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Reflections on family, jumper-filled summers, and falling back in love with the UK

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Gaynor Roberts
May 07, 2025
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A Facebook memory popped up on my feed last week. It was a photograph from a family holiday on the Norfolk coast, taken exactly 12 years ago. We were there with my parents and my brother’s family, sharing a special anniversary. The four of us, just slightly sun-kissed, or wind-burned, it’s hard to tell in the British weather, grinning against a vast, pa…

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