Love letter jigsaw takes 15 years

One of the letters from Ted Howard to his wife Molly

A man spent 15 years piecing together 2,000 fragments of love letters to his late wife which she tore up when she caught someone reading them.

Ted Howard, 82, wrote 98 letters to Molly during the seven years he spent travelling Europe as a farm worker.

When she found someone reading them in 1953 she tore them up.

Mr Howard, of Ramsey in Cambridgeshire, began putting the pieces back together in 1993 and has just completed the notes, three years after his wife died.

He wrote the love letters on hotel writing paper as he travelled the UK, Ireland, France and Holland in the late 1940s and early 1950s. But his wife tore each one into more than 20 pieces creating more than 2,000 fragments, some smaller than a thumbnail.

It was love at first sight Ted Howard

He started by separating corner and centre pieces and progressed, putting them together spending about an hour every day over 15 years.

One letter ends: "Well, my dear, I am looking forward to seeing you again.

"It seems months since Sunday when I last saw you. There does not seem to be a lot more to write about, my love, so until we meet again, I send you all my love, from your ever loving sweetheart, Ted."

Mr Howard said: "I still miss Molly terribly but having the memories helps me through.

Ted Howard spent 15 years piecing together the notes

"The letters brought back so many good times." He now plans to write a book based on the letters which will be dedicated to his wife.

The retired farm worker and machinery demonstrator, said: "It was love at first sight.

"No two ways about it. I was at a village feast (fair) and this girl jumped off the carousel and came careering into me.

"It turned out to be Molly. That was 19 July 1948."

Molly was 18 at the time and Ted was 23. They married in 1955 and went on to have three children and six grandchildren.

Ted wrote his autobiography before attempting to write a book about the letters.

His autobiography, Life on the Fen Edge, is due to published by Bound Biographies.

Ted developed his writing skills by studying literacy courses with learndirect.

His work was recognised when he won the Special Judging Panel Award at the regional learndirect achievement awards.

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1 ツメクサ(大阪府) :2009/08/05(水) 23:31:56.68 ID:J+uW1QFS ?PLT(12000) ポイント特典


THIS mysterious monument could be proof there was once life on Mars.

The rectangular structure ? measuring five metres across ? was photographed by a super high resolution camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

The giant monolith juts out of the planet's surface casting a huge shadow below.

Its emergence on website Lunar Explorer Italia has got space buffs speculating if it could have been constructed by creatures once living on the red planet.

The monument resembles the black monolith seen in Stanley Kubrick film 2001: A Space Odyssey.

In the movie the structure is believed to be a key to man's evolution.

And astonishingly Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the Moon, revealed a similar monolith was detected on Mars' moon Phobos.

Speaking last week, he insisted: We should visit the moons of Mars.

There's a monolith there - a very unusual structure on this little potato shaped object that goes around Mars once every seven hours.

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But scientists at the University of Arizona have cast doubt on the discovery saying the huge object is a boulder.

A spokesman for the university's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory said:
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In reality it's more likely that this boulder has been created by breaking away from the bedrock to create a rectangular-shaped feature.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2572537/Mars-monument-proof-of-life.html

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1 ： ツメクサ(大阪府)：2009/08/05(水) 23:31:56.68 ID:J+uW1QFS ?PLT(12000) ポイント特典

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THIS mysterious monument could be proof there was once life on Mars.

The rectangular structure ? measuring five metres across ? was photographed by a super high resolution camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

The giant monolith juts out of the planet's surface casting a huge shadow below.

Its emergence on website Lunar Explorer Italia has got space buffs speculating if it could have been constructed by creatures once living on the red planet.

The monument resembles the black monolith seen in Stanley Kubrick film 2001: A Space Odyssey.

In the movie the structure is believed to be a key to man's evolution.

And astonishingly Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the Moon, revealed a similar monolith was detected on Mars' moon Phobos.

Speaking last week, he insisted: "We should visit the moons of Mars.

"There's a monolith there - a very unusual structure on this little potato shaped object that goes around Mars once every seven hours.

"When people find out about that they are going to say, 'Who put that there? Who put that there?'"

But scientists at the University of Arizona have cast doubt on the discovery saying the huge object is a "boulder".

A spokesman for the university's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory said:
"It would be unwise to refer to it as a 'monolith' or 'structure' because that implies something artificial, like it was put there by someone for example.

"In reality it's more likely that this boulder has been created by breaking away from the bedrock to create a rectangular-shaped feature."

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2572537/Mars-monument-proof-of-life.html

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8 ： 【news:5】 プリムラ・フロンドーサ(東京都)：2009/08/05(水) 23:33:26.36 ID:75ypeq6E ?PLT(14072) 株優プチ(news)

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10 ： チチコグサ(福岡県)：2009/08/05(水) 23:33:30.20 ID:rl56VD5p

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11 ： キバナスミレ(長屋)：2009/08/05(水) 23:33:31.32 ID:awT6WpWU ?PLT(12501)

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12 ： 桜(コネチカット州)：2009/08/05(水) 23:33:39.02 ID:aJnbIwhV

火星ならテセラックだろ

13 ： ショウジョウバカマ(東京都)：2009/08/05(水) 23:33:40.06 ID:n8tv3xEa

これは人工建造物だね

14 ： アッツザクラ(東京都)：2009/08/05(水) 23:33:40.18 ID:fLFfQgKB

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15 ： トキワハゼ(アラバマ州)：2009/08/05(水) 23:33:48.09 ID:mqrJlWlZ

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16 ： サンシュ(ネブラスカ州)：2009/08/05(水) 23:33:48.68 ID:twW1Cjzt

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17 ： シナノナデシコ(富山県)：2009/08/05(水) 23:33:51.56 ID:pOq/g/Ne

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18 ： ハンショウヅル(島根県)：2009/08/05(水) 23:34:01.65 ID:+Q5fP04r ?2BP(1401)

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