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A brief window of sunshine emerged in an otherwise wet and dull day, to enable me to cut the grass, do some dead-heading, and repel bramble invaders on the back drive.
Otherwise I scanned a batch of colour slides from a trip to Richmond Park in May 1981.
Jessica, Sam,
Matthew,
and Becky were my companions.
It was the season of Aquilegias
and Azaleas.
When Matthew and Becky began fishing for sticklebacks in the lake, I walked around to the far side to see what I could do with my long lens.
Gradually, a certain amount of interest was aroused.
Jessica, Sam, and Piper, the dog, soon became involved.
Hello; who’s that behind Sam?
The people in the background were more interested in the shrubbery,
but soon there was quite a crowd of spectators,
who slowly drifted away.
This evening’s dinner consisted of Jackie’s classic chicken jalfrezi with vegetable rice salad. She drank her Hoegaarden/Bavaria mix and I drank Royale Pays’ d’Oc Merlot 2014.