And again

The family are all back from the land of the long lunch and rearing to go.

Mum's 80th was really good and I was able to spend a bit of time with everyone there, but in hindsight I would have liked it to last longer.

It was great to spend time with Paddy and Kirstie as they are extremely generous hosts and I don't know how Dee and I can repay them for them opening their home to us and and allowing us to use Kirstie's car as much as we did.

Glenys's garden may never recover after the pounding Dee gave it, but there seems to be heaps of new plants popping up in it every day, so I suspect it will return to it's overgrown stage pretty quickly.

The time we spent with Nicole, Pedy and the girls was fantastic and I was sad to see them head over the ditch for their next part of their holiday.

Kirby had fun going through Mum's old photos, pulling out those that reflected say the first 30 years of my life. I now need to scan them and pop them into a digital album along with suitable comments

There was a lot squeezed into two short weeks but now I have to get a job and straighten up the home front, with a new house on the horizon and a new grandchild not far away.

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