Daddy-pedia time!Dover stands at the narrowest part of the English Channel, next stop France.Remember the Vera Lynne wartime song; “They’ll be bluebirds over the white cliffs of Dover…” Yep that’s this place, I think referring to The Battle of Britain and our returning heroes of the time.Much history is here too as it was andRead More

Off to the regular 2-weekly scan and Ollie decides he is coming along to see his brother. Little did he know that our Dr would say; “Come on Oliver and do the scan for me.” And there he was Dr Oliver Kennett PhD, performing the scan on his little brother Jude. Short and sweet for this blog butRead More

Amy has decided she wants to do ballet. Off we trot yesterday to buy her outfit, and booked her 1st lessons for 5th December. She is VERY excited. So excited in fact that she wanted me to be surprised this morning with a fashion show because I won ‘Bumblebee’ yesterday (sorry private game with the kids –Read More

An early start today – 0630 with with the kidlets for breakfast. STILL on tenterhooks awaiting the man of the moment, well small man of the moment – baby Jude. Yep he is hanging on in there, the little bugger.Someday soon matey – please!!! So being slightly land-locked we decided to do some local things ahead ofRead More

With a 4 day long weekend ahead because of Hari Raya Public Holiday – what to do, what to do.We’re struggling with trips now because of baby Jude not being far away, so no flights, no major long trips. What to do…?My mate at work Mr Dave Brown was chatting and said why not tryRead More

Off we go to Ollie’s school this morning to see the much awaited output of all his and his classmates hard work. The Exhibition!!! And boy was it good. There was a comments book and I left something along the lines of “I’m 44 and I actually learnt a lot today from the kids…” We were first throughRead More

Say hello to the world baby Jude. Here he is folks. Now is that a cute face or what – look at that little nose. See he is laying on his side. Ollie came with us today and was VERY excited to see his little brother. Why Jude for a name?Well I just love it as a name (myRead More

Firstly I must apologise to my mate Steve and his lovely fiance Shahirah.We could just get to your celebration – as you’ll see we went from one to the other, and then had to get kids to bed. So apologies, and we hope you had a fantastic time. To our day.1500 – off we go toRead More

We had read that the boat ride at River Safari was now open. Ollie finished his panto yesterday so it was out first day together as a family for an age. The kids really enjoyed it last time we were there, albeit it it only lasted about 3 hours of entertainment as it is over pretty quick,Read More

As the song goes:”One night in Bangkok, and the World’s your… de di de, di de di de etc” Well, we had THREE nights this weekend for Chinese New Year. It was sort of forced on us – well absolutely it was forced on us as our family will know of course.  So what!  Let’sRead More