-=> Quoting MILES MAXTED to NANCY BACKUS on 23 Oct 10  21:19:34 <=-

 MM> And that's from Whangarei in our Winterless North;  I'm in a motel
 MM> while the Management indulges in a Country Scottish Dancing School... 
 MM> well away fronm the dreaded quaky Christchurch.

Not a bad place to be.  :)
 
 -> Yes, that last is getting on our news again...  will it never stop? 
 -> Perhaps it really is getting to be the end of the world...?  ;0

 MM> Don't know about the End;  it's certainly frustrating the
 MM> Christchurchians who'd like to be able to re-build and settle down.

I certainly can imagine so. 
 
 -> No descendants of the elderly aunt still at the Key Street Kent address?

 MM> Not even a street number or location on Key Street !

And I suppose the street is miles long... hmmm... I wonder if an old
census might turn up Maxteds anywhere on the street and give a clue that
way?  Are there any city directories that might cast some light?
 
 -> Or nearby?  No jotted notes that would indicate why your father decided
 -> to pay her a visit?  But life is full of such tantalizing tidbits...

 MM> He'd passed on before I heard of the incident from the other family !
 
Ah.  And of course that would have been told in some offhanded manner,
not thinking that anyone would want further details (even had they been
readily available)...

 MM> That's sensible, not Luddite;  this machine gets switched on when I
 MM> get a spare moment,  while my ISP accumulates my messagery which
 MM> downloads when I fire up Firefox,  my email programme.

I have to ask for mine to download... but otherwise similar.

 MM> It runs on a plain-text setting,  which speeds up the process and
 MM> avoids all the clever-clogs pictures and HTML screens.
 MM> The result is just like Doc's Place screens.
 MM> You should be able to trial it all out at your local library without
 MM> having to install and setup on your own computer - log into gmail
 MM> (google's email service) and if you like what you get,  you can keep
 MM> going from any internet-active computer anywhere....

Still not quite clear how this all works... but I may check it out
sometime, should I have time at a local library or other computer...

 MM> I'm off now - this weekend is our Labour Day celebration,  and the
 MM> weather's balmy outside  -  catch you later   :-)

Sounds quite lovely... ;)  Enjoy your balmy weather... we are supposedly
going to have a nice warm day tomorrow... we'll see what we really
get...  

ttyl     neb

... Sure. You start with stealing "only" tag lines, then...
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