Unfortunately, Carol’s news was omitted from the Magazine proper, for which we are very sorry indeed. We hope that its inclusion here will go some way to making up for our oversight.
2012 has proved to be quite an exhilarating year with much to celebrate. 2011 ended with a party to mark David, my husband's, eightieth birthday. For the four-teenth year running, in January we departed for a three month stay in South Africa. We travel widely in Natal and Eastern and Western Cape and spent our time in some splendid hotels. As a result of our nu-merous visits, we now have many friends there. In South Africa, we also celebrated my seventy-ninth birthday and fifty-fifth wedding anniversary. Whilst at home, we visited our daughters in Gravesend and Cardiff, my husband's birthplace, Tewkesbury, as well as Llandovery and Llangammarch Wells. Unfor-tunately he has recently had to spend a few days in hospital with a heart problem but he is now on the road to recovery and whilst our next visit to South Africa is in doubt but we must be optimistic about it. Last month, we jointly had a book published - D-Day Beaches - An Illustrated Companion. David wrote the book and I was responsible for the photography.