OVERWHELMED


I never thought these pages would cause so much traffic and reaction.
Considering it was a picture of a naked bottom, that lead most people to our homepage in the first place.... it could have left us wide open to rude/lewd comments...
but I only received one, from a woman (I would usually say lady!) who also sent a couple of uncensored photos of herself!
I also had a marriage proposal yes (I'm serious!) but that wasn't rude...*L*

The homepage was initially made to be a point of contact for our friends and family abroad. To enable them to come and 'virtually' visit us...
I never expected it would have more than 50 or 60 hits! *L*

I then built the Scottish Kilt page for the benefit of 40 or so ICQ contacts... I had been sent the pic by a friend in Thailand.
The picture first appeared in the South China Morning Post I am told,
and it was taken at the Hong Kong handover ceremonies.
It is of a Black Watch Guard.
Anyway, back to the story - I had found the picture so amusing that I used it as wallpaper for a few weeks - then I decided to make it into a page and, from having sent it to just 40 on my ICQ list....the rest is history and the page counter is in the millions - we have used 9 counters at angelfire - each one holds 1 million hits.

People who visit the Scottish page are tracing back to our homepage and we are receiving wonderful offers of friendship and congratulations from all over the world.

At one point, for about 5 weeks we were receiving a minimum of 40 e-mails a day.

We fear that due to the sheer number of contacts we shan't be able to give some of the people the time and friendship they deserve.
I try to keep my computer hobby as un-intrusive as possible and therefore I limit my time on line so that I spend more and adequate time with hubby and kids....*S*

I usually work on it all in the evenings after the children have gone to bed, Bryn is usually working too or reading
so no-one 'misses' me...

One 65 yr old lady wrote "Turn the guy AROUND!!!" I wrote back and said that I had already tried FLIP and MIRROR in Photoshop - to no avail! A Scottish chap wrote
"Of course NOTHING is worn under the kilt..it's all in perfect working order!"*LOL*

You see.... it has been fun! It has shown us how caring and thoughtful some of the internet users are.
The lovely people who wrote to us took 15/20 minutes, maybe more, of their time to write lengthy, informative, encouraging e-mails and I answered about 80% of them.

The guestbook at one point could not cope with the 200+ entries every day. With one hit on average every one and a half seconds, it often wasn't accessible.

Our experience with the popularity of our homepage has shown us that there are some lovely people linked by this thing Inter they call the Net! We have made so many friends and many we have ended up meeting as they have sailed or flown through Dubai where we used to live. Bloom where you are planted...

Sincerely

D xx

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