Monday, November 20, 2006

November Social 2006


Today June invited us all into her beautiful home in St. Philip's for a morning of socializing and enjoying the presentation that Don Moores from Home on Water Street had prepared for us on the topic of hostess gifts during Christmas time.



Don brought along a whole array of wonderful stuff that they sell at his store. Soaps, candles, preserves an so on. Unfortunately I could not remember all the names, but I remembered one brand, because Don mentioned it was Prince Charles' company.


The line is called Duchy Originals and all profits generated from the sales go to the The Prince of Wales’s Charitable Foundation.





There also were two door prizes. One lucky winner was Randi.





Don was presented with a token of our appreciation: a bottle of wine and our very own compilation of recipes in the "Friends in the Kitchen" cookbook. (There still are some available through June. They also make great gifts to send.)



We also had some beautiful little baby visitors, whom we all so enjoy, but while Mathew and William are already too quick for me to capture with my camera, Asuka's adorable little girl could not run from me yet. She is five months old.


Thank you, June, for hosting this event, decorating your home for the theme, turning the music on softly and making everyone feel welcome.



Saturday, November 18, 2006

Webpage Statistics

Just for your information:

We have had increasing visitor numbers to our webpage, although at the moment we seem to get just one visit per day. Here you can see the development over the past twelve months.


(By thye way, klicking on graphics or pictures enlarges them.)

Below you can see where our blog readers predominantly come from:



How did people come to our website? Many simply are members and check from time to time if there is any news here, others come via the National Newcomers' Website and others again through a directory that lists worldwide Newcomers' Websites.

Some visitors just come here by accident looking for the weather forecast for Newfoundland or the Jumping Bean coffee company or through links sent in emails.

How do I know all this? I installed a little webcounter to monitor activity that would give me an idea if the website is worthwhile keeping.

Hope you still think it's worthwhile, but with more articles from YOU, our members, this would be an even more interesting place. Please, do send in some pictures or little articles from the interest groups you are participating in. It would be great fun to read about the hiking adventures or golf practice or .... and make more people interested in joining.

Pia

Search Engine Top Entry

Finally, after much tweaking and telling the search engines we are here, a Google search for Newcomers'Club St.John's now comes up with our Blog at the top o'the pile. It was about time.