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Blackpool

by tealady @ 11 Feb. 2007 - 12:15:12 pm

Mum sent  me a photo of my great grandmother taken on Blackpool beach with her younger son Ken.
I've been researching  family history for a few weeks lately.

 Annie Johnson (nee Henry) with Ken sitting on beach At Blackpool
http://www.blog.co.uk/srv/media/media_item.php?item_ID=1161998
or click on photo for larger image and details

I thought I'd better find out where exactly in England Blackpool was, although I knew Anna (Annie) lived in Manchester with my grandmother Irene and her sons Doug and Ken and her husband Thomas.

I'm wondering if Blackpool beach is still as sandy as it appears in this photo?

I googled on Blackpool and came across this.
http://world.nycsubway.org/eu/uk/blackpool.html
I recall trams in Brisbane in my childhood days.

Lancashire(including Blackpool) is  now on my wish list of places to visit :-)
Just speaking to my Mum and she recalls her Mum (Irene) talking of  enjoying eating a Blackpool rock when she visited  the beach at Blackpool..a type of candy.

 I toured the UK for 6 weeks around Jun 2004. 
 I concentrated on Devon where some of my other relatives come from (Plymouth, Nth Perrot areas) as well as Cornwall and Wales and then thru to  Worchester area to stay with some friends in Kiddermister and tour a little around there..all really worth visiting with lovely people and scenery... the trip of my lifetime so far, but I sure hope to get back over there one day... so much more to see.
I found the people really friendly and it's just sooo green everywhere.
I felt some connection with the country and it's people, like a dream come true.
I can see what the aborigines say about some spiritual feeling/connection with the land.
Maybe it was being bought up with English books  or spending a lot of time with my grandmother or maybe it is the spiritual roots?

PS. Anna is my mother's mother's mother.. therefore I share the same mitochondria mostly I guess
mtDNA
The ABCs of mtDNA
by Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak

Movies/videos shows- my rating

by tealady @ 10 Feb. 2007 - 07:25:24 am

Liked  5++
Something's gotta Give - Jack Nicolson and Diana Keaton
Clockwise
Maid in Manhatten
(Jennifer Lopez)

Liked 5+ (documentary type video)  (could watch again)
Evelyn.. based on a true story of Ireland and Catholic church removal of children
The Adventure of English - Disc 1 (2002)
Birth of a Language We delve down to the roots of the language and deduce its history - and in that one sentence we hear words from four different sources; Dark Age Anglo-Saxon, Danish, Medieval French and Renaissance Latin; four of the main contributor...

 
Liked 5
Pretty woman
Overboard (Goldie Hawn)
Independence Day

Bless This House - Series 1: Part 1 (1971)   black and white and 4:3
 

OK 4+
World Class Trains  Train travel documentaries
 (worth viewing once, relaxing) below:

 Eastern Oriental express(thailand to Singapore)
  + 2nd DVD on Train thru Nth India and Taj Mahal and hotel in lake .. starts at Delhi
Would like to travel on both!

Great trains_ southern orient  -thru mexico and a canyon, fairly dry country, OK but not as good as other trains
South Pacific Orient-sister train to Orient express- from BN to Kuranda.. reef trip in helicopter, train to kuranda and air (gondola?) down.. really nice to do

The Royal Scotsman .. nice train, but can travel Scotland easily probably a LOT cheaper..and looks costly
Train from Prague to Budapest?(forgot name), used to used by communist elite.. steam locos change in each country..travels thru Slovalia, Hungary, Checkoslovakia.. really great idea, scenery in Slovakia breathtaking.. easy and great intro to the countries.. and steam trains too
Volume 3 
The Rocky Mountaineer 
like to travel on(way best method), but prefer the India or Thailand or Hungary to Budapest  trains
The American Orient Express not that great.. mostly on  LA(wouldn't watcg again-
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Liked 4+ Musical  would  watch/listen to songs   again
My Fair Lady

The Holiday  (2006)  swapping for a house in England/LA and falling in love-Romantic Comedy

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4  OK 
The March of the Penguins  Good scenery and photo shooting telling story of Emperor penguins in Adelieland, Antartica (worth viewing once)

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OK  4 don't want to watch again
Suddenly 30 (jennifer garsen)
First 50 Dates (Adam Saidler)
Noel. Miracles are closer than you think.( Susan Sarandon)
The Butterly Effect 2
Sabrina -The Teenage Witch Disc 1 TV Series 
included first episode
Bless This House - Series 1: Part 2 (1971) Sally Geeson,Sid James,Diana Coupland,Robin Stewart-TV Series

OK 4-
Sabrina, The Teenage Witch
- Season 1: Disc 2 (1996) TV Series
Doctor Down Under  UK TV series Doctor at Large in Sydney(comedy)
Catherine the Great  of Russia - documentary

OK  3+ don't want to watch again
Erin Brockovitch Julia Roberts - court case against chromium 6 poisoning small town (have now watched twice.. 2nd time too many)
Who Killed Diana? (2006)



OK  3 don't want to watch again    
Carolina
Hot Chick
Frequency (science fiction about son talking to father 30yrs in future)
Twin Sisters (dutch film) about 2 German sisters separated , one to Holland and mets a jewish boy- holocaust, other sister to Poland. WWII times

OK 2 don't want to watch again 
Man of the Year
 Robin Williams wins US president by computer error coverup

The Queen  (2006)about around time of princess Di's death only 
The British Prime Minister and The Royal Family find themselves quietly at odds in the wake of a national tragedy in this drama from Stephen Frears.When news of the death of Princess Diana, undoubtedly the most famous woman in the world, breaks upon a sho...

Father Ted - Series 1 (1995),Craggy Island

Cinderella - Ballet (german)

1.5
Alice's Restaurant  (Arlo Guthrie)
(1969)    I liked the song, but the movie is nothing more.. so really not much of a story line.
Jetsons  - The Movie (1990)

The Terminal  about  govt documentation and law  gone crazy in this easy to keep track on day and age and consideration of people
Steven Spielberg
Tom Hanks and Oscar winner Catherine Zeta-Jones for this critically acclaimed comedy. After arriving at New York's JFK airport, Viktor Navorski (Hanks) gets unwi
Behind Enemy Lines 2 (2006) not anywhere near as good as the first , set in Nth Korea

Bloodline (1979)Audrey Hepburn stars as Elizabeth Roffe, a strong, intelligent woman who inherits her family's pharmaceutical empire when her father dies in a mysterious accident. The investigation into her father's death reveals a murder in which her closest advisors

Poor 1
Mimic
( science fiction based on cockroaches mutating and becoming slighlt human in form and larger in size)
A Room with a view  set in Italy/England.. DVD stuck part way thru but not worth getting another to see ending
Apocalypse Now Redux (1979) set against the Vietnam War

Poor 0
Vertigo
(1958)Alfred Hitchcock
Set in San Francisco, James Stewart portrays an acrophobic detective hired to trail a friend's suicidal wife (Kim Novak). After he successfully rescues her from a leap into the bay, he finds himself becoming obsessed with the beautifully troubled woman
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)  DvD had scratchs so kept stopping, but couldn't have watched thru..boring
Identity (2003)
During a savage rainstorm, ten strangers take refuge as a desolate motel run by a nervous night manager. However, relief in finding shelter is quickly replaced with fear, as the travellers begin to die one by one...

Not worth watching Poor Documentary 1
Walking with Cavemen
  not realistic, .. .. I don't agree with, boring.. couldn't watch it thru

Didn't like   (negative rating)
Closer (would you believe I was dumb enough to hire this again!.. still didn't like it, and couldn't watch it thru)
Brideshead Revisited (couldn't even watch it thru)
The Quill (couldn't watch thru)
One Hour Photo (Robin Williams) 

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Emma (1996) 3/5 Stars
Matchmaker, matchmaker, make me a match...Set in the lush English countryside in the early part of the 19th Century, EMMA tells the funny and timeless tale of a young woman so devoted to meddling in the lives and romances of others, that she may miss her ...

Curly Top (1935) 4/5 Stars Shirley Temple
Edwar Morgan (John Boles), the rich trustee of an orphanage, first meets little Elizabeth (Temple)

The Nutcracker (Royal Ballet) (1985)2/5 Stars

Sense & Sensibility (1995) 3/5 Stars

Bright Eyes (1934) Shirley Temple 4/5 Stars
Bright Eyes helped make Shirley Temple a huge box office star and features her most famous song: "On the Good Ship Lollipop." The little darling of a group of aviators, Shirley splits her time between

Mansfield Park (1999) 4/5 Stars
She is the daughter of a woman who married for love, not money and, as a result, Fanny Price has known a life only of poverty. Her aunt, however, did just the opposite and now Lady Bertram lives luxuriously at Mansfield Park, a magnificent estate in North...

Coppelia (Kirov Ballet) (1993) 4/5 Stars New version choreographed and staged by OLEG VINOGRADOV

Catherine The Great (2005) 3/5 Stars

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