Nottingham

My cousin Catherine (first cousin once removed - daughter of my first cousin Susan Adams) teaches communications at Nottingham University.I had never met her except when she was a baby. I have a photograph of her with her mother and my grandmother - Catherines great grandmother - taken in 1963 in the garden of Friarswood (the house built by my grandfather) in Cambridge. I was looking forward to meeting her to discuss issues in common - family and also my experiences in public communications in the past. To-days student of hers either focus on journalism (she had been a foreign correspondent in the past) or in media relations. What is different to-day is the students have to be very familiar with all the social media issues. I had tea at her house and was pleased to meet her husband Christy and half sister Rachael. Catherine has two very bright twin children - her son is in fifth year in medical school and her daughter just got a first class degree in English. On the Friday evening we met for dinner and then went to ZPeggy's Skylight jazz club where we heard a Brazillian band called Sambossa. They played "compact but very powerful music ranging from sultry bossa nova and grooving afro-funk, to blistering samba"!