![](thumb_IMG_8016t_Sylvia_Richards.jpg) with Melanie to visit Sylvia Richards January 2014 |
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![](thumb_IMG_8022.jpg) with Melanie at home |
![](thumb_IMG_8024.jpg) an attempted "selfie" |
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![](thumb_IMG_8221t_laptop.jpg) Re-juvenating the laptop March 2014 |
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![](thumb_IMG_8225.jpg) battery disconnect |
![](thumb_IMG_8226.jpg) additional memory in place |
![](thumb_IMG_8263t_RSC_Award.jpg) RSC award March 2014 |
![](thumb_IMG_8264.jpg) Certificate and ... |
![](thumb_IMG_8265.jpg) ... plate |
![](thumb_IMG_8280_010t_Gwenda_at_80.jpg) Gwenda's 80th Birthday Party Hampshire April 2014 |
![](thumb_IMG_8280_011.jpg) Christopher |
![](thumb_IMG_8280_012.jpg) The Eulogy! |
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![](thumb_IMG_8280_020.jpg) Harriet & Venetia |
![](thumb_IMG_8280_021.jpg) Gwenda, with birthday balloon |
![](thumb_IMG_8280_023.jpg) listening to ... |
![](thumb_IMG_8280_025.jpg) ... the reply |
![](thumb_IMG_8623_026t_Nottingham.jpg) The Nottingham Contemporary Gallery Somewhat Abstract May 2014 |
![](thumb_IMG_8623_028.jpg) Bridget Riley, Movement in Squares |
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![](thumb_IMG_8623_032.jpg) Home knitted cushion Venita Parry |
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![](thumb_IMG_8764_019t_Aberystwyth.jpg) Sylvia Richard's Funeral Aberystwyth June 2014 |
![](thumb_IMG_8764_020.jpg) Sylvia, in her heyday |
![](thumb_IMG_8764_020a.jpg) The Crematorium in a remarkable setting photo: Aberystwyth Crematorium |
![](thumb_IMG_8764_020b.jpg) To contemplate the view photo: Aberystwyth Crematorium |
![](thumb_IMG_8764_021.jpg) Aberystwyth beach |
![](thumb_IMG_8764_022.jpg) The Castle |
![](thumb_IMG_8764_023.jpg) The Cliff Railway |
![](thumb_IMG_8764_024.jpg) in the Castle |
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![](thumb_IMG_8764_028.jpg) Aberystwyth |
![](thumb_IMG_8822_032t_Marylin.jpg) RSC meeting at Dorridge and meeting Marylin |
![](thumb_IMG_8822_033.jpg) The Royal Train at Stoke |
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![](thumb_IMG_8822_035.jpg) Marylin at Dorridge |
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![](thumb_IMG_8839t_Melanie.jpg) Melanie to stay and friends to lunch |
![](thumb_IMG_8840.jpg) Pat & Gurnos Jones to lunch with Melanie |
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![](thumb_IMG_8844.jpg) Kathy and Denis Dixon to lunch with Melanie |
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![](thumb_IMG_8846_11.jpg) at Stoke station |
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![](thumb_IMG_8846t_Trentham.jpg) with melanie to Trentham Monkey Park |
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![](thumb_IMG_8848.jpg) Pheasants |
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![](thumb_IMG_8857.jpg) baby attempting first climb |
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![](thumb_IMG_8859.jpg) looking after the baby |
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![](thumb_IMG_8862.jpg) The Ranger's presentation |
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![](thumb_IMG_9415t_Enid_to_visit.jpg) Enid to lunch October 2014 |
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![](thumb_IMG_9420_074_Friends.jpg) with the new phone camera October 2014 |
![](thumb_IMG_9420_075.jpg) with Gurnos and Pat Jones |
![](thumb_IMG_9420_081.jpg) with Tony Johns ... |
![](thumb_IMG_9420_091.jpg) ... at Aston Marina |
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![](thumb_IMG_9420_101.jpg) Leslie Orrell |
![](thumb_IMG_9420_103.jpg) Trick with the new phone camera |
![](thumb_IMG_9420_199t_Operas.jpg) Opera Madness October - November 2014 |
![](thumb_IMG_9420_200.jpg) The RNCM Glass, The Trial |
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![](thumb_IMG_9420_206.jpg) WNO, Llandudno Rossini, Moses in Egypt |
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![](thumb_IMG_9420_208.jpg) WNO, Llandudno Rossini, William Tell |
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![](thumb_IMG_9420_233.jpg) Wexford, preparations |
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![](thumb_IMG_9420_242.jpg) Wexford Kevin Puts, Silent Night |
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![](thumb_IMG_9420_256a.jpg) Wexford Antoine Mariotte, Salomé |
![](thumb_IMG_9420_257.jpg) with Richard Morris ... |
![](thumb_IMG_9420_261.jpg) ... and Ian Clarkson |
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![](thumb_IMG_9420_296.jpg) Wexford Antonio Cagnoni, Don Bucefalo |
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![](thumb_IMG_9420_311.jpg) Birmingham: the Hippodrome from the hotel |
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![](thumb_IMG_9420_324.jpg) Birmingham: The Marinsky Ring Das Rheingold |
![](thumb_IMG_9420_324a.jpg) Inside the Hippodrome |
![](thumb_IMG_9420_324b.jpg) The orchestra pit |
![](thumb_IMG_9420_325.jpg) Birmingham: The Marinsky Ring Die Walküre |
![](thumb_IMG_9420_325a.jpg) Brünnhilde's Curtain Call |
![](thumb_IMG_9420_326.jpg) Birmingham: The Marinsky Ring Siegfried |
![](thumb_IMG_9420_327.jpg) Birmingham: The Marinsky Ring Götterdámmerung |
![](thumb_IMG_9420_355.jpg) A chat with Valery Gergiev, the conductor, in his dressing room |
![](thumb_IMG_9420_356.jpg) Signing Pat's programme |
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![](thumb_IMG_9420_359.jpg) The Programme |
![](thumb_IMG_9420_396.jpg) At the Lowry, Salford |
![](thumb_IMG_9420_396a.jpg) The Bartered Bride photo: Robert Workman, Opera North |
![](thumb_IMG_9420_397.jpg) The curtain |
![](thumb_IMG_9420_398.jpg) with Tony Johns |
![](thumb_IMG_9420_401.jpg) The Lowry again! |
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![](thumb_IMG_9420_405.jpg) Media City |
![](thumb_IMG_9420_409.jpg) The Outlet mall |
![](thumb_IMG_9420_410.jpg) Coronation of Poppea photo: Opera North |
![](thumb_IMG_9420_411.jpg) The Merry Widow December 2014 |
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![](thumb_IMG_9420_440t_Keele_Experiment.jpg) SCR Dinner: The Keele Experiment |
![](thumb_IMG_9420_441.jpg) Pat, David and Sheila, Robert and Margaret |
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![](thumb_IMG_9420_455.jpg) Anna and Paul Truman |
![](thumb_IMG_9420_520t_Monday_Group.jpg) The "Monday" group to lunch |
![](thumb_IMG_9420_522.jpg) Hilary, Derek, Robert, John, David and Margaret, with Pat |
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![](thumb_IMG_9420_648t_Christmas_Dinner.jpg) Christmas Dinner organised by Sheila and David Morgan |
![](thumb_IMG_9420_650.jpg) preparations in the Old Common Room |
![](thumb_IMG_9420_652.jpg) Margaret Bird, David Cohen, Patricia and Ted Turner, Colin Mortimer, David Morgan, Robert Smith, Georgina Pritchard and Eunice Mortimer |
![](thumb_IMG_9420_654.jpg) Eunice, Patricia, Sheila Morgan, Mary Cohen, Margaret |
![](thumb_IMG_9420_658.jpg) Our waitresses with spectacular hairstyles |
![](thumb_IMG_9420_658t_Inquirers.jpg) Lunch for the Inquirers |
![](thumb_IMG_9420_660.jpg) An unexpected outcome ... |
![](thumb_IMG_9420_662.jpg) ... Pat Wilson removed to hospital! |
![](thumb_IMG_9420_666.jpg) Relegated to the kitchen: Pat with Misbah Deen, Rick Marshall and Alan Treherne |
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![](thumb_IMG_9420_936t_Jigsaws.jpg) Christmas Jigsaws |
![](thumb_IMG_9420_943.jpg) Monet; wooden |
![](thumb_IMG_9420_951.jpg) Roade Station, 1946 |
![](thumb_IMG_9420_970t_Tony.jpg) Tony to lunch 30th December |
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Image: Canon Powershot 210 IS (from October: Samsung Galaxy S5 Phone Camera); web reduction with Photothumb