or-other on behalf of the UK in British Columbia when he saw a fine local girl, eloped before running off to war, and the rest is history. After WWI (I have about 250 letters he wrote to her while serving), he gathered up his bride and moved to Detroit. About 45 years and two generations later, a wee bairn named Sir Creep took his place on this big blue marble.

Oh cool. I've got loads. Found a big box in my late grandfather's attic with lots of old pictures. A lot of the pictures belonged to my great grandfather and a fair few belonged to my great great grandmother (literally still in the photo frames she put them in). My family never throws things away. Ancestry and old photos fascinate me, almost like a doorway to a different world.

Happy 90th Birthday Joanne Woodward!

My, ahem, great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather (1632-1723) is this handsome chap. Keen London-based architect. Had a penchant for cathedrals. Sadly, his money has been mislaid somewhere through the last 13 generations.

JT Walsh didn't start acting until he was 40, then managed to fit 77 movies and TV shows into 14 years before dying today, aged 54, in 1998.

This one is dated from about 1899, in the picture is my great x4 grandmother (my mum's dad's dad's mum's dad's mum). Harriet Summers (neé Lane) 1825-1912

I like to think that everyone is a little bubble of potential floating around waiting to be assigned so they would have been born, but into other families. On this basis, if my granny's first husband hadn't died of the Spanish flu in 1919, I would be somebody else.

Having now seen a section of his 'coming out' on TV, I was struck by the, in my eyes, lack of emotion, infact a lack of anything. It looked so utterly false, he spoke like he was trying to convey emotion and feeling but was failing. It just looked all wrong. Just a gut feeling. One more thing. You have lived a lie, you married a woman, had kids with her and then, one day, drop that bombshell on them all. Why do you then get somebody else to read out your ' I'm really gay' speech on national tv and not do it yourself? Maybe the idea of coming out on live tv was a good idea for you but what about your wife and kids?? Bit cuntish really.