Angela

March, 2006

Angela sent the following news in an e-mail shortly after the first on-line edition. Exciting events! Angela also e-mailed the Yahoo group last week to say she is "definitely going (to the May reunion), partly to meet Classicists but also to see Elizabeth Ellis, a Methodist and Botany student with whom I was friendly in my last year in Reid Hall." From the October letter: "I don't think I have told you previously that all our family is looking forward to our son's wedding in 2006. For some time Stephen had hoped to get into a relationship but nothing ever happened. Then just over 18 months ago through his work in the library and his interest in quizzes he met a final year student doing Religious Studies. They hit it off from the word go and became engaged in March this year. The wedding is booked for 5 August next year.

The photo I am attaching was taken at the end of our family Christmas dinner last year (as witness the remains of the turkey, and empty vegetable dishes!) by our future daughter-in-law. It shows, from left to right, grandson Andrew, Alan, granddaughter Claire, granddaughter Sarah, daughter Helen and me. This year's celebrations will be somewhat quieter for us as Helen and Family are going round the world between 9 December and 7 January and Stephen and his fiancee, who is also Sarah, are spending Christmas with her mother. We will be entertaining everyone in just over a week's time, though, as my birthday coincides with the start of October half-term."

September, 2005

Angela and Alan were two of the fortunate people who got to meet up Anne and Peter Moss. Turns out that one of the places Anne and Peter stayed was in the Yorkshire Dales, just half a mile down the road from one of Alan's sisters. Apparently the weather wasn't great for their meeting, but I think just getting together was the high point. (One of these days we will have to design a medal for long suffering husbands who put up with hours of, "Do you remember when?" ) By the time they met up, Angela and Alan already had tickets for a trip to New Zealand at the end of the year. Imagine their disappointment to learn that the Mosses were going to be in Australia when they reached Christchurch. In her Christmas card Angela described New Zealand as "a wonderful country." It seems that Angela and Alan are often in interesting places. Angela mentioned that they spend time with an old school friend who divides her time between Bognor Regis, a family house in France and an apartment near Tucson.

In the absence of photos, I again turned to Google and found this on the Rylands library website. We'd love more photos, Angela.