So although the actual exchange of contracts is yet to happen, I have emailed many friends and family with details of our new address, in faith that it will be next Wednesday 23rd August.

The address is: Pond Farm House, 645 Stannington Road, Sheffield S6 6AF. Stannington is a village, now a suburb of Sheffield, high up and on the edge of the Peaks. The house is probably 15th century, listed grade 2, and rather nice.

We shall be very sorry to leave our village in East Yorkshire, with so many friends, but equally are looking forward to the move, when we shall be very near to our daughter Rachel, and much nearer to our other daughter Emma.