Travels. Travails? No--TRAVELS.: 29 July 2004

LINEUP OF PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS:

Beast = the author's husband
Sparky = the author's son

Marie & Jan = sister and brother-in-law; their kids are:
Elizabeth = older daughter (mid-30s)
Katherine & Alan = younger daughter (30ish) and her boyfriend/husband (married in 2005)

Jean & Reg = sister and brother-in-law (parents of the brides); their kids are:
Rosellen = older daughter, and

Marguerite = younger daughter, and

Jesse = son

BA. = Ben's mum

Eric = Beast's brother

A. = bloggy friend of mine
K. = work friend of Beast's