YOU DID IT!

Katie · Post by **Katie** » Thu Jul 29, 2004 3:03 pm

I Just noticed the members figure is above 1000 congratulations you should be very proud. Maybe soon you'll win best tourism website!

no really!you should!

Post by **Steve Wooler** » Thu Jul 29, 2004 4:33 pm

Thanks Katie, but it's our readers that have done it not me.

Anyway, your kind comments win you another shot of Tiny Tim and that irresponsible wife of mine getting the pup hooked on piña coladas (actually it was a virgin colada, so no alcohol).

Katie · Post by **Katie** » Thu Jul 29, 2004 6:44 pm

thanks i didn't realise he was that tiny

Post by **Steve Wooler** » Thu Jul 29, 2004 7:14 pm

He isn't - it's just Jill that's HUGE!

Katie · Post by **Katie** » Thu Jul 29, 2004 7:43 pm

you should of brought him home and given him to me. Its awful to think though hes living on the streets, but i bet someone picked him up and took him home!

Post by **Steve Wooler** » Thu Jul 29, 2004 8:14 pm

Hi Katie

Yes, I know what you mean. Mind you, if you're going to live on the streets, I can't think of a nicer place than Tobago.

Anyway, if I'd brought him home it would have been more than my leg's worth to give him to someone else. I know someone who would have mothered him to death - my Goldie Topaz. Here she is with our next door neighbour's 2-month old rat catcher, who literally hangs from her tail at times.

Topaz is five years old today. I wish we'd let her have pups - she's amazing with youngsters of any species. I've even seen her force her best friend, our cat, (the terror of neighbourhood wildlife) drop a baby rabbit, which she promptly carried back down the garden to the field where the cat had caught it, then sat down with the bunny, guarding it for 15-20 minutes until it recovered and scampered off. I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes.

Julia C. · Post by **Julia C.** » Thu Jul 29, 2004 10:24 pm

Awwww! What a beauty Topaz is and what a lovely story.

Fantastic pictures too.

Katie · Post by **Katie** » Fri Jul 30, 2004 8:38 am

oh thats lovely i wish i could have a og esspecially as nice as topaz but my mum and dad say its to much responsibility

Brian Taylor · Post by **Brian Taylor** » Fri Jul 30, 2004 1:22 pm

have the feeling the "streetdogs" in tobago are becoming lee in number and less skinny, too. more tourists > more bones....
and the position of the dogs change. people take more care, call more vets, even buy dog food. happy about this tendency...
wish I could send you a pic of our "local babies" especially now, sleeping by my feet, while I'm travelling to all you people in GB, G or elsewhere...

wuff to all you dogs out there, too (from baba and bruno)

greetings from steph and ali (baba thats where we took the first name from...)

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Arianne · Post by **Arianne** » Fri Jul 30, 2004 2:24 pm

Isn't is sweet, sweeter, sweetiest...!!!! Great Pictures Steve, and what a nice doggy you've got. Since I am doing little else than working all the time, I don't have the possibility to have a dog of my one....Instead I've got 3 fluffy rabbits in my back yard...but it's definately not the same.

Bye bye and a gentle pad on the back for your doggy!!!!!!
Arianne

Katie · Post by **Katie** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 11:06 am

just looked and noticed the highest number of users ever. ITS HUGE! alot bigger than the old amount shame i wasn't part of it! maybe you should arrange a date everyone goes on line, then you could get a bigger amount

Post by **Steve Wooler** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 11:50 am

Hi Katie. Well spotted - I hadn't noticed that myself.

If all thousand registered users went online at the same time, my poor old server would probably have a nervous breakdown.

The forum counts different addresses by their IP address (the unique identifier issued by the user’s ISP). Trouble is, without running certain tests the machine is too dumb to tell whether it’s a ‘human’ visitor or a robot/spider sent out by the search engines. Sometimes the search engines use multiple threads so that they can read and index lots of posts at the same time, for inclusion in the search engines.

If I'm working, I normally have the forum control panel open on one of the screens on my computer, so I can see what’s happening on the board, but it was my birthday yesterday so we had an excuse to get out and celebrate (or drown sorrows) with some of the family. However, I’ve looked at our stats and ‘human’ traffic for the day was actually low, not high. We averaged 1,350 visitors a day on myTobago in July, but the figure for yesterday was only 828 visitor sessions. However, eleven search engines hit us during the day, so I suspect that was the reason.

Julia C. · Post by **Julia C.** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 12:21 pm

Happy Birthday for yesterday Steve!

Post by **Steve Wooler** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 12:23 pm

Thanks Julia

It was a great day until I heard my father telling one of my sons that he wasn't too pleased to realise that his son was an old man!

Arianne · Post by **Arianne** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 1:27 pm

Hi Steve,

no matter how old you are, just stay young at heart!
happy birthday for yesterday!!!! and congrats with the success of this site!!!!!!!!!!!

Arianne

Katie · Post by **Katie** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 3:13 pm

well it sounds good! happy birthday!

Brian Taylor · Post by **Brian Taylor** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 8:43 pm

good to hear that some people have the strength to celebrate the birthdays over 30!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

how old can you be? still riding harley.....

staph & ali

Kevin Hampson · Post by **Kevin Hampson** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 5:57 am

Steve, Brian, et al,
All this talk of birthdays got me thinking. Are there and Tobagoan birthday traditions that any one knows of, such as special cakes, food or gifts.

Out if interest the average age of Harley riders is increasing every year in the UK and the States.

Regards
Kevin

Post by **Steve Wooler** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 9:42 am

Hi Steph

I'm sad to report that I am now the grand old age of 57. It's a horrible sounding age, isn't it?

I was listening to a program on BBC Radio 2 yesterday. They were talking about age and how today's older citizens are so much "younger" than they used to be. Apparently, the BBC has a TV program coming out one evening this week on the subject. They got two youngsters to have really fancy makeup and “live” as real life pensioners for a couple of weeks. They were interviewing the two actors. As one said –and the other agreed – he looked in the mirror and saw an old man, but inside he felt like a normal 25-year old.

Now I realise that I’m just an actor in a TV program.

Anyway, why shouldn’t a 57 year old ride a Harley? Actually, if I’m honest, I’m not really old enough to ride/own a Harley. Give me a hairy 170mph Italian or Jap superbeastie any day.

Brian Taylor · Post by **Brian Taylor** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 10:50 am

oh steve, you are still a youngster, talk again on your ninetieth birthday...

most of the people here don't even celebrate their birthday. that was a very sad experience for my first two times.... they IGNORE it!
maybe they stay younger this way.
when I ask people about the age of others, they have no clue, even in the family...
maybe they party so much every day, that they don't need birthdays...

not looking forward to mine in october
steph

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