As can be seen, I made it to Gloucester - stopping off with Steph and Ray for one night, after leaving Sally and Ken in Guildford en route. Tom and I have now clocked up over 2000 MILES in the Mondeo - and just around the same time, I note that the blog has had 2,000 hits as well. How these numbers mount up - and how time flies ... I note with interest, that two months today, Boxing Day will be over and I'll be doing the last minute squash of things into my suitcase.
Today, Karen, Anya and I visited Philip and Rosemary in Cirencester. No. 4 niece, Gabriel, is staying there during the half term holiday break with Nye and Idris. 3 year old George is also there while Hannah, James and the girls spend the week searching for a new home.
We 7 spent about 2 hours in the museum there - doing a quiz ... finding pictures of prehistoric animals from cave drawings and eventually winning hand puppet animals each for their efforts. It was a lovely morning and all the children enjoyed themselves - a clever, inter-active way of encouraging children to look at things of the past.
It was good to get an opportunity to see Gabriel and the boys again - and Philip and Rosemary. They only live a 25 minute drive away from Karen and Hugh in Gloucester, so it was easily arranged.
I am still working on my third cold since getting here - for the past two days laryngitis has also made me a most entertaining house guest and it's anyone's guess which voice I'll be using tomorrow. At least the NZ accent dulls into insignificance, meanwhile.
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