Hello, everyone. I am new at this game, so bear with me a little....

My website has been revamped by my daughter's partner, for which I am very grateful (except it now means that I have to do all the alterations)!

New on the website is another index, this time to a book on charters, etc. of Dundee. I am now working on a book covering early charters up to the Reformation, and thereafter Kirk session records of Perth, and there is a lot of detail on ordinary people included.

I have updated my wife Kay's page, which has some detail of the horrendous trials she went through. For myself, it was very worrying, and I spent nearly six months visiting her in hospital twice a day to sit by her side - and for much of the time she was either comatose or not very with it at all. Despite the slow but steady improvements, she is still registered disabled, so at least we have a blue badge entitling her to park with impunity in most places.

My son Tom and his wife Audra have two little girls - 7 and 4, and are very happy together. Tom is very proud of his daughters and dotes on them.

My daughter's son, Kieran, is now 14 and almost as tall as I am, and about the same weight. He is a clever lad, but obstreperous, diffident at times, and extremely knowledgeable - knows more about computers than I do (not difficult!). He is a wonderful grandson, though.