I’m writing this evening a few hours after returning home from family parties/gatherings for the second time in a week.

Apart from my GCSE results (which I received on Thursday), this week has been interesting for me as I have taken a sudden interest in family history. I have been looking at some work one of my cousins has done on Ancestry.co.uk – which allows you to build family trees and access census records.

It gets very confusing for me at this time of the year with family birthdays – my Dad, his 2 sisters, their parents (my grandparents) and my sister all have their birthdays within 1 month of each other!