Excited
Well my friends, I have to admit that I am becoming rather excited about next week. We have rented a villa in southern Portugal and we are flying out there on Saturday from John Lennon Airport in the suburbs of Liverpool. In fact, the villa is the very one shown in the two photos that accompany this blogpost. When I say "we", I mean all nine of us - Shirley and I, Frances, Stewart, Phoebe and Margot, Ian, Sarah and Zachary. We have pushed the boat out on this private rental. It gets excellent reviews. We wanted the family holiday to be something really special to mark Ian's forthcoming fortieth birthday with a nod back to my seventieth birthday last October. You never know what might lie ahead. Sometimes you have got to seize the moment and I have a feeling that this holiday will be one we will always remember for good reasons - when the babies were young and we were all in good health. I remember these lines from Bob Dylan's musical ode to his former wife, Sara...