Isobel

At my aunt's 80th birthday party I encounter a cousin whom I probably have not seen this millenium.  She has since lived in Moscow for ten years and had three children.  I am introduced to one (a three-year old and one of a set of twins) who is wearing a party dress, several colourful necklaces and chewing the ear of a toy rabbit that I learn is called 'Bunny'.  She is my first cousin once-removed.  Her mother tells me that her middle name was chosen 'just because we liked it'.