Wednesday May 16
This was an amazing day! Katie wandered over from The
Station around 10:30. We had some tea and chatted, and then set off for Kings
Lynn. Today I was meeting with my 4 room-mates from 1967/1968. Can you believe
we are still in touch? We found that incredibly special!!
Ray and I set up our app “Waze” with the address and set of. There
was really only one glitch in the directions, which we realized and were able
to quickly resolve. We arrived at the same time as Charlotte.
It was a lovely day. We chatted about our current lives and
what had happened since we last met….well …first of all we had to decide when
it was that we last met!! And, we chatted about our time in the “Foreign
Office” and all the escapades, and responsibilities, etc. that we had. Of
course, it hasn’t all been smooth since then, and we talked about that as well.
We had all met periodically before, but never all of us together. We have all
appeared to make it to this point with a positive attitude. I was thrilled when
Prue’s husband told me he had had a horse and loved riding and had been a point
to point racer!! So many special nuggets of information I never knew!!
I feel so much gratitude that we are all able to have this
connection to our past life joined to our present life.
And we discovered how we remembered things differently. I
recalled the story when Prue stuck her head in the gas oven when she was
lighting it, and of course it exploded. My story is that I heard her scream and
ran from the other end of the flat to see what was up. I saw flames (small
flames) coming out of her hair and immediately clapped my hands on her head to
put them out. She was alarmed at the hair falling over her face as her eyebrows
and some of her hair were singed. To me, it was pretty spectacular! I was concerned
for her!! She says, she remembers her eyebrows being singed, but didn’t think
it was all as dramatic as I remembered!!
Prue showed us over her old house full of nooks and crannies that only old English homes can provide. We saw the garden with its beautiful flowers, and came to the conclusion this is a wonderful time to visit England for the flowers.
Prue cooked an amazing meal and we filled up with food, comradarieship, and a sense of belonging.
We left late afternoon, and arrived back here in West
By-Fleet around 7:00. We had a light dinner at Katie’s hotel “The Station” and
the Ray and I walked the 200 metres back to our rental home.
Did I mention that the WiFi hasn’t been working since we
arrived! It has been a real bummer. Especially as the "Three" sim card I got hasn’t
really performed that well either!
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| From left to right: Peter, Prue, Charlotte, Liz, Katie |
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