Susan and Aunty Ethel

After being picked up, we stopped at Aunty Ethel’s house for an hour, where I got to see Adam and Tom (his baby boy). Once Adam left, we took a trip to the West Lodge Park where we had cream tea (or coffee), sandwiches, cheeses and desserts. The hotel is located on a beautiful spread of land where Queen Elizabeth used to hunt.

Susan and I dropped Aunty Ethel off at her house and did the food shopping for the BBQ that she (Susan) was hosting the next day. We returned home, made the pineapple cheesecake, had a quiet diner and went to bed.

It was a busy morning! By 1pm, when people started to arrive, Susan and I had prepared the rhubarb crumble, mowed the lawn, planted some flowers and set the drinks out. The house looked great! A total of thirteen people came to the family BBQ including Jonathan and his wife, Elizabeth, Julian and their two children, Helen, Anne, baby Helen and John, Aunty Ethel, Tom Wallace and his daughter. All of us are related one way or the other. Julian cooked chicken, pork and sausages on the grill which we ate with salad. After people had left, Elizabeth, Aunty Ethel’s daughter, stopped by for tea, there after Susan and I had a quiet diner and went to sleep.