04-04-2023, 10:12 PM
My granddaughter sent me a couple of Queen Anne Easter eggs - delicious marshmallow like it used to taste - was supposed to wait until Easter but have never been very good at doing as I am told
Have spent a couple of days looking through Dads diaries as it has been a real puzzle to those of us who are speaking to one another why he ended up with a share in a Woolscour on a farm in the valley .I found it in 1944 a school friend returned from the war and was settled on a returned service mans farm .It was not economical so he decided if he built a woolscour he could support his family .He was 100 pound short so my Dad went to the bank used his truck as collateral- Mum was to get two fleeces a year as interest until the farmer repaid the money .Fo whatever reason in 1949 they went into partnership - Dad never received any income but I can remember Mum getting the most beautiful fleeces .When Dad made his last will the share was valued at $6000 - over the last 20 years a son has taken over the farm when his parents died and the scour is just storage .It is now full of silt - anyway my sister who is very very very wealthy and her sons both have thriving professional careers so they don’t need a ninth share of $6000 has decided to take the share of the woodshed -she thinks by some miracle somebody will pay out on the building and we are being disrespectful to Dad not pursuing it - the building isn’t even insured - the kids have all signed it over to her - so good luck to her - I know my Dad would say if there is any money paid out to give it to the family they have lost everything .So lucky to have a Dads diaries he was a comical bloke and it shines through -
Have spent a couple of days looking through Dads diaries as it has been a real puzzle to those of us who are speaking to one another why he ended up with a share in a Woolscour on a farm in the valley .I found it in 1944 a school friend returned from the war and was settled on a returned service mans farm .It was not economical so he decided if he built a woolscour he could support his family .He was 100 pound short so my Dad went to the bank used his truck as collateral- Mum was to get two fleeces a year as interest until the farmer repaid the money .Fo whatever reason in 1949 they went into partnership - Dad never received any income but I can remember Mum getting the most beautiful fleeces .When Dad made his last will the share was valued at $6000 - over the last 20 years a son has taken over the farm when his parents died and the scour is just storage .It is now full of silt - anyway my sister who is very very very wealthy and her sons both have thriving professional careers so they don’t need a ninth share of $6000 has decided to take the share of the woodshed -she thinks by some miracle somebody will pay out on the building and we are being disrespectful to Dad not pursuing it - the building isn’t even insured - the kids have all signed it over to her - so good luck to her - I know my Dad would say if there is any money paid out to give it to the family they have lost everything .So lucky to have a Dads diaries he was a comical bloke and it shines through -