Oh! What a beautiful morning.

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And so the song goes, Oh what a beautiful day!

And yesterday certainly was for me. As an octogenarian I do find it difficult to visit my children , relatives and friends, so when my son requested my attendance at his daughter, Olivia’s baptism I was thrilled to accept.

It is not that I am a stranger to my grandchildren being baptized, I am blessed with three granddaughters and two great grandchildren on my daughters side.

However as the baptism was to be a quite family affair but coinciding with the celebration of my son in laws 60th birthday the whole family were present and decided as a treat to drop in at my flat on the morning prior to the church service. The pleasure that this gave me was only surmounted by the service we attended in the afternoon.

My son and his wife reside in a small old worldly and pleasant village where the vicar is truly up to date. Being American but married to an English lady, he attempts to maintain the English traditions in his services but with a slight jollity and lead the congregation in a rousing get together, accompanying them on his guitar with a rousing few choruses of ‘He has the whole world in his hands’

It is said that what we don’t remember, need not have happened, though we my have illusionary thoughts later that it did. How true this is of this service, Olivia was to a great extent completely un-phased by the happenings, I am sure it will be some time yet before she begins to formulate her memory.

I do hope that these few words made possible by the miracles of modern technology, including digital photography which we all take so much for granted for granted these days, and the perpetuity of this web site serves its purpose on recording that it did.

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