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The other day I posted at Ancestry to offer a text file of a book that someone had been looking for a few years ago. Two people promptly took me up on it.

The book is about a family that James Bond claimed descent from in the book/movie The World is not Enough, that being the family motto. I can trace my descent from that family as late as 1820ish in their longtime home parish, myself, 007 being from a branch that left the home parish much earlier and went to London.


So I joked when I sent one person the file:

"if you do come from those Bonds, you (like me) are a cousin of 007. ;)"


Her reply:

"I know I am not connected to 007 in any way."


Still trying to get my head around that one ...


Anybody here related to Hercule Poirot? ;)

i think so...since becoming menopausal I am cultivating a similar moustache ;)

Ah, then maybe are the person to ask to sleuth out 007's ancestry and see how he fits into my tree.

What a silly woman!

(Not you!)

I have the body shape but so far not the moustache. .. :z)

It'll come Newbs LOL ... ;)

Hold on, Didn't Ms M come from Bury St something?

I think when I was reading them back in the day, I didn't have much of a clue about obscure English geography, or google to find it for me!

My favourite so far is still Nether Wapping. I just picture someone having their nethers wapped.

I believe the woman who is, sadly, not related to 007 is of the USAmerican persuasion, which could explain her lost air. (Not to be confused with lost heirs ... of which we've had that plethora on TTF, or just the one, I suppose ...)

Frank 06 .LOL

you said that with cheeks clenched tightly, didnt you!!

LOL

MUCH RATHER AGATHA RAISIN

THANK YOU VERY MUCH

LOVE POIROT BUT HE'S SHORT

AND WALKS FUNNY I WALK AND FALL FUNNY

CANT BOTH DO IT

I DELETED
DOUBLE PARKED

Interestingly, some of the autism questionnaire Cynthia linked to in her thread dealt with how easy it is to imagine/picture the characters in books. No problem at all with Jane and Hercule, eh? Or maybe it's the tv series. ;)

I remember being so very disappointed when I got down to Agatha's dregs, the Tommy and Tuppence tales (and actually, I never could picture them). And whining loudly about them to my BFF, also a Christie fan. "Elephants never forget, elephants never forget, the butler dunnit!"

Last year I read about this:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/apr/03/agatha-christie-alzheimers-research

An in-depth analysis of Agatha Christie's novels has suggested that the much-loved author of more than 80 mysteries was suffering from Alzheimer's disease.

Academics at the University of Toronto studied a selection of Christie's novels written between the ages of 28 and 82, counting the numbers of different words, indefinite nouns and phrases used in each.

They found that the vocabulary size of the creator of Poirot and Miss Marple decreased sharply as she neared the end of her life, by 15 to 30%, while repetition of phrases and indefinite word usage (something, thing, anything) in her novels increased significantly.

"We found statistically significant drops in vocabulary, and increases in repeated phrases and indefinite nouns in 15 detective novels from The Mysterious Affair at Styles to Postern of Fate," said the academics, Dr Ian Lancashire from the English department and computer scientist Dr Graeme Hirst. "These language effects are recognised as symptoms of memory difficulties associated with Alzheimer's disease."

The most abrupt decline was seen in a novel Christie wrote aged 81, Elephants Can Remember. The book showed, they said, 30% fewer word types than Destination Unknown, which she wrote aged 63, 18% more repeated phrases, and almost three times as many indefinite words.

Lancashire told Canadian current affairs magazine Macleans that the title of the novel, a tweaking of the proverb "elephants never forget", also gives a clue that Christie was defensive about her declining mental powers, while the protagonist is unable to solve the mystery herself, and is forced to call on the aid of Hercule Poirot.
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Yup, elephants never forget, that was the one.

It doesn't do to joke....Genealogy is a very serious business don't you know!?

I'll tell ya, some of those USAmerican cousins think so! Never seen so many people bent on connecting themselves up wtih some line or other. ;)

YES SUSAN WITH NUMBERS
VERY SERIOUS THATS WHY MY GREATGRAN
THOUGHT IT SERIOUS TO USE FOUR NAMES OVER 20YRS
OTHER GREATGRAN USED AT LEAST 3
I JUST GOT TO LAUGH
TALK ABOUTMAKING IT HARD
THEY KNEW I WOULD COME LOOKING

I NEED A DETECTIVE
AN EFECTIVE DETECTIVE
ANY DETECTIVE
ANY COLLECTIVE DETECTIVE

IM NOT SELECTIVE

Alas JC, and there's thinking we were also related ;)

Perhaps they,re some relation to the "Basildon Bonds" they have some relation to writing.**M**.pmsl.

People who try to confuse me.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basildon_Bond

The character created by UK comedian Russ Abbot in the 1980s. The name was a play on James Bond and a joking reference to the well-known paper company.


James's younger smarter brother? ;)



motowngal -- my grandmother too bore more than a passing resemblance to Joan Hickson (although she was a more spitting image of the Waiting for God one).

However, that grandmother merely married a Bond descendant ...

Sadly, I can't claim to be related to Jane Marple. I can only claim a vicarious connection, being a descendant of "faithful Florence" and her previously unknown union with that "well known author" Raymond West.

Sorry to be so late in replying. I've been out in the garden weeding

Sue x

Where did you come from then?

And who are these people whereof you speak? Am I to go googling again now??

You'll have got to the bottom of this by now, Janey.

Raymond West was the nephew of Miss M, and "faithful Florence" was her housekeeper - I was the progeny of what went on behind the chintz curtains!

Sue x