Happy 18th, Alice

June 6, 2013

Today, Jane and I have only one child left in our family, since our elder daughter Alice is 18 today.

What do you give an 18 year old girl? Well, when you have an internationally known silversmith and jeweller as your sister-in-law, you ask her, Vicki Ambery-Smith http://www.vickiamberysmith.co.uk/ to make a unique momento, a necklace with a map of Madagascar and its ubiquitous animal, a lemur: Alice spent several weeks trekking and volunteering there last year, time which has given her a lasting impression.

We hope Alice enjoys her birthday, if you can ignore the next couple of hours when she is doing one of her A levels; of course, tonight she will be able to sample alcohol for the first time, won't she?