Noel ...

Noel is my 91 year old neighbour who has featured on my blip pages before with his wife Vera. So glad to see him smiling when I visited them today. A few weeks ago he was feeling down and weary. He told me his life had always been busy and he had been surrounded by people (in his spare time he was a scout master, volunteered in the marine rescue, was a member of the surf club and is still active in the Salvation Army). He confessed he was lonely, as everyone else was now busy in their own lives and didn't have the time to sit down for a chat.

No wonder he has reason to smile, here is Vera's blip when she was doing a swimwear shoot for me (aged 84)!