Mum has given me a couple of folders full of family papers, along with three different family history books - all self published (big surprise).
I started looking through and was a bit taken aback to find papers ranging from birth and baptism certificates, to the receipt for Ba and Grandad's green lounge suite, a wedding cake recipe, a couple of Cocky, the cockatoo's (very well preserved) feathers, the bill for dad's funeral... the list goes on.
There were ration books, a scattering of random letters and a variety of family trees.
I didn't expect to find myself the new keeper of family documents.
Tomorrow I'll try and find a better box to keep it all in. Somehow it deserves more than its current home: a plastic supermarket bag.
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