Philobiblon

… thinking of moving to Britain. There are mutterings that ancestral rights of residence (usually the birth of a grandparent in the UK) could be abolished.

(And I regularly give thanks to my great grandmother, who, family tradition suggests, “went back to England to have the baby”. Although now I think about it I’m not sure if this can be true – given the length and discomfort of the journey at the start of the 20th century, and the family’s tradesmen (locksmith) status.)