Our last morning in Whitstable was as dramatic as every other day with my cousin Penny's daughter Geraldine being whisked in to hospital when her waters broke four weeks before her due date. We're still waiting to hear how she's going because the hospital gave her some antibiotics and sent her home (never heard anything like it but it seems to be normal procedure here). So we managed to find our way back to my auntie Lynn's in Battersea, London without too much...

Dragged my poor aunt out again today! We went to Covent Garden and listened to an opera singer - amazing breath/voice control. We had a look around some of the shops there and went to China town too. Nice sweet shop at Covent Garden - I got some Catherine Wheels which are liquorice straps wrapped around those squishy lollies that have the little round candy balls on them that you get in liquorice allsorts - yum! Lynn is a diabetic so she only ate two of those (we...

Dear Readers, Firstly, my apologies for the first blog entry - I can only plead jet-laggedness and a brain still trying to catch up! So, for a more detailed version of our first couple of days... We arrived slightly early into Heathrow and thought we'd be standing in the queue for aliens for hours.How wrong we were!Must have been all Brits coming home on our flight because we were in the queue at passport control for a whole five minutes.Tony asked for a stamp...

Hi everyone, Well, it's a bit hard to believe that we're actually here! Big excitement this morning when Tony and I were watching a squirrel race up and down in the tree just outside the bedroom window. So cute! Anyway, my cousin Geoff met us at the airport and I wasn't expecting him so that was a lovely surprise. Today we hopped on the bus with my auntie Lynn down at Clapham Junction and went to St. Paul's cathedral - very impressive. We strolled along th...