I think we were too busy settling in to our new and what seemed to us very grand house to be worrying about taking pictures to record what was happening as we have precious few photographs from the first two years of our time at Lodge Road - which is a shame. This is one of them, David helping his mother to pot up what look like peppers.
The house had a lovely garden, not too big but with enough lawn for the children to play and for a rotary washing line, and it was surrounded by high fences and trees. We had a small greenhouse which we rapidly filled with tomatoes and peppers, we developed a vegetable area, and we had plenty of established shrubs. Elizabeth is the hidden of the three girls in the picture, the other two, I think, being friends of hers. The small boy at left, by the back door, is....
....Tom, the son of Derek and Wendy. Derek had been a colleague of mine at Chalvedon and he and Wendy became good friends. We kept in touch as I moved through two other teaching posts in Essex and then when we migrated north, and we remain in contact today.
If we didn't take many pictures ourselves we couldn't avoid buying the annual school photographs, this one of Katy looking her usual angelic self, but....
....we're not sure how David managed to muscle his way in on Lizzie's picture.
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