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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2024 8:16:54 GMT
Congrats again to your boy, Dubya. Sounds like an excellent do.
Dixi, it ain't gonna last. Weather is breaking down into thunderstoms today, low 20s at most next week. But who cares, I'm off to Languedoc tomorrow night.
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Post by EspadaIII on Aug 1, 2024 10:21:02 GMT
He's bringing NZ winter with him....
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Post by dixinormus on Aug 1, 2024 12:46:20 GMT
I escaped the NZ winter a fortnight ago! Been enjoying 33 degrees in Malaysia. Am wearing shorts - might regret that later today?!
Say Hello to the Languedoc for me Al. Drink a bottle of Blanquette in the town square of Limoux for me if you get the chance..!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2024 13:13:45 GMT
Never heard of Blanquette, don't know if I'm anywhere near Limoux
Will look both up!
EDIT: Blanquette looks right up my alleyway, Limoux seems to be about an hour's drive away. Could very well oblige. So long as the Mrs drives back.
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Post by dixinormus on Aug 1, 2024 13:23:12 GMT
Fizzy local wine - a bit like champagne but a third of the price! Can be a little sweet for some people’s palettes.
Cute wee town. Used to live about 40km further up the valley (heading south). There’s some pretty good white water rafting in the gorge near Quillan, if you want to stretch your cricked neck..!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2024 13:36:00 GMT
Thanks, rafting is a good idea for a day out.
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Post by EspadaIII on Aug 1, 2024 14:58:41 GMT
With your neck problems?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2024 15:13:11 GMT
It's when I'm still and unconscious that my body seems to tense up and give me muscle problems. I'll be OK in a raft.
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Post by Humph on Aug 1, 2024 16:05:31 GMT
Can’t think what could possibly go wrong…
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Post by WDB on Aug 1, 2024 17:34:32 GMT
Fizzy local wine - a bit like champagne but a third of the price! Can be a little sweet for some people’s palettes. Is he drinking it or painting with it? 🎨 |
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Post by Rob on Aug 1, 2024 19:45:32 GMT
According to one family tree I've seen for my distant family, I am descendent of someone who ruled the Champagne region of France. Who knows if the person who's researched that far back have been accurate. And the same tree goes back much further. Like all of us I think we are all descendants of some royalty. Again apparently I am a descendent of the ruler of the Franks in France. Not that it was France then. And lots more interesting things.
A good champagne is nice but a nice prosecco can be quite nice.
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Post by Humph on Aug 1, 2024 21:47:21 GMT
I just don’t like fizzy wine no matter what it’s called.
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Post by WDB on Aug 1, 2024 21:57:57 GMT
According to one family tree I've seen for my distant family, I am descendent of someone who ruled the Champagne region of France…Like all of us I think we are all descendants of some royalty. Do the maths and we just about all are. The Franks lived 1200 years ago, call it (conservatively) 40 human generations. 2 40 (two to the fortieth if you’re using the mobile version that can’t do superscripts) is more than a trillion, more people than have ever been, yet all of us need to find that many ancestors among the few hundred million humans alive at that time, and the few tens of millions in Europe. And rich and powerful men fathered a disproportionate number of children, so it’s pretty much inevitable there’s some, ahem, ‘royal blood’ in every one of us. The ‘genealogy’ industry is bullshit for the gullible. amp.theguardian.com/science/commentisfree/2015/may/24/business-genetic-ancestry-charlemagne-adam-rutherfordMitochondrial DNA is more informative, because it’s passed on without meiosis, so remains almost unchanged over many generations. But you need a lot of documentary evidence and an unbroken female line of descent, as the Richard III case shows. le.ac.uk/richard-iii/identification/genetics/living-relativesChampagne, on the other hand, is worth every penny. 🥂 |
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Post by EspadaIII on Aug 2, 2024 6:59:37 GMT
We discovered a previously unknown relative living locally when she used the 23&Me DNA website. She is the illegitimate daughter of one of my father's uncles. All very interesting but frankly only for five minutes. We have nothing in common with her or her family other than DNA.
It's bit like people you meet on holiday. Nice to chat to but after a while, unless you can find really common ground, the relationship can't go anywhere. Espadrille and I are both only children so friends are our family and we see them more often than these friends see their siblings. Sometimes water is thicker than blood.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2024 7:50:13 GMT
I'm very distantly related to Andrew Lloyd-Weber. I doubt we'd have much in common.
I've traced one of the lines of my descent right back to Rognvald Eysteinsson, the first Jarl of Orkney. And beyond him into the myths of the Viking rulers of Finland apparently.
As Dubya says, we probably all are. But it's kind of nice to see the line unfold on Ancestry.com. If you find one aristocratic ancestor on there, then it's usually easy to keep going as those are the only people who have any records in the pre-Elizabethan period.
On another branch, and more recently, I'm illegitimate offspring of the Duke of Montrose from the early-mid 19th century. We've got some documentary evidence of this from some relatives in Australia. Again, I very much doubt I'd have much in common with the current Duke or his family.
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