Instead of Sudoku

So I got myself a subscription account to Genes reunited which gives be reasonable access to census data and vital records data that otherwise you have to pay-per-view for. As a result I can, until my sub runs out at Christmas, click on the website and search for family members hitherto unknown.
  
M f-list has all suffered from this already in that I've been posting random bits of family history... but... it's getting addictive.

Yesterday I found out about four genrations of Hitchmans that I hadn't known about...

Now if only I'd done some work as well.... Read more behind the cut

( Hitchman history behind the cut )

And here are the obligatory pics. This is the second William Hitchman Rose with two of his aunts taken in 1904


And this is William Hitchman Rose

Instead of Sudoku

So I got myself a subscription account to Genes reunited which gives be reasonable access to census data and vital records data that otherwise you have to pay-per-view for. As a result I can, until my sub runs out at Christmas, click on the website and search for family members hitherto unknown.
  
M f-list has all suffered from this already in that I've been posting random bits of family history... but... it's getting addictive.

Yesterday I found out about four genrations of Hitchmans that I hadn't known about...

Now if only I'd done some work as well.... Read more behind the cut

( Hitchman history behind the cut )

And here are the obligatory pics. This is the second William Hitchman Rose with two of his aunts taken in 1904


And this is William Hitchman Rose

A Review of Cineworld

No this is not a movie review, this is a review of the place where I went to see a movie. The movie? Journey to the Centre of the Earth. Movie review? Mostly harmless - a bit of cinematic froth which would have been better NOT in 3-D, especially on the Indiana Jones-style mine-car roller-coaster ride (coming to a theme park near you, possibly).

We had the unfortunate experience of picking a movie that started just ten minutes before the Mama Mia movie and for the first time in many years there was a queue stretching out of the cinema door and across the front of the building. This would have been fine except... Mama Mia had already sold out, but no one in Cineworld had the sense to a) tell the queue and b) set up a separate non-time sensitive queue where the Mama Mia folks could buy tickets for the next showing in two hours time and c) pull all those of us with impending film start times into an express line and GET THINGS MOVING.

How much ingenuity would it have taken?

In the end we politely asked if we could jump the queue in front of the four twinset and pearls ladies who were determined to buy tickets for the eight o'clock showing of Mama Mia and if we hadn't we'd have missed our movie start. it was that close.

We missed the ads (which is a Good Thing) missed the trailers (which is a Bad Thing) and finally made our way into an almost empty cinema auditorium literally about fifteen seconds before the movie started.

A Review of Cineworld

No this is not a movie review, this is a review of the place where I went to see a movie. The movie? Journey to the Centre of the Earth. Movie review? Mostly harmless - a bit of cinematic froth which would have been better NOT in 3-D, especially on the Indiana Jones-style mine-car roller-coaster ride (coming to a theme park near you, possibly).

We had the unfortunate experience of picking a movie that started just ten minutes before the Mama Mia movie and for the first time in many years there was a queue stretching out of the cinema door and across the front of the building. This would have been fine except... Mama Mia had already sold out, but no one in Cineworld had the sense to a) tell the queue and b) set up a separate non-time sensitive queue where the Mama Mia folks could buy tickets for the next showing in two hours time and c) pull all those of us with impending film start times into an express line and GET THINGS MOVING.

How much ingenuity would it have taken?

In the end we politely asked if we could jump the queue in front of the four twinset and pearls ladies who were determined to buy tickets for the eight o'clock showing of Mama Mia and if we hadn't we'd have missed our movie start. it was that close.

We missed the ads (which is a Good Thing) missed the trailers (which is a Bad Thing) and finally made our way into an almost empty cinema auditorium literally about fifteen seconds before the movie started.