There's something I still don't understand about #FindAGrave.
My granny's grandad was buried at Witton Cemetery Birmingham in 1905. I confirmed ages ago with the Birmingham cemetery office he is buried in an unmarked grave in a communal plot.
I found a few minutes ago that he's got a memorial on Find a Grave created by "! WooWoo" who seems to have created 14,618,067 memorials and manages 15,050,447 memorials on Find a Grave.
Inexplicably Tewkesbury High St is being resurfaced this week. Only done a few years ago. Elsewhere in Glos the potholes are a disaster left untouched yet somehow funding allows. Y'd never guess there is a general election coming.
That thing where you get a parking ticket in the post. Over two weeks after the event and long after you've thrown the cash receipt away ... and the parking ticket people don't tell you how much you paid.
So you can't check.
Yes, I likely made an expensive mistake. No arguing.
But I've no reason to revisit that town for pleasure shopping, charity shop shopping and meals.
There are a lot of towns and villages within half an hour's drive from here that meet our needs.
I wouldn't feel so bad about it if the carpark involved weren't a dark rubbish strewn hole under a late 20thC shopping centre with hardly any units let, equally rubbish strewn, in the middle of a Midlands market town.
Used to be the bustling hub of the Vale of Evesham but latterly is clearly in recession. No Brexit bonus anywhere to be seen.
And their councillors will never be voted out so they've no reason whatsoever to look to their laurels.
To Hereford again with sis this afternoon.
Charity shops galore ... sign of the times that what were really snazzy high street name stores are now rather snazzy charity shops :(
Found this ukulele missing a string and a tad grubby looking sorry for itself. Now cleaned and tuned "my dog has fleas" in proper manner.
It'll be back in another charity shop on Monday, my pleasure taken this past hour or two.
Today Find My Past has launched a new rather quirky database: Warwickshire Coventry Vehicle Registrations 1921-1924.
Am finding more success by using the "Advanced options - optional keywords" search because the records are record cards where there is a variety of fields and folk, naturally, filled them in in a variety of ways.
At first sight an uninspiring list of car registration numbers. But drill down you find long defunct car makers, famous car models and owners/addresses