were are you geting the smiley faces from alan?

Emoticons (smileys) can be created by using different symbol combinations, the software then interprets the symbols and substitutes the correct smiley.

So a semi-colon : plus a closed bracket ) together make a 🙂

Semi-colon plus a P make 😛

Semi-colon plus a D make a grin 😀

There’s loads more but they might not all convert to a symbol, there’s some details on wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emoticons

Charlie,

The Cultivator came today thank you. The packing looked really good, in particular the postal address sheet with our address on and the VHGMC logo which made it look professional.

Alan

🙂 😛 😀 got it 😀

Mine has arrived safely it was well packaged, clearly addressed and well put together. So well packaged that I actually received two copies of the magazine in the one envelope! I wonder who got the empty pack?
If it needs to be forwarded on let me know, otherwise I shall pass it on to to a likely candidate.
Ray.

Mine too landed in Barrow upon soar no problem today. Thanks must go to Charlie a great move forward getting published and posted. Also enjoyed the surprise stag day article

Great magazine as always