The Family Sheppard

I add another blog to my writing exploits


In 1892 my great, great auntie Elizabeth Mary Sheppard compiled a history of the Sheppard Family of Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire. It's an amazing document - two huge tomes full of delicate hand writing, photographs, pictures and a complex family tree (pedigree). This incredible resource should be made more widely available, especially as so many people like to trace their family histories now. I don't have to do that - I have it all to hand! So I'm going to put up what I can, over time, to help others who may be seeking information on the family.

What I would love is to have the books transcribed, maybe one day. Meanwhile, if you'd like an insight in the Sheppard Family, visit my new blog:

The Sheppard Family History

Tardy!

I was admonished today for not having updated my blog in the last month. Oh dear oh dear! Well, actually - I haven't been up to much mischief the last four weeks!

Oh yeah, we had Christmas, and New Year, but even then I was well behaved! And no gigs so no shinnanigans there either.

But.. I do have some stories I should write up. Like my next door neighbour's wedding. Ann is 70 and she married Ernie on 5th December 2008. It was the first time any of us had been to a church for ages without it being a funeral! It was a lovely day and though December was a dull well month, that one day was shining and bright.

I have been busy at work - I now run two blogs for my business (www.thecompletetrainer.blogspot.com and of course add new products to the work website (www.thecompletetrainer.com) - all of which keeps me busy.

I use online networking (Ecademy and LinkedIn) and and busy emailing and marketing and doing adwords and also ... would you believe.. helping to promote a holiday cottage (Cley Cottages) and some other stuff for my boss (Angie).

Coo! What a lot of links! But, that's what my life is at the moment - a virtual world! My business is virtual, I spend time on line writing (my writers circle) and my music life is... online too!

Ah, yes, and I've been working on a brand new project to publish music. Sooo... all in all I've been busy, but I've not been doing those kind of things that I like to blog about - weird gigs, odd parties, getting lost in strange places, trips, visits etc etc.

But that doesn't mean I won't be doing some exciting things this year... oh yeah, I have some plans I can tell you! And, knowing my luck, any gigs I do are bound to give me something to write about one way or another.

After all, the best subject in the world is human life, and my oh my, it's everywhere!