Berkshire
Tomorrow we will be off down south. I have rented a house in the Berkshire countryside - not far from the little town of Hungerford. It suffered a terrible tragedy in 1987 when a crazy shooter went on the rampage. Such mass shootings are very rare in Great Britain where it is very difficult to acquire guns. I hope to visit The Tragedy Garden and pay my respects to the sixteen innocent victims of Michael Ryan. Th ankfully perhaps - he also killed himself. But that's not the main reason we will be staying there. In a nearby village there will be a big wedding on Saturday. The bridegroom is going to be one of Sarah's brothers - Sarah being Ian's girlfriend and our grandson's mother. Shirley and I will be looking after little Zachary for much of the weekend. It's going to be nice staying for five nights in a quiet house in the country far from busy roads and it is a part of England that I hardly know though I once tied a handkerchief to the wire fence at nearby Gre...