User:Adam
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Driving licence |
Pen / pencil |
Maps |
Diary |
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Camera |
Charged cam batteries |
Camera charger |
Lenses, filter, brush |
Camera cover |
Binoculars |
Phone & chargers |
Adaptor plug |
Headphones |
USB cables |
Sunglasses |
Day rucksack |
Head torch |
Charged Batteries |
Multi-tool |
GPS |
Compass |
Umbrella |
Clothes |
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Trousers |
Dresses |
Pyjamas |
Jacket |
T-shirts |
Towels |
Underwear |
Socks |
Sandals/flipflops |
Shoes |
Fun |
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Bucket & spade |
Animal/Bird Guides |
Balls |
Frisbee |
Kite |
Toys |
Beach ball |
Hiking |
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Hiking boots |
Gaiters |
Waterproof jacket |
Waterproof trousers |
Picnic blanket |
Iso bum mats |
Winter |
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Fleece |
Scarf |
Woolly hat |
Thermal undies |
Skiing |
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Ski boots |
Ski gloves |
Ski goggles |
Salopettes |
Cable lock |
Toiletries |
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Lip balm |
Sun cream |
Sun block |
Insect repellent |
Washbag |
First aid kit |
Nail scissors & file |
Wipes |
Hairclips |
Comb |
Tissues |
Vitamins & Supplements |
Camping |
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Isomats |
Sleeping bags |
Dry bags for clothes |
String |
Washing line |
Knife |
Stove |
Stove fuel |
Waterproof matches, lighter |
Thermos flask |
Water bottles |
Straps |
Cutlery |
Cups |
Pans |
Pan scrubs |
Poo spade |
Toilet roll |
Pump, puncture repair kit |
Water filter |
Sewing kit |
Keep-cups |
Medicines & Creams |
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Aveeno / cream |
Dermol |
Skin Salvation |
Puff tube |
Salbutamol |
Preventer |
Epipen |
Vaporiser for nighttime |
Eucalyptus oil / olbas oil |
Sunburn cream |
Antacid / kaolin for stomach |
Calpol |
Nurofen children |
Anti-histamine |
Sleeping bag liner |
Dustmite air, furniture spray |
Burn-eze / Wasp-eze |
Instant cool-packs |
First Aid Kit |
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Elastic bandages for sprains |
Triangular bandages for slings & dressings |
Sterile gauze roll |
Hand / wound sanitising spray / wipes |
Iodine / betamine |
Cotton swabs |
Melolin pads/self-adhesive pads, various sizes |
Micropore tape |
Band Aid plaster tape |
Antiseptic dusting powder |
Waterproof plasters, various sizes |
Butterfly plasters |
Blister pads |
Corn / Huhneraugen plasters |
Aspirin |
Paracetemol |
Ibuprofen |
Codeine painkillers |
Travel sickness pills |
Anti-histamine medicine |
Anti-histamine / Sting relief cream/gel |
Heat pen for stings |
Saline for eyes |
Electrolytes for diarrhoea |
Ispaghula husk sachets for constipation |
Cotton buds for ears |
Ear plugs |
Tweezers |
Scissors |
Scalpel |
Magnifying glass |
Safety pins |
Nit comb |
Tick remover |
Nail clippers |
First Aid manual |
Space blanket |
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International Times
Weather
- http://www.accuweather.com/
- http://uk.weather.com/
- http://www.metcheck.com/
- http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/forecast/five-day
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/
Holidays and Trips
London
- Parkside Farm PYO
- warren farm, east ewell
- saltbox hill, Biggin hill [1]
- https://heartwood.woodlandtrust.org.uk/
- https://www.rspb.org.uk/reserves-and-events/reserves-a-z/rye-meads
UK
- Tarka Trail
- Camel Trail
- 10 Best UK beaches
- Rockpooling
- Helford Passage in Cornwall is my favourite place to go rockpooling and has a rich abundance of sea life. Offshore there are beds of maerl, a rare seaweed. There are beds of eelgrass, the only British flowering plant that grows in the sea, which provides shelter for sea hares and sea lemons. Plus, there are 80 species of fish in the river. The mudflats support invertebrates such as the peacock worm, Sabella pavonina. See http://www.helfordmarineconservation.co.uk/ for details of events.
- Broadcaster Bill Oddie says Kimmeridge in Dorset is the UK's best rockpooling site. The bay has a double-low tide, which will give you more than three hours to explore the shore. Smooth rock ledges reach far out into the bay, allowing easy viewing of marine life. The clear, shallow water is an ideal habitat for a multitude of rockpool creatures from anemones to sea slugs, as well as nurseries for juvenile fish.
- Wembury in South Devon is famed for its fantastic rockpooling. You can find at least eight types of crab, as well as spiny starfish, squat lobsters, and fish such as blennies, gobies and rockling. Wembury Marine Centre runs "rockpool rambles", see https://www.wemburymarinecentre.org/visit-us Dunseverick Harbour (near Portrush, Co Antrim, Northern Ireland) has the deepest natural pools in Northern Ireland, with an extraordinary range of marine wildlife, including the sea hare, china limpet and needle whelk. Rathlin Island nearby is home to sponges found nowhere else in the world.
- Killiedraught Bay, within the St Abbs and Eyemouth Voluntary Marine Reserve in Berwickshire, is one of the finest rockpooling sites in Scotland. You could find animals such as the breadcrumb sponge, bootlace worm and butterfish. The cliffs at St Abbs Head host 50,000 seabirds in spring and summer, such as guillemots, razorbills, kittiwakes and shags.
- Moray Firth - [2]
Abroad
St Clements Bakery Date & Coconut Chewy Bars 100g
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Water filter
- Custom made ec105 (the non pi version) with two extra pods on the back
- 1 sediment filter in the first pod
- 4 carbon filters
- 1 post carbon filter on the top before the magnetiser
- 1 reverse osmosis membrane filter
- Osmio Water
- German website: [3] - apparently carbon filters remove much off the DS and should be applied depending on the local water (e.g. London)
Body measurements
- sleeve length cuff to cuff: 186cm minimum
- trousers: 102 / 106
- underwear: L
- ski bindings 356mm
- Sylvie - top 12
- Mum - trousers 12 medium
DVDs
- tess
- fitzcarraldo, cobra verde - herzog & kinski
- tin drum
- the idiots
- dancer in the dark
- dummy
- the messenger: joan of arc
- the darjeeling ltd
- Secret life of bees
- defiance
- red sparrow
- atomic blonde
- nikita
- anna
- salt
- fair game
- hanna
- black widow
- a call to spy
Book List
- Viktor Niederhoffer - the Education of a Speculator
- Knights without Armor
- Tesshu
- Monkey
- zen & the art of motorcycle maintnc
Change of Address Notifications
- Ethical Consumer
- FFI
- Wildlife Trust
- Woodland Trust
- NRDC
- WWF int
- SAS
- Marine Conservation Society
- CAMRA
- London Cycling Campaign
- Ecology Building Society
- Co-operative Bank
- Triodos
- British Telecom
- Electoral Role
- UK Transplant Service
- Doctor
- Dentist
- Immobilise
- DVLC
- Inland Revenue
- Domain name registration
- labour behind the label
Music
- Abba
- ABC - look of love, beauty stab
- Al Stewart - Modern Times
- Alan Price - Oh Lucky Man - soundtrack
- Annie Lennox - Diva
- Asturias - classical guitar
- Aswad - Lion
- Beatles
- Billy Bragg - Levi Stubb's tears
- Bob Marley - Uprising
- Bob Marley - Exodus
- Bob Dylan - Street Legal
- Bob Dylan - self porrtrait
- Bronski Beat - Age of consent
- Bruce Springsteen - born to run
- Bush - Everything Zen
- Credence Clearwater Revival - don't go out tonight
- Chris Isaak - wicked game
- Clash - London Calling
- Clash - Daddy was a bank robber
- Cure - Pornography
- David Bowie - Heroes
- David Bowie - Lodger
- David Bowie - Putting out fire with gasoline
- Dogeatdog - no sex no drugs no soapbox
- Doors - LA Woman
- Eagles - take it to the limit/lying eyes
- ELO - Discovery
- enya - orrinoco flow
- Eurythmics - ?
- Extreme - More than Words - Pornograffitti
- Fall - LA, couldnt get ahead
- Fleetwood Mac - rumours
- Fleetwood Mac - tango in the night
- Flook - haven, rubai
- Francoise Hardy - mon ami la rose
- Frankie goes to Hollywood - two tribes
- Gabrieli, Giovanni: canzona
- Gerry Rafferty - city to city
- Grace Jones - the one with Bullshit & Bumper to Bumper
- Gram Parsons - retun of the grievous angel
- cats in the cradle & silver spoon
- Guns'n'Roses - November Rain
- Harry Connick Jr. - Funky Dunky
- Iggy Pop - Soldier
- Iggy Pop - Lust for Life
- Janis Joplin -
- Japan - Quiet Life
- Japan - Tin Drum
- Japan - Gentlemen take polaroids
- Jean-Michel Jarre - Oxygene
- Jimmy Summerville - Song for a friend
- Joe Jackson - ?
- Joy Division - Still
- Klaus Nomi - ?
- Led Zep - Physical graffitti
- Lenny Kravitz - Mama said
- Lenny Kravitz - Let love rule
- Linton Kwesi Johnson - Forces of victory
- Lloyd Cole - forest fire
- Locatelli, Pietro: concertos
- Love - Forever changes
- Marianne Faithful - broken English
- Marvin Gaye - Whats going on
- Massive Attack - blue lines
- Massive Attack - protection
- Mazy Star - fade into you
- Men they couldn't hang
- Michelle Shocked - Arkansas traveller
- Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells
- Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
- Neil Young - like a hurricane
- Neil Young - everybody knows this is nowhere
- New Order - Peel sessions
- Nick Drake - never felt magic
- Patti Smith - easter
- Paul Simon - Graceland
- Paul Simon - still crazy after all ths years
- Paul Weller - Wild wood
- Paul Weller - Paul Weller
- Peter Gabriel - secret world live
- Philip Glass
- Pink Floyd - Saucerful of Secrets
- Pink Floyd - Piper at the Gates of Dawn
- Pink Floyd - Animals
- Pink Floyd - Wish you were here
- Pink Floyd - Final Cut
- PJ Harvey - 4 track demos
- PJ Harvey - Rid of me
- PJ Harvey - Dry
- PJ Harvey - To bring you my love
- Pogues - one with thousands are sailing
- Police - Outlandos d'amour
- Presidents of USA - peaches, cats, bugs
- Prince - Sign of the Times
- Psychedelic Furs - Psychedelic Furs
- Psychedelic Furs - Talk talk talk
- Psychedelic Furs - President Gas
- Pulp - His 'n' hers
- Radiohead - The Bends
- Randy Crawford - secret combination (rainy night in georgia)
- Sandy Shaw - Lay Lady Lay
- Seal - Seal 2
- Simple Minds - don't you forget about me
- Simply Red - Red box
- smashing pumpkins - siamese dream
- - gish
- Soft Cell - ?
- Stealers Wheel - stuck in the middle
- Steve Harley - Make me smile
- Steve Miller - the Joker
- Stewart Copeland - the rythmatist
- Stones - Exile on main street
- Stones - Goats head soup
- Stones - Angie
- Suede - Dog man star
- Suede - Suede
- Supertramp - Dreamer (song)
- Supertramp - crime of the century
- Suzanne Vega - cafe
- Talk Talk - Party's over
- Talking Heads - Remain in light
- Talking Heads - Once in a lifetime
- The The - Soul mining
- The Fall - 12 inches
- The Band - The Band
- Torelli, Guiseppe: concerto a 4.
- Tracey Chapman - Tracey Chapman
- UB40 - ivory madonna & number on a list
- Van Morrison - Irish heartbeat
- Velvet Undies - White light white heat
- Velvet Undies - Sweet Jane
- Violent Femmes - Hallowed ground
- Who - ?
- Yamato - the Waidako Drummers of Japan
- Soh Daiko - Taiko Drrum Ensemble
- Taiko Drumming - Japanese Festival Music
- Kodo - Taiko Drums
- Zappa - Sheik Yer Botti
Apple / Pear / Rhubarb Crumble
- 300g plain flour
- 200g unrefined brown sugar
- 200g unsalted butter, cubed at room temperature
- sieved pinch of salt
- Knob of butter for greasing
- 500g apples or pears or rhubarb
- 50g unrefined brown sugar
- 1 tbsp plain flour
- 1 pinch of ground cinnamon
- Preheat the oven to 180C/350F/Gas 4.
- Boil the rhubarb with sugar for 5 mins - lots of juice comes out
- Place the flour and sugar in a large bowl and mix well.
- Taking a few cubes of butter at a time rub into the flour mixture.
- Keep rubbing until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs.
- Place the fruit in a large bowl and sprinkle over the sugar, flour and cinnamon.
- Stir well being careful not to break up the fruit.
- Butter a 24cm ovenproof dish.
- Spoon the fruit mixture into the bottom, then sprinkle the crumble mixture on top.
- Bake in the oven for 30+ minutes until the crumble is browned and the fruit mixture bubbling.
- Serve with thick cream or custard.
Mince Pies
for 12 mince pies:
- pastry
- 240g plain flour
- 60g Trex or other veg fat
- 60g butter (cold)
- juice of 1 orange
- 1 tsp orange flower water
- pinch salt
- Mincemeat: 200g
- 1/4 tsp ground cloves
- zest 1 orange
- 1/4 tsp orange flower water
- port
- cranberries (as much as desired)
- egg (for glaze)
(1) Make sure butter & Trex are COLD.
(2) take zest off orange and mix into mincemeat together with spices & port & cranberries.
(3) Squeeze OJ, add salt & orange flower water & put in fridge.
(4) Cut butter into small cubes, and add with teaspoon sized dollops of Trex to flour in bowl. Rub fat lightly into flour with hands until mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs.
(5) Put in freezer for 20 mins.
(6) Sprinkle OJ evenly over mixture while stirring it in with a round-bladed knife until mixture begins to stick together in large lumps.
(7) Put lump of dough in cling film or plastic bag & put in fridge for 20 mins.
(8) Put on oven at 180 C (fan oven) / 220 C (normal) / gas mark 7.
(9) Roll out lump, cut discs & put bases in tray, leaving 1/4 of pastry for tops.
(10) Put teaspoon of filling into each pie, not so much that it reaches edge.
(11) Roll out remainder of pastry, cut tops and place on mincemeat.
(12) Stir up egg with a little water and brush on pie tops for a glazed finish.
(13) Bake for 12 - 15 mins
(14) To serve, sprinkle icing sugar on top with a sieve.
Pancakes
- 250g flour
- 500ml milk
- 1 large egg
- pinch of salt
- butter for frying pan
- Mix up the mixture, being careful to get rid of the lumps
- If using rice milk instead, add an extra egg
- Makes 8 pancakes
Dropscones
For 6 people:
- 350g self-raising flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 80g caster sugar
- 400ml milk
- 2 eggs
- Mix up eggs and a little milk with the dry ingredients, adding only enough milk to make it smooth so that the lumps get mixed in
- Add the rest of the milk little by little until thick
Crumpets
- 400ml milk
- 1 tablespoon dried yeast
- 1 teaspoon caster sugar
- 300g flour
- 1/2 teaspoon bicarbonate soda
- Warm milk, dissolve yeast and sugar, add 100ml water
- Leave 15 mins to ferment or til frothy
- Sift flour, bicarb soda, salt, make a well in the middle and pour in liquid
- whisk from centre outwards until consistency of cream, add water if needed
- leave for 45 mins
- arrange rings in pan and fry on lower heat, the more batter used so as not to burn
Toad-in-the-Hole
- 2 eggs
- 125g plain flour
- 1/4 pint (150ml) milk
- 1/4 pint (150ml) water
- salt
- pepper
- 6 high quality herby bangers
- 2 tbsp trex (veg fat)
(1) fry bangers on low heat - do not prick skins! Allow to cool.
(2) sieve flour into large bowl and add salt, pepper & eggs.
(3) mix in until egg is absorbed
(4) add milk & water in splashes stirring in each splash until the flour is no longer powdery, and stir mix thoroughly so that lumps are all broken down.
(5) gradually stir in rest of milk & water
(6) allow to rest for 30 mins
(7) put trex into deep-sided baking tin and place in oven at 200C (fan oven) until it smokes
(8) quickly take it out of oven and pour in the batter, and space bangers evenly.
(9) put back in oven for 30 mins or until batter is puffed u & golden brown.
(10) Serve with gravy and veg
Mulled Wine
cinnamon cloves cardamon coriander fennel nutmeg pimento blueberry lemon orange
Dover Sole
sauce: onion garlic red pepper 1/4 teaspoon thyme
Fry slowly for 15 mins.
Add diced courgette
fry for further 10 mins
add chopped toms
fry for further 5 mins.
Bake fish for 5 - 10 mins in oven at 235C
Granny's Lemonade
1kg granulated sugar 3 lemons 30g tartaric acid 700ml boiling water
Slice lemons into a bowl.
Add sugar and tartaric acid.
Pour over the boiling water, stir, cover and leave overnight.
Squeeze and remove lemons.
Dilute to taste.
Tiramisu
Sponge fingers
Mascarpone 250g
Ricotta 125g
Icing sugar 100g
Egg x3, seperated into yolk / whites
Vanilla essence
Coffee (strong)
Almond liquer / amaretto 20ml
Cocoa powder
(1) Make coffee strong and allow to cool
(2) Quickly dunk the biscuits in the coffee without allowing them to get so wet that they break up, and lay them on the bottom of the form
(3) Mix yolks, amaretto and icing sugar into a cream
(4) Mix in the mascarpone to the egg/sugar mix
(5) Beat the egg whites until really stiff
(6) Fold the stiff egg whites into the cream mix
(7) Layer the mixture onto the biscuit base in the form, creating more layers of biscuits, then mixture, then biscuits, finishing with a layer of mixture on top
(8) Cool in the refrigerator for at least 2 to 4 hours.
(9) Serve with a dusting of cocoa.
Boy's Names
- laurence
- magnus
- dorian
- mario
- konrad
- manfred
- ronan
- rowan
- edgar
- emil
- ezra
- henning
- gustav
Girls Names
- Matilda - mighty warrior
- Madeline - brightest light in the world
- Miriam - loved, rebellious
- Marlene - variant of Madeline
- Thelma - she who knows what she wants
- Theresa - hunter goddess
- Eleanor - without sorrow, shining light
- x Lillian - lilly
- x Vivianne - the lively one
Thomas Edward Ashcroft
- DOB: 1893-02-17
- Place of Birth: Haskayne, near Ormskirk, Lancs
- GRO Index Birth Certificate: Ormskirk 8b. 822
- Last known address: Bank House, 53(?) Sandy Lane, Skelmersdale, Lancs.
- Employment: Bank Clerk, William Deacons Bank, Sandy Lane, Skelmersdale. 1936
- Wife: Philomena Ashcroft nee McCarty, Cork 1898-02-15, died on 18 September 1957, aged 59, entry 362 in the Register for the Sub-district of Southampton West in the County Borough of Southampton.
- Wedding:
- Children:
- Edward - 1920-10-30 (Barbara says 1919)
- Joan - 1922-04-14
- Peter - 19??-05-23
- John - 1927-04-05
- Philomena - 1932-04-05
- Siblings: sister Mary. Brothers?
- Parents: ? location - Upholland, UK.
- Army record: York and Lancaster. Invalided out.
- http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/cgi/search.pl
- http://www.1837online.com/
- http://www.cwgc.org/cwgcinternet/search.aspx
- http://www.englishorigins.com/
- http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/frameset_search.asp?PAGE=census/search_census.asp
- http://www.genealogy.com/
- http://www.genealogylinks.net/genealogy/index.html
- http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/index.html
- http://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/
- Family Records Office, Myddleton St N1. Mon - Sat 9 - 5.30.
- Marriage Certificates - Year & Quarter.
- Death Certificates: poss Liverpool N., 8 b. 386 (2009-03-08: what does this mean??? Don't write cyptic notes!)
- Searched death registry & parish burials until 2006 - one record found for Thomas Ashcroft died in Wigan in 1979, DOB 'about 1899' - images saved in /docs-ref/
- 2008-12-06: searched passenger lists 1936 - 1960 on findmypast.com - all long distance voyages, found 3 unconvincing possibilities (images of entries saved as PDFs in ~/docs-ref/ )
- Armed forces ship "Curacao" (Fleet Air Arm Ratings) with undisclosed destination (sealed orders) left Swansea in 1943 with "Ashcroft, Thomas" with incomprehensible entry on the list.
- Also, a retired American named 'Ashcroft' left on a liner to Montreal in 1959. No further details.
- Info from others
- From James Ashcroft 2004-12-18
Hi Adam,
sorry about the delay in responding, will spare you the details.
anyhoo, the very little i know is as follows.
Grandad worked at the local bank in skelmersdale, lancs (i will try to find out which one and in what capacity) the house that they all lived in was tied. He disappeared vanished whatever when my dad was 13, which makes your date right. nobody is any the wiser, of that i am sure.
because the house was tied the bank kindly ejected the family; grandma, auntie joan (who was working as a nurse), dad, uncle john and auntie phil. uncle eddie was already in the army i think.
they moved to redcar to run a b&b. by all accounts the locals there knew that a fatherless family were coming and treated them very kindly.
i am not surprised its kept quiet, it must have been dreadful for everyone.
i have never heard anyone speculate about what might have happened, nor do i know what sort of father he was.
i hope you are able to find out more
what sort of money do you have to pay for what items?
please keep me informed, especially if i can do something.
i'm coming up to anne and graham's house on wednesday 29th til friday 31st and am bringing my daughter hannah who is 14 and 11/12ths going on 25 if you follow.
hope very much to see you.
cheers, james
- AND 2004-12-22:
hi adam
just another snippet on grandad
mum know knows i'm digging and would you adam and eve it, suggested talking to your mum. great.
i told her to not say anything, and obviously she doesn't know of your enquiry.
he was manager of glyns bank in skelmersdale, came from reasonably well (we think) off farming stock in lancashire. liked his bridge games and would name drop the bishop of liverpool.
talking of bishops grandma ashcroft was a McCartie from cork, and we have one of our cousins over there who is now a bishop. i think there is a bit of bad feeling to them (or was) possibly to do with auntie joan, anne's mum. mum seems to think she was farmed out to one of grandma's sisters who was a matron or senior nurse in coventry and a complete bitch.
this of course is hearsay, but maybe in time we will know more
ciao, james
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