Getting caught up after a time
Sarah,
Thank you. The photos continue to be a family treasure. I have told our story many times. Even distant acquaintances have heard about the "total stranger" in Scotland who offered to send me a box of photos of my family. And would not let me pay for the shipping. And sent me a link to the scanned copies in case the British or Canadian postal system lost the box.
Bless you for your kindness and generosity.
I hope things are going well for you.
- Bill
Bless you for your kindness and generosity.
I hope things are going well for you.
- Bill
Read, 03:53 p.m.
Hello again, Bill! I'm glad the photos are with the family they belong to. It was fun doing a bit of detective work to find the owners. I too have been sharing the story of the photos and of your grandmother Louisa's adventure, going to another country to marry a man she had never met.
We have just had the family from Canada over for two weeks. Young Wilfred is now 3 years old and has a younger sister. They met their cousin for the first time and were here to celebrate his first birthday last Friday. My son's wife is Chinese and my daughter's husband is Jordanian so we have three mixed race grandchildren.
Wilfred left a reminder of his visit after he had gone. On Monday when we had gone out for the day with our daughter and grandson my daughter's car locked itself with the keys and the baby inside after she had shut his door and before she got round to the driver's door. She panicked and called emergency services as she has no spare key and the baby was crying inside. A police van with three police officers and a fire engine with 6 crew members and flashing blue lights came to the rescue. Between the 9 of them they eventually managed to force the door open a crack and fish out the keys. However, the car then wouldn't start and it turned out that the lights had been left on and flattened the battery. Katie always has the lights on automatic so she couldn't understand how that had happened until we remembered that Wilfred had been playing around in the driver's seat a couple of days earlier, and no doubt had turned the lights on. It will go down as a good family story! I wonder what old Wilf would have had to say about his namesake.
Hope all is well with you.
Sarah
We have just had the family from Canada over for two weeks. Young Wilfred is now 3 years old and has a younger sister. They met their cousin for the first time and were here to celebrate his first birthday last Friday. My son's wife is Chinese and my daughter's husband is Jordanian so we have three mixed race grandchildren.
Wilfred left a reminder of his visit after he had gone. On Monday when we had gone out for the day with our daughter and grandson my daughter's car locked itself with the keys and the baby inside after she had shut his door and before she got round to the driver's door. She panicked and called emergency services as she has no spare key and the baby was crying inside. A police van with three police officers and a fire engine with 6 crew members and flashing blue lights came to the rescue. Between the 9 of them they eventually managed to force the door open a crack and fish out the keys. However, the car then wouldn't start and it turned out that the lights had been left on and flattened the battery. Katie always has the lights on automatic so she couldn't understand how that had happened until we remembered that Wilfred had been playing around in the driver's seat a couple of days earlier, and no doubt had turned the lights on. It will go down as a good family story! I wonder what old Wilf would have had to say about his namesake.
Hope all is well with you.
Sarah
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