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A set of Richard's stools
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And garden planters of varying sizes
24th April 2025
Gareth and James with Gareth and Laura Worgan's little treasure, Tobi
Grandson James has completed his second year at Portsmouth University with flying colours and a lot of A grades. His degree course in Architecture allows him to take a year out for practical experience and he has been applying to companies for a position accordingly. Well, after much soul searching and applications he beat hundreds of applicants to get a year with Mitchells and Butler including a salary and a car! We are all as proud as punch for him.
Exciting moves regarding Gareth. He was getting fed up with his manager's post at a local hostelry and and so put in an application to the Royal Air Force. Well, after a series of interviews and aptitude tests, and with more, to come, he has passed all tests to become a flight leiutenant, as a flying officer amongs other positions. As said, more interviews to come but things are looking good and he is very excited. Hopefully next picture of him on this website will be one of him in uniform
Now that the house in Cyprus has sold, Isobel and and I have been looking for a place of our own. We have found what we wanted and it is actually an apartment in the same development as we have been renting for the past 4 years - the difference is that it will be ours, not a rental, and we can do what we want with it. (Isobel in particular has made so many local friends locally that she doesn't want to move very far!!). The timings are not too exact at the moment but we hope to take over by October, spand that month recarpeting and redecorating etc and then move in before Christmas. More news on this later but apart from the number of the flat, our postcode, phone numbers and email addresses will remain the same
Pip in her better days with Gareth
Do you remenmber Pip? That's the little lady that Isobel, Rhian and I adopted some years ago as she was slowly going downhill. We think Pip did have some relatives up Lancashire way but, as we understand it, she fell out with them many years ago and has never been in contact since. Pip had given Power of Attourney to the husband of a local lady friend of hers (who has died). Unfortunately, that husband spent her money instead of managing it and after Guy's and my intervention the power of attorney was taken off him - but not before he has spent some £75,000 of her money. Police were involved but although he was considered guilty the charges were dropped 'because of his advancing age (85)'. Anyway, Pip finally ended up in a nursing home where she was looked after until she passed away at the end of november 2024 age 97!!! RIP Pip.