G'morning Nancy,   
      
   And thanks for your...   
        
   -> Ach!  I had heard about the quake when it first happened, but it's   
   -> slipped off our news some time ago... Extreme weather, indeed.   
      
   It's all still happening !   They had a Richter force 5 aftershock last   
   Friday,  right in the midst of planning to start rebuilding the city...   
       
   -> We've been getting fall rains lately, temps in the 50's, mostly grey   
   -> skies... but at least we get some sun every so often, and the earth   
   -> doesn't shake...  We're supposed to have sun and temps in the 60's by   
   -> the weekend, even...  We'll see...     
      
   Not much one can do about it all now - the weather forecasters (only   
   invented to make economics forecasters look good) are warning of El Nino   
   states and horrendous hurricanes ... just as a few fine days slip past Thor   
   and his atmospheric friends...   
      
   ->  MM> There'll be a connection linking the two [Maxted families] lurking   
   somewhere...   
   ->    
   -> That will be a fun thing to find... :)  Probaly cousins...?  Or are the   
   -> dates such that they could be in the same line?   
      
   The dates are contiguous, but the connections haven't yet turned up.   
      
   I once found a Robert Maxted living locally (who knew of my father, Robert   
   Maxted, who had been brought to NZ to live in 1910).  His own father was a   
   Robert Maxted who lived in New Zealand, too.   
      
   Both these Roberts had gone to England in the 1920's;  his father had gone   
   one day to visit an elderly aunt who lived in Key Steet, Kent, and was   
   taking tea when a knock came on the door.   
      
   Sent to answer the door, his father found a young man who said "I'm Robert   
   Maxted from New Zealand"...  my father.   
      
   This elderly aunt is obviously the link between these two branches, but the   
   participants of the weird coincidental meeting both failed to record or   
   pass on the details.  Another mystery that may never be solved....   
       
   -> I'm not that connected to the I'net.  Other than telnet and email, I   
   -> hardly do anything on the net, and what I do is all text-based... dunno   
   -> if I even could set up Google alerts with my system.   
      
   I've got google set as a text-only tool to speed things up and avoid all   
   the dazzle-rah-rah stuff,  and run alerts on all my main interests to keep   
   me up to date usefully....   
      
   -> ... Computers are not intelligent.  They only think they are.   
      
   Sneaky bloody programmers...   
      
   Miles   
      
      
      
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