This morning I posted my final photograph of the Filling Facebook with Nature project.
This is it. It featured in my Kingsbury’s Lane post of 14th January 2014.
Jackie continued with the clearance and soil replenishment of Margery’s Bed. I rendered a certain minimal assistance in carrying away weeds and clippings, and carting compost. Aaron and Robin continued with the fence project.
I then scanned the rest of the recently discovered black and white negatives from the end of 1983. First of all, I found I had more of the October Covent Garden trip, reminding me that Giles had brought Ben along too.
Ben perched on his father’s shoulders to watch Punch and Judy,
then they both enjoyed ice creams,
and eventually joined Sam
and Becky on the barriers.
Soon after this Jessica and I travelled up to Nottinghamshire with Sam and Louisa, and renewed our friendship with Maggie and Mike Kindred who lived in Southwell’s Dover Street. It was as a consequence of this trip that Mordred was conceived.
The reason for the visit was for me to run the Newark Half Marathon for the first time.
We took the opportunity to visit Bulcote Lodge, Jessica’s family home from the age of 8. Our two children had not been there before because their maternal grandparents had moved to Wiltshire some years earlier.
Sam was particularly intrigued by the sundial near the front door. Louisa wasn’t.
The duckpond had now dried up.
Bulcote’s Holy Trinity Church lies across the road from the house. Jessica contemplates the place of worship to which, more than twenty years later, Louisa was to return to marry Errol.
On this occasion the toddler was asleep in the car.
Back at Dover Street, we wandered around the small town,
and, from the garden, I photographed Jessica and Louisa having fun in the kitchen.
This evening, Jackie and I dined on veritable fusion food, consisting of the remains of yesterday’s chicken piri-piri meal combined with the contents of a doggie bag brought back from Royal China the night before, and the Culinary Queen’s savoury rice. This was followed by syrup sponge pudding and cream. Jackie drank Hoegaarden, and I drank Carles priorat 2011.