Why I started this

Now that Gila has caused me to actually have readers, and Batya even left a comment, I suppose I'd better explain that the original idea was to have this as a holding page in honour of my maternal grandfather, Sidney Frank Fooks.

Pictures and archival material about him are at
http://www.flickr.com/photos/9324747@N06/sets/72157604390194432/

and an obituary at
http://www.jeffreymaynard.com/Harrow_County/sfooks.htm

so that's why.

People of his ilk are few and far between.