Family holidays

Happy birthday!

Today would have been my dad’s birthday; here is something I wrote a couple of years ago, about a holiday he and his best friend took seventy-nine years ago! My dad was born in 1919 in Saffron Walden in Essex; he was christened in Peterborough Cathedral, but spent most of his life in Cambridge. From an early age […]

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The holiday is over!

As usual we had a marvellous family holiday! Five cousins, five partners, nine children, two girlfriends, six grandchildren, three dogs… what a houseful! And also as usual I’m sure we all ate far too much; on the first night we always haves sausages because they are easy to cook and this year we had them […]

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