Emma joined us for a few days last week, on her way back to Glasgow after doing a tour of the more interesting parts of Europe, including Berlin, Prague and Budapest. She had spent a couple of days in London, and spent some time with us on her way back to Glasgow, arriving Monday evening and leaving Wednesday lunchtime.
Unfortunately I had to work on the only full day that Emma was with us – a long arranges site meeting involving quite a few people, and difficult to cancel, and so Chantal and Emma spent the day at Twycross Zoo, which combined Emma’s animal welfare interests, with Chantal’s photography.
On Tuesday evening we went out for a meal at The Bull in Broughton Astley, which, I supposed, is nowadays a “gastropub” with excellent meals, better than the pub grub available when I lived in Broughton.
We said farewell to Emma on Narborough Station, as she left for Glasgow, via Birmingham, to prepare for her graduation on 1st December. Monica has flown over from Canada for the Graduation, before they both fly back to Vancouver in two or three weeks. We are looking forward to seeing them both during our next planned visit over there in late summer 2016.
Technically we live in Oaktree House, but sadly the tree had to go.
We now have a thriving Oakstump at the front of the house.
