Our Family Album
1. Early Days
We don't have many pictures from our childhood and teens. If others come to light we'll include them later. Here's what we've got.
Left: leadership potential at 10 years old! Those stripes are surely pointing to a management career.
Three early passport photos of Eileen. 2. Together
We'd only just begun; white lace and promises...
Left: eight miles high in Tunisia. Middle and Right: dressed to party!
Left: quite a nice portrait. Right: Spitfire pilot
3. Karen Charlotte
Born 6.30am on 22 December 1972, this young lady has dominated our lives ever since. Here are some photos of her earlier days, with Mum and Dad in supporting roles.
Karen has always been an animal lover, especially of horses and cats. The trawl through our 30+ photo albums to produce this condensed on-line album revealed countless visits to zoos and safari parks, plus almost every animal we ever kept.
4. Radio Days If Brian hadn't worked in IT he would have made a career in broadcasting. For many years he worked as a presenter on hospital radio stations and once co-presented a show aboard the QE2.
Left: at a Radio Stortford disco at the Herts. and Essex Hospital, Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire. 5. Vacations In 1981 we fulfilled a long-time ambition to cross the Atlantic in style - aboard the Cunard liner RMS Queen Elizabeth II.
Left: Karen is presented to Captain Doug Ridley.
Left: Karen and friends after the hayride. The mid-80s frequently saw us on vacation on Florida's Gulf Coast, particularly at our favourite resort, St. Petersburg Beach. These are some of the many of photos from that era, taken at the theme parks.
6. More Animals
Left: with Sam and Smokey. Middle: with Maxi the goat, plus playmates. Right: never smile...
7. At Home
These photos were taken in and around our previous home at Great Saling, Essex.
8. Friends and Family
9. Mother and Daughter
10. Fin de Siècle
Top row: Karen at
leisure.
On holiday at Kinsale, Ireland in 2000. 11. It Begins Again
12. Recent Times
On holiday at Blaxhall, Suffolk in 2006.
13. The Future???
Who knows? Whatever happens, it's a fair bet that Brian will record it, as long as he can aim a camera. |