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2008 - March 17th - Wednesday

JH RECEIVED A FORWARDED email FROM KATHY FROM EDWIN IN CANADA – TELLING US ALL THAT HIS WIFE, SHEILA, HAD DIED ON VALENTINE’S DAY.

2008 - March 18th - Tuesday

JH rang Kathy and had a long chat.  JH told K that the latter need not be ‘upset’ at sending a letter to Edwin in Canada – hoping that 2008 would be better year for him and Sheila; JH had not sent an email to Edwin [although she had been given his new email address by Kathy] as – having read, again, the letter which Edwin had sent to JH at Christmas Time – JH did consider that, perhaps, the time had come to wish – for Edwin and Sheila – what they would want for themselves.  Sheila’s death, on Valentine’s Day – ‘of all days’, made Kathy sad, but JH said that K did not need to be so: K had been the only Hipsey from the Hipsey Clan who had been in touch with Edwin recently, and JH was sure that Edwin appreciated her doing so.  Kathy had sent a condolence card to Edwin, since she had received his email.


 

Kathy was flagging when JH spoke to K on the phone during the morning; in fact, Kathy had cancelled an exam - to do with her IT NVQ studies - for today, and was still in her dressing gown, and planned to go back to bed.  She and Ralph had, somehow or other, made their way to an auction show room yesterday and, much as they enjoyed their trip, they were – today – rather weary; furthermore, Kathy bemoaned her inability to examine/collect/enjoy some antiques of her own; but Ralph had spotted some ‘antique’ die-cast models which he hoped he could eventually add to his collection.  Ralph had had the operation on his knee: however, there was some problem with sorting out the insurance for their trip to Cyprus in May, but this was mainly to do with concerns about Ralph’s diabetes.  JH and K, yet again, got out the Family Tree: K still could not remember which member of the Hipsey Family had deceased in 2007; JH said that she wanted to know if Sylvia Tewes was still alive so that JH could email her son, Lars, about Sylvia being on the British Library’s database; JH was delighted to hear that K and R planned to join the Essex Society for Family History, furthermore, they were eagerly awaiting JH’s article about Elizabeth Hipsey’s transportation to America – but JH said that would have to wait until after we had seen each other on 1st May.  Kathy did not know of anyone who had attempted, recently, to input the Family Tree onto a ‘proper’ electronic database: we had been anticipating Edwin in Canada doing a lot of updating, but now thought it would be a splendid idea to keep in mind a plan to finally have a Family Tree on a website/CD.  Kathy said that she would pay JH for any expenses JH incurred by, perhaps, employing the help of a professional genealogist, but JH assured K that JH had free access to all the necessary genealogy databases available at Plymouth Library; furthermore, she had no doubt that she could ask the Staff in the Library for help – but setting up a digital Family Tree would also have to wait until later in 2008 - the only thing that JH is short of is Time!

JH told Kathy that JH had picked up a Daily Mail, dated 16th March, whilst on the train back from Exeter, and so already had the cutting about ‘How my new kidney gave me a taste for reading Dostoevsky’ – so K did not need to send that cutting!  [JH observes that ‘she doesn’t believe a word of it’, ie, the ‘rumour’ doing the rounds – that an organ recipient can acquire some of the ‘attributes’ of the donor such as becoming an intellectual bibliophile!  If this were so, JH would assume that nasty ‘traits’ could also be acquired – which would certainly not be thought of as a suitable add-on extra!]


 
 		Link to "How my new kidney gave me a taste for reading Dostoevsky"
Daily Mail 15th March 2008



 
 
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