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We are Roger Cooper and Fran Cooper, we live in Bracknell, which is in Berkshire, England - about 30 miles West of London. We are in our thirty-eighth year of marriage, so far without having murdered each other, and we have two grown up kids, three Grandsons and a couple of cats. We both work reasonably locally and try to live lives to the full on the grounds that "This is it - it isn't a rehearsal". Our greatest enjoyments are from Live Entertainment , Good Restaurants (especially ones with good wine cellars) and The Company of Good Friends. Roger is also a compulsive communicator - which is probably the raison d'etre for this web-site, and certainly something to do with his fetish for writing an open diary each week !

The pictures below introduce us, our family and our pets.


FRAN The Boss - organiser and ace cook	ROGER The Slave - compulsive communicator

CAROLINE, PAUL and JAKE Our daughter is an accountant who likes working with horses. She lives with her husband Paul, their son Jake, who will be two in June 2008. They live near Denver, Colorado, USA and together with her father-in-law Terry they manage an hotel near Colorado Springs. Oh - and don't forget Benson the dog !	RICHARD, LIZ, JAMES and MATTHEW Our Son and Daughter-in-Law - Both are doctors (Chemistry and Physics respectively - not medical) living in Didcot - with their two sons. James is four, while Matthew will be two in June 2008 Liz is occupied as a full time Mother and Rich works at a local Scientific Instrument Company where his expertise is X-Ray Chemical Crystallography.

THE ANIMALS

We have two cats who allow us to share the house with them.
Willow (14), is a solid little black cat with a white bib and socks. She is a lovely cat, but is spooked and afraid of her own shadow - she prefers to hide when we have visitors.
Blossom (8) , is a fluffy hooligan. she is all sorts of colours but her face markings indicate that she is a confused tabby. She has a tail like a foxes brush. She likes company and is extremely affectionate.


Blossom - fluffy hooligan	Willow - spooky cat

CAROLINE'S MENAGERIE

Wolfie	Caroline has a beautiful Appaloosa horse named Wolfie (real name *Tober Yellow Wolf)* Mr. Wolf is well educated - he spent several terms at Hartpury College near Gloucester; and while Caroline was studying "Equine Sciences" he was reading hay and mares. Now that Caroline is far away for most of the year he lives with some friends in a field near Farnham Royal where Fran & Roger visit him frequently. Caroline comes home whenever she can to ride him.
	Caroline and Paul also have a Jack Russell terrier named Benson. He is a bundle of trouble - but very loveable. His favourite pastime is chewing things - especially rubber things. Now he barks with an American accent - having moved to America. Initially he lived in Lake Tahoe, California, then after a brief stay in Albuquerque, New Mexico, he moved to his current kennel near Denver, Colorado.	Benson

Rich and Dreamy

Caroline also has another beautiful horse, who is also an appaloosa, named Rich and Dreamy. He lives in Denver Colorado.