Re: Re: Eccentric relatives

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Sadly, I think too many people would be upset! Bear in mind this is a man

who was divorced twice in an era when divorcing at all was a huge stigma.

He actually left a long trail of hurt behind him in his younger days...

One of my Dad's cousins is supposed to be writing about my Great-Grandfather

though - he led an incredible life: was a colonel in the Indian Raj and kept

a diary - fantastic stories of tiger hunting (tragically, but in those days

conservation was an unknown concept); elephant racing at the Raja's palaces

etc. He was also involved in one of the first ever air crashes - flying

from France to India and they crash-landed in the Sahara and had to survive

for nearly a fortnight on food and drink meant to last a day! He also had a

camera - the photos are quite amazing! You should see the sizes of some of

the handlebar moustaches he mixed with!!

Vicki Portman

http://www.plushpants.co.uk

Re: Eccentric relatives

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> > He was lovely! See my post Vicki's Grandpa for more tales... I

> could go on all day - there are plenty of them

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> You should write them all down in a book - the stories so far have

> been really readable and make you want to laugh and cry at the same

> time! I bet it would be saleable and maybe you could put the

> proceeds into a local cat's home for the welfare of ginger pussies!!

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> Ruth

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