Sally Crisp, a nursing sister at a Melbourne hospital and first cousin of Mary Rowell and Tom and David Hughes, spent Christmas and New Year at the home of Mary and her husband Bryn.
As a child, Sally Leighton, as she then was, spent four years interned in Hong Kong with her young brother and parents, a prisoner of the Japanese. On their release at the end of World War II, the family lived in Tenby with the late Mr. and Mrs. Sydney Hughes. The late Mrs. Olive Hughes was Sally's father's sister. Sally and her brother became pupils at St. Stephens School on The Croft.
After the family emigrated to Australia, where Mr. Leighton grew carnations for a living, they still kept in touch with successive generations of the Hughes family and this visit was the third that Sally has made to see her Welsh relatives.
Mary organised a reunion of as many of the extended Hughes family as she could get together at Tenby Golf Club on December 30, including Carol and Graham Cocking, who flew in from Malta, via Northampton, to attend. Carol is another first cousin, a daughter of Olive Hughes's other brother.
To keep her visit in the family, Sally also stayed with Dennis and Marion Scourfield, another cousin, at their home in Buckinghamshire, after arrival at Heathrow and before flying off to New York to visit friends in the US.