Vale Carmel

After some years of ill health, my wife Carmel passed away last week.  A house full of relatives, wargamers & other friends celebrated her life at her wake yesterday.  

This is us in 1983 in my wargames room in the first house we bought together.   We'd met on a blind date set up by an old flatmate of mine who'd become a workmate of Carmel.  Blind dates don't come any better.  She wasn't into wargames per se, but was into history enough to have an appreciation of my obsession.  She tolerated the biggest room in our houses being devoted to wargames & our house being invaded by my wargames mates at least once a week.  She happily structured our European holidays around my wish list of battlefields, military museums & fortifications.  We'd been together for 36 happy years.