Happy 80th Birthday Mum! I'm thinking about how nice it would be to celebrate with an afternoon tea at a nice hotel or overlooking the canal and then going to see a show in Stratford, or spending the afternoon at a spa. I'm thinking about your 75th, about your 70th. I'm thinking about the relative likelihood of Tom and I being alive at 70, at 80, and about how I miss you. We got two new puppies at the weekend. One of them is adventurous and reserved, we have named her Maddy. Iris is playing with her and her sister Mango in the garden. At Christmas the girls and their families to Costa Rica to visit for the Christmas holidays. You would have loved to see the kids all playing together. They're all getting so big. We raised a glass to yhere. Later Iris has her full dress and technical rehearsal for a show she will be in at the weekend. We're going to buy a cake for you and take it along. Wish you (all) were here