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Hello everyone. We're back! First, I have to share a little of where I was and why there was no newsletter last month, for the first time in nearly 15 years. Having reached an age beginning with the number 7 last month, I went on an extended celebration, a cruise around South America. We boarded in ...

No newsletter for January - site owner on long vacation!
Paul

Hello everyone. We’ve reached the end of 2022. The new year begins tomorrow, and may well already have started by the time many people read this. I want to thank everyone who has helped us during the year, whether by adding photographs or certificates, some extra details about their family, contribu...

Hello everyone. Happy New Month! Because I write my newsletter at the end of each month, it’s really easy to forget about holidays still three or four weeks away and fail to send best wishes to people with holidays three of four weeks hence. That’s exactly what I did last month. So I hope everyone i...

Wow. Thank you
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Paul

Well, we did it! Nearly 15 years of work and we cracked 200,000 people in our file! I actually still find it difficult to believe. It would not be right to let this moment pass by without mentioning those people who have made a special contribution to our efforts, going above and beyond. To Mike, Mi...

Thank you, Helen. Much appreciated
Paul

Hello everyone. I count myself very fortunate not to have been in Florida for Hurricane Ian's passage through the state this week. Pictures from there look quite awful. If you haven't lived through an actual hurricane, you have no idea how noisy they are. I was in New Jersey back in 2012, and I reme...

Hello everyone. Classic August for me: 31 days in the month and I’ve been out and about racing my boat on the Norfolk Broads for 19 of them! So we only added about 650 people this month. We finished on 198,379 people, just 1,621 short of the major milestone I’ve been talking about for a couple of mo...

Phew! What a month! No more cold weather in Norfolk, apart from the refreshingly cool sea breezes. I had a full sailing program this month and as I write this I'm between regatta weeks. July's activities Despite my outdoor interruptions we added over 1,400 people to our file this month, way above ou...