Family, friends and faces

Another week gone  - they are whizzing by at the moment, just when we want to keep on spending time with family and all our dear old friends from way back.  A few days with each of them is not enough to catch up on 12 years of absence. 
Everyone is well and fairly healthy, some have had children, there were at least five or six new faces to meet and the babies that we knew have all matured into lovely people that we haven't had enough time to get to know properly. This MAY mean we will have to come back.  Watch this space ...
We haven't been very active but have had a very damp, pretty hike up on the Ridgeway above Oxford, an excellent stroll around Winchester and a quick look at the famous cathedral, and a good walk along Basingstoke canal towpath.  We are becoming seriously tired and actually a bit run down, with the result that both of us have had colds this week and I am still a bit lethargic and have an annoying cough - a rare occurrence for me.
Nonetheless, we are heading off up to the Lake District tomorrow for three days and then we are going to stay overnight in Chester on the way back so that we can spend some time with Sandra on the narrow boat before coming back to Frimley for the last couple of days in England.  Next Sunday we leave for Berlin, Munich and Austria, so there will be no Blog until the following weekend.
This week's pictures are all about the "Three Effs" of the blog title.  Take a look - you may even be in one of them!