Visits

We've had a few visitors this month. First, Jo, Tony, Aidan and Alannah drove all the way from Leicester to spend the day with us. You may remember them from our recent trip to the Midlands. Teagan, their other daughter, couldn't come, though since the weather was quite dismal this was probably a wise move on her behalf.

Here we are at the beach huts, shivering to death. Fathers paternally clutching babies (to keep warm).
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A rare family photo - trying to put a brave face on it.

Jo, my great old flatmate. Not enough time to natter enough, but there it is.

Misha, who had a brief respite from ensuring Alastair didn't run into the cold North Sea, as he is prone to do at the moment.
Then back home to warm up, get fed and relaxed before they were off into the night. Baby Alannah was such a handful - slept, smiled, fed, gurgled, slept.

Then a few days later equally lovely guests arrived - both ex-colleagues and good friends from the Commission days in Prague. Roman, now living in Vienna took an Easyjet to Stansted (from Prague) for a whirlwind tour of East Anglia. And Barbara drove over from Cambridge for the day, though John couldn't join us this time, unfortunately. Their visits coincided with the boys' new school schedules so there was a bit of rushing in and out, picking up and dropping off, but we managed to catch up over a leisurely lunch with no kids somehow.

I suppose Barbara and Roman haven't seen one another for about 4 years. Who knows, their paths may have crossed again this week as B&J are in Prague and Vienna. Praps they'll bump into Roman on a tram on his way home....