Cully has made quite an art of walking stick making. Most of his friends have one. He made a super one with a duck's head handle. When we were on the Paris Metro with Sheila and Mike people jumped up to give him a seat. He sat there turning the head of his stick as though it were listening to the conversation. Very amusing!!?? This stick was stolen in the airport at Seville

We often see hot air balloons flying over Ross. We have a balloon pilot living opposite us and he took us up one Boxing Day. We ascended much higher than normal because one of the owners of the balloon wanted to do a stunt. When we were way above the clouds, Ian, stood on the rim of the basket and shouting 'Geronimo', fell off backwards. He seemed to fall for ages before he opened his parachute. The whole experience was magic and we finished off with a glass of Champagne because it was our wedding anniversary.

Colm's habit of putting out his tongue when concentrating obviously started very early.

Beside one of the impressive standing stones at Carnac. There are hundreds of them and nobody really knows why they were erected. We had a super holiday camping there.

Thurstaston Hill again. Colm looking poised!

Camping with Sheila and Mike. C doing a John Major with his underpants on the outside. Only Guardian readers would have seen the joke. Perhaps he thought he was superman. ('92)

Colm can't resist a dip in any water if the weather is warm. It is forbidden to swim in some parts of the Wye but who cares? ('92)

'The sea, the sea, it beckons me; I cannot funk it, for you seem I have my costume here with me; So de trop in ’ 43, Well darned and patched around the knee.'

On an outing with Kevin. He always stayed with us when he was home on leave from Nigeria. He loved being 'taken out'.