1967 Val with Julie, Karen and Gary, taken on in the summer of 1967the East Hill just outside Hastings
1970 Val with Gary, April 11th 1970, and Val and Gary are on their way to Diane's wedding. Val made Gary's suit
1974 - in our garden at Buckden
1974 Val at Offord, It was such a lovely, happy day
1974 - a lovely portrait of Val by the River Great Ouse at Offord
with john
1982 - On holiday with sister Pam, shortly after the death of Pam's husband Ken
1984 - our family in Val's parent's garden
Val in Exbury Gardens where it overlooks the Beaulieu River
1988 - at Pinewood Studios for the wedding reception for Denise, Beryl and Robin’s daughter.
with her beloved father
1990 - at Val's niece Sharon's wedding
1992 - Val in second place in a sack race in the garden
2000 - outside the Port Gaverne hotel, we stayed there for our 40th wedding anniversary, and had a meal at Rick Stein's Seafood Restaurant in Padstow
2001, Weston-Super-Mare, on the beach with a friend
2002 - Val with Sam on the beach at Weston-Super-Mare
2006, Val with Julie and Rachel by the River Great Ouse at the Pike and Eel in Needingworth
2010 - A lovely day in May, Val on the Pembrokeshire Coastal Path, the year after she spent six weeks in Addenbrooke’s having had brain surgery and meningitis
2010 - Wales
2015, we had a holiday in this cottage in Nefyn, on the Llyn Peninsula in Wales. It was wonderful.
2018 - Val in the Italian Garden, Compton Acres. We loved Compton Acres and went there many times, in fact every time we stayed in Dorset, which was a lot.
2020 - Val in Compton Acres, shaking hands with an Italian athlete in the Italian Garden
2021 - Val's 80th birthday
Val's nativity project, on display in St John the Baptist Church, Holywell, Christmas 2022. Val started this project before she became ill, the WI Knit and Natter group completed it on her behalf.
Val is still in the Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience at Cambridge University, and will be until 2025, so I have this memorial to her in our garden. The plant is one of her favourite alstroemerias.