WE ARE A GRANDFATHER!

My daughter Karla, gave birth to Nathan Knight, 9lbs in Eastbourne at 10pm GMT on Monday 19 January

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Its approaching midnight here in the Philippines and time to wish readers of this Blog the happiest, healthiest and most prosperous of years in 2009.

Happy Christmas

Happy Christmas everybody! We hope you all have a great holiday and a Happy New Year!

With lots of love

Abi and Joe

THE GENOGRAPHIC PROJECT

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Graham's Father

I just wanted to send my best wishes to Graham, whose father had a stroke recently and is experiencing internal bleeding. I hope that he gets better very soon and makes a good recovery. Also to let Graham know that we are thinking of him and his family too.

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Belated

BIRTHDAY GREETINGS

TO

AUNT MARGARET

IN

PORTSMOUTH

for 21 November

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Belated because I have been offline for 10 days or so.

Still, I am not the only one that can post on here.

Dad's tree

This is long overdue, but here is a photo we took of Dad's tree when we visited his grave in March 2008 and planted some daffodils. As you can see, it was not the dryest of days!

Congratulations Joe!

You are now an official qualified teacher of English! Rather you than me!

Abi xxx

BBC REMEMBRANCE WALL

Add a soldier from your family to the BBC's Remembrance site.

RNVR

I contacted the Royal Naval Voluntary Reserve (RNVR) about grandfather when there was no record of him in their 

list of officers. He has now been found and a record can be seen at this link. Some of the information gathered 

came from the obituary that I attached with my email (a copy appears in an earlier post on this blog). Below is the text of the RNVR's reply:

Re: F.J. Houghton RNVR‏

From:	J.N. Houterman (j.n.houterman@wxs.nl)
Sent:	Sunday, November 09, 2008 5:38:53 PM
To:	Nicholas Houghton (nic_houghton@hotmail.com)

Found him as Temporary Lieutenant (Special Branch) at HMS Victory III in late 1941. Will gladly add an entry for him.

Regards,

Hans Houterman 
www.unithistories.com

If anyone has a photograph of grandfather it would be nice to let the RNVR have it for their site.

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HAPPY 30th BIRTHDAY

DORIAN

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Born Santiago, Chile

6 November 1978

Houghton - The Cumbria Outpost

Don't know how many Houghtons there are in the UK but it would be good to have pictures of Houghtons at Houghtons . Sally x

LITTLE SHIPS

Dad used to speak of his father's boat taking part in the Dunkirk rescue. I did ask him the name of the boat, but stupidly I did not write it down and I have forgotten it. Does anyone have any recollection of the name? Is there a photograph anywhere?

The Association of Dunkirk Little Ships has a website and the list of craft taking part can be found here:http://www.adls.org.uk/

MY BIRTHDAY

My birthday yesterday, was spent on the beach. The dogs loved it and were plain tuckered out last night. You can see why....

Blooms from the trees along the shoreline

A grand day out and a lovely way to celebrate my 54th birthday.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

SALLY

26 September 2008

ANOTHER GENERATION

The news is in Karla's Facebook area and so firmly in the public domain:

We are to become a grandfather early in the new year.

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY

+ T A N I A +

28 August 2008

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Congratulations

Joe & Abi

To see Nic & Elvie's message from the Philippines, follow the link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHvF21jngCE

ABI'S WEDDING

If like me, you cannot attend Abi's wedding this coming Friday you may like to know 

that Jonathan will be posting "live" images of the event as it happens (more or less). 

View the images on Flickr at the following website:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/angelos-knight/

ANNIVERSARY

4 May

Its come around again folks.

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY

TIM & MARIA

Oh, and Happy Birthday to Maria too