On our first holiday together. The Isle of Wight August 1961
Our Wedding Day 30th September 1967
Rita and Ali November 1968
25th Anniversary Cruise 30th September 1992
Our Family December 1999
Italian holiday 26th August 2005
Orvieto 5th September 2005
Chartwell with long time friend Joan 5th October 2005
First Granddaughter Becky 17th November 2005
By the Pyramid with Kate and Jane 12th November 2006
New Year Holiday 2nd January 2007
Lulworth Cove 4th January 2007
In the garden with Becky 2nd June 2007
The Monday Club on Mersea Island 4th May 2009
Graduation Day 1st April 2011
With second granddaughter Anna November 2011
Beth Chatto Gardens with Ray and Norma 28th August 2012
Kate's Wedding 29th March 2013
Kate's Wedding Reception 29th March 2013
Rita and Sue S 11th August 2013
Outside the Discovery Centre wiith Ali and Becky 30th March 2014
With third granddaughter Erica December 2015
Rita and cousin Pam from Australia August 2016
Golden Wedding dinner with Sue and Roger at the York Pavilion Hotel Sept 2017
With grandson Elliott 16 March 2018
Rita and Anna 18th August 2018
Rita at Home 16th August 2019
Rita at Home 22nd November 2019
Rita at Windle Court Care Home 17th August 2020
CFE567EB C8AE 4802 B2DF 92E28D27724B A Monday Club meet up in Southend-on-sea. 2 May 2016. Ate at favourite fish &chip restaurant and then, no doubt, back to Sue & Rogers for home-made scones. Always a joyous gathering.
Ali and Stepan's Wedding
2006, at family gathering at Gerry & Jane's
2007, at home to brother Stephen and wife Elaine
2014, visiting brother Stephen and wife Elaine in Leicestershire
2007 Norma and David Southgate meeting Rita for the first time. The occasion was a grand reunion when Raymond and David (childhood school friends) met up again via Friends Reunited after 53 years.
Carcassonne, France August 2009
Celebrating Kate's 30th in Leicestershire with brother Gerry and rest of family
Celebrating Kate's 30th
At Kate's wedding 2013
With 2 year-old Ali and Dad Eric 1970
Ali behind Rita, Ray, parents Jessie and Eric. Hardy's Monument, Dorset, 1976
BBQ at Glebelands 1979
Three WI ladies 70s
HONFLEUR New Year: This was when Rita and I made the extraordinary discovery that our Mothers’ had been friends -