Your photos are just great - glad to see some of you. With all these superlatives - highest, widest, longest, MOST DANGEROUS, it is good to see you in one piece and looking well and surviving the dangerous shower. Love Margaret

What do you mean the easiest way to communicate. Don´t you lot have phones anymore? I like reading my message board so keep going... even if no one outside of the short family uses it. I´m trying to put some more photos on but I keep getting a message saying my camera´s got a fault.. I´m going to try looking lost again and see if someone can help! Enjoy your weekend everyone. love m.

Definately keep using message board.For all the family much the easiest way to communicate....did you know that in Victrian times if some-one was abroad they wrote home and that person copied out the letter and sent it on! Or the interesting bits- what power...see what the power of email has given us! Found a large frog in the kitchen this morning and Holly distinctly worried about flight or fight....much less humid and hot today thanks good ness, off tomoprrow so apart from your father going to dentist...all is peace, what about Boot, or Penny, or Posie?? lots of love mum x

You can't stop using the message board - its far too interesting a read at work! Have some lovely presents for my birthday this morning - and am already wearing quite a few of them :-) also got some nice things from people at work - I am a lucky girl! lots of things to take on holiday with me - including a book called diary of a manhattan call girl - in bridget jones style - looking forward to sitting and reading that while Al goes off and plays with the boats and things.....am also using my new bag - thank you Dunc & marie - v good choice! So hoping today will go nice and quick so I can go home and enjoy the rest of my birthday - have brought in lots of peanut chocolate things, truffles and cake, so everyone will probably feel sick by the end of the day! Thank you Murray for my present I am more than impressed that you sent something all the way from Bolivia and it got here in one piece ! Al did say it looked like you'd sent me a package of drugs when it arrived....However the blue pashmina is far nicer! hope you're having a nice day...spk to you soon,

I think I'll hvae to stop using the massage board (sorry, mEssage board) after being contacted recently by someone fro Channel 5 asking if we were interested in Ch5's new reality show; 'I left my dysfunctional family to go to Bolivia' miniseries. Of course I said 'yes', and gave out the appropriate e-mail addresses and phone numbers. Murray, I seem to have your pile ointment here. Anyway, I'm off home - things are moving on slowly here. Had a great w/end at Hannah and Al's, should have stayed all week and let Hannah make more puddings - choc bread and butter pud was fab. (What more would Ch5 want??). I shall now resort to direct e-mail having realised that noone else uses the message board....
Dncn

Thought I would contact you this way for a change. Just been looking at your photos - the stuff you are doing with the children looks great. Using your site to gather stuff together for Brownies tomorrow night. We are going to fill Smartie tubes with 20ps to fundraise for "Para Los Ninos" - they are making the tubes into little people with bendy arms and legs (well it fills twenty minutes!). Dodging along as usual - started a Pilates Class (hoping it might help back), helping at the Cancer Research Shop and a few weeks ago went on a horse for the first time (please be impressed!) - so I can tick that off my list - once I got over my initial terror I did enjoy it. We've got a horrible wind today - hope this is not Autumn already. If you want to know what is going on with the family - read Murray's Message Board.
Love Margaret

Duncan what have you done to the message board?! Hope you've got a nice weekend planned Murray - what you up to?? Hoping weather is going to be nice this weekend for marie & dunc coming.....feeling quite sleepy only 50 minutes till home time....

Dammit, it seems to recognise blank spaces.... so much for that idea. maybe this
Ha! Defeated the clever blank-space measuring programme.....

no you haven´t....... leave my message board alone! m.

I wonder if I can get the biggest message on this board.....

there? that's quite big isn't it?

Buenos Dias Senor Murray.... Arran and Amy are trying out tehir new nursery this week... before marie moves work and changes days! I am struggling with a report for a set of experiments which have gone horribly wrong... it's not all my fault, my par tis usually OK.. anyway, I'm looking forward to the w/end, we have monday off and we'll see Hannah and Alex. Hope thigns are going well, dncn

Its raining :-( was lovely and sunny yesterday, but lots of rain today, hoping its not like this for the weekend otherwise we wont beable to have our bbq on the decking as planned..will have to make Al go out in the rain and do bbq things - he would like that I'm sure. Not being very productive today - Al if you're reading can I have a career break - possibly for the next 31 years...that would do it. Als friends are organising a skiing holiday for January, so it looks like we're onto booking another holiday before we have been on our summer one - it was half decided on in a drunken moment over the weekend in Derby and wasn't sure it would really lead onto anything but Stuart seems to have taken a lead in organising it as he's lacking in work at the moment and is steaming ahead with informative e-mails with all the details on of various options - crazy. I have 2 weeks 3 days till we go away, could maybe tell you how many hours too if I stretched myself! Hope all is still going well with you.....laters.....h

Mum and Dad have gone... Amy was up lots last night being upset and coughing, then Arran joined in to get up for a pee... cheesh! Lovely sunny weather, off to see Hannah and Alex at the w/end. Should be good. Arran has a Spanish nursery teacher ... who said Buenos dias as I dropped him off... Arran just wandered off to the toys!!! Hew won't get Spanish at the Bathgate nursery! ...but he seems more fluent than you at the moment.... Only joking.... dnncn