Welcome to my blog!

A long time ago, my ancestors lived yonder the woods and ’round the bushes, probably near Bysshebury, there under the rolling green hills.

Well, they didn’t exactly lived under the hills, so to speak, like the hobbits who made homes out of the holes under them. Maybe J. R. R. Tolkein, who knew an Underhill family intimately well many years ago, probably got a funny idea about the surname, incorporated it for his famous epic you-know-what. Nevertheless, the surname may have originated from an old French-Norman/Germanic name, by a family who came to England after the Norman Conquest in 1066 and probably settled in West Midlands and the surrounding counties, perhaps eventually become a place-name to describe a family who lived by or “under the hill”.

And the name become stuck ever since! Thank God there isn’t “overhill”.

Welcome to Under The Hill. And a very Happy New Year to you. May 2009 be the year of something and everything else, for better or for worse, and for all of us.

This WordPress blog will be a work-in-progress, unlike the Yahoo 360 Roblog of old, since it is all a new experience for me. Trials and errors stuff, you know. Comments are open, please keep your comment polite, to-the-point and considerate and I may follow-up or answer you whenever I get the chance. Any nasty, rude, whining or hateful comment will get deleted (don’t cry censorship please). Get the idea of such rules like my friend Mike posted for his blog.

Enjoy. ;o)