What a lovely family shot.On the bridge on the way to the gardens – well actually Satay by the Bay for lunch first.Mmmmmm – Kebab. Kids in the trees.Very cute.   Mum and our old place – Costa Rhu – in the background.Sort of miss the place and sort of don’t.We do love Siglap, butRead More

A new location for Mum as this was not built the last time she was here.Only father and son for this as kids at school and poor little Baby Jude not feeling too well.Off we went cameras in hand, taxi to Sentosa, for a lovely few hours together.  Mum gets some henna tattoo done onRead More

Mum has come again to see us all for a couple of weeks which is fantastic.But sadly she arrived Thursday 0700am, and I then had to disappear to work all day and night, then earlyish Friday morning had to disappear to Manila for work meetings, stop over that night and come back Saturday midday. ForRead More

Yet again we’re out of the country of that stupid 30 days visa issue. We had a lovely weekend in JB at the new KSL hotel, suites and shop centre (might end up moving there if this continues in Singapore). We ended up getting 2 single bedroom suites – one for Mary, Jude and I andRead More

Back we walk to SandBank at Parkland Green, on East Coast Service Road – remember the review blog on islifearecipe.net  This time with friends.This time with scooters.This time with swimming costumes.This time with towels. So The Rutherfords (Steve, Frey and Sophia), and The Copeland’s (Scotty, Bao and Erin) accompanied us today. Now following will be some snaps,Read More

Time flies.Especially if you actually get the wrong start day for first day at school.Whoopsy.We thought Monday 5th, nope it’s today 2nd – luckily bus driver rang us. So 0600am this morning we’re up and she is dressed and we’re walking off to Amy new school.  I like my new uniform Dad, but bloody hell it’sRead More

OK here we go – some snaps of Happy New Year celebrations.Did we go up market – No.Did we spend a fortune – No.Did we fine dine – No.Did we have champagne – No. Did we have massive fun with great friends – YES. Down to East Coast Lagoon hawker we went. After a shaky start gettingRead More

They were once babies.Now look at them. “But Dad, it’s really really sunny. I need to borrow them…”   OMG – she looks so much like my Mum – see below comparison.A day at the hairdressers.   One Direction baseball cap being worn on a cocky angle. Denim jacket. OMG she’s about 14.

I know Ollie has been posting, posting, posting, but…On behalf of all the kids I would like to say a massive thank you to family and friends all over the world for the lovely gifts you gave them. They absolutely adore them. In fact so much so we hardly saw them Christmas Day and certainlyRead More

To celebrate the amazing ballet performance the night before it was off for Sunday lunch, a Sunday lunch at her choice of venue. Megrim, Japanese restaurant here we come. Good choice Amy – more re the food on islifearecipe.net  Yes free Xmas hats were given out – so here they all are.   The ballet QueenRead More