If You Could Live In A Mansion

I have the same. It takes the worry out of keeping all those little pest out.

Yes, he is named 'big spider'. We also have a vole that runs past our french windows, he is called 'voley'. Occasionally, we get 'mousey' climbing in out waterfall, and before we got rid of the bird feeder 'ratty' called regularly.

Just remembered, there is also 'Maggie' the magpie.

Incidentally, you do all know that spiders attract bugs? Their webs give off a smell that brings them in. They don't just crash into the webs for the fun of it.

Give me a spider over a millepede anyday.

I saw a small spider - no, two actually - one yesterday and one today. I just let them be. They don't bother me and leave me alone, so I make the courtesy of leaving them alone. Plus, they control other bugs for me.

It is all a system.

I don't like things crawling, flying around me.

I have only been there on a one day bus trip from Wales but, from what I saw, it is beautiful.

Ireland is certainly very rainy, cassie! It'd be different living there, but every time I step off that airplane in Ireland, I also feel I've come home. There is an energy there: an atmosphere many find alluring.

Ireland is one of my favourite countries in the world.

We had a long holiday in ireland when I was a kid, and I have some great memories. It was my dad's choice, as he wanted to visit his relatives.

I am also 25% irish, and 12.5% english, the rest is scottish.  

I think genetics are vast globally. I've got genes from all over the former Europe! But that's OK: it adds colour to my heritage.

Mums mum was English but her grandparents on the maternal sidewere Irish and Cornish, mums dad and his family was from Cork..So back to the Emerald Isle again...

I know on my dads side his mother was Irish Dublin and born in a street just behind the Guinness plant at St James Gate.
His father is unknown and this may be about to cause problems.. My nan ran away when she got pregnant she was unmarried and everyone thought his dad might have been a soldier English or US,  but on his birth certificate nan put her brothers name and everyone has said she did this to hide the fact she wasnt married... But what if she wasnt lying?
What if it wasnt her shame she was running from?

My niece is building the family tree shes done a DNA test and that has bought up interesting results ( she says) now she wants me to do one so she can see where dads family especially his dad fits in...
The fact that my surname was never legally my name is enough of a headache I dont want to share with authorities finding that the DNA came ony from St James Gate might be more than anyone bargained for.

That's fascinating. A woman of mystery.

The saying 'Let sleeping dogs lie' comes to me, or even 'Ignorance is bliss'. It's one reason why I have never been that interested in investigating. I know that there is apparently strong rumours of someone in our family tree having some kind of affair with someone of higher standing (as it was years ago) with the usual consequences but somewhat distant from our part of the tree. My niece and a cousin are both independently assembling the family tree although I haven't seen their current results.

I was about to say the same . Cassie can be on TV for this. There used to be a show about people who were searching for relatives.

 I used to own a 600 year old house. 3 times people turned up and claimed some ancestral history. Muggins here, showed them round, but constantly thinking "Why am I doing this?

One of them did return with some interesting pictures and historical documents.