1999
In August 1999 – nine months after my niece Tania Merrifield and I had flown to Portugal for her father and my half-brother Anthony’s funeral – Tania, her husband Steve, and their then nine-year-old son Luke visited Heather and me in Wellington. As this photo (taken in the Backbencher pub) shows, we had a far happier time than Tania and I’d had the previous year in Portugal. |