White Hart

On Monday we had a lovely meal with my 2 sisters Jean and Joy, my niece Lisa and her daughter Isla. We ate excellent Rump steaks at the White Hart pub in the village of Sherfield on Lodon about 20 minutes drive from Basingstoke. The village has a population of about 1,600. After the meal we went to Philip and Gyl's watching Luis and Isla playing in the pool and on the trampoline. It was a very pleasant day with a temperature of 26 degrees which is quite warm for England.

Me in the middle of my sisters Jean (white blouse) and Joy (pink blouse). Jean is a music teacher and an evangelical Anglican. Joy is a nurse and an evangelical Baptist. 

I have seen many Herring Gulls and photographed them.

Yesterday we went to London. First of all we went to Gunnersbury Cemetery to visit the grave of our little baby Johnny whom we sadly lost to meningitis when he was 13 days old. Johnny would have been 50 this March. Especially moving was our 9-year-old grandson Luis who placed his toy pig George on the grave giving it to baby Johnny. From here we went to the 955 hectares Richmond Park which is the second largest of London's many green and wooded parks, and is a national nature reserve as well as a European Special Area of Conservation. What a beautiful park it is full of woods, ferns and fields where 600 red and fallow deer roam since 1637, squirrels climb the trees, and birds such as the Jackdaw and Crow are plentiful, not forgetting the squawking invasive non-native Ring-necked Parakeets. We climbed King Henry's Mound from where you can see St. Paul's Cathedral more than 16 km to the east using a telescope there for use by all. To the west you can see the control tower at Heathrow Airport, Windsor Castle and the Thames Valley.