A last look back towards the Forth.
Border country.
The Scottish / English border. This time in fine weather.
Complete with German tourist bus.
To St. Albans, north of London, to visit Cathys mums youngest brother, Robert 82 and wife Jean.
To Fleet, west of London, where we met her youngest relative Annabel, about five months, who is the daughter of Katie who is, in turn, the daughter of Cathys cousin Heather.
Katie, Heather and Cathy.
Cathy, Annabel and the proud Grandparents, Heather and Clem.
Heather took us to see her father, Arthur, Cathys oldest uncle, 88, and former church minister, who was soon to be released from hospital.
Next day we took my cousin John Hardwick and wife Chris who we were staying with at Gerrards Cross North West of London, across to Bristol for a quick visit to Sue before heading off to Australia. Since we were with her a couple of months ago they have opened a supermarket, Morrisons, under her block of units.
We went out for lunch at a nearby pub constructed from shipping containers. With us was John Adams an old friend of Sue and Tony who was visiting. John is the nephew of my Godmother Phyliss Adams but I had never met him until now.
A little bit of humour in one of the containers!
John, Chris and John with Sues daughter Sarah outside of her shop.
Sarah Tynan Flowers!
We went along to St Johns church to visit Tonys resting place.
Portishead High Street. The flower committee take a lot of trouble with their displays each year. Sarah is not involved.
Back for a cup of tea and cake at Sues.
The only pictures we have from Gerrards Cross are these of a young Robin impatiently waiting to be fed outside their back door!
Crowded Terminal at Abu Dhabi.
Desert airport.
Sunrise over Sydney.
Front lawn not too bad after 3 months!
Oranges look good.
Spring wildflowers are out.
Mother and joey wallabys on back lawn.
Coach Glenn trying to extract an extra bit of effort in Finns final game of the rugby season. Win this to get into the finals!
Finn in blue headgear
Not the result they wanted! The opposition awarded a try in the dying minutes even though the ball was 300mm short of the line, to win by 1 point!
Glenn at work inspecting the site for a housing development! I could think of worse jobs!
The coastal fringe is Federal property and protected. The development is set back away from the waters edge.
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