The Magazine Of My life
Welcome to Domus Ursorum, my own little piece of cyberspace, or as the phase that has just popped into my head goes, ‘The Magazine Of My Life’.
As you have found yourself here, may I give you the briefest ’story so far’ that I can. My name is Simon Lucas, I am 44 years old, married with one son and we live in Southampton, Hampshire, England, UK. I can trace my fathers family back to 1750 in the Meon Valley (where I spent most of my childhood) and my mothers to 1760 in the New Forest, both in Hampshire, the county of my birth. So I am a real ‘ampshire ‘ogg.
At the time of writing I’m not sure where this site is going, I just fancied having one. The name Domus Ursorum is Latin for Home of the Bears and was spun off from an earlier shared site of the same name, However, only one item (Windfarms), which I wrote years ago remains from that. Home of the Bears is rather apt as I am something of a grumpy old bear, I wish I could hibernate for most of the winter and I am rather partial to honey and salmon.
The passions of my life are my family, my friends, good food, music, real ale, Malt Whiskey, red wine, classic cars, fountain pens, wristwatches, art, antiques (especially English pewter and oak country furniture), cravats (why is there such a stigma about this most elegant way of finishing the neck of a shirt? - I shall wear and defend the cravat robustly!). I love to read but seem to get precious little time to so do and I have a slowly growing interest in well, growing things.
I am also interested in genealogy and I am currently seeking to trace any decendants of Charles, William or Henry Lucas all of the Meon Valley in Hampshire, England.
Despite its problems, I see the internet as one of mankinds greatest acheivements and to not be part of it is to turn ones back on something that offers almost limitless possibilities. Something I would like to achieve with all this is learning. Should you the reader find anything here offensive or untrue, then please let me know, although as editor and autonomous dictator my decision is final.
This site still is very much ‘under construction’ and I am not very good with computers but if anything is of interest to you or you’re just another drifing soul lost on the ‘net’ why not leave a comment.
Best Wishes
Simon
January 2007