Danskcolin

Tuesday, 30 June 2026

Monday June 29th 2026 "Blog offically paused - and that's official haha!!!"

Yes, Friends, blog officially paused as my wife Lois and I host the visit of our dear daughter Sarah and family from Australia: husband Francis and their 12-year-old twins Lily and Jessica. They arrived at Heathrow Airport, London at 5 am this morning, despite which they're looking remarkably lively, which is nice, as we chat to them in our home here in semi-leafy Liphook, Hampshire, that's for sure!

See you in a couple of weeks haha!!!

(left to right) our other daughter Alison, Lois, Francis, Sarah,

and the twins Jessica and Lily in our tiny back garden today

Byeeeeeeeeeeeeee !!!!!!

Ooh, also on Monday...

Ooh - and by the way - on Tuesday June 30th ... we drive to nearby Petersfield to let the twins sweep through the charity shops and also we visit the famous lake, the one the locals call the "Heath Pond" (!). We lunched at the Plump Duck Cafe, where a cheeky swan was pestering a poor old man for a bit of his panini - what madness!!!

Also we get first pictures of our 15-year-old grandson Isaac all dressed up for his junior prom, which is nice - what a dapper young guy he's turning into !!!!

And now I come to think about it, on Wednesday July 1st Lois and I decide to go for a morning walk with our daughter Sarah and the twins, in nearby Radford Park, including a game of pooh-sticks, which is nice!

And then we have a drink and a snack at a cafe in Liphhook's partially-bustling town centre. Francis, our son-in-law, is not out with us today because he's gone back to bed for a nap.

Poor Francis!!!!

And not forgetting our big trip to London on Thursday July 2nd, when we took the train in from Liphook to London's Waterloo Station, then took a taxi to Tower Pier on the Thames and had a lunch cruise. After that we took a taxi to the Shard, Europe's tallest building, and went up to the top in the lift.