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You can enter text using traditional text input  or predictive 

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language; to turn it off, select Options > Dictionary > Dictionary 

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single letter. If the displayed word is the one you want, press0, 

and start writing the next word. To change the word, press* 

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after the word, the word is not in the dictionary. To add the word 

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text input), and select OK. 

Tips for writing text: to add a space, press0. To quickly change 

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Happy Birthday Julian

Letters of Note

Our kid, sent me and Clive a real laugh this week with this guy's application (back in 2006) to become the new manager of Middlesborough Football Club, Letter of Note deserving a wider audience. Must have taken ages to put together, and keep with it for the letter he got back from the Boro Chair.

love G xx

My Mobile Number, etc

I am taking my mobile - number 07873400996, staying at the Marsham Court Hotel until Sunday lunch, back in K/S at 4pm ish

Sunday

Steve. It was nice to see you yesterday, pity about the match winner - should have been Crawley Town!!
I am watching Brian Sewell, talking about train journeys down in Cornwall. No it isn't him, it is the other one who looks like him, Sir Derek Jacobi. Not quite so 'Plum in the mouth' but quite similar in appearance.
I am all mixed up as I was just having a nap and I heard a voice shouting me. I went to the front door, nobody, then the back door, still nobody then I realised that it was Nic on the Skype. He was talking from his iPhone. Any way we had a chat and then he asked me to Skype him on his chilicrab 156 number and there he was.
You will have to look into it to see if it works with your iPhone. Have a good day Love from Dad
--

kitchen

.....and back to our newly decorated kitchen!!! Plaster on the walls at long last (sorry Steve, your expertly applied hemp walls have now disappeared and just quietly isolate us underneath the finish) and the yellow flower café but a distant but exedingly pleasant memory!

Still on semi tenterhooks about baby as we are STILL (after six weeks) waiting for the official word from the French adoption agency. Apparently, according to our somewhat wayward lawyer, he is well. More than that we cannot know. So we have no idea when we will pick up Louis Joseph but we are still planning on coming to 'Garsington' (now at Wormsley) en famille, where I will do two of the three operas and Julian will be a full on dad, and looking for a house (swap or otherwise) if anyone has any ideas...late May till second week of July.

Next Week

Next week, I am very busy. I am out on Tuesday with a friend of mine ( Larry Sims) from Catenians. Sadly we are going to a funeral in Harrow, of a Catenian acquaintance.

Thursday is Julian's birthday (He and Ruth are back in Provence). HAPPY BIRTHDAY JULIAN.

I am going to spend a long weekend in Bournemouth with friends Larry and wife Pam. Mum and I used to go every year, Larry is driving me down on Thursday and we will return pm on Sunday

I will therefore not be available in K/s, either for phone or Email. I will take my mobile phone with me, just in case. (if I remember)

My electricians came yesterday to put a circuit board in the garage, so that I can isolate the garage from the house electricity.

Love from Dad.

Twittering

My twitter account is CRESTW00D

I'm new to it so mainly following at the moment.

Just tried the link without being signed in and no good.
My twitterings'll pop up on Facebook though.

I'm following Raymond Blanc, Lord Sugar, Stephen Fry... Will and Julian of course

You're Right Steve

Mum only had to see Tommy Cooper to break out into peals of laughter.
She used to say that he was a tonic.

Know anyone here?

Holton Park 197(?)

The pink cardy at the back belongs to Theresa May MP

from Graham Thomas' Facebook page

One for Grandma

This cold and wet weather is

making me feel blerr! but cross over to Professor Stanley Unwin's celestial blog for a chortle.

"We now arrivey at St Valentile Day, when all unromanty blokeloder visit Clinton's Cards and spendly throo quid on a tacky card to assuage guiltymost.

But waity!

Is fourteel Februale about buy cardy, or even throw money at florist for roseloder? Oh no. Deep folly.

Valentile day is celebrale of affeckshy betweel lover. Oh yes. Singly song, write poetrale, and profess unendy adorashy and tender fondloders, oh yes.

So from Prof to all, and from Earthly Scrile to his belovey:

Takely grantage guiltymost admit
But fondy in the heart-strale matters most.
So trusty that sincerey caremost feel
Whether scrile's true worms or Stanley's ghost.


Affectionale for tendy moment known
And memorage of special moment sharey
If all throughout the yearbole circumspecker
Today is time for endless love declarey.


So while each other daybole filled with care
On Valentile's our truley love's laid bare.


Posted by Professor Unwin
"

LennyMollyHughie

LennyMollyHughie
Originally uploaded by patrickhugh

To the memory of my beautiful Mother.
Never far from my thoughts.

Margaret

I took this this morning outside a temple in Ubud. Just to say, Hugh, that we are thinking of you a year on. Lots of love.

Mother

You can shed tears that she is gone

Or you can smile because she has lived

You can close your eyes and pray that she will come back

Or you can open your eyes and see all that she has left

Your heart can be empty because you can't see her

Or you can be full of the love that you shared

You can turn your back on tomorrow and live yesterday

Or you can be happy for tomorrow because of yesterday

You can remember her and only that she is gone

Or you can cherish her memory and let it live on

You can cry and close your mind, be empty and turn your back

Or you can do what she would want: smile, open your eyes, love and go on.

written 1981

David Harkins 1959 -

Silloth, Cumbria, UK

February 11th 2011

Dear Family,
I am writing this on the first anniversary of the death of my darling wife and your loving mother, to thank you all for the support you have given to me which helped me through the first year of my sad loss. God Bless you all, from your loving Dad.

BTW what Steve says is true but that is not really the problem --passwords are the problem and your gmail password comes high on the list of never to use passwords here is some advice :

Do not use:

Names:
of yourself, including nicknames;
of your spouse or significant other, of your parents, children, siblings, pets, or other family members;
of fictional characters, especially ones from fantasy or sci-fi stories like the Lord of the Rings or Star Trek;
of any place or proper noun;
of computers or computer systems;
any combination of any of the above.
Numbers, including:
your phone number;
your social security number;
anyone's birthday;
your driver's licence number or licence plate;
your room number or address;
any common number like 3.1415926 or 1.618034;
any series such as 1248163264;
any combination of any of the above.
Any username in any form, including:
capitalized (Joeuser);
doubled (joeuserJoeuser);
reversed (resueoJ);
reflected (joeuserResueoj);
with numbers or symbols appended (Joeuser!).
Any word in any dictionary in any language in any form.
Any word you think isn't in a dictionary, including:
any slang word or obscenity;
any technical term or jargon (BartleMUD, microfortnight, Oobleck).
Any common phrase:
``Go ahead, make my day.''
``Brother, can you spare a dime?''
``1 fish, 2 fish, red fish, blue fish.''
Simple patterns, including:
passwords of all the same letter;
simple keyboard patterns (qwerty, asdfjkl);
anything that someone might easily recognize if they see you typing it.
Any information about you that is easily obtainable:
favorite color;
favorite rock group.
Any object that is in your field of vision at your workstation.
Any password that you have used in the past.
There are programs (and they are easy to write) which will crack passwords that are based on the above.


Do:

Change your password every three to six months.
Use both upper and lower case letters.
Use numbers and special symbols (!@#$) with letters.
Create simple mnemonics (memory aids) or compounds that are easily remembered, yet hard to decipher:
``3laR2s2uaPA$$WDS!'' for ``Three-letter acronyms are too short to use as passwords!''
``IwadaSn,atCwt2bmP,btc't.'' for ``It was a dark and stormy night, and the crackers were trying to break my password, but they couldn't.''
``HmPwaCciaCccP?'' for ``How many passwords would a cracker crack if a cracker could crack passwords?''
Use two or more words together (Yet_Another_Example).
Use misspelled words (WhutdooUmeenIkan'tSpel?).
Use a minimum of eight characters.
Advice from Bali

@@@@@@@@@@@@RRRRRGH!

It won't for long if you keep publishing your full email address on the internet!

Email harvesters are the most unwanted visitors on any website especially ours. These email spambots crawl the web via search engines to find and extract email addresses from webpages and blogs. Chat rooms are virtual magnets for email harvesting software. Email harvesters also scan public areas of the web like internet newsgroups, listserv and forums, blog comments area, "Contact Us" webpages, mailing list archives and guest books.

How email spammers operate?
Email addresses always contain an @ symbol. Most spambots do a pattern-search for likely combinations of letters (abc@xyz.com) like billgates@microsoft.com or larrypage@google.org in the HTML source of webpages. Often they just search for the @ character and grab all the letters on each side on the assumption that it's a valid email address.

That being so, simply remove the '@' and type 'at' if you must, and type 'dot' instead of '.'

(from Labnol)

Well done Steve. That just about says it all.

I have had an email from Julian to p*****.***********@g***l.c*m to which i sent a reply so something works. See youse all soon, I hope. Dad

Le weekend

Thanks to everyone at Nythva for such a lovely week-end... I'm just getting over it!
Well done Pop for being ready at the appointed time and being such a good co-driver.
We arrived as planned after a lengthy refuelling stop at 'Halfway Garage' 50 odd miles from Lampeter, waylaid or shall I say entertained by a local who had all day it seemed to calculate the price 35 litres of Autogas at 78.9p chucking in a few stories to boot. My fault it was for asking if he was keen on Jeeps as there were 5 or 6 dotted about the place in various stages of repair.

"Love'em I do" pretty much covers it.

We'd brought Bass and a choice of the finest wines and a bouquet of spring flowers for little sis, which comprised of tiny little daffs freesias and hyacinths, and cracked open a few tins without JR even having to prompt, as Cathy dished up the most gorgeous roasted pork joint with utterly melt in the mouth crackling and tiny little sweet parsnips and roasties too of course.

Thomas was on parade complete with rakish new haircut and splendid eye furniture and a rather dapper outfit. Edmund entertained us composing free-form on the piano, sounded something of The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe from before he was born.
And Kate kept very quiet about someone in the next village whose father is a builder and who doesn't have an earing or tatoos either thank you.

JR was the perfect host and aided Chef as we all tucked in to Vienetta for afters. Perfect!

It was a jolly day if a bit dull and damp outside but as Celts(?) we grin and bear with aid of the magic of brewing and a cracking fire to sit around.

Soon it was time to pay our respects to the locals and reprobates at the Foylett Arms for a swift one and the tiniest miniature cigar, before heading back to crack open William's thoughtful Christmas present to 'moi'- 12yr old double matured smoothest ever Scotch Whisky.

After that, um er nuffink!...... nope not a thing.

Next day bright and breezy a slap up custom built full Welsh breakfast with juice and proper coffee thanks be to heavens. Pop spotted Cathy's tyre had a nail in it so Edmund jumped-to  and changed the wheel ("My Hero") as he needed a lift back to Swansea Uni. Kate modestly admired her brother with an almost imperceptible flutter of eyelashes.

As per the published detail, Pop and I pushed off at noon or shortly after to many waving hands and wet eyes. Ahh.

We rendez'd with Councillor Tim of Upton upon Severn at the appointed hour and took coffee in the White Lion Hotel and caught up with old times.

Tim was a bit chattier than I as he wasn't up all night playing cards and drinking vodka.

Once again thank you every one for putting (us) up with (us) and see you all again soon.

Mwah Mwah big huggy mwah mwah kisses love Steve

Sorry about my Emails.

I keep trying to send Emails. Everything seems to be OK and I press the SEND button, but the following day I get a 'Mailer Daemon' telling me the message has not got through. I expect it is all to do with my 'hack' but until it settles down, I am relying on the blogger or telephone for important or urgent messages. SORRY about this but I hope my persistence will eventually put my emails back. Dad

Home at 6pm.

Dear Cathy, John, Edmund, Thomas and Kate,
Thank you all for making our short visit such a memorable one. Thank you, Edmond for giving up your weekend for me. It was lovely to see you. I hope you enjoyed your party Thomas and Kare, Give my regards to ?Edward.

We met Tim for an hour in Upton-on-Severn. It is right by the River and there were lots of boats on land and in the water. Nice place for a picnic. Love to all and especially to Cathy for the lovely roast pork on Saturday and the super breakfast this morning. Your loving Dad, Hugh and Granddad and, of course, Uncle Steve. and his iPad.

le week end

I can't wait to see you both at the weekend, but sad that you will be going before lunch on Sunday. I hope you have an easy journey see you Saturday.

happy birthdays to jen=hwei and to willl

Thinking of you Jen and hoping you have had a lovely day. Love from Hugh

Also Will, I hope you are sober enough to read this HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU BOTH

Happy Birthdays to Will & Jen xx

Le Week-end

OUTWARD BOUND EXPEDITION TO MID-WALES

Saturday 5th February 2011

ITINERARY 

PERSONNEL

Corporal Crestwood 

Sheriff of Arundel Close, Lord Pat Hewsappy of Parkhurst

dress
civvies

• Reveille           First light
• Form Up            Dawn
• Embarkation        0750hrs
• Transport          0800hrs
• Abergavenny    eta 1000hrs
• Break              1020hrs 
• Re-embark          1025hrs
• Arrival            Nythfa Llanddewi Brefi
• De bus             1200hrs
• Parade             1215hrs
• Lunch              1300hrs

Afternoon          (free)

The risks of being on a (near) desert island

Jesus dad, you know how to upset a guy's holiday!!! We were in these chairs a moment ago now we are desperately trying to find an internet point.





No, seriously though, glad you sorted that out, must have been very worrying. If it happens again and the request is to send money to an address in France you know what's going on!!

Ruth is seen here wondering if her gmail account is okay!

Some levity after all that!

Relief..

Google sent us an email after answering questions about the history and use of the account with the information that the account had been used in South Africa.








we've recovered Dad's email successfully.

Dad, inform the Police, Make surew google suspend your old account (link under the login page form -'Cannot access your account?') and get a freinfd at the Catenians tio send an email to all saying youraccounty was hacked -- you caught me on a desert island with no phone, sorry I cant be help -- DO THE ABOVE URGENTLY