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Colback

Écréhous Peter & Danielle Colback were lent a hut on Maîtr'Île for 10 days from 17 March 1989 as a wedding present. A fisherman from nearby Rozel ( a fishing port on north east Jersey) kindly took them out there with food, supplies and importantly their own water a day after their wedding. Whilst there there was a wonderfully peaceful honeymoon, a raging storm, a single French visitor and fishing by laying of trotts. The French visitor on realising it was their 'marriage de vacances' (honeymoon) swiftly left to go back to his boat. He reappeared shortly afterwards with all he had on board consisting of 3 oranges and 2 bottles of Normany cider as his wedding gift.

Sailing

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Your article on the Palace

Welcome to Wikipedia and thanks for your contributions. I cleaned up your article on the Clam-Gallas Palace quite a lot, as you will see, and I added the appropriate image. I was forced to rewrite the text, as almost all of it appeared to have been copied directly from a website that had a clear copyright notice at the bottom of the page. You probably did not know this, but any text which is protected by copyright is supposed to be rewritten completely from scratch before it is placed in Wikipedia. Actually my clean up of the text is probably not sufficient, but it is a start. if you have any questions or comments feel free to contact me on my talk page. All best wishes to you, Invertzoo (talk) 00:06, 4 September 2012 (UTC)

Peter Colback's "how to Section" [for me to refer to]

Peter Colback Jersey (talk) 10:56, 9 September 2012 (UTC) Peter Colback's "how to Section" [for me to refer to]

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Your submission at Articles for creation: BLACK IS THE COLOUR OF MY VOICE (May 24)

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Hair^Talk 17:10, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

Hello! Colbackp, I noticed your article was declined at Articles for Creation, and that can be disappointing. If you are wondering or curious about why your article submission was declined please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! HairTalk 17:10, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

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Your draft article, Draft:BLACK IS THE COLOUR OF MY VOICE

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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Sam Sailor ^Talk! 05:08, 28 November 2015 (UTC)

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When to add links to an article

Hi Peter. I reverted your edit to Alphonse Le Gastelois because the Wikipedia Manual Of Style says that "generally, a link should appear only once in an article" - see MOS:DUPLINK Curb Safe Charmer (talk) 16:14, 12 February 2017 (UTC)

Thanks. Understood. Kind Regards,

Peter

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Speedy deletion nomination of The Friends of Julian of Norwich

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