Yes, it’s granddaughter Amy, going to work on an egg – or several eggs, in this case. She gets a special mention today because we have just seen her, via the webcam, taking five or six steps from the doorway of her Dad’s office to his arms.  I am reliably informed this is the furthest she’s walked so far.

This made me feel a good bit better. I had a bad night last night – headache and shivery – but felt better when I woke up. Headache is now coming back (6pm), so I’ve taken the old reliable paracetamol. Dot has been painting the guest bedroom, but this probably has nothing to do with it. I haven’t. Got to church OK, and the music went well.

A picture of me taken by my grandson Oliver David (Bailey) Lenton, aged three years and five months. Not bad, considering the unpromising material.

Lovely winter’s day today. Went to UEA to meet Anna Steward, who may join InPrint. Lots of ideas about Shropshire tour, PVM, publicity and so on.

Not an out-take from Reservoir Dogs or Pulp Fiction, but three members of InPrint, the visual arts-and-poetry group to which I belong. Centre is godfather and poet Rupert Mallin, right is Annette Rolston, the painter and printmaker with whom I collaborate, and making herself as small as possible on the left is Katarzyna Coleman, who specialises in industrial landscapes. For more information on them, see the InPrint site which you can access by clicking on the Blast above.

They are standing in front of the Poetry Vending Machine – a prototype of which we have high hopes – which is on display at the Warehouse in Lowestoft. Excellent gallery, but not easily accessible. We hope to have the PVM at the Wells festival in May.

During the past few days Dot and I have been away – firstly in East Sussex and later in Caddington, Bedfordshire, home of our son, daughter-in-law and grandchildren. Further photos of them, no doubt, shortly.

More Myhills – the largish woman standing in the centre may be Dot’s great-grandmother, Ruth Myhill, and one of the young children could be Dot’s Aunt Ethel. These things remain to be checked. But a formidable-looking family!

Quite a pleasant day here today: not too cold. I have had a session with my homeopathist and am about to go and take a friend to hospital. Meanwhile Dot is at a meeting at the UEA to do with her primary strategy consultant leader programme.

Received this picture today from a correspondent through Genes Reunited. The two people in the centre of the photograph are my wife’s great-great-grandparents, James Myhill and Sarah Webster, with three of their children (her great-grandmother Ruth Myhill’s brother and sisters).

Lovely winter’s day today – much warmer with some sunshine. Cleared some leaves and took them – and a few other things – to the tip. Then took the car for a wash and vacuum. In the evening went for a meal with friends Keiron and Rowan, who are getting married in the summer.

Dorothy’s funeral today, at 1.15pm, South Park Evangelical Church, Norwich. Dry day, but very cold, temperature hovering around freezing. Family members present were Paul and Kathleen, the two remaining siblings from that generation. Also Dot and myself, Philip and Joy, with their son Joe and his wife Birgit; and Paul’s sons, Mark and Stephen, with their wives, Julie and Anita. Paul’s wife Thelma was there too. Service led by Tom Chapman from Surrey. Paul and Phil both gave excellent talks, giving a nice picture of Dorothy.

Interment was at The Rosary, cold but quick.

And there’s Dorothy again, in this picture of my parents’ wedding at Surrey Chapel, Norwich.  The building is now demolished: John Lewis’ car park covers where it stood. Dorothy is just behind my father. The two small bridesmaids may have been my mother’s sisters, Thelma and Eileen.The other bridesmaid looks like my mother’s older sister Vi, who is still alive and living in East London, South Africa. Her father is on the left at the back, and her mother is off to the right. Don’t know who the other man is at the back – possibly the best man.

Another very cold but dry day – misty, low cloud. Went with Dot to King’s Lynn, where she had a meeting at St Martha’s Catholic School. While she was in there I went to Castle Rising (for the first time). Just north of Lynn, this is an impressive building within an earth bank – square, reminiscent of Norwich Castle. Quite a lot of it remains: walls, arches, stairs, complete rooms. A chill in the air.

This picture is of our family on September 6, 1977, taken at Beccles Road, Sale. David was five. We had just driven back from a holiday in the very north of Scotland at Fanagmore, where David had proved a big hit with the bed and breakfast hosts. Beautiful part of the world, stunning roads and coast. We were staying the night with friends Chris and Chris Highmore. If I remember rightly, I had just driven 523 miles in one day.