Local and afar

afar and local 

A Splitter Splatter Saturday Scatter amid June 2016 

Trekking the roads, lanes, trails, woods, forests, parks and history. A lot of both the paternal line of my family and my in laws. The weaving in and out of Greater and Central London where I lived and worked ... for a tad too. And eventually a family I was connected to and friends in Hither Green, Chelsea, Mottingham and areas I am still figuring out. The hospitals where people worked. The inside view of life in a hospital from a Professors view. Travelling on Concorde to conventions or whatever they are called. The murky mind revealing itself., of memories rusty in adversity times. 

And catching up with a late fathers in law cousin ... whom we visited recently. Who recounted walking straight in her locality to Plumstead before it was built up. This area well accquanted in my well husbands days. The football team supported with long standing family membership. The local Salvation Army too of a family line there. In and around the history once again of the paternal, parternal line. the family home eventually moving to Bexleyheath from the area. 

A wide spread acquisition of time in a city with various friends, and family and colleagues. A treat from an American or few of a medieval banquet, I think was in the East End. Another friend up the north of London. Some have now passed away. Or we are slowly getting reacquainted with. This life that is sometimes busy for others beyond ...