Tripski – part 3

We went to see some of my close friends mid week. They live not too far from where I used to live in England.  Not too far away from where Ella and Henry were born and grew up. Ella remembers the place, her old friends, her school and snippets of the old house.  She’s sometimes a bit sad about it – I kinda feel…

Tripski – part 2

So, one of the first things we did (apart from go shopping for food and get very wet in the rain) was go see my youngest sister and her two kids. You’ve probably seen them on here before. We have a lot of fun with them, normally outside in the park where they can run around, but in this case, the rain prevented any…

Tripski, part 1

So, as you know, I went to England to see my beautiful kids.  England, land of the village pub, the Darling Buds of May, long summer evenings, rambling footpaths and history going back millenia. Well, it wasn’t like that.  The sun didn’t shine.  It rained all the time.  It was freezing.  The cloudbase was 3 feet above the ground – so much so it…

In transit

Travelling always sounds so exotic, but the fact of the matter is that the actual travelling bit sucks. Blows goats, no less. First, you have to endure check-in.  The airlines and brochures present you with an idyllic view of check in, of smiley gorgeous women on the counter, handsome travellers all with $10,000 watches and smiles to match. or of wonderful machines that take…

Three go on an adventure

A little tale from the motherland.. Towards the end of the time in England with the kids, they were nagging that it was sunny out and dinner wasn’t for an hour or so and can they have an adventure. So, we hopped into the car and I took them to Knole Park – a Medieval deer park that survives pretty much intact – to…

Piccies from a foreign land

I got my films from my trip to the UK back yesterday and they are awesome! I love my Hasselblad, it produces amazing images – so clear and full of glorious colour and definition in a way that digital images somehow aren’t.  The trouble is, scanning these amazing prints and showing them on here doesn’t show them how they are at all 😦 I…

update

Well, whats been happening in the world of me? My trip to England went well – the flight over was actually pretty painless, despite being sat next to a borderline Neanderthal on the plane from Perth to Singapore – he was laughing out loud to stuff on the entertainment system.  I mean really out loud.  Not good.  When I asked him something, he spoke…

slack city, Arizona

I know, my blog is getting a little dusty.  I have an excuse, I’ve been busy with all kinds of things.  So there. I’m flying back to England tomorrow so I can see my babies – its been nearly 5 months since I last saw them – time really flies and it doesn’t seem that long ago in some ways, but in other ways,…

units of mesaure

I was chatting to Mike @ realdadshangout earlier about stuff and the age-old subject of measurement came up, him being from the US of A and me being Brit. I grew up in the UK to feet, miles, inches, yards, pints, gallons, pounds and stones. This is despite being born the year the system was supposed to have changed to metric. In theory I…

favourite place

Everyone has a favourite place in the whole world. It might be your garden, somewhere you went on holiday, your bed (as in the case of Jay, who loves her bed more than anywhere else) or somewhere you grew up. In my case, this place is Oldbury Woods, nr Ightham in Kent. I grew up a few hundred metres from this place and spent…