Canadian Club Visit

Just before Easter, our local Rotary Club hosted four young Canadians and their leader for a week. We really enjoyed having them to stay and arranged a number of vocational and cultural activities. Jenny, our guest for the week, is a food scientist; she visited Jo Lunn, a friend of our Jenny’s at the British Nutrition Foundation in London and also the Syngenta laboratories at Jealotts Hill. Cultural visits included Tate Modern, Marlow, Windsor Castle and Peter Freebody’s traditional boatyard in Hurley. Other activities were a Safari Supper, and a wine tasting competition. Jenny also got to ride in Chris Chugg’s MG, which as you can see from the photo, she very much enjoyed.

Forming an orderly Kew

On April 4, we went to Kew Gardens, organised by Anne Wilson, above, and chauffered by Ron and Judith. We had a fine day and a good guide but there was much more to see than we were able to manage in one day. We even met Margie, completely by accident, who was visiting with Ingrid's sister. I managed to persuade Pat up onto the tree walk for some great views before we went home.

Happy snaps of Andrew and Sophia

ABS (another bloody sunset) over Burchetts Green

Romeo and Juliet for Steve's birthday

My birthday celebrations continued with two competitive productions of Romeo and Juliet - the 15 minute version wot I wrote for an earlier village event. The parts were drawn by lot - clock Juliet (aka Rob Hayward) looking more like Shylock.

A pensioner at last

Laura tells me I have now reached the age I've been acting for the last thirty years. Thanks Laura. We celebrated with a trip to the theatre in Windsor to see Belinda Lang and Peter Egan in Noel Coward's A Song at Twilight. Here are some friends outside the theatre just before we went in.

Afterwards we went back to Burchetts Green for the obligatory cake -

New camera

Walking around Marlow with my new Leica, I was taking a standard shot of the bridge when someone threw some bread for the gulls. As you can see, a lot of them responded