From our cousin Mavis who lives in Canada

Hi Irene and all,

Love you too and I admire your clever work on the Family Newsletter and your talent with art work. I think you are SO clever! I am a jack of all trades, master of none!

I did read your lovely newsletter at first but as my internet connection got so slow due to wiring problems and being at the end of the line on a rural connection, I haven't looked lately! I do miss all your photos and interesting news. However, the house telephone wiring is going to be replaced shortly and I hope connection speed will increase and I will meet you all again in cyberspace.

This is my tiny input for the moment but I will try hard to post some photos and news as soon possible. Nothing interesting enough to submit seems to happen anymore! When we travelled all over the world it was interesting but all that is old news now! I guess I could submit some photos of my cats, or us gardening or shopping-that's as interesting as it gets!

My husband went on a 4 day business trip to Morocco 2 weeks ago but the photos of the potash mine aren't too interesting! He's got some lovely photos of nuclear power plants, nickel, copper, potash and gold mines and aluminium and nickel smelters, but they are all top secret! Sorry!

I hope something interesting will happen during the next few weeks and I'll try to post it!

I only know Irene and her family in New York state, including the brilliant, beautiful, kind and generous, genealogist Harriet and her lovely family, but you'll all know this. I also know some of your family in Ohio, so if anyone else does please let me know.

If anyone has any interest in, or questions about, life in Canada or the UK, or us, please get in touch. We have also lived in Dubai, Bahrain, South Africa, Chile, and Australia up to 2004.

I do have many varied interests and I also enjoy cooking and inventing or adapting recipes. (I also enjoy fine dining out!) My husband and I particularly enjoy Middle East, Greek, Italian and Indian cuisine, either cooking it at home or dining out in restaurants creating those foods. I enjoy admiring art, reading and all music-pop and classical-everything except rap! Sorry to those who do appreciate rap music! I also dabble in genealogy when my internet is up to high speed.

Would love to hear from anyone of any age. My email address is with this mail and I'm currently stuck using my BlackBerry until computer speed returns. On my BB I have instant messaging with Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo Messenger and BlackBerry Instant Messenger. I'm in Irene's age group at 66 years young and in the newsletter I'm BritValMav.

Best wishes to all,
Mavis. 
Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone