Next Neil and Cath.  Great to see them.  Neil, after all these years, hasn’t changed a bit.  Touch greyer perhaps.  The Old Rectory was lovely as before, great view

What I hadn’t realised is that Neil’s family is built into the village – they built Wilson’s Mill.   The Wilson name’s everywhere.  He’s got family trees – a small family orchard in fact – on the wall up the stairs.  

Nice old Yorkshire village:

And here’s the man – you’re looking at the very fabric of Yorkshire

And so on to York to see off the kids – Sarah to catch the plane back to Australia, Katie to travel around Scotland for a week.  

This platform brings back a lot of memories – for 5 years my parents used to see me off from here on the train to school in Edinburgh.  Where I wasn’t very happy at all.  And here I was, 45 years later, saying goodbye to my own child.  Much less traumatic!