Thank you... thank you.

[Geoff Bannister]

To those who have remembered my birthday both 
here and in emails, thank you.

I tried not to make a lot of this birthay. Unlike my 
wife, who had a birthday in January which was special 
in that it ended in a "0" and, in UK terms, evtitled her 
to a bus pass, free eye tests and free medicine prescriptions, 
mine was small beer - I passed those landmarks a couple 
of years or so back. Let's just say that my birthday this 
year falls in the 17-times table. One for the Maths experts 
among you.

Yes, it was a good day. It was a beautiful day weather-wise. 
We have just had an uncommon  run of about five days 
of blue skiesand temperatures around 12-13 C, whereas 
the norm for mid-February is usually about 7-8 C.

Apart from my usual two walks with the dogs totalling 
about 5 miles, my eldest son and his wife came over for 
two nights. they live away to the east, about 10 miles on 
the London side of Oxford. We went out for Sunday roast 
lunch at a local pub and they were with us for the afternoon 
walk before heading home on the Sunday evening. Quiet 
but good. If you've never had a meal in the homeliness of 
an English village pub, you ain't lived!
:-)

If you would like a taste of where we walked on Sunday - 
and also on Saturday, try:

www.geoffbannister.com/images/v196_heddons_mouth_1.jpg
(for Saturday)

and 
www.geoffbannister.com/images/v116_porlock_vale.jpg
(for Sunday - our house is actually in this view)

Thank yo ahgain for your good wishes.

and - Sheryll - keep away from the oven door!