I know that several family members are reading my blogs because they e-mail me and mention that they have seen them. However only Liz - oldest friend and recently discovered to be 5th cousin - puts her comments in openly.

What I would really like is for people (especially those who are kin) to press the comment button and add something for all of us to read. Someday someone is going to get round to setting up a proper Family Website to which we can all add photos, anecdotes and history, but until Neil, Kurt or whoever has his arm twisted sufficiently to set up exactly the right website that even his most aged, time-stressed, klutzy auntie (not me) can use with ease we are going to have to make do with my blog. Some of the things you tell me are really interesting, but I am always nervous about copying things from e-mails just in case you wanted them to stay private. (Hence my going all around the houses about 'someone who was there' at Shelagh's wedding and then I drop Emma right in it by leaving her name in, but not her mother's!!!) I'm particularly cautious about small children's names and photographs.

So come on cousins (in the old sense of all relatives) and friends leave a comment! Prove that you have visited.