Our WW2 Allotment and encounter with a Flying Bomb

In WW2 my parents had an allotment at Wormholt Park about 25 minutes walk from our flat at Emlyn Gardens. Mention of WW2 use on the Council web site
Wormholt Park: The First Hundred Years - H&F Libraries and Archives Blog

Just north across the railway was one of my future Schools. I sometimes walked this way to school.  
St Clement Danes Holborn Estate Grammar School

We grew vegatables and I loved shelling fresh peas.

Plus a crop of sweet peas.

The poles on which those kind of plants grew are in that photo of me and Dad. As well as running an ice cream factory he was also driving an ambulance for ARP Air Raid Precautions.  

One day in 1944 enjoying a day at the allotment there was suddenly the chug chug sound of a V-1_flying_bomb. 

The V-1 was the first of the Vergeltungswaffen (V-weapons) deployed for the terror bombing of London. 
It was up high flying north over my future school and vanished into the far distance. 
Very nasty feeling seeing it. I do not know what damage it caused.

The allotment was great.

V2 

Whilst I am talking about these awful weapons. 
The first V-2 rocket (German: Vergeltungswaffe 2, lit. 'Vengeance Weapon 2') to hit London came down about 2 miles from our flat killing 63-year-old Mrs. Ada Harrison, three-year-old Rosemary Clarke, and Sapper Bernard Browning on leave from the Royal Engineers

A V-2 I know more about on my webpage.
November 1944 Bomb Damage in Wandsworth - Hazlehurst Road Garratt Lane
I am very pleased that my posting of a memory from Hilda eventually became a major event in that part of London as you will see on the page. 

 

This is a Facit calculator. Type in numbers. To multiply turn the handle as many as wanted. You move along for big numbers. Fun but it was first real machine I had at work. This is 1960s. I was quite proficient.

My Tree Suffix field with DNA and other Labels

  DNA and other Labels using the Suffix field

Suffix field is often quoted as for Dr or Jnr and such like

My usage. It helps in tree search and following lines through 

DNA ancestors of my matches. Cousins then aunt or uncle and back to my grandparents

TLINK tree link. DNALink well a cousin who does not DNA match me has a DNA link to someone I have as a match

gfmf - g my grandparents. father mother father side which would lankshear skeggs skeggs

gmmm would be Eagle Robbins Russell

and so on of course. no G would be aunt/uncle/cousin

mfm Eagle Eagle King

nr not research which I use for spouse of anut/uncle/cousin

    of course their children would be cousins but the spouse if no a blood relative

What I watched this week

 Inside Man (TV Mini Series 2022) - IMDb

Chilli con carne

1 tbsp olive oil

2 large onions, finely chopped

3 garlic cloves, crushed

500g British beef mince

1 tbsp ground cumin

1 tsp smoked paprika (pimentón), hot or sweet, depending on how hot you like your chilli con carne

¼ tsp ground cinnamon

400g tin chopped tomatoes

250ml fresh beef stock

400g tin red kidney beans, drained and rinsed

Heat the oil in a large sauté pan over a medium-high heat and add the onions. Cook for 10 minutes, stirring often, until softened and translucent. Add the garlic and fry, stirring, for 2 minutes more until fragrant, then tip out into a bowl.

Turn up the heat to high, add the beef to the pan and season well, pressing it down with a wooden spoon and breaking it up so it browns all over. When it’s browned, tip out the juices from the pan and discard, then return the onions to the pan with the cumin, paprika and cinnamon. Cook, stirring, for 2-3 minutes until fragrant, then add the tomatoes with a pinch of sugar and the beef stock.

Bring to a simmer and cook, stirring occasionally, for 20-25 minutes until the beef has taken on the flavours of the spices and the sauce is reduced and thick. Add the kidney beans and cook for 5 minutes more, then taste, season and serve with your choice of accompaniments.

Easy Scones

1 cup pure cream
1 cup lemonade

3 cups self raising flour

pinch of salt

flour, for dusting

jam and cream to serve

 

METHOD

 

Preheat oven to 200°C or 180°C fan forced. Lightly flour a baking tray.

 

Place all ingredients in a bowl. Mix lightly until combined. Scrape onto a floured surface. Knead lightly and shape into a rectangle about 3 cm high. Cut out with a 5cm scone cutter.

 

Lightly dust with flour and bake for 15-20 minutes or until the top is browned.

 

Serve with jam and cream. Jam first of course

 

Salmon, Asparagus and Pea Frittata

Salmon, Asparagus and Pea Frittata | Shift Nutrition

A friend gave me this great recipe. So easy to prepare. About 5 minutes and just 15 to cook in the oven.

I only used 3 eggs but had all the other items that recipe says which are not many but all good

So here is my attempt. On left as prepared and on right after 15 minutes. Really tasty and I think good for you.

Ingredients

• 3 eggs for one person
• 2 tbsp natural yoghurt
• Some Smoked salmon chopped
• Some Asparagus pieces
• Some frozen peas

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 200c
• Place eggs and yoghurt in a bowl and beat using a fork
• Stir through other ingredients.
• Spray a medium sized baking dish or oven proof frying pan with oil and pour in egg mixture. 
• Bake for 15 minutes 

Burmese Chicken Curry

Burmese Chicken Curry

1 chicken, 1 1/2  kg (3 Ib) .

 1/2 cup (125 ml) oil

2 teaspoons turmeric

1 cup (250- ml) chicken

3 teaspoons salt stock

6 onions

1 1/2 tablespoons rice flour  

2 teaspoons grated fresh ginger

3 cups (750 ml) coconut milk.

5 cloves garlic, minced ;..

1 teaspoon crushed red chilli peppers

 

1. Rub the chicken with the turmeric and place in a large saucepan. Add enough water to cover the chicken and bring to the boil. Reduce heat, add the salt and simmer until the chicken is tender.

2. Remove chicken from the saucepan and set aside until cool enough to handle. (Reserve the chicken stock.) Remove the chicken meat from the bones.

3. Finely chop four of the onions and mix together with the ginger, garlic and chilli peppers. Mix with the chicken and allow to stand for 1/2 hour.

4. Slice the remaining two onions and saute in the oil for three minutes. 5. Add the chicken mixture and cook until brown.

6. Stir in the chicken stock and bring to the boil. Reduce heat and simmer.

7. Mix the rice flour with one cup of the coconut milk. Slowly add to the chicken, stirring constantly.

8. Pour In the remaining coconut milk and cook over a medium heat for 1/2

hour.

Serves 4-6.

Note: If coconut milk is not available, heat together 31/2 cups (875 ml) of water with 2 1/4 cups (565 ml) of desiccated coconut. Allow to stand for 15 minutes, then strain.

Drumsticks Stew in Pressure Cooker

 Drumsticks Stew in Pressure Cooker

Wonderful Winter food

Potatoes

Celery

Carrots

Pea

Beans Tinned Kidney perhaps

Onion

Chicken stock with cornflour

Oregano 2 tspn

Curry powder 1 tspn

Bring to Pressure at least 15 mins and then 10 minutes on low heat

SATAY SAUCE

 SATAY SAUCE

From my email 27/10/2006...

This is the one that Ginnie thinks she got from us and it sounds right

1 peeled onion

2 cloves garlic

1/2 teaspoon Chilli powder

2 teaspoon curry powder

2.5 cms peeled ginger (is that 2 tspoons?)

4 oz skinned peanuts finely chopped (I think I used to use crunchy peanut butter anyway)

2 tablespoons peanut butter

1/2 cup vinegar

1/3 cup sugar

1 teaspoon salt (phew seems a lot)

1/3 cup fruit chutney

1/2 to 1 Cup of water

simmer slowly to reduce amount

Are Neanderthals Human? ETC ETC

The experts talk about Neanderthals and Sapiens as distinct species. And it used to be that Sapiens did ethnic cleansing and rid the world of Neanderthals. Last couple of years things seem to be changing. First of all I read about Neanderthal DNA in the Sapiens genome. Then interbreeding.

2020 Sep, This really is shaking long help assumptions
Y chromosomes of Neandertals and Denisovans now sequenced | EurekAlert! Science News

2015 Dec
The Archaeology News Network: Study differentiates facial growth in Neanderthals and modern humans which to me is very strange analysis... Waffle about facial growth being sufficiently different

However, our findings, based upon facial growth patterns, indicate they are indeed sufficiently distinct from one another.

Read more at: http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com.au/2015/12/study-differentiates-facial-growth-in.html#.VmdB5xDpxGM
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However, our findings, based upon facial growth patterns, indicate they are indeed sufficiently distinct from one another.

Read more at: http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com.au/2015/12/study-differentiates-facial-growth-in.html#.VmdB5xDpxGM
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However, our findings, based upon facial growth patterns, indicate they are indeed sufficiently distinct from one another.

Read more at: http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com.au/2015/12/study-differentiates-facial-growth-in.html#.VmdB5xDpxGM
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However, our findings, based upon facial growth patterns, indicate they are indeed sufficiently distinct from one another.

Read more at: http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com.au/2015/12/study-differentiates-facial-growth-in.html#.VmdB5xDpxGM
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However, our findings, based upon facial growth patterns, indicate they are indeed sufficiently distinct from one another.

Read more at: http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com.au/2015/12/study-differentiates-facial-growth-in.html#.VmdB5xDpxGM
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However, our findings, based upon facial growth patterns, indicate they are indeed sufficiently distinct from one another.

Read more at: http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com.au/2015/12/study-differentiates-facial-growth-in.html#.VmdB5xDpxGM
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And these examples come from one week in September 2012

Neanderthals and human lived side by side in Middle eastern caves and even interbred, research finds | Mail Online

Europeans did not inherit pale skins from Neanderthals - life - 26 September 2012 - New Scientist

NOVA | Are Neanderthals Human?

Neanderthals ... They're Just Like Us?

March 2013
 Tiny monkey teeth suggest Flores hobbit was a dwarf - life - 06 March 2013 - New Scientist

 The way we weren't: U of Minnesota biologist debunks myth that humans peaked in Paleolithic era

First early human fossil found in Africa makes debut - quite clearly it is really saying Yes we have worked it out and then but no we haven't

This one is fun The Neanderthals May Have Died Out Because of ... Bunnies? - Megan Garber - The Atlantic


And finally a fairly in depth discussion of DNA aspects -
Interbreeding With Neanderthals | DiscoverMagazine.com
 good work  the data is being collected and analysed

25 March more ....

 Neanderthal brains focused on vision and movement leaving less room for social networking so they didn't do Facebook?

Human Fossil Reveals No Genetic Bone Disorder | Human Evolution | LiveScience so the original research on Turkana Boy was all wrong the bones were assembled badly - sounds like The Brontosaurus never existed: A tale from the Bone Wars | The Sideshow - Yahoo! News - in essence the wrong skull

German team sequences full Neanderthal genome for the first time and makes it available to scientists for FREE | Mail Online

 Neanderthals: Facts About Our Extinct Human Relatives | LiveScience
 There is some debate as to whether they were a distinct species of the Homo genus (Homo neanderthalensis) or a subspecies of Homo sapiens

2014
'Neanderthal' Remains Actually Medieval Human | LiveScience 


Neanderthal speech - hyoid bone hypothesis - : Archaeology News from Past Horizons

Diabetes Risk May Come from Neanderthal Gene | LiveScience



And now N's weren't stupid
Study questions Neandertal inferiority to early modern humans

and
Modern humans left the home continent in at least two waves  


2015 and still High Imagination at work
Dogs bred from wolves helped humans take over from Neanderthals in Europe | Daily Mail Online
Wolves hounded large animals like mammoths etc and then when animal exhausted the homo sapiens moved in for the kill.... This meant the Neanderthals missed out on the prey and so died out....
Questions: Evidence that only Sapiens domesticated dogs? and that Neanderthals didn't use dogs and couldn't find anything else to eat.

St Piran's: Britain's oldest chapel to be re-excavated

Exciting news we visited St Piran's in 1955 - wow a 6th century chapel... Just amazing those early days of Christianity in Britain

The Archaeology News Network: Britain's oldest chapel to be re-excavated













And here are Mum and Dad a bit frozen well a tricky flash shot as very dark inside the protecting bunker ....

Above written in Jan 2014and now August 2015 an update on the site including colour photo above showing the altar where my parents stood in 1955

St Pirans Oratory lots of good pictures


The Archaeology News Network: Skeletons found at Cornish chapel dated to Dark Ages

Anthea Holder-Grobe a great cleaning lady