Julian Lennon : quelques nouvelles

Hi folks,

We?re celebrating A YEAR of www.lennon.net!

The great feedback we?ve had since we went online means that we are doing most of it right! Lots of people share in our success. Thank you to the family – the Liverpool Lennons – for their input and support and to you,

the fans, for your encouragement. Keep your emails coming in ? we welcome

your comments and wherever we can we instigate the changes you suggest.

This is also our chance to pay tribute to Webmaster Derek Gibson ? our

only sadness is that Derek who played the biggest part in setting up and

running the site is not here to share in our success. Thank you everyone

for making our first year such a hit.

The success of the website has highlighted the fact that interest in John,

the Lennon family and the Beatles is as strong as ever. In just the last

year for example a BBC poll of the Greatest Ever Briton named John in 7th

place and Liverpool Speke airport was re-named Liverpool John Lennon

Airport ? but as far as the family are concerned probably the best

tribute to John is the garden at Durness. Durness is a remote Scottish

village where Dad spent his childhood summer holidays. The Durness

Gardening Group had the idea to commemorate John?s connection with the

village by creating a memorial garden. They were aided and abetted by a

BBC gardening programme and last August a beautiful garden was opened to

the public. John?s cousin Stanley Parkes echoed everyone?s delight when he

said, ?John really loved Durness and he would have been thrilled with this

tribute.? The Durness Gardening Group told us recently, ?The garden is

thriving and we are delighted that visitors come from far and wide to see

it.?

To mark the first anniversary of www.lennon.net we are holding a special

competition. This is your opportunity to win a framed copy of a unique

black and white photograph of me and Dad taken in 1967 at ?Kenwood?. I

love this picture and have it hanging in my own home. To have a chance to

win just visit our special First Anniversary Competition page on

www.lennon.net.

Good luck!

Jules and the team at www.lennon.net