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Congratulations to Lewis Hamilton who has become the youngest winner of the F1 World Championship and only the 9th British driver to have won.

I would like to take this moment to write how sorry I am to hear about the passing of Bert Keirle who sadly lost a battle to cancer.

Although in recent years I had lost contact with Bert, Christine and family it was a shock to see the annoucement.

Sorry that I could not have attended the funeral, but not in Weston super Mare anymore.

I have copied the annoucements here, so that it will always be floating in cyberspace.

KEIRLE. – Bert. Passed away at home on August 29th, 2008 aged 61 years. Much loved husband of Christine, he will be sorely missed by his family and all who knew and loved him. The funeral will take place at Weston-super-Mare Crematorium on Monday, September 8th at 12.00 noon. Flowers or donations for the MacMillan Trust to be sent to The Elms Funeral Directors, 50 Baker Street, Weston-super-Mare. Telephone 01934 616006.

KEIRLE. – Bert. In memory of my loving husband Bert. Your battle is finally over. Sleep peacefully until we meet again. – All my love, your ever loving wife Christine. XXX

KEIRLE. – Bert. In loving memory of my Dad and best friend. Always a fighter, right to the end. I will never forget you. – From Phillip and Kelly.

KEIRLE. – Bert. Passed away on August 29th, 2008. Much loved father to Shane and Sarah, Sabrina, David and Caty and Lorraine. Much loved Grandad.
Every day in some small way,
We will miss you more than words can say,
In our hearts you will always stay,
Loved and remembered    every day.
All our love. XXX

KEIRLE. – Bert. You were a great Step-Dad. You will always be in our hearts and in our thoughts. May you rest peacefully now. All our love. – Charlie and Matt. XXX

KEIRLE. – Bert. Grandad, we will miss you a lot. Sleep peacefully. – Love from Jordan and Jamie. XXX

KEIRLE. – Bert. We will miss you. All our love. – Kasey, Riley, Cameron, Coby and Paige.

KEIRLE. – Bertie. To a dear friend who will be sadly missed. No more suffering. – Love Shaun, Tracy, Julie and girls. XXX

I thought that I would write this, incase someone is copeing with a loss, either a human being or an animal. I have seen a lot of relatives die of cancer or old age and I honestly never thought that death would hit me so hard again but.

 Upon haveing to play God with my dogs life and having him put to sleep, as he was reasonably the only family that I had left that cared for me, and I cared for him, things are harder than when I said goodbye to my nan.

 With a human being, they can say that they want to go, that they are tired, but with an animal, sadly they cannot. My dogs heart was beating about 200 beats per minute, with a low pulse and with white gums, the vet advised for him to be put to sleep now, otherwise he would die a horrible chokeing death before having a heart attack.

Hearing this, my mind shut off, because I did not want to hear this, and I certainly did not want him to go like this. The month of May had already seen one loved one pass away, my nan, and when she passed away she seemed to be at peace.

Having Murphy put to sleep was different though, I knew that the end had to come at some point, and I had always thought that it would come before it did, but I gave him a fighting chance and he pulled through the first time, this time, I thought that maybe it was time for him to go.

After a time agonising over what was best for him, as soon as I said ok do it, I had to walk out, at the time, that was what I thought was best for me, as I could not see my friend being put too sleep, but in some respects, I think that he knew that it was his time as well.

When she had brought him back in, she uncovered the towel that he was wrapped in, and his limp body was there and his eyes was open, I could not cope with that and told her to cover him over.

She asked me if she wanted her to carry him to the car but I said no thanks, that I would do it. The most shocking thing was because you are so used to picking up a dog and he has strength in his body, this time though it was like carrying a dead chicken, where it’s head flops to one side.

This was scarey enough to carry him to the car, upon getting him home, he was laid in his basket and covered in his blanket, but not fully covered, a resting place was dug for him and he was wrapped in his blanket, his lead and a cuddly toy was placed in his grave so that if there is an after life, then I hope that we will be together once more.

Being able to see where he is burried is a good and a bad thing, at first it was good to be able to go out and sit with him, and talk to him, but as soon as the bad weather hit, and it started raining my inital thoughts was thats my friend, my child, my baby in the ground and I wanted to go out and cover his grave and not to let him get wet, other feelings have been of buying a tupperware box thing, and putting his body in there, but then that preserves him for such a time and what is the point of that.

 I had thought for a long while about having him stuffed, but then you think that his chest gets cut open, his organs gets removed, he gets stuffed and bang he is there all the time and that is not really how you want to remember your beloved pet.

I miss putting on my shoes or jacket, and bang he was at the door wanting to go out, or the fact that I could walk him off his lead and hear his footsteps behind me plodding along. Inital reactions are looking back when walking, or when someone is coming to the door, to step up to hold him back so he does not attack someone whom comes through the door.

Having been around dogs for 38 years of my life, these 13 years of his and my life, have been the most intense that I have ever had with an animal, before hand it was a family dog, but he became my own and trying to get used to not having to depend upon him, or him depend upon me is a big thing.

Part of me wants to get another dog to replace that needing, to be loved and to give love to someone who depends upon you, but in other aspects I have not had a holiday since I was 14 years of age, not a proper one, and certainly not the past thirteen years as I felt guilty about kennels and had no one too look after him, even leaving him for a few hours was too much sometimes.

Like all deaths, in time things pass by and you get used to the fact that someone is gone, but I never find that tea and sympathy does any good, and sometimes loseing a defenless animal, is more heart wrenching than loseing a human being from cancer.

Times like these though, you hope that their is an after life and that you do end up seeing your loved ones again.

Today May 24th at approx 9am, Murphy, the best dog in the World that you could ever wish for, was put to sleep on instructions from the vet. Once more what should be a happy week for me has been added to with more grief.

 23rd saw my nans birthday, now the 24th sees the passing of my friend, 25th my birthday, and 26th was the passing of my nan.

Despite our expected change to UK2.net we have cancelled them twice. We first paid for a dedicated server for three months, but did not purchase the c panel to which we had to use the SSH functions, sadly we could not get 100% results with this.

We then asked regarding the c panel, but we got told that we would have to pay for three months useage, rather than the month that was needed to see if the hosting was any good, we then said no. we didnt want to pay for three months, so cancelled and then ordered one months worth of hosting and cpanel.

The first time, we got a full refund, but second time we shall come onto in a moment.

Having ordered a second dedicated server with c-panel, we ordered a new domain name for testing, this domain name go registered under UK2.net at their billing address rather than ours, so if that domain name took massive hits per day, then they could have turned it off, and claimed it to be their own website address.

 As we could not use the domain name or server, we decided to cancel to much hassle the second time. A refund was made but this was only for £97.00 odd rather than the £207 that we originally paid. We know that they say that once a server is in place then they do not issue refunds for the work done on that server, but come on guys, it is all automatic, you do not do anything.

So £100 down, no work done with UK2.net but we thought that we would share our experience with this company and although we are fed up with 1&1, we would recomend 1&1 over UK2.net anytime of the day or week.

After many years of using 1&1 webhosting, due to server errors the past four days, we have decided to change to an affordable, UK based webhosting company called UK2.net We are expecting some delays transferring domain names and databases across, but we are looking forward to the future with UK2.net.

We have decided to go with the bronze package which costs £59.00 per month, but with that we now have unlimited SSL certificates which cost £30.00 per year on one and one (1&1).

The domain names are around the same price at near enough £6.00 for two years which for the UK is very cheap domain registration.

Would we recomende 1&1 as a web host? If you are using a small website with no MYSQL databases, then for a very cheap set up, then it is ok, would we recomend it for a more professional affiliate, sadly no.

Despite one and one giving one hundred MYSQL databases, the dedicated server cannot handle the load and often goes down, so it has come a time in which to switch to a new server.

UK2.net have been chosen mainly due to price, as they have been found to be one of the cheapest UK webhosting companies around.

We are expecting some delays transferring domains across and also databases, so we thank you for your patience.

We are pleased to annouce the opening of DVD Rental Blockbuster at www.dvdrentalblockbuster.co.uk advertising DVD rental for guess who, yes Blockbuster.

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With some sad regret Mark Speight was found dead around 10am at Paddington train station.

Mark had a reasonably bright future but due to his trappings of fame and money, this became too much.

We would like to pass on our wishes and we wish that there was more that we could say.

Regards

A fellow Mark

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