Family update

Walter is of course our eldest son. He lives here in Beverley with his consultant radiologist wife Nuala from Dublin. She works for the local hospital Castle Hill. They have restored a fine Georgian house here and Walter continues to keep up his legal work even while running a 5 Star B and B. Their eldest children Siobhan and Lucy are both at Durham University studying languages. Siobhan is currently in Italy for a semester and then will take a work placement in Paris. Hannah is the only one still at home and working on her exams at School.

Warwick is a freelance photographer in London where he has lived for over thirty years with Fiona who works in a restaurant and cafe as manager and chief cook. They have two daughters. Elle is a Programme Leader for English First in Bristol. Their second daughter Rebecca lives in Los Angeles in the USA where she is married to Zac Russell. Zac works for Red Bull. Rebecca is a fashion stylist for an LA magazine, C magazine.

Simon is a lecturer at the University of York. He got his PhD from Leeds with a study on EU defence and security policy. He travels a lot for the university giving lectures and was recently in India. He teaches political economy in York Management School and is Director of Postgraduate programmes. He is married to Lyn who has worked in the arts and in community theatre for many years. They have three children. Jude works in Geneva writing reports on humanitarian crisis management, with a special interest in the Balkans, Palestine, South Sudan and Colombia. Ruth lives in Amsterdam with her partner Mark. Ruth did her MA in the University of Amsterdam on preservation and presentation of film and related media. Mark is a digital designer. Simon and Lyn's youngest, Neil, is studying technical theatre at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London.

The Gang Leader is my 96 year old Jane, the greatest woman in the world. I met her in a cow shed in 1947 in Wolston outside Rugby. She was manager of a herd of Friesian milch cows, one of them giving ten gallons a day. This is the one for which I was called late one evening to treat when she had suddenly stopped giving any milk. I operated on her with the help of that woman. Within a month I asked her to marry me.