This is the Christmas website from the Gerrards of Canterbury.  We wish all our friends and family seasons greetings and look forward to seeing you in 2005

 

This photo was taken on our visit to Cheshire in August

2004 seems to have vanished in no time, or is it just the aging process that makes it seem that way.

Lindsay started the third year of her four year Warwick University course in German and French.  It began in September in Bremen where she will be until the end of May, teaching English to German schoolchildren. 

Colin went out with her to see her settled.  Needless to say we took the cheap option by taking the circuitous route via Frankfurt on the way out and a sharp detour south on the way back through Munich.  Colin found this a tiring, worrying though in retrospect amusing.  Given only 30 minutes to change planes at Munich, he was held up by various obstacles and found himself at Gate G1 and having to reach H48 in about 5 minutes. He raced (by his standards) past the 96 gates in between as helpful gatekeepers sent urgent messages such as “this is Tehran Air reporting a London passenger is with great effort proceeding toward you.   Fortunately he eventually toppled into the plane – panic over

Kathryn succeeded in obtaining 9GCSEs at Barton Court Grammar School and is currently weighing up various career options.  Following the Gerrard family tradition she has recently joined the Templeman Library staff on a casual basis working weekends. 

 Colin is still Head of Technical Services at the  Templeman Library, University of Kent, although as he will readily accept, his technical expertise is not in the practical sense, only the library sense of collection management

Sally can be found at the Library Lending Desk each morning.dealing with readers

Our main  holiday this year waa in Barcelona, where we visited all the usual sites, staying in a hotel on the street that never sleeps – Las Ramblas.  We visited the home of Barcelona FC, the Noucamp where Kathryn invested in a Ronaldhino shirt, whereas Colin was pleased to find a cheaper one in the city, and he is probably the only person currently sporting an Edgar Davids shirt

 

 

Football does not lead to harmony with Colin yearning for 19th century glories for Aston Villa, and looking enviously on as that team in blue, oh all right, Chelsea, avidly supported by Sally and Kathryn, sweep all before them. Presumably will put her Barcelona shirt in a dark corner when the teams meet in February.  Lindsay is not a chip off the old blocks, treacherously opting to support Manchester United but has already been sighted on the terraces of Werde Bremen