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Between 17th and 26th August 2019, most of the family were able to get together for a few days at Edward and Marijke's house in Ridgewood, NJ and spend a week together on Cape Cod. Prue and Thomas came in from Hamburg (and a few days in Chicago) and Boodle came up from a conference in Las Vegas to join us for a night on Cape Cod and then come back and spend a week in Ridgewood. There, Char and Milly kindly gave up their rooms and moved into Zozo's room and so we were very comfortable. On Cape Cod the family stayed at a rented house in Dennis and I stayed at the Sesuit Harbor House, a motel five minutes away. Likewise the rented house was large and well appointed, particularly the kitchen - as we cooked at home every night except the last. In Ridgewood, Edward did a spectacularly good lamb bbq the first night and we ate outside each night to the sound of cicadas. Photo by Boodle Unfortunately, the mosquitos were too much of a problem on Cape Cod so we mostly ...

Ithaca I have come full circle when it comes to travelling. Growing up in the 50s meant the occasional holiday on Welsh beaches, and my mother used to drive us down to Hill Head to swim, but there was no expectation of going abroad and having the summer to play cricket on the lawn at Stocks was absolutely sufficient. But in the summer of 1959, we made our first and only childhood trip abroad to Brittany and stayed (in Perros Guirec) and played clock golf and swam - and ate crepes. When we returned home, Fuff had hired something to dig out an enormous swimming pool at the end of the garden and after it had been somewhat reduced in size. it was blocked and painted and we spent the rest of our summers in it and on the tennis court beside it. In fact, my mother used to drive her car up the drive and swim there until her last years, and don't think we never went 'on holiday' as a family again. Using the empty pool at Stocks as a sun trap in the autumn. Left to right: ...