Flags & Family History & Friends

I've got one of those Neocounter thingies on my blog and everyday I have a look to see if I've collected anymore flags :O) Today I have 16, meaning people have visited my blog from 16 different countries from all over the world. Isn't that amazing!!! I'm sat in my dining room typing this and someone in Vietnam is blog surfing and happens along my blog and hey presto I have another flag ~ wow! 9 times out of 10 I never think about the magnitude of the Internet and then on an odd occasion something like that happens & it just blows me away. A few years ago, when we started tracing Andrew's family history, we were sat at the computer waiting for an attachment to down load from an e-mail that Andrew's Auntie had sent. To our amazement it was a photograph of Andrew's great great grandfather, William H*****d, sat on a wooden chair outside a working men's club in Ashton-Under-Lyne. Could you imagine being the photographer and telling this man, that in a 100 years time his great granddaughter would be able to scan the photo and send it across the Internet from the north to the south of England in a few seconds to his great great grandson? It's just mind blowing isn't it :O)
Gemma & Matt were too late with the house. Someone had already offered the full asking price and the offer had been accepted, never mind. I'm a great believer in fate and if something is meant to be, it's meant to be :O)
Elena has one of her best friend's over to play today, Emma. She's staying the night too. If you can't have a sleepover in the summer holidays when can you hey :O) They've been in the pool this morning and all I could hear from the kitchen was giggling and squealing ~ LOL!