Facebook Censure, A Blogging Bonanza and Some Happy Moments

LIFE:  29th January- 4th February 2018

   
A FACEBOOK CENSURE

It came as a bit of a shock to get an e-mail from Facebook, saying I had contravened their standards and code of practice in a post I had written (post not specified).  I can only think of one that someone may have complained about and I cannot even remember the topic under discussion, with most of my feeds genealogy based.    There was a comment I responded to  about "Who on earth wants to visit Lancashire - it is all dark satanic mills"? 

Image - Pixabay

Perhaps it was a  “tongue in cheek” remark, but  my hackles rose in defence of  my birth county and I responded instinctively and quickly  saying "Rubbish" and went on to name some beautiful parts of rural Lancashire. 

I asked Facebook to cite which of my comments was the subject of the complaint  (they never responded to this) and I  apologized if this had caused offense.  I also gave my side of the incident. 

However the next e-mail  upheld the complaint against me.  They are in for a busy time, when I glance at some of the posts in my Facebook Feed,  where I have come across some very vicious personal remarks, usually on party political matters and on members of the royal family. A lesson learnt ! 

A BLOGGING BONANZA 
Since January I seem to be on a roll with blogging activity  and this week was a good one.

• Wrote up  the previous week’s activities on  "Journal Jottings".  The page views have not been great, so I posted something about  my new blog on my personal Facebook page and got some encouraging comments. 
• For Family History Fun, Week 5 of the prompt  "52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks" was on the theme of Census Discoveries.   I focused on the life of my great great grandfather Henry Danson (1806-1881) as revealed by decades of census returns.
  
  

  My ancestral home c.1999!!  

  Henry Danson was living here in the 1841 and 1851 census when it was a household of eleven family and  two farm servants. 

  How did they all fit in what looked like a smallish farm house?

• It was so relevant to the census theme, I had to post a press cutting of 1871 that I came across some time ago,   in which the writer (a man of course!) deplored the way women wished to hide their age from the "Bogey Man i.e. Census Man" -  an entertaining read!
   
• Began the next post for Auld Earlston - a history of the churches in Earlston .  That is quite a challenge   as it was a complex story of the three churches in the village separating, and reuniting down two centuries, but disputes over which buildings to retain.    A good selection of photographs hopefully will help to create interest.
  

Earlston Parish Church, c.1900

• Had a good catch up on my blog Reading List.  I must admit I am not good at finding time to read other blogs and make comments  - so how can I expect other readers to respond to me! 

Once the weather improves, I might not be so inclined to be at the computer, when the garden beckons for some work  outside.  


To end on some happy notes.

• I have lost a bit of weight! I don't quite know how, as N. and I do like our mid morning cups of tea/coffee with biscuits , or even better,  scones when we are out.  I believe in the 80/20 rule for dieting - eat sensibly  80% of the time and you can afford to indulge yourself  for 20%. 
   
• "Will You Write Some Book Reviews for Us?  That was the request on my library visit last week.  So I must look back at past reviews  I have written on the website Good Reads.  Something else to fit into my computer time!
   
•  Finally - a lovely picture of Nh. enjoying a new mount at riding, though the horse did look rather big for her! 

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Journal Jottings   
Recording my everyday life for future family historians  

 Developed from the "Genea-Pourri" prompt  on Randy Seaver’s blog Genea-Musings

I decided to change his title for my own version of this weekly online diary.