My family and other animals

So it's August and I am in Hornchurch with my family and I haven't brought a coat!!! No seriously, it's mainly sunny - though not as sunny as Portugal.

Heather is looking well and we are all eagerly awaiting the birth of baby Freya, who, we are told by doctors, will be a big baby,

Predictably, despite several attempts at induction (only the final one successful) she is also  a week late. Weighing in at 10ibs 3oz Freya Alice Barc arrived in the world in the late evening of August 15th.

Naturally , coming from such good stock, she is extremely beautiful (not to mention very long limbed) and will obviously be highly intelligent too!

Good news from the eldest granddaughter is that she has successfully completed her apprenticeship and is now a qualified, employed and well paid insurance underwriter - who still owes her grandfather and I a drink.

Grandson Jack, despite a total lack of any form of commitment has managed to obtain some GCSEs and is lucky enough to have been accepted as an apprentice in what used to be called fitting and turning in my day and is now called something completely different. He is not on any of the photos due to be elsewhere most of the time,

Anyway it's good bye to the family and  to the good friends who visited us while we were there and back to Portugal to continue the story ............