Sunday, October 05, 2008

An Autumn day...

...in Kent, on a family visit, a warm welcome, delightful young nieces, a delicious lunch, a happy day. We walked through Autumn fields, with fabulous views, gathering chestnuts to take home and bake. We stopped at the hop-pickers huts, once used every year by the teams of people who came out from London for the hop season - all empty and derelict now, but the tradition is remembered with an annual end-of-summer gathering and barbeque...

This has been a family weekend: on Saturday a visit from another dear niece, and an agreeable dinner with friends visiting from America. To get a flavour of the conversation over dinner, pick up the Catholic Times each week and read the delightful and amusing Stateside letter from America by Alenka Lawrence.

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