It’s winter. Icy showers as I walked to university this morning, and temperature has dropped suddenly. In the back garden now (6pm) it’s 5C. This is a picture of four generations of our family: I’m on the left (awful picture) and my wife Dot is front right. Her mother is in the centre (her 85th birthday and, sadly, her last). The others are my son David and his wife Victoria, with children Oliver and Amy. Taken at Cromer last January.

Today I made an appointment with my uncle Paul to talk to him about our family history.