Family

My former wife, Patricia, died peacefully at our son Andy’s home in Bury St Edmunds, on October 15th. Her lungs gave up. Paddy and I met and were married when I was still a student, in 1960, and built a family together for 25 years. Sadly, our relationship did not survive my career move to […]

The last 2 weeks have been eventful! We spent 2 nights at the wonderful Swag Country Inn in the North Carolina mountains. The purpose was to celebrate our 25th wedding anniversary (September 28th), which we did in style, helped by 7 other special Deweesian couples. The Swag (www.theswag.com) is an amazing place,  hosted for ever by

Thank you Alli Elmunzer for your expertise  

  Over the last few weeks I have rediscovered and written about my first endoscopy assistants (Sue Wallace and Judy Caddy) at St Thomas’s in London in the late 1960s, and visited and honored my best old friend (Dick McCray) from 1971. And the fun continues, even further back into the 1950s…. Last weekend I

We are lucky enough to have a home on Dewees island, South Carolina. It is eco-friendly, boat-access, no cars, shops (or golf), 3 miles of unspoiled beach, 150 building sites, 70 houses so far. It is a remarkable self-managing and self-supporting community. Since the modern development of the island started in 1991 there have been

We are so lucky to have special friends “down under” who are kind enough to host and spend time with us as we escape the northern winter. We started in the lovely city of Auckland, with Linda Robert.     Then we travelled with her to Blenheim in the South Island to the Marlborough region,

We had a lovely if brief visit to England to catch up with the family, starting at Long Crendon, with the Richardsons–Nicky, Jules, Perdy and Jack (and Layla)         And then, after a spell in London (described separately), on to Bury St Edmunds to be with the Cottons — Andy, Fiona, Alex,

Radio silence since the summer, sorry, but no shortage of activity. Selecting photos for my annual Christmas letter has reminded me of the many very special activities. We had a wonderful family summer at Dewees, including 4 days at Disney, surprisingly not too hot or too crowded. Some golf outings, including California with Andy and

Family fun is off to a great start. Nicky, Jules, Perdy and Jack arrived and got into the spirit quickly. Jules brother Alban came for the day, with Julie, Dylan, Megan and Asher  

A great gathering of family and friends in Goldsboro, NC, to celebrate Jodi Bowden’s 50th birthday. The young (and older) ones had a good time!