Over Christmas the whole family (my siblings and wives, husbands and kids + a few Italians who tagged along for good measure) gathered together for one last time before Sharon & Colin and the boys clear off to Adelaide. Although there was a leaving party in Manchester too, we decided that one journey up and down the country in a week was enough and that we would make better use of our time on a weekend away. The venue was the newly refurbished Kents bank in Grange...the Wooldridges old holiday haunt that many of you will have been to. Whilst it's much better, there are still a few areas for improvement. It was a bit of a squeeze but we managed to get everyone in. However overcrowding took its toll on the loo that stopped working after my mum had been in it. Something she did caused a valve to burst! The other toilet also broke and started to leak. She denies any blame.
It lashed it down for most of the weekend but it didn't stop us getting out for a walk with Rob & Sarah, helping them with their new can collecting project. Me and Emma even found time for a game of arrows in the pub. There was plenty of quiz nights and pottering around. A final family photo was taken and off we went. We expect to be visiting them down under some time soon so there wasn't a sense of this being the last time we will ever see them. Still it's strange to to think that on our next visit to Burnage there will only be my mum and dad & Emma Beddows left living there from our family. For most of my life the Taylor family have lived within a few miles of Burnage and now in the last 3 or 4 years we have nearly all left. But as one Burnage boy once said 'don't look back in anger'...as I think we all left because the time was right and not because we were sick of it (the last bit was my words not Noel's).
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