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Herne Hill with Becky - Wimbledon, All Saints Stile Antico concert, Warhorse and Kew Gardens

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 Well, what a wonderful, varied and relatively relaxed time I have had in the South, staying with Becky, another niece, with occasional sightings of her children Eleanor and William who are back from uni.  M What a massive first day Becky and I had in the Queue at Wimbledon, oh so different from decades ago when only a few hundred turned up early! Now they arrive two days before and camp To ensure getting tickets to centre or court 1. We only wanted outside court access, but even arriving at 6, having taken a taxi to ensure no holdups, we were already 6997 and 8 in the queue! Whilst Becky read the rules of queuing, very funny at times, I went for a wander, and stupidly dropped my precious queue card somewhere. By the time I realised, only about ten minutes later, I was already no. 7647 in the queue! I was so distraught. As we were moved to a new spot, I did my best to hide the number at checkpoints. Very stressful. My stupidity! Luckily, Becky was well prepared with bubbles an...

Wales and family time.

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 Usually I end up racing to get connecting flights at Amsterdam Schiphol, so I allowed extra. Of course, for once I didn’t need it. Anyway, it gave me plenty of time to watch the Man in the Clock at the airport. I watched for a long time, convinced some poor soul was stuck in there changing the clock every minute. It’s amazing. Anyway, I then found out they had made a 12 hour video of a real actor erasing the hands and repainting them . It is a perfect optical illusion.  The weather on arrival can only be termed ‘atrocious’, even for Britain! Freezing sleet/rain and a strong, biting wind!  Never mind, the warm welcome from Ceri, Mabli and Betsi.made up for it a million times over. I was ‘home’ again to my wonderful, yet crazy Welsh family.  Next day we headed to the next little village with Ben and his two gorgeous children, Nanci and Toby.  Toby was the star of the coming weekend , turning 1! We were super lucky with the weather, sunny and warm, so much so that...