ANOTHER DATE FOR THE DIARY

Sally, clever though she is, has still not grasped the skill of posting to the Blog. She has gone off to Corsica for two weeks and asked me to Post the following:

HBP GATHERING

SATURDAY

21 JULY 2007

Noon

Sally's Place

Woodbury Salterton

[Phone for directions: 01392 879225]

If you cannot make Saturday, you are welcome on Sunday

NEW PARTY DATE!

Hello All!

havent checked in lately so a few new posts since last! Gosh Joe, well done you for commiting to doin the half marathon. We most definalty will be sponsoring you. You're going to have to sleep a week before and after surely?!
I know I posted a message a little while ago about a surprise party for Julin - well hopefully its still happening but now on a different date. its actually going to be Saturday 11th August. I have an absolutly brilliant funky live band booked so it should be worth the trip down for a good knees up! It would be handy if I could have anybody postal address as I will send out some invites nearer the time.

Alls well here in Bude. Hope everyone is well. Take Care Ju Tan & Amber x

BRISTOL HALF MARATHON

Hi folks,
Just a quick note to let you all know that me and my mate Dave are running the Bristol half marathon on Sunday 9th September 2007.
Dave's god-daughter is deaf and has had loads of help from The Ear Foundation, so we thought it would be a good idea to get together and see how much we can raise, so that they can continue to help people with hearing problems and add to the tremendous work which they have done so far.
If you want to sponsor us (any amount will be gratefully received) then please go to the following website:
http://www.justgiving.com/DaveandJoe
I know that you lot are all lovely people and that the cause is a good one, so I've no doubt that we'll raise quite a tidy sum!
Thanks for your support and if you want to come and laugh at us on race-day, I'll be the one in the ambulance.
Thanks,
Joe

WEDDING ANNIVERSARY

4 MAY

THE HOUGHTON BEACH PARTY

CONGRATULATES

TIM & MARIA

ON

ONE WHOLE YEAR

OF

MARRIAGE

Psst! It's also Maria's birthday

I moved to Belfast

Hello everyone. Just a quick post to let you all know that I have moved to Belfast. I hope everyone is well, and I apologise in advance that it may not be easy in future for me to attend family gatherings.

Love Karla x

VISIT TO PORTSMOUTH

Following a routine call on a Bridgecraft stockist I found time to pay a visit to Aunt Margaret. Once I had got by the vicious guard dog (Milo), Aunty M put the kettle on and made me a welcoming mug of tea and got out the cake. It was not long before the house was thronging with Denny, Jenny and the children. The adults sat around chatting about this and that, until it was time to leave.

Aunty M showed me her new lap top computer. Soon she expects to be wired up to the internet and blogging with the rest of us (such as we are).

I mentioned my visit to Dad's (Jonathan F.K.) grave and how the Rowan tree is doing. I have posted pictures of my visit last Tuesday in the Album (link in the Blog margin).

Nic

party in bude

hi everyone.

i also want to thank abi for all her hard work to do with the family tree (even though its not my blood family!) I know Julian is very grateful and seeings as he has no idea how to get online i shall thank you abi on behalf of him!! hopefully we will see you sometime over the weekend anyway.

This is just a quick message to do with julians party. I have now had to change the date to the SUNDAY 19th AUG not the saturday 18th as the town band are using their hall that day as Bude Carnival is all happening on saturday (even more of a reason for people to come down for the weekend and celebrate!). Thats all i can tell you for now but I do so hope that as many of you will be able to come down for it. Its not going to be a big affair but just something to enjoy and celebrate with Julian and myself. we will have our lifegurad lodger in our upstairs room but we do have a small spare room and big back garden if anone wants to stay or camp!! Ideally though it would be nice to make it a surprise but if that doesnt happen so be it.
Hope everyone is well. Ju, Amber and I are all off for our holiday to Egypy in a coupld of weeks so we are looking forward to that. We havent been abroad all three of us together ever!! The last time Ju and I went abroad Amber was just a little bump in my tummy!!
Love to everone take acer all Tani x

FAMILY HISTORY

Nic,

I don't have a copy that can be emailed as I typed it on my ancient computer at home. However, there is a lot more information on my genes reunited site along with a family tree that dates back to the 1400's from both Houghton and Knight sides of the family. Once you have registered (costs about £8) you can send me a message requesting me to open my tree and then I can give you and whoever else wants to view it, access to it. The photos are a lovely idea and a nice tribute to Dad for his b'day. I have thought lots about him this week and lit a candle in the cathedral for him yesterday. I bet those daffodils that we planted for him have appeared by now, hopefully I'll get to go and have a look next weekend on our way to Bude. We are going to stay for the weekend in Claire's house while her and Keith are in Lanzarote. Can't wait!

Would it be ok for you to send me back the originals of the photos I gave you last year? I wondered why there were lots of gaps in my album and had forgotton I gave all my photos of Dad to you for the booklet you made for the funeral. Thanks Nic.
PS) hope the new job is going well! x

I have created a link as promised to an album containing photographs of Jonathan Frederick Knight to mark his birthday (11 March 1931). Watch it in 'slideshow' mode.
I have also made Tania an Administrator for the Blog along with Jonathan.
Well done Clare for posting a Comment; but how about becoming a full-blown member? Ask Tania to email you an invitation.

ABI ' S FAMILY HISTORY WORK

Abi,
I received my bundle of family history. Its a very good effort on your part and you are to be commended for it.
I had not known that Dad had won a scholarship to one of our most prestigious hall of learning.
You might have saved the postage and a few forests by emailing the material (or at least printing double-sided) though.

I suggest you retain the master copy which will in time be added to I hope. I would welcome an emailed copy. If the attachments are not in electronic form then I can scan the ones you sent me.
Well done again.
I think perhaps that you, me and Tania are the only people that read this Blog. Such a pity.

PS Its rather poignant to observe that today would have been Dad's 76th birthday and that Tuesday will mark the first anniversary of his death. As a tribute I shall add some photographs of him that I recently came across to the Blog's Album later today.

Update from Bristol

Hello!

That is great news, congratulations Nic! I hope by now you have all received your family history packs I sent out. They are a bit bulky so may take you a while to get through them!! I was contacted by a historian a few days ago and she is researching Arthur Rhys Davids, our grandmothers cousin. Apparently he was very close to our Great Grandfather, Henry Davids, so she is researching him too. She said she'd contact me with any useful information that she found out so could be interesting.

Hope you are all well and happy. It was my birthday last week and Joe arranged a surprise trip to Amsterdam which was amazing. We did as much as we could in the three days we were there. The red light district was an eye opener but the rest of the city was beautiful.....and the sun was shining most of the time we were there!

Love to you all,

Abi xxx

NIC'S NEW JOB

Nic has a new job. Area sales for Bridgecraft covering the whole of southern England and south Wales. I am considering a move to Dorset in order to be more central.

Bridgecraft is a sister company to Vale Upholstery. They are British manufacturers of quality upholstered furniture.

I start this month.

Summertime

Tania,

This is brilliant - and just the sort of thing the Blog is handy for (that there seem to be so many IT illiterates in the family is a blessing in disguise).
So, 'Mum' is the word.

Could other family readers of the Blog (if you are out there), confirm that you have seen Tania's post and taken the message on board, promising to discreetly pass it around.

Well done Tania.

summer time

Hi All

I've finally worked out how to write something!!

This has to be a quick one Im afraid. This is being written in secret as I dont want Julian to see this (dont worry he hasnt a clue how to get on this website and read messages!).
Now I may be jumping the gun here but i wanted to think ahead to August as it is Julians 40th birthday!! I am hoping to organise something but I wanted all the family to know so that we can get as many people down as possible. So at the moment maybe if we could just pencil in the Sat 18th August for a possible get together here in Bude. This will be a complete surprise for Julian so sshhh!!
There is the old town band hall which is available to "hire" right opposite Clare and Keiths house so maybe a gathering in there with food and drink would be a good idea. Its located right next to Bude canal so if the weather is nice it could be a jolly nice day!

Will be get back to you with more info as and when.

Hope everyone is well. Take Care all
Tania x

PORTSMOUTH V MANCHESTER UNITED

Commiserations to Portsmouth FC who lost 2 - 1

GUILDFORD

Sally & Graham have gone to Guildford this weekend - grave hunting. I believe they also plan to take a look at Sandy Knowe.

Sally has promised to take photos which will be posted on the Blog and in the album.

Welcome Kate

A big warm welcome to

Kate

who is the first Portsmouth family representative to sign-up.

We all hope that she will not be the last.

Happy New Year!!

Dear all, thank you to Nic for inviting me into the Houghton beach party blog. Firstly just to say a very Happy New Year to you all!! full of love,peace and auspicious (one of dad my dad's favourite words!) occassions ahead.
The photos of you all in Bude are lovely and it's great to see everyone looking so well and happy. Christmas here in Portsmouth was lovely and time split between each others houses checking out the kids toys and over indulging as we always do! then followed a hearty New Years Eve. Myself checking out the local entertainment and merry making with Terry and friends in our regular pub The Florence and then staggering onto Jenny's house to meet up with the rest of the party animals!!! A good night was had by all, safe to say highly celebrated!

So here I am back to it and already it feels like eons ago! It was lovely to see Abi, her mum Marguerite and her friend Leslie who visited at my Mums house on Boxing day for tea and chrimbo cake. I do hope we will manage to get to see you all again this year and I would like to take Mum away for a w-end break-possibly Dorset over the summer months.

Well I'll sign off now, but will keep you posted. Take care all, much love from Kate, :) x

Snotty Note

Well here I am after an unprecedented two days off work with a Kleenex in one hand and a bottle of cough mixture in the other. I'm feeling so much better by giving myself time to recover but Big G is now snuffling in the background and is blaming me as the infector.....of course his cold is much worse than mine! Good to see Abi's post and looking forward to a sneak preview of the family tree on Genes Reunited. Happy days!!!

Happy new year to you all! Joe and I really enjoyed our trip to Bude and it was wonderful to see everyone looking so well and happy. I am in the process of making the family history up into a booklet for you all so hope it will be out and posted by February. I have got a tree on genes reunited if any of you want to have a look on there, I am not sure how up to date it is now though.

Great photos Nic, not sure about the one of me though!!

Abi xx