BRIGHTWELL-CUM-SOTWELL

Yes that is the name of the village where Garry and Pamela live. Garry is Conal's cousin - and he and his wife Pamela visited us in St James a number of years ago and we made a real connection. Garry is a retired nuclear physicist and his wife Pamela a physio.
We left London on the Oxford tube - a misnomer because it's certainly no tube but a red double-decker bus - on Saturday morning and beatled along to a place called Lewknor where Garry and Pamela were waiting for us. We went for a lovely walk on the clumps - rather like little rounded hills - where one could see forever across the flat countryside with the Thames meandering below. The fields are planted with daisies to attract bees and so the sides of the hills are covered with white daisies.

Sunday dawned grey and rainy and we spent the morning preparing for the family lunch a family reunion for the 5 first cousins and the rest of us - ten in all. It was a wonderful get-together with lots of chatting and catching up and a real treat a treat to meet up with them all again.

Front: Pamela (holding Morag), Garry

Back row: Elizabeth & Elkin, Rosaleen, Conal, Caroline & Laura (Caroline's daughter)