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The Gerrard Chronicles 2007 |
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Best Wishes for the Seasonfrom |
Avis, Ken & Family
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XMAS DAY 2006 Xmas dinner at "Le Sacre Coeur", usually known by the irreverent Ken as the Sacred Cow. We took a prefabricated dinner over to Richard on Boxing Day (as he had dislocated a rib) & reassembled it in his minute kitchen. |
Ken has turned the Dining Room into a Climbing Hut |
Jason, Freddie & Pip at XmasMORE PRAISE FOR THE N.H.S.
Avis with new eyes but old feet |
Avis had a 5,000 mile service this year, having the nerves in her back unjammed, which had been caused by a folding bike, an unfortunate attempt to be green. Also, two operations on both eyelids while awake after very painful injections & her feet, after both being operated on together, now looking like Ken's i.e. straight. We went off to the Old Swan at Minster Lovell after that op, as it had rooms at ground level. More about this trip on Traveller's Tales. |
Avis gamely operating crutches at Minster Lovell |
DON'T REPLACE YOUR KITCHEN part Two
Kitchen units are rectangular, 90° all round. This is not true of houses built in 1840, even if they started that way. Ken had to extend the panelling of the Climbing Hut round all the kitchen walls to hide the discrepancies between ideals & actualities. This took ages.
BESSIE ROSE
Claire & Bessie Rose |
On May 22nd, Claire & Jason's daughter, Bessie Rose was born, a grand-daughter to go with the two grand-sons. As C & J moved into a splendid flat in Camden Road, 35 mintes walk away, we help with baby-sitting (& Ken is perennially fixing their computers!) After six months, Bessie seems to know who we are. Claire has had much success with her jewellery business this year... |
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GEOF'S NARROW ESCAPE
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Nieces on the catamaran 1994 |
When putting his catamaran into the sea on Skiathos (where he lives), an electric power line arced onto the aluminium mast, giving him & his colleague of 40 years, Jacques, massive shocks. Fortunately, after 37 years, Geof has excellent contacts & spent seven weeks in hospital, having damaged tissue removed including two toes. More on the Travel page. |
Geof in September out of his wheelchair & back at work |
Next page is the Extended family
Contact: Ken Baldry or Avis Saltsman, 17 Gerrard Road, Islington, London N1 8AY +44(0)20 359 6294 or e-mail him or her
This page's URL: http://www.art-science.com/Xmas2007/index.html Last revised 15/11/2008
The Gerrard Chronicles published by Ken Baldry & Avis Saltzmann 17 Gerrard Road Islington London N1 8AY ©Ken Baldry & Avis Saltzmann 2007.
All photographs & text Avis & Ken Baldry except where credited. Published using Adobe Go-Live CS on an Apple Mac G5 with Nikon 5400 images and Canon LIDe 50 & 7400 scanned images.