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| Sheila, Ron and Brenda board Queen Victoria |
This year has been one of celebrations with Jamie celebrating his 18th birthday on
9 May, Kerry’s 21st on 12 August and our Golden Wedding Anniversary on 15 August. On the actual day Liz organised
afternoon tea for the whole family at the Carlyon Bay Hotel and in October, my sister Brenda joined us for an unforgettable
Mediterranean Cruise on Cunard’s new liner Queen Victoria.
Once again we
have enjoyed holidays in our caravan. Liz, Ashleigh and Serena joined us early in May at Hendra Park, Newquay and later that
month we were blessed with wonderful weather at Lamorna when we also saw Evita – a superb production - at the unique
Minack Theatre. We continued to the Royal Cornwall Show at Wadebridge and the sun followed us until the final day. We were
not so fortunate in July when we had torrential rain on Bodmin Moor and almost came home! We travelled twice to Cheddar, Somerset
for Ben’s BMX events – breathtaking and nerve-wracking at the same time!
Jonathan,
Mandie and Serena have been supporting Ben with another successful BMX season. He started the year racing in Belgium and hopes
to compete in France in December as well as training with the Olympic Talent Team. Serena has settled well after her move
to Brannel School. Kerry often comes home, but is still working in Exeter. David plays the drums with Stand Up Jack (in
his spare time!) and he and Fallon have recently set up home together. In the New Year he will
be working with a Lely Astronaut
A3 Milking Robot.
There is a short video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Vo4NJU5wTk Liz and Gary have
also had a busy time, but during the year we all supported our local Four Burrow Hunt point-to-point meeting. In August we
played a very relaxed family round of golf at Holywell Bay shortly before Jamie started at Bournemouth University where he‘s
studying journalism. Ashleigh, as a member of St Austell Netball Club, ran in the Race for Life to raise funds for Cancer
Research UK. She also chose the school trip to Germany this year. In November as a special birthday treat, she saw the Jonas
Brothers in Birmingham.
Ron and I are still enthusiastic U3A members, keeping up interests in
Bowls, Computing, Creative Writing, Digital Camera/Club, Family History and Line Dancing – and talking of Family History,
we spent a lovely day with Rita and Francis Fermor when they visited us in August while on holiday.
Our
Christmas Family Tree card is below.
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