Cousins at Scotta House Farm, 1983

blimey Dad, how many more quality pictures will you be getting out and sending??? here we are back in 1983 with our then only cousins (Andrew and Christopher arrived a decade and a bit later!) at what could safely be described as the "family home", Gran and Gramps' farm in the delightful village of Great Ayton. this must be around the time we moved back there from Australia. my Dad thinks it is 1981, before Aus, but not the case - we are bigger here than in the school pic from the last post, and i never had a Nike jacket before or during time in Australia.

if we assume that you have clocked that i am the tall one at the back, apparently waving a fist for some reason, that's Robert getting a piggy back off Richard, and then Elizabeth is stood to the right of Gillian, looking towards the piggy back incident and away from Gillian's pink dress!

all five of us are now married (not to each other, thank you) and have wonderful children too. and this picture will have been taken a mere handful of months before a certain band called Frankie Goes To Hollywood entered my life and pretty much changed everything for me, but that's going a bit Brideshead Revisited. sort of.

i look forward to the next pictures arriving!!! in the mean time, i am scratching my head a bit about the business of the fist waving. perhaps i am just pretending to be holding a pint?

be excellent to each other, or, if you will, in the spirit of Ayton, 'ow do...........