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Archive for January 2008

Thank you mum

30/01/2008 by Ted.

Thank you , mum, for the lovely birthday messages and cards which you arranged for me to receive from family members. I tell people that “I do not do birthdays” these days. Well, when you have had seventy-four of them they get a bit “old hat”, but I was very touched by the love and kind thoughts expressed which made this birthday a happy and memorable one. Once again, my thanks to everyone.

My love to you all,

Ted.

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY BIG BROTHER!

29/01/2008 by PeterJohnson.

Dear Ted, we wish you a very happy birthday today, and hope you have many more! A BIG thankyou for all your care to me (Mum), and thank you from us.
Lots and lots of love, and God Bless you on this special day.
From Mum, Peter and Barbara, also Phil, Ali and William. xxxx Big licks from Poppy.

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Birthday Boy

29/01/2008 by Richard.

Have a lovely day Ted from all of us

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PHOTOGRAPH OF LITTLE MUM

21/01/2008 by Ted.

From the above photograph, taken a few days ago, one can see the evidence of mum’s steady deterioration. The saying, “The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak” aptly described her as she was but now her spirit is going into decline too. She is constantly physically weary and spends her days dozing in her chair until bedtime, when she catnaps throughout the night too. Her interest in things outside her immediate environment is declining. Her main concerns are now pills, pads and “poos”. She continues to eat food which is mostly fed to her but finds even the act of eating to be a great drain on her resources. Her breathing is more laboured too.

But ….. she is still here and is pleased that you are all enjoying the photographs which paint a picture of her life. I asked her if she had enjoyed her life and she said that she had, the best bit being that it is not over, but is just going to change gear as she moves into another dimension where so many loved ones are already, and above all where her hero and Saviour Jesus is waiting to greet her.

A weary mum sends you her love, me too,

Ted.

Must add this! Mum reckons she doesn’t sleep at all when she is in bed, but just lies with her eyes closed. Tonight I tucked her in as usual and she dropped off to sleep and started snoring as she usually does. After a while she stopped snoring and opened her eyes and said, “I don’t know whether to stay awake now and see if it helps me to sleep later”. I said that she had just had about ten minutes sleep, and that it might just be as well to sleep as sleep comes. However she insisted that she hadn’t yet been to sleep. When I told her that she had been snoring she concluded the conversation by saying, When I am just lying with my eyes closed I must snore without knowing”.

There was no answer to that!!!!!!

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Great photo’s

19/01/2008 by Andrew.

Ted, one word - superb!

Thanks very much - keep em coming

Andrew XXX

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Family History Photographs

16/01/2008 by Ted.

We now have 83 black and white Family History Photographs on the new website - www.talbotfamily.org.uk and more are to be added.

These are the instructions for accessing and downloading photographs:

On the website (www.talbotfamily.org.uk) click on the Family History Photos link.

When the screen opens click on the Icon at the far right of the menu bar at the top of the small screen. This will display thumbnails of the first 25 photographs. To see additional pages of 25 click on the arrow above the display.

To select a photo put the cursor on its thumbnail and left click. This moves that photo into a larger display above the thumbnails.

To download this photo to your own machine double click on the second Icon from the left. Internet Explorer then displays a “To protect your computer ….. ” message above the photograph. Click on the message then click “Download file” and double click the second from the left icon again.

This will open up an Open/Save menu.

If you click Open this will open your own photo software (ie. Adobe Photoshop etc) and display the photograph for editing and saving on your own computer.

A click on Save will display a list of the folders on your PC for you to select on in which to save the photo.

Incidentally, if you have any photographs of Family History interst please e-mail me a copy and I will arrange to upload them.

Love to all from mum and me,

Ted.

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