Countess Rosie.

 Here's Rosie at Bantry House.  Doesn't she look regal?

Actually we do have a connection through marriage to Bantry House.  My grand uncle married one of the once titled Earl of Bantry's daughters in the nineteen twenties.   She was a school teacher and they moved to Birkenhead.    My grand uncles aunt had previously emigrated to America and became a maid at a big house.  When she retired she moved back here.

My grand aunts followed them and worked in big houses in Cheshire.   Then came the "black fifties" and my dad moved to Lancashire and met my mum at a Palais.

Twenty years ago we moved over here.    My eldest talks of going to Australia or the states and we still want to live in Portugal. Well at least for the winter at first.  The Irish and UK climate is apalling in Winter.    

Two years ago this week we were in the Algarve celebrating our 24th wedding anniversary.  It seems like years ago.  I wonder if we will ever return there?  Everyone and everything is on hold for us all.

It's been quite a reflective post today.