Great Auntie Olwen

Last Saturday afternoon I poped in to see my grandfather's sister, Olwen, who lives not far from where my parents live, in Craig-y-don. She is now 86 years old and I am glad to report that she is in relatively good health. As I had not seen her in quite some time we had a nice chat and a cup of tea and cake. We also got round to talking about the family and she was quite interested in my recent findings, especially those from across the water. She was particularly interested in what I had found about Morris Owen Evans, who was an uncle to her mother, Grace Ellen Evans. In fact she wants me to get copies of various documents. It's hard to believe but her father was born as long ago as 1870! Her grandfather Evan in 1841! So obviously she will know quite a bit about family history. She went to California in 1972 and met with family over there, including her auntie Mabel's brother, Milton who drove her to various places for visits. One of the visits, she recalls, is to a cousin she had not met before, Maggie. This would be her auntie Margaret's daughter who had emigrated to Kentucky in 1913, then moved to Akron, Ohio in around 1920. I have not yet tracked down this particular family and Olwen does not know anything more. So, next task on the family history trail...

A Family visit

A couple of weeks ago my 2 cousins came to visit my mum and dad at their home in Llandudno. Paul has been living in the south of England for many years and works at restoring houses, and Wena has recently returned to live in North Wales with her husbad Graham. I hope to see them again soon.

In this photo:

Wena, Paul, Me, Linda (my sister), my dad

Photo taken by Paul's wife, Dianne.

Simon's Exam results

It's been an eventful week for my son Simon which keeps getting better for him. He got his exam results this morning and he has obtained 8 GCSE's which include a couple of B's for both History and Welsh. We are all very proud of him, especially as it has been a traumatic couple of years for him at the school. He will have an interview tomorrow to see if he is allowed to enter the 6th form. He has the grades in the subjects he wants to A levels in so hopefully some more good news tomorrow. His nain took us all for lunch to The Estuary at Glan Conwy and we had a very good meal and a very nice time. It was nice to sink a couple if beers for a change!

Simon is 16

My oldest son was 16 yesterday so we decided to take him to a place he didn't think he would ever get the chance to go. We took him to Manchester United's ground Old Trafford where they take people around the ground on stadium tours. He was very pleased with the 'present that we could not wrap up' and bought him a new Man United football shirt with 'Tevez' on the back of it. We also took him to lunch at the Red Cafe, and I can recommend the buffet there. The tour guide, Stewart, was very entertaining and luckily I got away from revealing the knowledge of my football team. It would have been very awkward if he had found that I support Leeds United as they are not so hot nowadays and there is fierce rivalry between the two!

Judging at how many times Simon thanked us during the day I think we got it right this year!

Ben's birthday today

It's Benjamin birthday today. He is my youngest son and was born in Ysbyty Gwynedd, Bangor. And he did go to school today (under protest!). Besides he had a humanities test and most of the class knew it was his special day! He got up extra early to open a couple of presents and a few cards, and one present arrived from Play.com on the day, which was the new Tomb Raider game on PS2. He is as I write playing on his other new game, Spiderman 3, on his Wii console.

Happy birthday, Ben!