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Wendy Percival
- Sep 10, 2021
- 1 min
A House Through Time
While I'm busy writing the next Esme Quentin Mystery and not posting on the blog so often, it's an ideal opportunity to revisit posts I'd...
Wendy Percival
- Sep 3, 2021
- 2 min
Lost precious pets
Welcome back to the blog! I hope you all had a good summer. Sadly, ours will for ever be marked as the time we said our last goodbyes to...
Wendy Percival
- Jul 23, 2021
- 2 min
Tragedy on the farm
It’s Farm Safety Week this week – an opportunity for all those who work in farming to stop for a moment to ponder the dangers of working...
Wendy Percival
- Jul 16, 2021
- 2 min
Who, who else... and why?
Well, I’ve solved one mystery, at least, in the past week or so! Hooray! Though it did spark another… don’t they always? Some while ago I...
Wendy Percival
- Jul 9, 2021
- 2 min
One mystery solved... and tennis
I’ll get to tennis in a moment. First, an update and an exciting discovery… While digging around for information on my gran’s singing...
Wendy Percival
- Jul 2, 2021
- 2 min
A musical investigation
All the world’s a stage, William Shakespeare said, and for my grandmother, Winifred “Wyn” Griffiths, a professional singer, all her world...
Wendy Percival
- Jun 25, 2021
- 2 min
Ancestors in the “beautiful game”
They say, if you can’t beat them join ‘em. So, as the whole of Europe is currently fixated on the European Football Championships, I...
Wendy Percival
- Jun 18, 2021
- 2 min
The Elusive James Hick
For a few heady moments this week, I thought I’d cracked the mystery of James Hick’s elusive past and uncovered his guilty secret. If you...
Wendy Percival
- Jun 11, 2021
- 2 min
Surprise coincidences
Family history connections can take you by surprise sometimes, as I wrote about in a recent post, Shock Shared Ancestor. A couple of...
Wendy Percival
- Jun 4, 2021
- 3 min
A special centenary!
Today is the hundred-year anniversary of my grandparents' wedding! When they got married in 1921 they were living in the same road –...