It's 5.30 a.m. I can't sleep. I shall do some family history I think, and find out what g. granny Brown and her grand-daughter Rosina died from (the latter only 17). Get right through to payments for the first death certificate and then for the heady sum of £2.50, all of a sudden I have to put the payment through my card reader. This involves: going upstairs to get card from handbag, plus mobile phone, finding said card reader, turning phone on and going upstairs to bedroom to get a signal, waiting about 5 minutes for said signal and the appropriate code and then putting that in so I can have the HUGE payment verified. You know - I can't be bothered. It can wait until daylight. Update: with my brain engaged, I found I just had to find the card reader and put in the number they had supplied online. Doh. Found that my g.g. grandmother whose husband had up-sticks from London and taken them to the Welsh Valleys died from a) hemiplegia - brain damage/spinal cord injury - probably a stroke, and b) myocarditis - heart inflammation. Her grandaughter, just 17, died from Acute Broncho-Pneumonia TB... She was taken ill when staying with the rest of the family in Hampshire, and went home to die.
Debbie - GRO £2.50 birth or death certificates. Go to the GRO site, and - having checked the GRO Index Reference number from Free BMD or similar site, click on the "start now." I am registered with them so just have to log in. Then a page comes up with various options - chose the Order a Digital Image and then follow the instructions. Hope this helps
I did 22 trips up and downstairs yesterday - is it any wonder my legs get tired?! I'd just got to the bathroom yesterday for the loo and I heard a knock on the door. Plans abandoned, up and leg it to front door - it's a delivery van, looking for blardy Orchard Cottage again. If that happens once, it happens a dozen times, or else they just dump their parcels here to avoid going up the dog-leg steep driveway. Our postie uses the catflap or rings bell and pops parcel through the door. Other parcel deliverers pretty considerate too.
If I have to spend today waiting around for people to phone me back I shall not be pleased. There's nothing worse - I can't be far from the phone because it only rings 6 times before going to answerphone. If I'm upstairs I can't even hear it ring.
I am hoping it won't be too cold today so I can get back to planting my bulbs in pots and planters. I made a good start in October and then Covid struck and it's rained daily since! Right, back to bed in the hope I can sleep but I'll have to set the alarm so I don't sleep on like I did on Sunday, as Keith can't be in bed too long or he can barely move at all.
