Cousins/Cousines

Name:  Ruth

Blood Connection: third cousin - her great-grandfather and my great-grandfather were brothers - slate workers in Wales, the best of friends, and sad to part, one for a better life in the new world and one to remain with the familiar.

Personal Connection: I met her when I was a teenager, she became my theatre partner during all the years I lived in London.

Visiting Activities:

Watching the women's marathon

channeling our inner athlete



cheering on Team GB



walking along the Thames



at France house

Names: Toby and Laura

Blood Connection: third cousins once removed - the children of Ruth's brother and sister-in-law

Personal Connection: I remember them as babies and children on my visits to Yorkshire and theirs to Canada

Visiting Activities:

no longer little children



at Potters Fields Park watching the big screen

Toby the only one who could actually see above the crowds

Name: Hilary

Blood Connection: first cousin once removed - along with the lovely Ema, daughters of my only cousin on my mother's side
Personal Connection: have been intimately involved since birth



view of O2 from the AirLine

Emirates AirLine

Visiting Activities:  

At Women's wrestling in the ExCel centre

Hilary gets her Olympic experience