More Southampton Pictures

Here we have Granddad Ronald at lunch in a Romsey pub. Chantelle is making an interesting hand gesture!
Eric worked out how to use the timer on the camera and took the shot of evryone gathered around Grandma Anna.
Uncle Richard was a hit with the boys and he gamely took two of them off for the night. He still seems to be smiling in this picture, so has not suffered major psychological damage.

Southampton Pictures

Some more pics. Of rellies in Southampton. South coast of England.
These were taken early on in the new Year.
Current news in Kaitaia, after scorching hot weather since we landed a week ago, the weather is now turning and we are expecting the remnants of a tropical cyclone to pass over us in the next 24 hours. batten down the hatches.
eric and I were up at dawn to go for a fish before the weather closed in. We went to a new spot near Mongonui and it was very windy. I hooked into a good sized kahawai which slipped the hook just as I was landing it. the one that got away!
Pictures are of Stuart walking back from his trek round Wicken with Horace.
Sitting down for a meal with Chantelle's Aunty Barbara and Uncle Bob and their children James and Emily.
The D-day museum in Portsmouth - boys inspect a tank and the Overlord tapestry (picture especially for Clare!).