OMG what guff we all would have talked in the last 12 months over many, many refreshing aperitifs :-). Once allowed out in each others company!! From coming out of Covid with 6m deaths!! A PM and his staff partying while we all hid in our homes and waved through windows, and computer 'windows'! The purely innocent royal party goer, stripped of his military titles and royal patronages, a platinum jubilee to celebrate, and a royal funeral to.... Rampaging climate changes, assassinations, countries in political anarchy and turmoil across the world! Russia, helping out their neighbours who didn't realise they needed helped! Music galore and the unfortunate passing of many more greats including quite poignantly, Mr Brooker! And, no its not a movie!! NASA's DART mission successfully crashing into the Dimorphos asteroid in the first planetary defense test. Would you adam and eve it!!?? It's nice to think 'wonder what Dessie or Mal would say to that!' Of the opinions we would all be arguing about and sneaking out for a few bevvies. Bumped in to your expanding family last weekend Dessie. No excuse, but sad to say we haven't seen them for a long time. You'd be so full of it, if you were here now!! Smashing grandkids! Went for a walk last week and visited the tree with our new pooches. Its growing well and always a fond but sad reminder of friends we're missing out on. As they say, life brings tears, smiles & memories. The tears will dry and the smiles fade, but the memories last forever!! Anyway, time to sign off. Just to say we still miss you (both) and you and your families are always in our thoughts and prayers.