We are just back from a trip to the UK. We drove overland as usual (me, Kenneth, Amy and Yasmina), but this time with our friends Lesley and Innes and their two children Conor and Rachael. The journey was good, the kids behaved really well and Conor and Rachael coped much better than their mum thought they would ... shame on you Lesley! Our visit was quite a mixture of good and bad times. It was lovely to see friends and family (not that we saw much of family sadly ... need to do a separate trip I think) but we had a few problems to deal with which took a lot of our time. We were also not very well and on top of everything we received some very sad news, the 24 year old son of some very dear friends here in Arad died of cancer and an old friend was found in the river Clyde. We were deeply affected by both deaths and can't even begin to imagine what it must be like for the parents in both cases. Then as we travelled across Europe we heard of a colleagues death.
Coming back saw us, as usual plunged right into the thick of things ... our new Peace Corps volunteer arrived in our absence, a team of entertainers arrived the day after us and there was the usual catching up af all the things left undone in our absence. Then to top it all, more sad news - Philip's lovely dad Malcolm finally lost his years long batle with cancer - we'll miss him.
Amy stayed behind to help friends with their son after school, just until the end of the month. Kenny is hopping between Arad and Timisoara and doing the occasional gig DJ-ing. Johanna is now 9 months and 8 days pregnant ... watch this space!
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The flowers we sent to Dad's funeral had a combination of Australian wildflowers and some heather in the bouquet so was very appropriate. The photo looks wonderful.
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