Cousin Dee

Last weekend we had a visit from American Cousin Dee. One of a vast family of cousins whom we would never have met were it not for a letter written in 1880, preserved by a man who had been given it by his aunt, even though he didn't know who it was from. It was from Dee's ancestor and led to restoration of cross-Atlantic realtionships. On such slender threads do our family connections hang. Dee is an adventurous lass who travelled to England to do research for novels she is writing. We took her to visit cousins, the original family cottage and Elan Valley all of which she embraced enthusiastically. We had never seen the dams in full spate before, a lovely sight.