Tilting At Windmills Or How To Wind Your Son-in-Law Up...

Funny how different people are sometimes...I was quite excited to find a whole branch of Reuben's family were well-known Millers...they lived in and operated several mills around Norfolk...a couple are now open to the public and there are many quotes about the owners in various publications...

So I found them on the tree and showed him this afternoon...he said he wasn't doing that side of his family...then he said the only mill he knew they owned was somewhere entirely different...with the evidence of the others there in black and white on an excellent site about windmills.

Could have cheerfully smacked him...

Maybe it's more about the lack of historical knowledge...Millers were the backbone of village and small town life...no flour, meant no bread. They also employed much of the workforce of a village...carting the wheat and oats...working in the mill itself...and delivering the flour to shops etc.

So I shan't be doing anymore of that side of the tree...

Then we had a bit of a to-do about Lunatic Asylums...Reuben says the term Lunatic is awful...I say it was the term used then...might be offensive to us now, but it wasn't when it was the correct terminology for the times. I told him about Mad-Houses then...just to wind him up really. Mad-Houses were private dwellings who were paid to take on a lunatic...if you took a 'dirty lunatic' you were paid more...

Reuben's sulking now...actually he sulked a bit yesterday after the Windows debacle...he'll get over it I expect.