We email and whatsapp and occasionally talk on the telephone and every year or two or three we meet up either in the Holy Land or in England’s green and pleasant land. Wherever we meet we find that we can talk for hours and enjoy each others company.   Since their last visit the barn has been restored, the vegetable garden has expanded, the animal numbers have grown and even the house has changed.  Maybe they will visit again when the sun is shining and the days are longer.