Busy time at the moment. Son and grandson came up at the weekend to fix up my wife’s new Apple computer. Well, grandson was not too involved in that side of it, but he was pretty busy what with one thing and another. Took him over to the station to watch some trains, but it was bitterly cold.

This is an old picture of two families – my father’s and my uncle’s. My father David is at the back on the right, and next to him is his older brother Reg. In front of them are me and my cousin Jonathan (right). My mother is in the middle, and to her right at the back are Ruth and Brenda (left), Reg’s two daughters – both older than Jonathan. On Brenda’s lap is my younger brother, Andrew.

I guess this picture was probably taken at Kettering (maybe Wickstead Park) probably in about 1951. If so, my mother may be pregnant. The picture was probably taken by Reg’s wife, Dorothy.

When my father died suddenly in March 1955, Reg drove over in the fog from Kettering to be with us.