Alexandra’s Pictures - People and Places
Pictures are arranged
chronologically, date is shown above each picture
Cast of Characters with
date of first appearance in the pictures
2001 Isobel (niecelet)
12 Oct
03 Alastair & Gráinne
02 Nov
03 Catriona
24 Dec
03 Nick
26 Dec
03 Jim (Nick’s dad)
07 Mar
04 John
17 Mar
04 Celine
(family friend)
22 Jun
04 Sybil (family friend)
23 Jun
04 Inta and Vita (friends in
Latvia)
12 Jul
04 Jonathan (nephew)
07 Aug
04 Elinor
(niecelet)
11 Aug
04 Máiréad, Sorcha,
Iseult (Gráinne’s sister
and nieces)
14 Aug
04 Joan and Michael (Gráinne’s parents)
20 Sep
04 Gráinne’s
family
09 Oct
04 John and Marina (family friends)
01 Jun
05 Fiona (niece – mother of niecelets)
29 Sep
05 Cath
(Catriona’s bridesmaid)
25 Sep
05 family and friends of Nick and
Catriona
25 Dec
05 Dorothy (John’s mother)
28 Jan
06 Anne (friend from Finland)
18 Apl 06 Derek (Celine’s husband)
03 Jun
06 Michaela (family friend)
03 Jun
06 Peter, Ann and Jamie (John’s
brother and family)
28 Mar
07 Claire (Alexandra’s sister)
08 Jan
07 Abigail
Locations
2001
playing with Isobel
2003
July : swinging in Latvia,
October : coastal walk Dublin Bay,
scrambling on Dartmoor, Castle Drogo garden,
November : New York marathon
December : Christmas eve dinner,
Boxing day at Walthamstow dog track
2004
February : relaxing at Catriona’s
house
March : trip to Dublin (just before first breast cancer operation)
April : Wisley
garden, stitching and pond digging, Hidcote garden,
Thames-side walk, Rosemoor garden (all during ongoing radiotherapy)
May : Gibberd
garden
June : Dun Laioghaire
harbour, Beth Chatto garden, Riga mid-summer
celebrations
July : Sissinghurst,
Finland, at home
August : spraying Elinor, Máiréad and girls at Woodford, Wexford and west
Cork
September : Alastair and Gráinne’s wedding in Dublin, walk in Glendalough, bus ride
in Coventry
December : walks at Three Mills, Hallingbury and Abney Park cemetery
2005
January : Audley
End garden, holiday in New Zealand
May : Catriona’s garden, at home
with Isobel and Elinor
June : at home and Trafalgar
Square
August : Lizzie’s wedding, London
Bridge, Ireland
September : Catriona and Nick’s
wedding
October : Achill
Head and Croagh Patrick Ireland, Routemaster
bus
December : Christmas dinner,
winter walks
2006
January
: Madeira (our last holiday before she
became too weak to travel), Docklands
February
: 59th birthday lunch Greenwich
April
: Daffodils at Ickworth, blossom at Standen
May :
bluebells and log bench at Emmetts, Eltham Palace, Ascott House
June :
garden party and barbeque at home
July :
at home
August : dressed up for a night
at the opera, Walmer castle, Scotney
castle, Whitstable, Hatfield Forest
September
: at home, Ightam Mote, Claremont garden, (chemotherapy now started)
October
: Catriona’s birthday, (Catriona with
bump, Alexandra with headscarf )
November
: Hampstead Heath (Alexandra now using a
wheelchair most of the time), The Swan at Streetley
December
: pub lunch Great Amwell
2007
January : Abigail born 8th, day
trip to France for pre-birthday lunch
February : 60th
birthday lunch at the Gun (first public
appearance without headscarf), Southend
March : at home, Epping Forest,
Embankment, Forty hall, bathtime, Myddleton
House
April : (hair now starting to grow curly again) Doddington
garden, Wanstead park, Chenies, Bankside,
Audley End
May : Fenton House, Felbrigg, East Ruston and Blickling
June : Markshall, John’s
birthday, Essex gardens
July :
last trip on the tube, 39th wedding anniversary lunch at Canary
Wharf, at home
August : Hatfield House, at home, out with walking
frame
October : Polesden Lacey (the last ever
photograph of Alexandra)