I remember the happy times - when we were children…meeting up with Arnold’s family…accompanied by ‘dada’ our Swiss grandmother…but after that, we all rarely saw each other…in fact the last time I can remember meeting any of them in recent history was at HELEN’s wedding…ARNOLD and his son EDWIN were there…and it was lovely to see them again…it was a shame not to see SOPHIE and CAROLINE also…I hadn’t seen them in decades…

The odd thing about that wedding was, as far as I can remember - that UNCLE BOBBY and his son -weren’t there…I have no idea why…despite his close connection to HELEN…my mother’s side of the family didn’t attend and neither did our French ‘cousins’…which was a bit odd…considering just how many people had been invited so I am assuming that they declined to come for some reason - although my parents had attended ISABEL’s wedding in France…who knows? I asked my mother at the time but she couldn’t give me a straight answer…