Kiss from a RoseWelcome to Dozy Rosy's Portal Page
"Upon this neatly woven web entwined with softly glowing thread
I leave my name for all to see: as time goes by remember me..."
Words from 'Remember' sampler by Nan Caldera, 1992
Friday 3rd July 2009 02:54:21 am
Dozy Rosy (aka Rosemary Powell) is a retired Library Systems Administrator who used to work at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire, a sister laboratory to CERN, Geneva, from whence came Tim Berners-Lee, the originator of the World Wide Web.
She lives near Newbury, Berkshire, where she shares her home with a retired physicist husband, and various pets which have at times included canaries, tortoises, fish, and various Cavalier King Charles Spaniels, including Barnaby, Rufus and the Terrible Twins. She has no children, but instead is the proud owner of eight nephews and nieces of assorted ages and sizes, and four fairly recent great nephews.
Her hobbies have ranged from archery and sailing to dressmaking and gardening, and currently her interests include her pets, reading, paper crafting, especially cardmaking, needlework, computers and the Internet, and interactive web page design and scripting. She is particularly interested in old samplers, and enjoys charting her own designs using cross stitch design software from IL-Soft, has written occasionally for their User Group magazine, and has sold a number of her charted designs for charity.
She is a member of the recently formed UK Sampler Guild, and was originator and original co-ordinator for the RCTN International Band Sampler Round Robin, and for a time maintained a FAQ on Computer Design Software for Needlework for the UK Rec. Crafts News group.
As of July 1999, she is a member of SETI@home: a scientific experiment that harnesses the power of over five million Internet-connected computers in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, and has completed 6,895 work units in a total CPU time of 4.656 years (December 20th 2005).
Over the last 10 years she has raised a considerable sum of money for the UK Cavalier King Charles Spaniel Club Health Fund and more recently, its Lub Dub Fund. This fund is now sponsoring a PhD student, Richard Han, who is using electron microscopy in his three year project to investigate the structure and appearance of both normal and abnormal (mitral) valve cells, in the hope of finding a reason for the cell breakdown which causes mitral valve disease (MVD).
Below are links to further pages hosted on her virtual server, and these, it is hoped, will prove interesting and informative and maybe even fun!
| Dozy Rosy's Websites: | |
| Cavalier King Charles Spaniels | |
| Barnaby's Cavalier Attitudes | Golden Oldies Pedigrees |
| Cyber Celebrations | |
| Christmas Crackers | Countdown |
| Greetings in Many Languages | Love at First Site |
| Virtual Cards for Virtually All Occasions | |
| Needlework | |
| The Chieveley Sampler | International Band Sampler Round Robins guide |
| New Elizabethan Embroideries | Samplery |
| Sampler Threads Forum | Simply Samplers |
| Other (fundraising) sites that she designed, hosts, and maintains: | |
| Ailsa | Coopers Cavaliers |
| Dodger's Tale | Kacey, Charlie and Kia's Pad |
| Maenan Cavaliers | Penquite Cavaliers |
| Rosie's Tale | Society of Ornamental Turners (CGI scripting and hosting only) |