-=> Quoting MILES MAXTED to NANCY BACKUS on 23 Oct 10  21:19:34 <=-   
      
    MM> And that's from Whangarei in our Winterless North;  I'm in a motel   
    MM> while the Management indulges in a Country Scottish Dancing School...    
    MM> well away fronm the dreaded quaky Christchurch.   
      
   Not a bad place to be.  :)   
       
    -> Yes, that last is getting on our news again...  will it never stop?    
    -> Perhaps it really is getting to be the end of the world...?  ;0   
      
    MM> Don't know about the End;  it's certainly frustrating the   
    MM> Christchurchians who'd like to be able to re-build and settle down.   
      
   I certainly can imagine so.    
       
    -> No descendants of the elderly aunt still at the Key Street Kent address?   
      
    MM> Not even a street number or location on Key Street !   
      
   And I suppose the street is miles long... hmmm... I wonder if an old   
   census might turn up Maxteds anywhere on the street and give a clue that   
   way?  Are there any city directories that might cast some light?   
       
    -> Or nearby?  No jotted notes that would indicate why your father decided   
    -> to pay her a visit?  But life is full of such tantalizing tidbits...   
      
    MM> He'd passed on before I heard of the incident from the other family !   
       
   Ah.  And of course that would have been told in some offhanded manner,   
   not thinking that anyone would want further details (even had they been   
   readily available)...   
      
    MM> That's sensible, not Luddite;  this machine gets switched on when I   
    MM> get a spare moment,  while my ISP accumulates my messagery which   
    MM> downloads when I fire up Firefox,  my email programme.   
      
   I have to ask for mine to download... but otherwise similar.   
      
    MM> It runs on a plain-text setting,  which speeds up the process and   
    MM> avoids all the clever-clogs pictures and HTML screens.   
    MM> The result is just like Doc's Place screens.   
    MM> You should be able to trial it all out at your local library without   
    MM> having to install and setup on your own computer - log into gmail   
    MM> (google's email service) and if you like what you get,  you can keep   
    MM> going from any internet-active computer anywhere....   
      
   Still not quite clear how this all works... but I may check it out   
   sometime, should I have time at a local library or other computer...   
      
    MM> I'm off now - this weekend is our Labour Day celebration,  and the   
    MM> weather's balmy outside  -  catch you later   :-)   
      
   Sounds quite lovely... ;)  Enjoy your balmy weather... we are supposedly   
   going to have a nice warm day tomorrow... we'll see what we really   
   get...     
      
   ttyl     neb   
      
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