Today there was a birthday

The birthday girl listening hard

Today, Sunday, we celebrated a birthday. Cousin Colin's wife had an at home birthday this year because cousin Colin had keyhole surgery on his knee yesterday. He has arthritis which has damaged the joint so the nice kind surgeon rummaged around and smoothed off  some sharp bits, repaired the cartilage, wrapped it all in a dressing and sent him home.

Two Colins for the price of one

cousin Len

Cousin Len's wife Brenda

Abirthday gift

Lots of people made their way to the top of their hill and spent a while laughing and talking and eating birthday cake. I took a few pictures.

We ate chocolate - this was an important taste test of the new Kit Kat bars. We all agreed that the Orange chunky bar tasted of orange, the double choc was chocolatey but the caramel was not really flavourful. We could not test the peanut butter flavour because it could not be found in Morrisons that morning.

Cousin Len regaled us with stories about my father and the fox. This was a tale from before I was born so I found it very interesting.

We talked about our ancestry and how the family looks have been passed down. How Len's daughter Debra is so like her Grandmother and how my grandson, Martyn, is the image of Cousin Leroy.

All these relationships will be made clear when we get the website up and secure.

All in all it was a lovely afternoon