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My late mother-in-law could do beautiful calligraphy work. She wrote out our wedding invites and the names in the front of our wedding album. I've added the photo of a piece of her work that hangs in the darker area of our upper landing.

That is indeed beautiful, Karen. Thank for sharing!

Somewhat related to the topic of this thread:

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My late mother-in-law could do beautiful calligraphy work. She wrote out our wedding invites and the names in the front of our wedding album. I've added the photo of a piece of her work that hangs in the darker area of our upper landing.

I do love following some of the calligraphy artist on Instagram, and one of my FB friends, a fellow Ricardian, is also a calligrapher. It was he who designed the Coronation invites for King Charles III, Andy Jamieson. The biggest thing seems to be that patience is required and a slow and steady pace.

I did impress my EFT Mentor at one of the mentoring workshops a fair few years ago. We were working with each other in a role-play, which involves asking questions and noting the answers to use them in the EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) process. As I was asking the questions I was writing on my pad on my lap, but keeping eye contact. The writing was actually decipherable, too, albeit off on a slant.

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Not necessarily!

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/forbear#Noun

Ah, that's good to know.

Alfred wrote:

KarenPL wrote:

In the last few months I have got into genealogy (and a more than a bit hacked off to find I did have a forbear at the Battle of Bosworth …

It seems that I’m cursed with a complete inability to encounter references to forebears without thinking of Goldilocks!

Ooops, yes, forgot the 'e' in forebear. 

Not necessarily!

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/forbear#Noun

KarenPL wrote:

In the last few months I have got into genealogy (and a more than a bit hacked off to find I did have a forbear at the Battle of Bosworth …

It seems that I’m cursed with a complete inability to encounter references to forebears without thinking of Goldilocks!

Ooops, yes, forgot the 'e' in forebear. 

In the last few months I have got into genealogy (and a more than a bit hacked off to find I did have a forbear at the Battle of Bosworth …

It seems that I’m cursed with a complete inability to encounter references to forebears without thinking of Goldilocks!

And I am indeed far more likely to remember what I've written, which is just as well as whether I can actually read what I wrote at a later time may be a totally different matter, of course.   It does often look like a spider has dipped all 8 feet in ink and scuttled across the page.

In the last few months I have got into genealogy (and a more than a bit hacked off to find I did have a forbear at the Battle of Bosworth, but, damn, the beggar was a traitor, fighting against his king ), and part of the 'fun' is deciphering the handwriting on the old census returns. On my to-do list is reading up on palaeography for when I get further back in time. My schoolgirl Latin may start to come in useful again, too.

I am in a number of Facebook groups for family trees and all that, and quite frequently people request help in deciphering words or names they have come across. Most of us oldies can usually recognise the word(s) quite quickly and easily, because we have had to learn and use cursive handwriting in our younger days.

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