A Visit to our Daughter and a Seekers Concert in The View from the Terrace

A week last Monday Hubby and I went to Cardiff, first to visit our daughter and in the evening to a concert by The Seekers. The Seekers were my favourite group in the 60s and I have loved and performed their music ever since. It was just the icing on the cake that their Golden Jubilee tour should include a concert in the city where my daughter Cat lives on the day before her birthday.

We hadn't seen Cat since Christmas. She and her boyfriend David were looking very well as was her beautiful Jack Spaniel Bille Jean whose own birthday was that day. So after a cup of tea we gave Billie her presents. We had bought her a duck with rope legs which she seemed to really like. Unfortunately the head came off almost right away. Billie didn't seem to care and she now has 2 toys named Duckhead and Ducksbody I suggested General Ducksbody but not sure if they got the joke - say it out loud.

After the presents we all went out to a beautiful park on the edge of Cardiff with a big lake and a woodland area.

Unfortunately Billie seemed to enjoy chasing the swans and wild geese. Well she is half Springer Spaniel and the birds came to no harm.

Hubby took a lovely photo of Cat with David and Billie Jean but unfortunately managed to cut the top of David's head off!

The Seekers concert was amazing. The energy of the group, all in their early 70s, especially Judith Durham who suffered a stroke last year, was unbelievable. We enjoyed a wonderful evening. It brought back so many memories of when my mum and I used to watch them on TV in the 60s, and when they sang 'Morningtown Ride' I thought of how I used to sing my children to sleep with this song when they were babies. I have loved The Seekers for over 50 years but have only got to see them in concert once before, that was also in Cardiff in 2000, though we did see Judith in her solo diamond tour in 2002. I don't imagine I will ever see them live again.