Last Saturday was quite a momentous day in the life of my Aunt Ethel. After sixty years of living in the same house in London, she moved to a residential home 25 miles away in Surrey, not too far away from me, but even nearer to my cousin Carol who has been organising her affairs in recent years. Ethel is now 94.

Today my brother Martin and I visited her old house in London, one that we visited regularly as boys. It was a house of two halves – my Grandparents and my unmarried Aunt Lil lived downstairs and my Aunt Ethel and her husband Bill upstairs. Since those days, it seems that very little has changed – the furniture and décor just seems to have remained the same. It’s been 20 years since my Uncle Bill died and since then the only changes seem to have been the ones out of absolute necessity.

Today I was reunited with two of my cousins, Carol and Jean, neither of whom I had seen in decades. I hope that I will now see more of them, and if everything goes to plan, I will meet up with my Aunt Ethel later this week to see how she is progressing after 10 days in her new environment.

So today’s photo shows my brother Martin pondering over the history of the house through the mirror in the front room. We even think the mirror may have a little bit of family history in it….

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On 30 October last year; ‘Something Warm’