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We—that is I—more accurately, thought that you might like to see all the back issues of Newsletters since we started producing them at Newent in 1997. I have to admit I have cheated a little because although I had most of the text, I did not have all the photos in the files of the earlier ones, so I have put in photos, just to keep it from being incredibly boring. Its been a task and a half to get them all to a state where I could make them into PDF files, but its also been interesting, and a learning experience, and I hope will make future newsletters better. So if anyone has been mad enough to keep the earlier ones, I am sorry if they don’t match up, serves you right for keeping them!! You will see that they follow on nicely until the middle of 2004. I left the last one of that year to Keith Beaven to produce as the new owner, and sadly I have no copies of any of the newsletters from Newent between 2004 and 2008.
The family at Newent before we left for the failed trip to the US
You will also notice that there are none for the International Center for Birds of Prey in the US. In fact in the three years I was there, and probably the following year as well, but I could be wrong on that, however I suspect I am not, there was only one newsletter. Don’t ask me why, they are not rocket science to produce, and I always thought it was a shame we did not produce them, but it was one of those many things that I was not allowed to do.
I suspect it was thought that I did not do a good enough job, - its would not be erudite enough, but for heavens sake it’s a news-
letter not a damn work of art to be kept for ever!!! You read them and then use them to light the fire, or give them to friend and they read them and then use them to light the fire! I really hope you enjoy reading the back issues. I also hope that I will be able to go on producing newsletters, and that they will improve.
My newsletters always have been very personal, I am not apologising for that— it is
one of the attributes that made the National Birds of Prey Centre special—a personal place to be, where you could easily feel a part of it, and which I often received great comments about. I also make NO apologies for the dogs and their photos, they are a part of the centre after all. As the years go on I plan to get more people to write in the newsletter and so it will become less personal, but for now, you will have to excuse me and put up with the fact that it is what it is.
Jemima Parry-Jones MBE
Some old and new friends waiting to see you all again