1 March 2009

We have been to see some great movies over the last few days; "Doubt" starring Meryl Streep which we saw at The Odean Leicester Square on Friday night and last night, after returning from a visit to Mum and Dad down in Bognor Regis, we went to see Clint Eastwood's latest film "Gran Torino". Both fabulous, moving and thought provoking films which Saboohi and I really enjoyed. Today however we used 2 complimentary tickets that I got from work, to go as see the "Who do you think you are? Live 2009" exhibition at Olympia in London. We sat in on 2 talks, one by Leslie Garratt who recounted her experiences on the show and her family story - which included a great grandfather who "accidently" poisoned his wife with carbolic acid! The whole story was very suspect but he got away with it! Leslie waqs very entertaining and told us many stories related to her family that hadn't be covered in the programme. We also sat in on a DNA workshop which explained how we are all descended from a single human being (or maybe 2) who would have lived in Africa millions of years ago. Also, the way our DNA is constructed means that we are most closely linked to our Great Grandparents (father's male line and Mother's female line). It was fascinating, if a little heavy at times for me. I purchased membership of "Findmypast.com" so that I can try and find out which member of my Grandmother Lydia's family went over to Australia. She told us about it just before she died but all we know is that it was her mother's sister. Let's see what I can find out.