You remember all the kerfuffle over the television licence...used to get a free one then it was snatched away...we'd been receiving increasingly cross demands that we buy a licence...the last letter was written in bright red lettering...never a good sign. So I e-mailed and said we don't have a television and they sent a letter to sign...officially declaring we don't have a television set.
A letter plopped into the box this morning...'On further consideration of your pensionable rights, we are pleased to inform you that you are entitled to a free television licence...and a reduction in the cost of your electricity each quarter'
Then I had a sharp poke in the eye from the chap who was insisting his Alice was my Alice and I was insisting his Alice had nothing to do with me...erm...his Alice was my Great Grand Aunt actually. And his Great Grandpa was my Great Grand Uncle.
This branch of the family did so much bed-hopping that it's a wonder they could keep track of who was who...just to make it even more complicated, was that one of my Great grandfathers had two families...at the same time.
It was Selina who really excelled herself...four 'husbands' only one of which was legal...those late Victorians weren't quite as straight-laced as would first appear...
Morning Vashti, Good news eh,are you going to get a television,also a little off you electricity is better than nothing. Your relatives are straight out of Catherine Cookson,There's got to be a novel there. Best wishes Bulpit
Nothing straight laced about the Victorians vashti. Quite the opposite as your family have proved. You couldn't make it up could you. Great news though regarding the t.v. licence for the t.v. you don't have and the electricity reduction. You do have electricity don't you?
You're not wrong there Vashti. There are so many skeletons that I've dug out of the closet in my family while researching. Even my adoptive parents (who were born in the Victorian years) liked to preach about all that was good. I found out that my adoptive maternal Grandmother (who was a right bible basher) who had 8 children, never even married their Father until way after they were all born. Yet she was treated by her family as a saint on earth. My adoptive Mother was the same.
She and my Father lived together for years before they were married ( when I was 11 years old) because either or both their legal spouses were still living. But it was a case of "Don't do as I do, do as I tell you! Talk about hypocrisy! Growing up, I was so innocent, because my "righteous" Mother never told me anything, that the big wide world came as a terrible shock to me. I desperately needed help and guidance as a teenager, but they couldn't see it. My place was to get married, have children and look after the house - and that was my role in life! So of course, I ended up with someone I hated (for reasons not suitable here) and being underage -which was 21 back then - they could have stopped it, but didn't. That was the "Victorian " way, you could do anything you liked as long as you kept it undercover and outwardly showed the world how "respectable" you were!
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