A busy weekend in Essex and Cambridgeshire - Friday Friends, Nev and Judy and Aunt Beryl. Liz gets a break from Christmas cooking and the traditional Boxing Day walk in Kingley Vale.
A very busy weekend: we took Bobs to see Beryl, visited Dorothy at "Friday Friends" (above) where Liz joined in the crafts and finally we spent some time with John's oldest friends, Nev and Judy in Saffron Walden
     
 
Judy and Nev examine the vines in the greenhouse at
Audley End Mansion		   It was a beautiful sunny and frosty day - with the leaves and grass coated with frost
     
 
Finding a Christmas Tree - with Mark and Wren   This is the one!
     
 
Our last visit to Staunton Park this year - it was very quiet and we had the place almost to ourselves!
     
 
Freya is getting really good at feeding the animals   On Santa's Sleigh (1)
     
On Santa's Sleigh (2)
     
Liz sang carols around the town before the Annual PACT Carol Service
     
 
Wren was with us for her Granny Day on Monday but was clearly not her normal self!   She did, however, brighten up when Granny showed her some fun and games on her iPad!
     
Christmas Day at The Gentry Seniors - for the first time in 40 years Liz didn't have to prepare and cook Christmas Lunch but joined Mark, Kerry and Wren, Brian and Beryl and Tim. John was at home with "Man-Flu"
     
 
Tim   Mark, Wren and Kerry
     
 
Christmas Dinner!   Liz's Christmas Cake
     
Mark and Kerry's neighbours always put on a spectacular show for Christmas.
     
 
The Boxing Day Walk - with Freya leading the way!   Mark, Freya, Chris, Tim, Alice and Ross
     
 
Family Group
Back row: Mark and Tim
Middle row: Pete, Ross, Alice and Chris
Front row: Ed, Emma, Rose and Freya		   What is it with Gentry boys and trees?
An unusual photograph of all three brothers together!
These are Yew trees at Kingley Vale - the largest Yew tree wood in Europe.
     

Wondering when Liz will resurface!
Chris, Ed, Time, Emma, Rose, Pete, Alice, Ross and Mark

     
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