Following my post of23 December at 10:16:48 am, here is the press release from the Leasowe Castle Hotel: I wrote to them so was on their distribution list for this. The press release starts with this: Over the past two days it has emerged that there has been a serious misunderstanding between Alan Tudball and Leasowe Castle with regard to his cancelled wedding which was due to be held in April of this year ... Click here to read on ...PRESS RELEASE from leasowe castle Looks like a happy ending. DW

Ever felt outraged at the antics of a business? Here's a story that should make your blood boil: Hotel sues injured soldier over cancelled wedding and again at Iraq hero being sued Here are the post and phone details of the hotel The Leasowe Castle Leasowe Road Moreton Wirral Merseyside CH46 3RF t: 0151 606 9191 t: 0151 678 5551 To write to the hotel over the internet go to their web site, click on the contact link at the top left of the page and write to them like I did. DW

Speaking of Santa Claus, here's a page that tells his story. Worried that Santa's outfit's red because Coca Cola decided it should be? Think again as you unravel the history of this benevolent chap and learn that the name Santa Claus comes directly from the Dutch sinterklaas and not from the Yorkshire dialect "ee bah gum"; but even that is more romantic sounding than the German name: Weihnachtsmann! Anyway, go here to read all about it: THE HISTORY OF SANTA CLAUS I can't vouch for the accuracy of the history lesson on that page, of course, but what the heck! Then again, click on the link at the bottom of that page to go here to learn a lot more about Christmas and its various traditions. DW

If you must spend your life on line why not spend part of that time googlewhacking? Here's what googlewhacking is: The object of Googlewhacking is to find two words which, when entered into the Google search engine without quotes, yield one and only one result ... It's a lot harder than you might expect, and of course, if you succeed in finding one and post it to http://www.googlewhack.com , within a very short time your whack will yield more than one result! Such is the ephemeral nature of the beast. (By the way, "ephemeral Googlewhack", without the quotes of course, yielded 35 results when I tried!) I tried duncan's nuts but that returned 1,510 hits: so, I'm not alone then! Some of the successful searches, around 256,000 reported so far are clever but many are just odd. The best result so far is 165 hits for jock mcplop! I got a few where there were no hits! Have a go and do better than I did! DW