1^st of January 2009
Happy New Year everyone!  I hope you had a merry Christmas too, or should I say "Nadolig Llawen", since ours was spent in the village of Hook in Pembrokeshire, where Nita lived until a few months ago.

I've now set up the guestbook for 2009, so we're just waiting for our newest visitor to be the first to sign in this year and tell us which tree they've dropped out of.  Work on other stuff here will re-commence once several flat-pack wardrobe doors have finally been assembled and hung - thus affording me a temporarily quieter life.  I suppose it is about time, as it had been pointed out that they may soon have antique value otherwise.

6^th of December 2008
If you've been following the discussion about Dorothy Timmons' family on The Noticeboard, you'll be interested to hear that Bryan Hoggarth has sent us an 1838 marriage cert today, which relates to her branch.  Seems I've just acquired another cousin.  Thanks, Bryan!

There's tons more stuff to add.  However, spare time has in short supply recently, due to health problems and a series of other life-changing events which seem to come thick and fast over the past year.  Not the least of these events was my partner, Nita, moving from Pembrokeshire to live with me, in September.  This what a Nita looks like [ picture ].

1^st of July 2008
Just some more guestbook maintenance today.  Please be assured that your email/article is coming next (just like everyone else's).

19^th June 2008
I thought business was kinda slow!  Having not had any notifications of Guestbook signings recently, it came as quite a shock when I learned that, not only had there been visitors, but an entire Family Tree had been left there for us.  Enormously grateful though I am, the Guestbook isn't best place for such articles.  So you'll find Gillian Hogarth's contribution has now taken root in the Family Trees module of our Reference Section.  Thank you Gillian.

27^th May 2008
I'm still here, if a bit quiet.  The good news is that my illness is responding to treatment far better than I could have expected.  The bad news is that I must persevere with chemotherapy for at least a couple of months longer.  So, what this effectively means is that it's only the toxic medication killing me now!  However, the picture is a whole lot better than it was at the end of last year, when I was informed that there was less than a 50/50 chance of success.  In the meantime, I check my pulse every morning, and if I've still got one I go to work.

By way of a peace-offering, I've just added the 1860 Death Cert of William Hoggarth of Littlebeck fame, that was kindly sent to us by Angela Hoggarth.  As you might imagine, there's also a ton of other stuff waiting (including more obfuscating), but I will tackle it eventually - honest!

17^th January 2008
You'll be pleased to hear that I've finally finished obfuscating (yes, it IS a real word!) all the email addresses in the older guestbooks so we can sleep a little easier at night.  My next task is to do the same with the other addresses littered around this site, from an age when I was more trusting and dim.

I'll get there soon, but spare time has been quite hard to come by just recently, what with my car being wrecked by a motor-cycle while parked on the drive of this house, and the electrical fire that broke out on Tuesday.  What I can't work out is, if the odds against this kind of stuff happening to me all at once are so astronomical, why haven't I won the lottery yet?