Summer is over… Mm what summer I hear you ask. We have only had a few days here and there, and some of them, were too hot! Then it was back to dull, rain, and wind - not a good season for showing off all the lovely summer-wear.
A lot of you will remember from way back - over eighteen years ago - my partner Brenda used to come to the Manor and Chelmsfordian with me, and it’s around eighteen years or so, since we went our separate ways. A recent phone call from an old friend in Ireland informed me that he had passed away some three years back. I was so very sad. He had led a healthy life, did not smoke and hardly drank - it was cancer of the oesophagus.