After driving the equivalent of nearly three times around Iceland’s ring road (2.67x to be precise) our 18 day road trip has come to an end. What a trip, and what a country. Our last few holidays have been more an appreciation of what beauty man, through its creations, has added to the planet over […]
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Gushing one way or another
So before I tell you about our journey along the south coast I am going to correct an omission. I have had a complaint – I haven’t posted any pictures of food yet. So the first two photographs are from our meal in the hotel restaurant Saturday night. To be honest they were the best […]
They’ve all flown the nest . . . . now it’s our turn!
So our children are all grown up and have had or are on their own holidays – without us now. I don’t know whether to be happy or sad! However it has meant that after 23 years Steven and I can go away as a couple again for more than just a few days, for […]
Oh what a night . . . and a New Year as well!
It’s great playing games with friends, but we wanted to do something really different this New Year’s Eve – total humiliation for all of us! We decided to do a murder mystery evening. I have to say it was hard work preparing for it, but I think it went really well. Really easy to do, courtesy […]
Wet, wild . . . . . . . . And a wuss!
So for our finale we booked a 3 hour tour on jet skis. The plan was to go in the Gulf if it wasn’t too rough to Marco Island and then to return via the backwater. We only stayed in the backwater but managed to see 2 schools of dolphins within 20 mins of setting […]
Jonathan’s Graduation
What can I say, such a proud family! This was the most fantastic day and I even baked a cake to celebrate! Take a look at the photos and you might see somewhere that I just couldn’t keep out of the piccies! Click on the first photo to enlarge it, then navigate through them
Mum and Dad’s Golden Wedding Anniversary
After 50 glorious years, Ma and Pa celebrated their Golden Wedding Anniversary over the whole weekend, nothing like celebrating in style! Whilst their Wedding Anniversary is Jan 1st we started on New Year’s Eve, celebrating with Family Y (who?) Despite their advancing years Mum and Dad trounced us young uns at “smart mouth” and charades. […]
Keswick and David’s 18th – Families I and Y!
Taken a few weeks but I have finally put up something about our Keswick trip. We set off cars fully laden, in the morning of the 24th December, David’s 18th, to spend 5 days in a cottage in Keswick with our good friends, Family Y. We had the most amazing time and amazingly are still […]
Israel
Steven, Rachel and myself set off for Israel for a fortnight on the 12th July, leaving the boys in charge at home! We managed to keep tabs on them, ish, due to apple facetime and free wifi in the flat. Thankfully it rained so the garden was ok apart from the hanging baskets. To see […]
Fun in the snow
Well here are three young men, two of which have the day off from school because of the weather. They could either (a) use their time to revise for their modules next week – after all they want to go to Veterinary and Medical School or (b) mess about in the snow! Click below on […]