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Wedding of Amy Hanslow and Mark Whiteside

Will these photos be gigantic?? Things have changed since I last blogged. I hope you enjoy these photos taken at Amy's wedding. She was very beautiful. It was Little David's 1st wedding, quite an achievement at almost 1 month. He enjoyed it very much, but his favourite thing is shopping.

Thailand!

Am in Chiang Mai, with Rachel and Victor. This will be just text, till I get to London. I have heaps of photos (in particular of elephants: dancing, playing soccer, PAINTING, playing mouth organs, etc. I was very over-excited with them), but can't put them on as R and V's computer was stolen. I have enjoyed watching Rachel at work, teaching and counselling the ex-bar girls, plus some tutoring. Have loved the International Church, and various Bible studies she regularly goes to, but have really enjoyed foot-massages, tea shops, etc, and the whole tourist thing. Their home is lovely, and I have helped with some of the finishing off. Also visited the Village - both Victor's Mum and Dad sang Christian songs to me. Love , until London.

Flat Eowyn and Flat Coco in Australia

This is our bushwalk in the Dandenongs, with Flat Eowyn and Flat Coco. (You can see I had to knit them jumpers, as it's winter here. Their jumpers are the same colours as the ones I'm knitting E and C). The view is one Streeton painted. We finished up having tea in the Miss Marple Tea Shop, in Sassafras, and in the Tea Merchants next door.

I am (as usual) having a bit of trouble with the text. Hope this will be Nancie's recent visit, Mothers' day dinner at I Cugini's Italian Restaurant in Nth Essendon, which is our closest posh area, Plus our streetscape, and Nancie and I at our local Turkish Shopping centre, which we haunt for the baklava and coffee. There were men in the background smoking hookas.

Rachel's Visit!!

My trees, front and back

The slow development of my back garden

You get a bit of an idea of how awful the back garden was at first. Everything is flowering well. Even better now.

Farm Renovations

Here is the new room, with floor polished, new curtains, all walls painted, and the beginnings of furnishings in. Plus mess. The young man is Chris from Church, who came up with us and lugged boxes.

Our Broady Home

Remembering Stephen. 3/6/2007

As it is exactly 20 years since Stephen died, Rachel suggested I scan some photos of him on my blog. So here they are: the last full family photo; in Uncle Paul's milk truck (driving U Paul's milk truck?); and 2 not long before he died, one at Cameron's, and a lovely one with Dad, smiling, a week or so before he died.

More People shots, UK '07

Here's my darling Aunt Martha, in Bangor, Nth Ireland, Plus all my Irish family out to dinner to celebrate Marshall's birthday. (Aunt Martha looks to be celebrating the dessert!) Then Rosy Skinner and Anne Isherwood, at the Clapham Rectory, Sam and Becca in their lovely home, and Anita and Robin and Aileen Beiers, at the Marylebone flat.

Mopping up Edinburgh, plus Cambridge

Here, I hope, is the wonderful statue of Robert Fergusson (poet) in Canongate, Edinburgh, Plus more of Becca and Sam on Salisbury Crag, with the Castle in the background. Then Darling Eddie en route to Cambridge, and Brunswick School , Cambridge - 1st school for Megan and Tom.

Some wedding shots.

These are specially for Cas. I think they are from my camera??

Extra Edinburgh shots

I hopethis will be Sam and Becca on Salisbury Craggs, plus the wonderful statue of the poet, Robert Fergusson, in Canongate.(No, didn't manage that.)

SCOTLAND! At last.

Here are Sam, Becca and I in Edinburgh, in late February. Alexander McCall Smith readers will recognise Valvona and Corolla, and the Cumberland Bar, in Scotland St. Becca and Sam are together on those hills overlooking Edinburgh, which I always called Pentland Hills, but mistakenly. Salisbury Crag?? Maybe. Anyway, we climbed them on our last day. (sorry. That's turned into Becca and me.I'll do another one of Edinburgh) There's also B and S and John Knox, in St Giles Cathedral, where we really enjoyed a service. And Becca in an archway on a walk along the Waters of Leith.

Memories of London, Jan-Feb, '07

This is a rather belated blog of my time in London in Jan and Feb, helping Tom and Anita with their 2 boys, Eddie and new-born Seb. I stayed in a hotel in Marylebone, across the road from their home. You can see it in the snow.