Wouldn’t it be nice if every 18 months, your house doubled in size, your car went twice as fast and your bills halved. A quick ‘arrange all’ command was all it took to tidy the room. And you could google the contents of the house to find your lost keys. Body slowing down and getting [...]
My iPhone tells me that I have just won my 564th game of Free Cell. It reliably informs me that I have spent 103 hours and 23 minutes achieving this milestone. Now, that is a serious amount of time to have wasted playing solitaire. But has it really been wasted time? I have come to [...]
So what is it with the weather? Most years we don’t get any snow, but this year the UK seems to be turning into Siberia. I managed to miss the big snowfall on Monday since I was in Madrid. But the kids have been very happy, school closed and lots of snow to play with. [...]
Just returned from a very enjoyable week’s skiing in Chatel, France. Sunny every day except the third day, when it snowed. Perfect! The snowy theme continued this morning when we woke up to a covering of snow at home. Although it had gone by 8am, at 7am when I left for work and took this [...]
What do you know? Some more decent weather. Went for a very enjoyable walk around the lake at Dinton Pastures. The boys particularly like some of the trees you can climb en route. As you can see.
Last weekend we were lucky enough to be visiting our friends in Felixstowe. They live within a short stroll of the beach and on this occasion, the weather was (just about) good enough to have an enjoyable couple of hours sunning ourselves on the beach. We even braved swimming in the (rather bracing) sea. It [...]
Our youngest, Peter, created this masterpiece from banana leaf, freshly shredded by hand during a meal to celebrate my parents’ Golden Wedding Anniversary. Cool.
Enjoyed watching Laura’s orchestra perform today (she is left of centre at the front). Marcus was also supposed to be playing earlier in the programme, but couldn’t since he managed to break his arm last week whilst on camp with the Scouts. Fortunately a minor break from which he should be fully recovered in 4-6 [...]
I attended a celebration of the centenary of the London 1908 Olympics at Windsor Castle. I have to say that the castle is in fantastic condition. The restoration following the fire has been done really well.
Amazing, it’s the weekend and the sun is shining, the sky is blue and it’s lovely and warm. Sitting in the garden listening to the birds tweeting with a Bud in my hand. What could be better? To my astonishment, the WIFI signal here at the end of the garden is perfect, despite the router [...]
