My Christmas Greetings to you all.

Extra Web Page Just to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and to thank each and everyone of you for all your messages, stories, comments and notes throughout the year. I was beginning to wonder if I should stop writing but by the look of the meter on the site I am receiving almost a hundred hits a day some weeks.

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A Very Merry Christmas to you all and your families. Oh! Below is a couple of Christmas Card that I think reflects the times!!!!!

Yours Peter & Pam

Plus a Letter from Martin below and after that sad news from Cosham.





Letter from Martin in the USA

Those cold remedies.............Don't forget the immortal Friars Balsam...........That stuff in a pot of boiling water could decimate a vulture on a fertilizer cart at forty paces............In our house the cold cure was lashings of hot water, half a jar of Gales Hony and fresh squeezed lemons........then of course in later years a drop or two of dad's scotch was added...........

That photo of the Old Manor Inn still intrigues me.....after all these years the building looks so clean and new.......must have been a winter photo...........like you had quite a few there in my younger years.........

Big sad day here to commemorate John Lennon's death on Dec 8th...............especially so as Paul McCartney was being honoured by the Kennedy Arts Foundation hosted by Carolin Kennedy and Obama at the Lincoln Centre on Sunday Dec 6th.....




Sad News and Views:

The contractors have moved in to demolish the Essoldo in Cosham High Street.