I’d originally tried to put a newsletter together for the descendents of my maternal grandparents James Astley Birtwistle and Mary Muriel Marwood. Sady, this didn’t get off the ground, but you can read more about the background here. Maybe if I’d explained there was a long lost title or hadn’t pointed out that our origins were not quite as grand as had been generally made out, then I might have got a bit further with it. Hopefully, the Phoenix will rise out of the ashes, as a result of trying to do something on this blog instead. I will in time try and make sections, but in the meantime you can see some of the latest news below or see everything that’s been in added to this section here.
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A poem for Sam and Claire on their wedding day
4 December 2011 13:46
A poem written and read by my mother Angela at the wedding of my nephew Sam to Claire in 2009.
A poem for Justin and Bridget on their wedding day
4 December 2011 13:38
A poem written and read by mother Angela at Chelsea Registry Office at my wedding to Bridget in 2004 …
A toffee pig for Christmas – Chapter One
December 3, 2011.
As part of the Ay-up family newsletter I was planning to include chapters from my mother’s memoirs about her childhood …
Cousin Anthony in Season of Love Christmas Cabaret
December 3, 2011
Bridget and I are off to see cousin Anthony (Pritchard) sing next Saturday in the Resound Male Vices ‘Season of Love’…
Cousin Simon in Cambodia
December 2, 2011
I was most disappointed to hear that we wouldn’t be getting a Christmas card from my cousin Simon this year …
Cousin Piers heads off round the world
December 2, 2011
Further to my post about my cousin Piers’ Test of Faith while working with the sick, dying and destitute in Ethopia …
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