OK I can now update with the FULL Oliver Kennett, winning speech that has now made him Captin. He finally remembered to bring it home – bless! Fingers crossed everyone. Here is Ollie giving his “pitch” to the school as to why he should be voted for by them to be School Captain. Mary andRead More

Yes we had a sun halo in Singapore yesterday 18th August 2012. I don’t think I have ever seen one before. Certainly Mary and the kids had not, so we spent about 15 minutes passing my sun glasses between each other to look at this absolutely amazing sight. Basically a halo is, as the nameRead More

OK OK OK – I have to title is as so, because I know if any of my football mate see this blog and the amount of photos of flowers I am in deep deep trouble. But anyways here we go ………. a MONSTER blog, I think circa 90 photos, BUT I personally think ALLRead More

So this year she turned the ripe old age of 47 – only 3 years older than yours truly. She definitely had a few more million spent on her birthday, and here is some snaps of our day on 9th August, 2012. It started with Amy and I peeling brussel sprouts, yes brussel sprouts inRead More

 No reason for this other than we had another lovely weekend this weekend with friends and family, so thought we would share this with you all. OK slightly extended re the weekend as actually dinner with Miz, the gang and Gordie and Thes was Thursday. Off to No SignBoard for chilli crab, fried buns, crocodileRead More

So there I was nervous as anything, awaiting the door to open and the dentist to call us in – scary. I hate dentists, I hate hospitals. Today as well was a big day, something special adding to the angst – yes it was Amy’s first official trip to the dentist. So scarily I satRead More

A lovely lazy Sunday afternoon with Maricel and the girls to celebrate her birthday. Bless the girls I also got a surprise birthday present – a photo diary almost of the last 3 years of the fun times we have had, with beautiful comments from them all. Truly a wonderful gift, and so so surprising.Read More

This was our first time to actually stay in Kamala, on the beautiful Thai island of Phuket. I have been there once when over for Kev Mc’s birthday celebrations and we took some motorbikes to visit, we ate at OhLaLa, popped to see Kev’s mate for a coke, went to see his ex-house and stoppedRead More

Yes it’s that time of year again, and birthday time beckoned and passed us by. This year is a Bingo call, yep “All the 4’s, forty-four”. Jeeze where did that go, absolutely flew past, and making the ever coming 50 come closer and closer. Hey Ho – still had a spanking time. I was actuallyRead More