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Samuel is still living in London, enjoying the city lifestyle with Aky. He is fully occupied with his work for the Department for International Trade, where he draws on his research skills. Samuel and Aky did manage to escape the country and visited Croatia in the summer – which looked absolutely beautiful and is nowContinue reading “Samuel 2021”

Eleanor is living in Leeds and has started her primary teacher training in a multi-academy trust. We are very proud of what she is doing. She is also really active and has joined an outdoor pursuits group and has had lots of fun with that.

What an action packed month making up for lost time. We started by Samuel and Aky visiting us for Bonfire Night, Linda and Eleanor visiting Brenda in Peterborough and then Thanksgiving when at last both children came home, at the same time for the first time in literally two years – or maybe more asContinue reading “November 2021”

How happy Tom and Linda were to visit their family and friends in Massachusetts. It was a little limited by time and Covid, but we did our best to fit as much in as possible. We were not expecting a big Nor Easter and so that added to the excitement, particularly as we were stayingContinue reading “October and USA – FINALLY”

Such fun with the village show resurrected after quite a few years, and it was the first time Linda had made a scarecrow. Of course it had to be a scare bunny to go with the Bunny Box. That’s another story. Linda now has a Bunny Box on the tree by the roadside. It startedContinue reading “September 2021 and the village show and scarecrow festival”

This doesn’t mean that Tom is any less American, but recognises that he has lived in the UK for many years now. We celebrated with local friends and Samuel joined us too. We also had a foray into the Cotswolds…

Sadly we had to cancel our planned visit to USA AGAIN. We made the most of it travelling in our camper van to Somerset, Devon and Norfolk and really loved catching up with some of our friends again. There are so many people we have still not seen and we miss you.

Whatever happened to June? We did have a welcome visit from Linda’s longest childhood friend – not allowed to say oldest! July saw us celebrating a pared back July 4th with local friends, sorting sheds in Peterborough and snatching time in the hot tub of said friends, plus a highlight visiting Eleanor in Leeds andContinue reading “June – July 2021”

At last the family was able to be together as we were able to rent holiday homes again and we went up to York to see Eleanor. It was simply marvellous and a joy! We celebrated Brenda’s birthday in style. Tom and Linda later fitted in a trip to Norfolk too. That is one ofContinue reading “May 2021”

We did our best to meet up within the restrictions so Linda’s mum was in our support bubble and able to join us as we caught up with the kids for Easter as we were allowed to travel – just… So based in Newton Longville with Brenda we visited Eleanor in Leeds and Samuel inContinue reading “April 2021”