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Its not like it used to be ....I have turned the John Simpson one off :-(

Different but interesting I enjoyed it ..............I dont know whos info you have picked up on there John but I dont think its correct :-D

I enjoyed it too.

An excellent example of why you shouldn't believe everything on the census!! :-) :-)

Well another one who followed a story ehch had nothing to do with John.

Cody was not married to his Rellie, so why waste half the show on him.

The title is WDYTYA, well ...........

I enjoyed it but I must say I found it a bit boreing to start with but glad I stuck with it

SALLY W <3

Absolutely Andysmum :-D

Was a bit confobulated when they went off on the Cody thing - when John said he wasn't exactly related!!!

My dad's stepdad had an unusual surname - but he wasn't my dad's dad - hence I haven't bothered going back to my maiden name since my divorce 25 years ago - despite the 'advantage' this name has had - and could have - to my career!

I said the same about Lesley Sharps GGGrandfather and the Dr Banardo boys earlier on in the series Maggie.

I do think the program makers have tired to show something different with each episode, for last night was just different from other things we have seen this series, which at times can be depressing however important they are to history. Who'd of thought that in that day and age, women ran off with their children and left their dying husband to join a circus. What a tangled web of lies she must of told.

Although I found it slow to begin with I did find
it interesting although Cody was not a relative
of his. Feel the programme should have centred
round his relatives, got the impression he was star
struck with Cody and disappointed they were not
related.

Emma

I looked at the fact Cody's wife or not wife was his GGrandmother so they were slightly related :-D

I could answer that Hayley... better not :-D

I have this thing about fathers. I don't believe they have to be your biological father. It seems this pub landlord Edward King was father of the 4 children biologically.

But they all saw Cody as their "father". And even Simpson's grandmother (who looked after Edward King and did not travel with Cody) came under Cody's wing after she was widowed.

So to my mind that makes Sam Cody the real great grandfather of John Simpson. Certainly John has a lot of Sam's sense of adventure and pioneering spirit in his own soul. Really enjoyed last WDYTYA :-) :-)