tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5247957083703345296.post1034506378095978343..comments2023-02-10T11:01:42.979+00:00Comments on Foot and Mouth - Tane and Lauren's blog: On Flanders FieldsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5247957083703345296.post-63879429402941546842008-06-23T18:10:00.000+01:002008-06-23T18:10:00.000+01:00Hi Tanei made a search for Arthur S. Baynes on the...Hi Tane<BR/>i made a search for Arthur S. Baynes on the web and found your blog. Was your grandfather in the Crimea War in Malta 1855 ?<BR/>Is his complete name maybe Arthur Simcoe Baynes ?<BR/>hope you will answer me @ hasgen@web.de<BR/>thanks a lotAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5247957083703345296.post-56168667738051821242007-11-27T10:39:00.000+00:002007-11-27T10:39:00.000+00:00Once upon a time when I was a wee little lad my pa...Once upon a time when I was a wee little lad my parents took me and my infant brother on a tour of Europe. One of the first stops was in the UK, my pop's native country. While touring the north somewhere above Edinburgh they came across a famous Scots versus English battle site. My pops, as mentioned before, being of strict English decent and my mother being of Scots Irish lineage agreed that this would be a historically interesting and culturally relevant stop for them both..at the time however they couldn't have realized how different their reactions to the site would be. Apparently, my father, in one of those typically male moments of speaking of 'facts' but completely missing the point, decided that this was the time to strike up a conversation about how bad he felt for the "poor, savage Scots and their desperate (and silly) attempts at resisting the crown" with my mother, who, as fate would have it, had just discovered a Stuart clan grave stone (apparently her clan) and an accompanying description of how the brave and outnumbered clansmen died cruelly on the swords of the dastardly English (i.e. my father's people) while defending their freedom and their women (i.e. her people). Long story short, it caused such a huge argument between them that some 30 years after the trip (and some 20+ years after their divorce) they both suggested to me, separately, to visit the site while Helen and I are on our RTW honeymoon trip to see for ourselves just how insensitive men are and just how much women over react. weird..Helen and Ryanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00475291563019033894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5247957083703345296.post-70092006427739663722007-11-25T19:40:00.000+00:002007-11-25T19:40:00.000+00:00My stepfather's grandfather had a similar story, b...My stepfather's grandfather had a similar story, but I don't know the exact details. He went into a church in Belgium somewhere, and found a wooden scene of Jesus and the apostles all shot up and scattered on the floor, so he took a piece home with him. It's on the wall in my stepfather's house, with a bullet track right through Jesus. It would be nice to track down its original location and return it one day.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5247957083703345296.post-64487801912048566812007-11-25T17:50:00.000+00:002007-11-25T17:50:00.000+00:00Hi TaneThis was a great read. Pleased you did it.W...Hi Tane<BR/>This was a great read. Pleased you did it.<BR/>Was great to see you today and meet Lauren and long last. Look forward to seeing you next week at Chris's party.<BR/>www.myspace.com/mazradonich.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com