U.K. Duty Visit - Day 10

Wow! We awoke to bright sunshine & clear blue skies! It didn’t endure all day, but did last for much of the morning. Unsurprisingly there was also quite a sharp frost. Nevertheless, we decided to take advantage and went for our sea-front walk quite early (by UK standards, anyway). John was so pleased he took a couple of pictures to put on Flickr.

While waiting for Katy to drive down from London Pam & I started tackling the large stack of “scan??” pictures, starting with rough sorts and gradually getting more subject specific. As we suspected there are a lot of duplications, or nearly so (taken on the same occasion) so when we found “one each” we took them to diminish the pile for scanning before we both went back home to our own scanners. There is still a lot of sorting to do, but the advent of Katy & two toddlers encouraged us to return things to piles, safely away from little fingers!

I am beginning to realize that my “available weight” (& suitcase space) allowance is unlikely to be enough, so have begun thinking about options, as I realize a fair bit more than lightweight photographs will need to go to the USA one way or another.

After entertaining the kids for a while and all catching up a bit we had lunch, a fairly long drawn out affair, after which the children were consigned to their grandparents’ care while Katy & John (with his laptop) went to the hospital. At first Mum-Mum was a bit down & feeling cold, so we left the nurses to get her back into bed, warm & comfortable, then rejoined her. Katy is a marvel with her grandmother, although I was not surprised. When things slowed down the PC was used to show Mum-Mum the pictures taken so far (including a few from this very morning) as well as some of John’s older ones.

After returning, Pam, Katy & the little ones went for a walk, getting very muddy/chalky in the process (we will NOT be walking the cliff-tops anytime soon), Nick watched some recorded crazy skiing Olympics, and I caught up with the news from Indiana. Katy & kids left for their overnight stay with friends and will return tomorrow, while we continue to do this ‘n that.