06-03-2010, 03:22 PM
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(06-03-2010, 10:53 AM)Jamminitin Wrote: I visited my sister in Bovingdon. We did the touristy stuff. Was there for 16 days but that was back in '98. Definitely time to go again.
The Chilterns? Lovely spot, where my hubby's family mainly live now. They were all in Coventry but have gravitated out as they move onto new lives and jobs. He was born in Surrey (in a field of cows-honest) where his father was a research scientist at the time.
I'm Dorset born and bred, my mother discovered her grand-father ran away to sea age 14 from his home in the Chilterns too. We thought he was a canalways child but it turns out he used the canals to get to Liverpool and his father was a gardener for a country house. Her family were/is either in the Navy or fishermen. My cousin is a Crab fisherman.
My fathers family were really exciting! Each and everyone was a shepherd, except my in grandfather's generation. He was a Miller and one of his older brother's went off to fight in the First World War.









