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Wendy Percival
Sep 10, 20211 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, 20212 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, 20212 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, 20212 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, 20212 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, 20212 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, 20212 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, 20212 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, 20212 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, 20213 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 –...