London (first visit)

My cute nephew and his even cuter dad, my little bro.

Lovely to stay with my brother, Jonathan (Jon to everyone else, always Jonathan to me), and his family. The kids now five and twelve are growing up fast. How quickly they do that when you don’t see them very often.

Highlights: spending time with the family, and picking up my new Brompton!

Lowlights: another dose of sickness, this time a nasty flu which laid me very low for three days. And now the sore throat and a cough still linger.

Highlights: the fantastic ‘nursing’ care, and kind help and support in general, and just being able to hang out and do not very much.

Lowlights: some very cold weather which may have contributed to my sickness.

Highlights: three lovely sunny days where the kids played in the garden and I even got too hot lying on the sun-lounger on the back patio, while the clack of a cricket ball and the occasional cheer from the park over the back fence reminded me I was in England!