Raymond's CROOKE FAMILY Page

LATEST NEWS I'm a grandfather! Congratulations to Kit and Fiona on the birth of Felix. And now it's Dylan and Rachaels's turn! A Yahoo group has been set up to improve communication between family. Please try it out. Lots of pictures, messages and other information.

The Crooke Family Tree

I am gradually putting the family tree onto this site. From here you can link to information about particular ancestors or relatives, or their websites. If you have a website or family photos that can be used for this project, please let me know. Also I would like to know about any missing or wrong information.

Links Annette's Photo Galleries Includes Caity, Steph & Dave's Wedding and other random items of interest

Ancestry.com

Much more detailed than the parts I have put on the above Web Site. This has expanded as I have added more information from our French relatives. To see the tree and possibly add new details you can do this by logging in with this Username: crookefamily Password: Mum's maiden name. Then click on "Family Tree".

Dylan and Rachael

Momentum Animation Studios Dylan and Rachael's little studio. Come and meet Petey and Jaydee.

Dylan's Youtube Channel Mostly old music videos.

Dylan and Rachael's Photography Website. It includes pictures of their trip to Hong Kong.

Dylan's Myspace Not much here yet, link to Melissa's myspace.

History of the Crooke family. Links so far: James Crook James Elijah Crook James Robert Crook Annie Dunphy Robert James Crook Malcolm Georges Crooke Maude Evelyn Crooke More to come. These pages can also be reached via the family tree site.

Three Months Away. Dylan kept a very interesting blog about his recent trip with Rachael to Canada, USA and Japan.

Dylan and Rachel went to Vancouver, Canada. They loved the garden at the house of the friends they stayed with. This is Rachael with Bonnie. (See Links)

Dianne and Alan

What do Dianne and Alan actually do? Read about their company - DiAl Design.

Raymond's Travel Page

This site contains several of my Travel Stories and Journals. These range from rough travel diaries to carefully-written stories. Some have nice photos, but many are text only, as we stopped carrying a camera with us at some stage of our travels. I'm gradually adding photos to them when I have access to a scanner. As I now have a digital camera, photos will be a regular part of any new travels reported. Most of the travel journals are now on a site called Travelpod, but of course all the links are on the Travel Page. Or, for the latest news you can go straight to Raymond's Hong Kong Page.

Amelia's Myspace

naomi's myspace it's not very good yet, i'm still learning how to use myspace!

Ron and Anka

Here is one of the Websites Dianne designed  - for Ron's Removal business.

Our mother

About Me

The Fleggs

Raymond's Stories I've actually put my stories onto the web - including all those weird horror stories I wrote when I was growing up and which I never got around to throwing away.

Scraps of Memory My memories of childhood illustrated with photos I took at the time.

Dad (Malcolm)

And here is his journal of Mum's and Dad's trip around the world.

My Teenage Years - I may develop this further.  Just a few pictures at present.

The Mathie family

Raymond on YouTube I'm trying to put an average of one song a day on YouTube. Can I keep up the pace? Check out my Folk Song Page - lots of information on the songs I like - with links to YouTube videos.

And now - here's Annette!

Raymond and Yoong

Stephanie and David's wedding.

Photo's of Yoong's family and childhood.

The Glasses Case - An email story

A true story made up of e-mails between Alan and us.

Raymond's English Corner - Sun Kei Secondary School I have developed this site for my students. It includes English games and exercises, films, songs, etc. I am gradually building it up as I get time and ideas.

Kit

Dylan

Dylan and Kit

Wedding - Kit and Fiona

Wedding - Dylan and Rachael

Your Website here!?

Family gathering at our West Footscray house

And at the creche in Yarraville

Falling Windows

Here we are relaxing at a friend's place. Freya was teaching in Brunei when we were there and came to Hong Kong a year before us with her husband, Bill. They have now left Hong Kong. There is a continuing problem here with windows falling out of old apartment buildings. This happened to Freya one day when she opened her bedroom window. It just fell out and crashed to the ground several floors below. There was a long drawn-out police investigation. By chance, Freya and Bill were visiting us at our hotel when she got a call on her mobile from the police, who wanted her to come to the station that evening. Yoong spoke to the officer on the phone, as she could speak the language. She pointed out that Freya was heavily pregnant and should not be put under any stress. She also pointed out that all Freya had done was open a window and that she was not to blame for the accident.

The police officer agreed with all that but insisted that she go to the station, where they had organised for interpreters to be present. When she arrived there she was promptly arrested. When the case eventually got to court, she took her lawyer's advice and pleaded guilty so she could pay her fine and put it all behind her. We have since read of several cases of windows falling out of buildings and the government's plans to do something about the problem. A number of cases resulted in arrests, so our friend is not the only one who is guilty of opening windows. When we want to open the windows of our hotel room we have to fill in forms in triplicate. I don't think there is any danger of them falling out. It is more a concern about people who might want to jump from the twenty-first floor to escape the stress of Hong Kong life. Of course, all the a bove is out of date. Now we are in our own (rented) apartment and can open windows whenever we want. And being a brand new building we don't expect them to fall out.