Interesting day on Sunday. After Mark and Erica went back to London before lunch I had a visit from the person who now lives in our first house after we married in 1970 and which we had built ourselves with lots of help from family and friends. Looking through some old photo albums last week I found a picture of the house, not long after it was finished (and ready for us to start on the garden!). So I made a copy and sent it with a letter to the current "Owner /Occupier". I had met her once before , about ten years ago but never maintained contact or knew her name!
She was pleased to get the letter and piccie; "How fortuitous", she said on the phone. "I was meaning to getb in touch with you anyway on another matter relating to local knowledge of the area". She came over on Sunday afternoon with her friend, who turned out to be the grand-daughter of one of our former neighbours!
And so we had about three and a half hours of catch up. But perhaps the most interesting fact, apart from the reason she came over, was that she was Australian and her parents live in Canberra, and of course she was very familiar with the area of the Far South Coast of NSW where our son Andrew and his family live.
