What's in a name

Feedback from people new to Fairey Tails has indicated people are puzzled by the name and paricularly the spelling of this publication.

Not wanting to confuse any more would be souls, here is the history of Fairey Tails.

A long time ago in a far away land called Tyne and Wear was a student. This student had a Home computer called a BBC model B micro computer. The student was of course me. This I used for typing up my college work and playing games. Then a historic compuer program was released called Page Maker (until Aldus sued the pants off the company and they had to change the name). This was a Desktop publishing program. I got this program for my computer and wondered what to do with it. I then came up with an idea to publish a news letter about myself. This was a good idea as it saved all the repetition you get when you write letters to lots of people.

People seemed to like recieving this publication which was called "Simon Says". All was well with the world and periodically "Simon Says" was published for many years. The BBC was replaced by various PCs.

In 1990 I met Mandy and towards the end of 1990 we moved into a house in "Fairey" Cresent. Early in 1991 we got two cats Purdey and Blackie, both with "tails" such is the norm.

When it came to publication time for "Simon Says", Mandy was keen to contribute but how could she with a title like "Simon Says". We racked our brains for a new name. We came up with "Fairey Tails", the rest is history ....

Note that this web site is now Fairey Tails, the paper version is being phased out. Fairey Tails can be read all round the world.

13 December 1998