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Bernice
Wood
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Happy
50th Birthday!
to
Bernice
Wood
Whose
age became invalid as a
National Lottery ticket number on
13th
August 2005
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Left:
Essex Girl, Bernice, when she attended Monteagle Junior
School in Dagenham.
Below,
and just to add that extra embarrassment factor; Bernice
in flared jeans and platform shoes, at my parent's garden
in Westrow Drive, Barking, Essex, during those hippy,
'Dagenham Roundhouse, 'Village Blues Club' days.
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Below:
Congratulations to Nancy and Brychan Sims, who celebrated
their Diamond wedding anniversary on Saturday, 13th August
with a dinner party at the Chasedale Hotel, Walford Road.
After
meeting in Pay Accounts, at RAF Malvern and a brief courtship
of six months, Brychan Sims and Nancy Hill were married
at the Malvern Register Office on Friday, the 13th August
1945. Originally, Brychan was to be posted to Okinawa, Japan,
but following the bombing of Hiroshima this was cancelled.
Instead, he was sent to Liverpool on the 15th August, the
official end of World War II, while it was decided what
to do with him. Eventually, he was sent to Burma for fifteen
months, returning to his "new" bride in November 1946.
Their
two children Ann and David were born in 1947 and 1951 respectively.
In April this year, Mr and Mrs Sims became great-grandparents,
when Ann's daughter, Rebecca, gave birth to baby William.
Pictured below, all four generations attended the Diamond
Wedding Anniversary celebrations on Saturday, sixty years
to the day that Brychan and Nancy were married.
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Brychan and Nancy on Saturday. Ref: DSC_7691 
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Nancy
and Brychan Sims at Brynmawr Railway Station, the day after their
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Four
generations of Brychan and Nancy's family. Ref: DSC_7706
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Spam
Spam Spam Spam
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Over
the past five years, 'Wyenot.com' has grown in popularity
beyond anything I initially imagined. On Tuesday last,
when I published the weekly news for 9th August, the web
site had 30,281 'hits' and of those, 741 unique visitors
viewed 4,400 pages of the web site. The average viewer
on that day looked at 5.93 pages. And all of this was
just on that one day!
To
say that the site is successful is a vast understatement.
However, having a successful 'dot com' domain can also
bring its problems! The image below shows a screen print
of part of my email program, with 1,012 automatically
deleted emails, received over a period of less than 24
hours. Junk email (spam) received as a direct result of
my running Wyenot.com is a big problem! For every one
genuine email, I receive a hundred junk mails, every single
day of the year and this causes problems because I just
do not have the time to look at all of the mail received
manually and as a result, a lot of my genuine emails get
automatically deleted without my seeing them.
I
do try my very best to reply to all received genuine mail,
so if I have not replied to you, it is not intentional
and most likely the reason is because your mail got caught
up with the spam and automatically deleted before I saw
it. I do have certain 'rules' set up in my AntiSpam software
to try to make sure that genuine mail gets through and
the best way to contact me is by clicking the email link
on the web site's 'contact' page and do not change
the subject line.
I
absolutely detest the senders of this spam! They are well
aware that people do not wish to see the mindless junk
they try to inflict, without caring who receives it. The
senders are constantly attempting new ways of getting
past junk mail filters - just to upset and annoy, it would
seem. The fact that whenever the junk mail is offering
something for sale, the price is virtually always expressed
in American Dollars speaks volumes to me about the average
IQ of the senders.
The
best way to deal with junk email is to get a good
spam filter with a self learning facility, such as Norton
Internet Security and, once you are reasonably happy that
the software has learned which mail is junk and which
is not, delete the mail in the 'AntiSpam' folder of your
email program without looking at it. If you as
much as just glance
at 'HTML' junk mail whilst connected to the internet,
it registers a 'hit' on the web server it came from and
so the sender knows that somebody received it.
Although
it is sometimes tempting, never reply to junk email
- even in anger, as this confirms that your email address
is live!
Never
click a 'remove me' link as, although you might get removed
from that particular mailing list, (if you are lucky)
again this confirms that your email address is live and
you will definitely get added to thousands of others.
If
everybody in the world with an email address just totally
ignored junk mail, deleting it without opening it, nobody
would waste their time sending it.
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Arts
Day at the Market House
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Further
to the publicity sent out over the past four months, Ross-in-Bloom
and the Chamber of Commerce would like to remind everybody
about the Arts Day they will be holding this Bank Holiday
Weekend.
Following
the success of the event in May, Arts Day on Sunday 28th
August, will start at 10 am and continue until 4 pm at
the Market Place in Ross. Once again there will be stalls
and entertainment throughout. Many of the stalls booked
for the May event will be setting up again, with some
added extras.
There
is still room for both charities and individuals to book
a space at £5 a pitch. These can be arranged by telephoning
01989 563056 before 8.30 pm or calling in at Halcyon Daze
or the Heritage Centre.
Traders
are being encouraged to open for the day and to put out
a table at no charge. However, those who are unable to
do so due to lack of pavement space can set up a pitch
by arrangement.
Later
this year the Chamber of Commerce are joining forces with
Ross-in-Bloom to have a Sunday open day throughout the
town. It is hoped to make this a full afternoon with stalls
and festive entertainment on Sunday, 27th November.
Following
the very successful Ross-in-Bloom Fun Living History Day,
it is hoped to get stall holders and traders, as well
as shoppers, to dress up for the day in Festive costume.
Further details can be obtained from the Heritage Centre.
It is hoped that the event will run from 1 pm to 6 pm
with events taking place at the Market House and about
town.
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Market House Arts Day held last May. DSC_3015
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Letters
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From
a satisfied visitor to Ross
Dear Alan,
I
can confirm (as an official Tourist!) that Ross is a lovely,
friendly Town. We stopped on Carnival day for an early
stop/break and were very impressed.
When
we arrived we popped into Morrison’s for fuel and onto
the car park next to the swimming pool. Although Morrison’s
offered a two hour parking time we felt we might go over
this limit. We walked up the hill to the market square
and spotted excellent Butchers opposite a kitchen shop!
All the meat was identified to local farms; I walked out
after spending £20 on a beef roast joint and sausages
for our dinner the next day. We can confirm that this
was some of the tastiest meat cooked. (Apologies to vegans)
We ventured into the church and spent some time looking
around. Finally found the Wetherspoons (Post Office) and
had some breakfast, walked some more before returning
to the car. The street maps dotted around were really
useful, as was the low traffic. Due to not knowing how
long it would take to arrive at St David’s we ventured
on before the Carnival started. On our return we stopped
at Hereford but this just confirmed that we should return
to this undiscovered area for a holiday. Hope that your
photography went well will visit the site further to keep
in touch.
Take
care and keep up the good work.
Paul.
Thank
you for that, Paul. Although you missed the actual Carnival
Parade, you can see what it was like by looking at last
week's edition of Wyenot News. I am pleased you enjoyed
your stop in Ross and hope you will visit the area again.
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For
Sale
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Takamine
Semi-Acoustic Guitar and tailor made Flight Case.
Bought
directly from the factory in Japan, this instrument is
not available in Europe.
Collect
from: Ross-on-Wye Town.
Bargain
at £150.00
Postage
and packing extra, if required.
Telephone:
01989 769293
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