julian lennon : sa news-letter de janvier 2003

Thank you so much for all your cards and Christmas messages. I hope everyone enjoyed the holiday. I had turkey and plum pudding with my family at Christmas … and toasted the New Year in with friends.

Perfect!

www.lennon.net had more visitors than ever over the holiday break. Many of the messages tell us how much you enjoy visiting the site. Thank you – that?s very encouraging and much appreciated. In the short time that lennon.net has been up and running nearly 500 messages on around 170 topics have been posted and read by thousands of visitors. So as you can imagine I haven?t managed to read them all! But when I do dip in I?m always amazed by the range of subjects and the depth of people?s knowledge … I?m finding things out about our early Irish family history that even I didn?t know!

Messages have been posted from most parts of the world including Argentina, Israel, Australia and Hong Kong. I?ve always been pleased that my music seems to appeal to people of all ages and I?m particularly delighted to read messages from fans who have just ?discovered? me. I think the youngest to post a message so far is 15 years old!

It?s also great that you make suggestions. Someone suggested that we include a ?general topic? category. Why not? I know the site designers are working on a new format for the Message Board and I?ll ask them to include an area for people to post messages on any subject they care to raise.

I think it?s worth mentioning some of the site?s newest features. In ?Latest? we aim to keep you up to date with any Lennon related news.

?Close Encounters? compiles some of the best of your stories and is great fun to read. Do take a look, it?s in ?Reflections?.

People have often spoken to me about ?the Lennon community online? but now that we have been able to share our thoughts via lennon.net I realise more than ever what a friendly and big hearted bunch of people visit the site ? wishing each one of you the very best for 2003.