ozTypewriter reached four
million page views at 11.56 this morning, December 20th, 2019. It’s
been a long, slow crawl from the three million mark, reached on a freezing
morning on July 3, 2017. From one of the coldest days on record in Canberra to
one of the hottest – it’s 41 degrees as I write (106 Fahrenheit). But watching
the count warm back up and consistently climb at a rate above 1000 page views a
day during the past few months has been quite thrilling. Now I’m encouraged to
say I’ll definitely press on for five million (and maybe then retire!). The
blog hit two million page views on November 4, 2015, and one million on March
20, 2014. There have been 2459 posts, of which one - about reattaching a drawband - has attracted almost 14,000 page views alone!
AND I had a new grandson born this week. Best Christmas gift ever. A
gorgeous wee fellow was born in Canberra on Wednesday afternoon (December
18th) to my son Danny and his wife Emily. Magnus
Leif Robert Messenger is the first Messenger born on December 18 in 152 years. The last was my
great-uncle Walter James Messenger, the younger brother of my grandfather
Robert Messenger. Walter was born in Wonersh, near Guildford in Surrey, in 1867,
and lived to the age of 88. In naming his own Greymouth, New Zealand-born children, Robert
used the names of his male siblings amd called his eldest son Walter (1896-1917).
This Walter, my uncle, was posthumously awarded the Military Medal in World War
I.
Another
December 18 birth on our extensive family tree, which dates back to at least
1571 and was put painstakingly together by our family genealogist Noeleen
Mullholland, was that of Eustace Holland, born in Crookham, Hampshire, in 1899
– and he lived to the age of 84. Eustace was a member of the Windiate side of
the family, descendants of Mary Messenger (1750-1807), the daughter of my
great-great-great-great grandfather Thomas Messenger (1706-1775).
4 comments:
A Hearty Double Congratulations!!
Congratulations!! (And thanks for that Remington Portable ad!)
You're looking good in that photo, maybe it's your grandson beaming some youth into you or maybe it's the luster still from your wedding. I am glad things are going well for you!!! Looking forward to you hitting 5 million views.
Congratulations! And MURRAY Christmas!
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