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This is my page which enables them to get in touch with each other.  I therefore invite people to let me know if they wish to have their e-mail addresses included on this page with a view to receiving mail from other people.  I would like to have very brief details which can include their home area, their age, interests and anything else which they wish to be included on the page  - even a photo (any format).  This is most certainly not a marriage bureau and I cannot take any responsibility for the consequences from putting details on the page. Please bear in mind that this site can be read by anyone on the Internet.

Feb 09 Nexus is a site which describes itself as the alternative to dating services and marriage bureaux. As a member you can meet and mix with as many or as few people as suits you. It is presumptuous to believe that all people on their own want a partner – many of us just need others, who, like us, have both the time to spend and the inclination to meet new people.

Sept 08 : Age concern are revamping their community site at http://www.ageconcern.org.uk/community/ Join for chat etc

New: Don't forget the very popular www.friendsreunited.com, which traces school and work friends They used to charge  £7.50 per annum if you wish to e-mail anyone but you can now send and receive emails from Freindsreunited free of charge.  I am no longer a member but managed to contact someone who is.

There are a number of sites on the net which will enable you to find e-mail friends.  No guarantees, however, I haven't tried these :  http://www.bbb.org.uk/ This is the 'Baby Boomers" Chat site, which has an Age Concern logo, so should be safe,  http://www.matureconnections.co.uk/  http://www.friendshipdirect.com/   www.emailfriends.com    www.pen-pals.com    www.makefriendsonline.com/   http://seniorfriendfinder.com/   http://www.friendshipdirect.com/ - find friendship and romance at 50+  Nexus "the alternative to dating services " Single Living    National Women's Register

Don't forget the very popular www.friendsreunited.com, which traces school and work friends. They are no longer charging to join. You can enter details of your schools and colleges, previous areas you lived in, armed forces and many other ways to enable you to contact people you used to know.

Another site that will help you meet people on line is http://groups.msn.com/browse.msnw?catid=160
Yet another - a new one - is www.overfiftiesfriends.co.uk It is intended to get people together for mutual activities. There is a free and also a paid membership.

Friends who would like to hear from people.........

Elizabeth Regan. Elizabeth is a keen gardener, has a webcam (connects to friends using Msnmessenger) and a digital camera.  She does craft work and has two Shih Tzu dogs, of which she is very fond.  Also like Country music. Would like to add more (male or female) email contacts to existing friends in different parts of the globe. To get in touch Please click HERE

Bert & Jean Surridge Bert is 88 and a retired shipping clerk, his wife, Jean is 78, a retired headmistress, worked in London before retiring. They are interested in Classical music, gardening, reading and Jean is interested in knitting, tapestry and making knitted dolls for charities etc. Bert is also interested in editing animated graphics (and he has a huge collection - ed). To email him just : Click HERE. He asks if you could increase the font size to 14 when you email as it is easier to read.

Enid McDonald was a nurse (general and psychiatric) Then had a "Good Life" phase running a small holding with chickens, goats and some horticulture but now living in Wales. Now totally deaf, her interests are animals, reading, TV programmes about anthropology, archaeology and computing. Has bought a Digital camera and is enjoying it. To email Enid Click HERE

Ken Tovey. "I am 73 years of age and live in Hampshire. My hobbies are Genealogy, Digital photography, Landscape Painting in oil or watercolour and metal detecting. The item on view is one of the many artifacts which I have found with my detector. Would be pleased to hear from any Silversurfers who have similar interests". To email him please Click HERE.  Ken often has had illustrated articles in the detectors magazines. See below for Ken's new interest.

Lost touch with an old friend ? Ken is willing to search for anyone who you have lost touch with in this country or possibly Australia. He may also be able to start you on the right lines to find ancestors.  It is a free service.  Contact him by email He needs as much information as he can get : All names, date of birth, marriage, the regiment if in the HMF, last address. He is especially able to find records of people who would have been around in the 19th and early 20th Century.  Ken is now paying for access to the Electoral Roll and has already managed to reunite someone with their long lost father.

Dorothy (Dolly) Bolden has long been a correspondent and is seeking Internet friends. As she says she is "76 years young... looking for male or female computer pals. I like crafts (e.g. card making), gardening, Diy, most types of music, and my computer."  To contact Dolly Click HERE

Dolly's fabulous cards

Harold Burniston, the original (in more ways than one) finally passed away on 22nd March aged 94. He always enjoyed his hobbies of digital photography, writing poetry, painting in watercolours and cooking.  He was a good friend and we had many a fine lunch together. He showed what could be done even at his great age, taking up computing and beating me at Scrabble every time !  His motto was " Have a go" It doesn't matter what people think of your painting, craft work or whatever you want to do.  Just don't give up".  And he didn't, right to the end.

John Plumridge, living in Stoke Poges (nr Slough) Click HERE to email him. John writes (very good) poetry.   See http://www.poetryshared.com/profile.php?poetID=70

One of John's poems :  

Blow Wind Blow.

Blow wind blow, for without you we would never know
that clouds bestir to shade the sun’s fierce noontime glow,
form pictures in the sky, make ships of mist sail by,
in time be seen a twinkling of the starlit sky.

No stormy seas would heave and roll to stir a mind.
No face would feel the sea fret air, nor drift-wood find,
there beached along with flotsam from a foreign source,
with sailboat’s journeys setting a much duller course.

No more the sounds of the melodies that nature plays!
The creak of trees or hedgerows swish on boist’rous days,
no whispers of a summer breeze announce a field,
through rustlings, its harvest fit and soon to yield.

Dauntless birds a-wing would sit on breathless air,
to find their world aloft a tedious affair.
Without their roller-coaster ride of being tossed
through unseen canyons of their domain, be lost.

So much more lost too, yet must be said that often
on a Winter’s morn, 'neath domes of silence there, when
snow has gentled down to muffle footfall’s plodding lays,
a time comes due when silence best prevail
across each testing hill, through darkest-dale
to loose the threads of living’s wanton ways.

by Journeyman

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