Description: Two envelopes fall from the letterbox of the Ashlee’s family home onto the doormat. A little girl, Christine, picks them up and takes them to Peter’s room. She drops the letters into her younger brother’s cot and passes them to him. He picks the envelopes up and looks at them curiously. Inside are two illustrated birthday cards, one with a duck and one with a frog, they read, ‘Birthday Wishes; 1-Year-Old.’ On the mantelpiece, a line of similar cards, illustrated with cats, dogs and elephants.

In the living room, two older women and an older man, likely the children’s grandparents. Peter is sat on the older man’s knee; Christine comes through the door pushing a toy dog on wheels, she hugs peter excitedly. The older man sits Peter down on the toy dog and Christine pushes him across the room. The man picks up Peter and bounces him on his feet. Peter does his best to stand, holding the dog’s head for balance, Christine and the man grab his shoulders to stop him from falling when the dog starts to roll away. Peter crawls on the floor.

A birthday cake on the dinner table. The two older women put a bib on Peter, he drops his toy rabbit and Christine hands it back to him. The whole family is sat round the table, Christine smiles at the camera with a mouth full of bread. Multiple shots of the family enjoying food and tea, Victor Ashlee looks to the camera with a smile. The older man lights a candle on the cake and Heather Ashlee, the children’s mother, blows it out for Peter; she tries to guide his hand to cut the cake with a knife, but instead he grabs a handful of icing. Cut to an empty table with empty plates and a half eaten cake.

Peter lies in a blanket drinking milk from a bottle. Christine rolls a red toy car across the carpet. Christine passes Peter a toy lamb and he holds it by the ears.

Homemade title card over a map of London reads, “Our Trip to.” A close up shot of the map, “Windsor.”

The family sit in a park on the Thames, there are row boats on the river, Windsor Castle is on the horizon. Peter runs in the grass and falls, his mother picks him up. Christine pushes Peter’s pram backwards and he chases her. Shots of Victor Ashlee enjoying the sun, he takes Christine out onto the river in a rowboat. Shots of a tour boat and small motorboat on the river.

The ‘Cock Pit’ restaurant in Eton; Christine and Heather Ashlee look in a shop window; cars cross the bridge between Eton and Windsor; Heather pushes a pram

past a Queen’s Guard. The family walk up the hill towards Windsor Castle. Shots of the castle’s stonework and the chapel roof. The changing of the guard. Christine looks through metal railing. Heather admires the view of the castle’s gardens. A Union Jack flag flies above the battlements. “The End.”

Title over Christmas cards reads, “January 1962.” Heather walks up the family drive with an umbrella, it’s snowing heavily, she closes the umbrella and shaves off the snow. Christine and Peter peer out of the door excitedly. A shot from inside the house shows their silhouettes against the snow. Snow piled high on the fences and gate. Christine wears a thick coat and hat as she throws snow in the air. Heather sweeps the drive, whist Victor throws snow over her and Christine’s heads. Christine leaves a trail of footprints as she walks up the garden, then traces her steps back down. Heather rolls a particularly large snowball. Christine flinches away in anticipation, the snowball hits her and she throws loose snow back with a grin. The beginnings of a snowman, Heather attaches a head. Christine scrapes snow off her mittens; heather shakes her cold hands; then the two roll more snowballs.

Victor comes out the house with Peter, walking slowly and holding his hand. Peter uses a trowel to fill a toy bucket with snow. He walks down the garden and slips, but gets himself back up. Christine sweeps the garden with a broom. An older girl runs to Peter and takes his hand. Christine, Peter and the older girl play in the snow. Peter runs towards the camera smiling. Christine grins as she sweeps, there’s a gap in her front teeth. The girl scoops snow into Peter’s bucket. Victor shovels a path through the garden; Peter runs down the path to the gate. Christine and the girl kick snow at each other; Christine smiles to the camera, covered in snow. Peter tries to go through the gate but his father stops him and locks the gate. Victor shakes salt onto the path. Christine falls down in the snow and laughs; Peter falls down and the girl helps him up.

A homemade title card reads, “Next Day.” Snowy hills, families with children pulling sleds on rope. Heather pulls a pram up the hill, Christine walks alongside her pulling a sled, Peter pokes his head out from the pram. Victor sleds headfirst down the hill, he has to push with his feet because the hill isn’t steep enough. Multiple shots of Peter smiling inside his pram. Heather gives Christine a running start, pushing the sled down the hill. Christine does the same for her mother, who falls forward off the sled, Christine chases her excitedly. Heather takes Peter out of his pram and pushes him gently on the sled. Peter falls over in the snow, the family help him up and brush off the snow. Victor sleds down the hill again, this time with a scared looking Peter sat between his legs. Heather pushes Christine for one last go. The sun is starting to set over the hills. Words drawn in the snow, “The End.”