Hi, Ivor,
I have been browsing through your site several times - getting to know your family and your home town and returning to the old days of the Battle of Hastings. It was quite an experience!  
I must also compliment you for being so smart with your computer, making this wonderful site. And corresponding with people in other countries.
Internet and e-mail are mostly used by young people here. Many people of my generation would say they are too old to learn anything new. In general, I admire what seems to be the Western approach to life - staying young and interested in all
spheres of life, no matter what your age is.
Like you am still fascinated by the opportunity of contacting people in remote places so easily. The most wonderful thing to me is the psychological comfort accompanying such international long-distance e-mail contacts, if you know what I mean.
The photos I have now seem rather out of place, or rather out of time. My
latest one (above) was made in July that was unusually hot in Moscow (up to + 32).
I have been always interested in the English language and, naturally, English speakers and the life of your country. I am also very curious about everyday life of different people in different countries. I have three lady internet friends and a gentleman pen-pal in England.
I was born in 1952 in Tver - a town on the Volga, 160 km from Moscow, 500 km from St Petersburg. Tver is an ancient town, it is older than Moscow. I now live 30 km . North-East of Moscow,  and according to Moscow standards, that is a,very close distance - I have worked in Moscow as a translator/interpreter for 20 years.
Hope to hear from you soon
Best Wishes,
Olga