Archive for Family
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 (that’s the Dordogne [...]
Jack and Stan looking like Vampires
Tags: vampireface painting
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
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 one [...]
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 make it [...]
Jack sliding down the slide at Bury Knowle
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It seems OK at teh moment.
Gavin
Funny comment about Jack over on his blog
Videos of the family
I spoent a bit of time over xmas, editing videos and putting them to music so that I could make DVD’s for members of the family.
It was good to spend a bit of time doing that, it has given me more confidence so that I can create videos to help grow my business. Stand by [...]
Busy Saturday
We had a family orientated day today. Niamh stayed over last night and her boyfriend Luke came to pick her up this morning.
In the afternoon we wnt to Cogges Manor Farm with Rizpah and the Normans, picked up some lovely apples, back to Oxford for dinner via an aborted attempt to visit the pub in [...]
Break in France
We had a long but relaxing drive down to Lornas parents yesterday. Jack was very good. When we got here we spent a couple of hours playing cricket and football in the garden. Jack bowled harry out with his third ball. Am now writing this on wy phone in a tent in the garden [...]