Wednesday was focused on catching up on affairs here in the Uk. Without going into too much detail the day involved visiting the Citizen’s Advice Bureau, signing on a new property manager and writing a nasty letter. We feel better as a bad situation is now on a positive trajectory although how much we can recover from the bad position we’ve been in remains unclear. At least now we shouldn’t get any worse off.\n<\/p>\n

Yesterday was a whole lot more fun. We took the train into London first meeting our old friend Dick who we last saw last Xmas in New Zealand. The good thing about having a blog is not having to talk about everything we’ve done for the last year so we had a great time talking about everything and generally fixing the world. After a long brunch with Dick we then headed off to visit son John who we last saw in Tahiti in 2010. He’s living in our old stomping grounds in North London and it was interesting to see how much some things had changed and some things not in the twenty <\/a>odd years since we lived in that area. We paid a brief visit to Wood Green which is hardly recognizable. At least all the roads were where we left them.\n<\/p>\n

In the evening John’s partner Ella arrived from work meeting us in a local pub. This was our first glimpse of the mound surrounding our soon to be born grandchild. Quite a moment.\n<\/p>\n

We ate a takeaway together at their flat catching up on everything before heading back to Helen’s sister’s home in Chesham. We had one bit of bad luck on the return journey when the train that would have taken us to Chesham closed it’s doors as we were running down the steps to try and catch it. This left us half an hour to kill which we did wondering around the Baker Street area failing, as ever, to find 221b which of course doesn’t exist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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