19 November 2011 HARPENDEN Saturday

The weather has been so good to us, waking us with another glorious day.  We popped across the main street to The Silver Cup B & B to meet Al's cousin and meander our way over to The British Legion for late-morning drinks - I can't do beer, so fortunately Daleen introduced me to an alcohol ginger beer drink called Crabbies.  It even looks like beer, so it's all good.

It has felt almost like a second-home "homecoming" with all the familiarity around us and today especially, as we had the pleasure of Uncle Tony and Aunty Verna joining us for drinks.  We have all aged since last being together, but still shared many a laugh and happy moments.

At lunchtime we tottered along back to The Silver Cup for lunch and at 4.00pm, we all went off in different directions.

Al and I had the most spectacular (Al is still looking for the spectacular that I saw {perhaps through rose-tinted glasses}) stroll along the Southdown Ponds and Common.
We even came across real live Christmas Holly - how can that not be spectacular!

Al tried to prove to all of you how early it has been getting dark, so these photo's were taken at 4.15pm

I thought I'd get away with leaving it at that, but couldn't, so admittedly, the pics don't actually appear as dark as it really was.