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left to right: Jessie (Richard & Annick's daughter); Alison Hammill (Orchard); Richard Franklin; Des Hammill and Annick (Richard's wife)
HISTORY Alison and Des Hammill received a very unexpected but welcome phone call on the 8th August 2000. It was from Richard Franklin who was with us on the Africa Overland trip. To read about the original trip and to see how we all looked then CLICK HERE to visit the Africa Overland page. We had not heard from him since he left the trip in Nairobi, Kenya in 1973 and we had ourselves tried to get in touch with him many times and as recently as 1996 but with no success. No surprise, as we subsequently discovered he has been living in France since 1977. Anyway it was great to hear from him and as he was coming to England on a business trip for a week we arranged to meet up in Salisbury, This we did and a good time was had by all. Richard's wife, daughter and friend were also there. We have a lot of catching up to do and reruns of the trip (verbally!) and this will take ages by letter and email. |
It is now some
time since our unexpected and very welcome 'Africa Overland' reunion which
took place in Salisbury.
You will be
pleased to know that we have kept in touch and Richard has been able to
come over to England and visit us again, albeit very briefly.
I suppose it
is now our turn (Alison and Des's) to go and visit them and why not - a
nice holiday in the South of France awaits us.
Apart from
that the only major change for us is the addition to our family of a beautiful
Grandson (Brandon)
and Richard (in his Christmas Card to us) takes great delight in calling
us Grandma Ali and Grandad Des - his turn will come!
Anyway Happy
New Year to you all in France and around the world.
Alison
Apologies for the poor quality
of the photographs - they are very large files but any more reduction in
size makes us all look rather distorted and hideous.
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