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Cultured day out in London
Just coming back on the coach from a day out in London. We headed for Borough Market to begin with, it’s a little bit of foody heaven with loads of great stores. Got some yummy salads from a middle eastern stall, a bottle of flax seed oil some sumac dried and crushed middle eastern berry [...]
Oxford town and gown 10 K
Running in the town and gown this morning my mate chalky has predicted a 42 min 30 sec time, not done a 10K for 20 years so will be interested to see the time. Running with a couple of the personal trainers from Vida my local gym so that will get the juices flowing. Quick [...]
Kids Protein shake
My son and his cousins drinking kinetica protein shake Share
On the caledomian sleeper
This is the way to travel instead of a 10 hour drive, slept like a baby on the sleeper train. Got woken up with a cup of tea and a bacon sarnie. Share
Can going back to dial up speed things up?
Can you remember what using dial up was like? I was visiting my in-laws in France with my 4 year old son and his 6 year old nephew and 2 year old niece. They live in an amazing house right on the Dordogne river, near Bergerac. (rear of the house below) View from Master bedroom [...]
Jack and Stan looking like Vampires
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Do I have any talent?
I spent some time over xmas learning to draw, this was the best of my efforts, what do you think ? 24 December 2007 Share
Alan Sugar and Donald Trump – You need to look at this 9 year old apprentice
If you’ve got children in your family this could be a way to introduce them to the world of enterprise. Let me introduce my 9 year old niece Esme, her mum and brothers have been staying with us for the past few weeks. We read about an eglu (www.omelet.co.uk) a funky looking chicken house in [...]
Harry Norman _7 year old nephew swam 25 m for the first time
Young Harry – the intrepid swimming maestro plunged into the shallow end and swam the length of the pool, he tried to grab hold of me with about 5 metres to go, but I got out of his way as he was easily going to do it. Harry commented I was pleased because I didn’t [...]
Jack sliding down the slide at Bury Knowle
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