I had a truly amazing day, celebrating alongside Charlie’s 2nd birthday, then swimming pool with Gordon/Thes/Steve and of course my Mary and the kids. Great fun. But the main reason for this blog, is that I wanted to share with you what Ollie wrote in his card for me. Dear Daddy, A Dad is aRead More

That time of year again folks, time to dust off the DJ, suck the stomach in a tad and off we go all posh like to the New Zealand Ball. Simply the best one in Singapore I feel. Great fun, too much beer and wine of course, loads of food, comedians, prizes and sharing itRead More

Mabini: It’s happened again. One of those life moments that doesn’t happen too often. I know Mary and her family won’t mind me writing this with honesty, because it truly has been one of those occasions where you see life from a different perspective, the Mabini perspective. We’ve been in the Philippines a few timesRead More

I’ll start with the word to sum this whole experience up – BREATHTAKING! We stayed at the most amazing place in Bohol –  Anda.  Anda is like a biscuit that someone has taken loads of bites out of. Small beach-fronts, private beach fronts, white sandy beaches, coral, topaz sea, topaz sky. Mary’s Mum had hadRead More

Mary’s family have a pet monkey called Moy Moy. An aggressive little bugger, very territorial and hater of women it seems. So when you first meet him he’s all screeching and jumping off his pole, trying to bite (in fact he did bite Mary), trying to scratch.  Nasty little shit thought I. But look atRead More

Like the Queen this year Amy had about 4 Birthdays for her 4th. So we started allowing he to open some presents in the hotel in Tagbilaran, Bohol Tropica – the start of our epic trip to Fiesta time in Philippines (please see separate blog for that and a food one too – you luckyRead More

Amazing – Bintan revisited, this time with Miz. What a lovely time we had, we just love this place. Miz even said best holiday she’s had, as she’s never done the Asian tropical beach type holiday. We got two sea facing rooms next door to each other – Amy with Mary and I, and OllieRead More

Well OK not really fossicking & grubbing but fishing! Jo, a good friend of mine, popped a wee note that her and the boys and Chris were off deep sea fishing. They’ve done it before and liked it so much they’re off again. A boat was booked with room for 10 and we have 2Read More

Well having the two kids means a great deal of birthday invites. Here’s another one for us this weekend, with an invite to our good friends Keith and Adeline, and baby Francesca’s 1st birthday – how cute is this! Here she is, such a big girl now, sitting up, crawling round – Mary and IRead More