Seems like if you want to communicate with people these days you have to have a blog spot - so here goes! I'm still not sure how to do the fancy stuff like posting photos and even videos (as I saw on 'Me, Dot com' today) but no doubt that will come. I'm sitting here listening to Radio Ulster's Rythem and Soul programme through the computer while I develop this blog spot and thinking, at my advanced years I'm not finished yet!!
It doesn't seem very long since I bought a second hand 386 laptop from Cash Converters and introduced the family to email so that we could keep in touch while I was in Ireland. (incidently I still have that laptop - I should take it along to the Antiques Road Show next time they are around!) Well it wasn't long before I got left way behind - and if it wasn't for Matthew, Nicky and Jeff giving me good IT advice I think I would be totally lost by now.

In my first blog entry I should also acknowledge how blessed I feel to still have the use of my fingers to operate this keyboard. As some of my readers will know I had an accident 4 weeks ago where I fell 3m from a ladder. I later heard of someone else only 10kms away who had a similar accident at about the same time and who is now a quadraplegic. I still have some pain but that news brought home to me just how real it is to have an angel watching over me! Thanks for your prayers!
My better half is away visiting the kids in Leeds this weekend - so I've had a very quiet time (and no one chasing me off the computer!) and the opportunity to catch up on some correspondance (of which this is a part). I'm looking forward to her return tomorrow - maybe she'll get involved in blogging soon too.
Must go and see if I can get some other details entered on this site.