April is my favourite month... Springtime is knocking on the door, there is more daylight and on April 16th I always become a year older and (hopefully) a little bit wiser. Also, and not in the least less important, my favorite actress, the magnificent Emma Thompson, was born on April 15th.

Almost 9 years ago, the first time I went on the Internet at University, my first search at Infoseek was "Emma Thompson". The text browser came back with a couple of websites and I couldn't see much because it skipped the graphics (apart from taking an eternity to download anything).

About two years later, I got myself some free web space in Geocities (back then it didn't have so many annoying pop-ups nor was it owned by Yahoo!) and I attempted to build a very basic website, only in Spanish for starters. You can still see it on Geocities (time hasn't done it any favours, it looks horrible). I lost my password at some point and the system wouldn't let me get back in, that is why is still there. So, officially, this website has11.11.04 0:27 AMeveral different incarnations- since May 15th 1997, and next month we are going to be Seven years old!

That's an awfully long time but it's been worth every moment. I met really nice people on the internet (the first thing you learn is that we are not alone) and had lots of fun updating my little website and feeling that I was doing something for all the other fans out there. Emma has grown with us and, seven years later, I have swapped my VHS tapes for DVDs and I live in England. She's made several more movies, got married again and had a lovely child, Gaia. Funnily enough, Emma looks even more beautiful these days and her dress sense has improved quite a bit. Sorry, Emma, but... your second wedding dress... much, much better than the first one, to be honest (mind you, it was the eighties and we all have some embarrassing photos from back then).

And now she is getting back on the saddle and making more movies (not only cameos!). I liked her terribly in "Love actually", I was amazed at "Angels in America" and I am looking forward to finally see "Imagining Argentina", no matter what some stuffy critics wrote at the Venice festival last year. Then, there is Harry Potter 3 coming up in June and her adaptation of the Nanny McPhee Diaries.

Let's celebrate that we are still here, celebrating Emma, and let's hope she keeps doing wonderful films and, therefore, making us happy. Thank you for coming back.

Yours faithfully,