My Boy

He's 27 today; so this is obviously one of those Blip cheats that kind Blippers turn a blind eye to... had to get out the old hard drive and, as you can imagine, got sidetracked... with memories of Brazil that, for years, were too painful to look at. Anyway, this was Paul on a beekeeping course I arranged for the leadership training course we ran for a year in 2004. Happy birthday, love, wishing you lots of joy this year.

The extra is today's proper photo; we were invited for the afternoon to Steph's new friend's home. Heck, it was beautiful. We walked into his living area and gasped - glass walls on two sides looking out over the Lake as far round as you could see, and a restored thousand year old mosque, and his bedroom a Catholic chapel added on to it hundreds of years ago. He doesn't like photos on the internet, though, so just got his permission to take this of the old door on one of the outbuildings.

Oh dear, forgot my gratefuls; hungry husband wanting to eat!
- for this son of ours, and the good man he's become
- E's stupendous house and the powerful Italian mama architect who stuck to her guns about what would work
- that Steph is so happy