fingerlessman

get that smile

2012-01-21T17:32:00.001-08:00

love it!

one year ago

2012-01-21T16:57:00.000-08:00

so a) i have just taken a photo, thati'll use next year and b) here's last years

stay tuned for the gem at the end

2012-01-21T16:49:00.001-08:00

Just lovin the girl

2012-01-21T16:25:00.000-08:00

I can't take the lack of sleep, the endless battles over dinner and all the rest.... whereas Mary takes it all in her stride..... she is a legend and i love her.

toilet chicken

2012-01-21T16:20:00.000-08:00

really does look like its sitting on a toilet doesn't it... or is that just me? anyways... started the bbq season off nice and early with 2 great offerings....

could this be the most important place in my life

2012-01-21T16:15:00.000-08:00

Endlessly drawn.... somehow i think the story is not finished yet

here they are

2012-01-21T16:14:00.000-08:00

pre christmas christmas

2012-01-21T16:11:00.000-08:00

lovely times with the graves.... ain't they growing fast?

the biggest tree we ever had

2012-01-21T16:09:00.001-08:00

you only have to look at the top to agree... boy this was a beast... it was actually 40 foot before we took the bottom 30 foot off.

kids

2012-01-21T16:06:00.000-08:00

we are back... if a little off kilter.

2011-11-30T11:44:00.000-08:00

So the lappie broke ages ago, and i could not update this status as kate hogs the internet and tv...

so after what seems like an age... i have plumbed in broadband to the back room and am trying hard to make it a child free zone. it took about 5 minutes before kate was in here trying to annex the room for herself! oh well back to the drawing board.

Party

2011-08-22T08:38:00.000-07:00

well we managed to out do ourselves yet again on the food front at anther Graves party, but the weather behaved, the guests were lovely, the food and drink went down well and Mary and I had a great time without any stress. It did take an age to clear up.... and we still have a house full of Pork right now, but i would do it all again if I had the chance.

Went to the docs for my knee again today and feel totally relieved by the verdict, I will have to do some demanding exercises to build up strength in a particular muscle, and that will probably take 12 weeks, but then i should be able to walk, jog run without pain and with out fear of this happening again, can't tell you how good that sounded to hear... have been doing the exercises whilst watching england white wash the indians in the last test match.

To all those that made it to the party I hope you had as good a time as we did, it was lovely to see everyone and just a dissappointment it was over far too quickly!

total BBq count is now 43..... so not far now!

Leon

the caravan again

2011-08-11T09:55:00.001-07:00

well, i can't believe it's a year ago since we were here, but it's true, and yet again wales came up trumps for a great few days, just wish we had more time there to be honest, love that place with a passion and our friends even more. cheers dudes for a great week. leon xxx

Ghana

2011-07-18T13:30:00.001-07:00

too much to say about it here, but it was lovely to be back there , i still miss it. somehow have been forever linked with this far off land.

bbq 26

2011-07-04T13:29:00.001-07:00

so have decided to write a cook book, not for general publication of course, but for my lovely children in years to come so that they can recreate the dishes that they grow up with.... there will be a place for this lamb recipe i do for sure, as it was lush...

the beast arrives

2011-06-22T12:09:00.001-07:00

it has taken a lot ( and i mean a lot!) of digging, but the men arrived on time and worked like demons and had this up in about 2 hours - and now , years of fun for both Ed and kate are just starting.

kate has already had a pretend picnic under it and has used the slide as a bargining chip over bedtime like an old pro.
bring on the summer parties, bbq's and outdoor life. ( and spying on the neighbours from our Nazi control tower " Keep avay from the vire" " gee mack I was just getting my baseball" and all that.

leon

naked picnics

2011-06-18T03:21:00.000-07:00

it's just a phase I'm sure

slow worms

2011-06-18T03:15:00.000-07:00

So we seem to have some sort of magic over slow worms, and where ever we go, slow worms make their home. However we are in the middle of changing the garden around and I had to move 6 of these beautiful creatures fto new homes when we moved the boat .

Kate and Daisy

2011-06-18T03:11:00.001-07:00

angels in our garden

Tiki monster

2011-06-18T03:08:00.001-07:00

there is simply not enough love to give is there Tiki x

edwardo

2011-06-18T02:59:00.001-07:00

the boy is growing fast

The conservatory

2011-06-18T02:50:00.000-07:00

from conservatory ... to servatory (kates word for it)

Chilli plants growing up

2011-06-18T02:35:00.001-07:00

Last year (if you look back on this blog) i tried to grow chilli plants... and i had nothing , nothing from 30 seeds. This year, i trippled the number of seeds, did nothing different, and now have 90 chilli plants taking over the house. So i have been giving them away like no tomorrow. But the 40 or so i have left are starting to fruit.... bring on the hot stuff. I feel like a proud dad once again... grow my children grow!

BBQ the story so far

2011-06-18T02:15:00.000-07:00

so after having 22 BBQ's so far it has started to get a bit silly, i am trying to up the ante by producing the most serious dish out in the garden. i think I might try to do a chocolate fondant out there soon. L

2011-05-21T02:33:00.000-07:00

So life seems to continue to flash past our eyes,

Ed is already 3 months old! He has settled in well to his role, he clearly understands that Mary loves her sleep and that he should try and keep down the number of wake ups to a minimum if at all possible, he has developed a lovely smile ( but it is a bit delayed - it takes a good ten seconds between getting eye contact with him before he can process the information and then preform the smile). He is still rather large, but a little bit more sensible than the 99.6 percentile - we might even have somehow produced a tall human ( no idea how ) so he is enjoying the use of clothing of far older children than his own age group .... but I think Tiny and Emma were perhaps taking the micky out of him during a recent shopping trip when looking at 6 and 7 year old clothing!

Kate has and is adapting to the role of sister, the death grip hugs on her younger brother have reduced and she is starting to enjoy school even a little (it has taken a while!) she still refuses to be any older than two and three quarters, and also flatly refuses to stop wearing nappies - which may well be coming to a final battle, as I have stated that the current pack of nappies is absolutley the last pack I buy.... hmmm wonder who is going to flinch first. She has amazed us by her drawing when we are not around, when we help her she simply scribbles, but alone she can produce drawing that actually look like things - clearly i must intimidate her with my awesome talents.

Mary is surviving on her limited sleep, and is enjoying being mum for the second time and certainly finding things easier this time through... the biggest worry is the impeding doom of redunancy - but Mary is well versed in the ways of dealing with these things and doesn't seem at all worried, whilst i worry for the both of us. She has joined some baby groups and is making new friends and enjoying all that Ivybridge has to offer.

Millie is having to adapt to old age, she has certainly slowed up in the last year and although still gives it her all in the park it's the recovery stage that seems to talk longer and longer. Having said that she has lost weight and she still has a brain like a laser, she can still steal french butter faster than you can say sacre bleu. We had a bit of a wierd week with her when she yelped really loudly when she got up late at night, and then walked around with her tail clamped between her legs for three days. We could not find anything or work out what had happened, but she seems to be back to normal again now and ruling the sofa.

Tiki seems to be invading my dreams at the moment, i have had 3 dreams about her in the past month, the most recent of which she made a play for top dog by ripping millie apart... not a good dream to have on a sunday night! She is also trying to win the world title of "most in the way dog of all time in any universe" it's interesting how she can actually get in the way three or four times as i try and cross the kitchen - she runs in circles around me so she keeps tripping me up which ever direction I turn.

And me - well I am in a pit of dispair about not being able to run, I have had a series of injuries that have stopped my plans for half and full marathons this year and I haven't run for the whole of Eds life. School has been mad and hard work and depressing also, but things have turned a corner and i am trying to a) catch up on all the stuff I haven't done B) enjoy the rest bite a little and C) prepare for the onslaught of next year , which will be worse than this. Home life however always come to the rescue and the family are just brilliant and an instant antidote to the day at work. I have continued to have BBQ's at almost every opportunity and I certainly feel my powers of outside cooking getting better than ever before. I keep having plans to extend the house and spend money that we don't have somehow. Then I remember the impending doom and stop myself. More than anything else I want to find more time in my life, but no matter where i look I never seem to find it, Mary says staying up late looking for it doesn't work either. So with that i mind, I'm off to colour in ( and probably be told I'm doing it wrong and that I should use boy colours!)

Leon xxx

Family reunion

2011-05-21T02:25:00.000-07:00

So a lovely weekend with both sides of the family - here is a piccie of the Barker side - great to see everyone, but such a shame it wasn't longer - could have spent hours catching up with everyone.

the plymouth eye

2011-04-22T01:03:00.000-07:00

so the girl loved doing this, no fear what so ever... and not bad views of plymouth to boot.

leon

Braiii time

2011-04-22T00:46:00.000-07:00

okay so maybe it's the weather that has sent me mad, but i am on a mission to have at least 50 BBQ's this summer, so when ever it is sunny, we are eating outside... here is last nights offering..

marathon girl

2011-04-21T07:17:00.000-07:00

i think it's enough to say that she is simply a legend, and i look forward to running my own first marathon soon enough.

leon

easter holiday

2011-04-19T13:36:00.001-07:00

so not all sun, but certainly lovely food and views. good to be home, but worth the trip and loved the sunsets... more cheese please!
leon

skype with emma

2011-03-28T10:46:00.000-07:00

and more...

2011-03-14T03:47:00.001-07:00

more 2011 photos

2011-03-14T03:17:00.000-07:00

Wow, just sorted out photos from all three cameras..... takes a while these days, turn on computer, dogs bark, get up sort them out, sit down again, ed starts crying, go sort out him, sit back down, dogs want letting out, sort them out... and so on and so on .......

anyway, so more photos of whats been happening this side of chrimbo....
and i promise to post more often...

edwardo

2011-03-05T10:53:00.001-08:00

ed is asleep and snoring on top of mary, who happens to be asleep and snoring too.

must be the weekend.

leon

naming the boy

2011-03-04T08:42:00.000-08:00

so the deed is done, we have officially named him Edward charlie Graves... i was tempted at the last minute by Vladimir.... but i stopped myself just in the nick of time.

In other news, kate has had her first day of school... which she did not enjoy, and her second day... which she did not enjoy, and was heard this morning saying " I don't want to be three anymore!" this is obviously a little upsetting for all, but we are giving her lots of love and helping her through this difficult time.

I've got a running injury ... which is making me go stir crazy, a strain in my calf is stopping me from running, just as speeds were going up and times coming down, still at least it is a good 12 weeks before the half , and another 12 after that before i run across the moor. so i suppose i should just get on with it and let it rest properly, but with the sun now shining, i just want to run across the moor now.

Mary mary is doing really well and is acting like she didn't just spend 48 hours in labour... perhaps it's all the going to bed at 8 pm thats helping.
Finally, ed, he is as chilled as a chilled thing most of the time, but does like to fill up on milk every thirty seconds, rminds me of a Ghanaian filling up at a petrol station, whilst leaving his motor running.... after topping it up to the brim, about ten seconds later he found he could squeeze a little drop more in... and so on and so on and so on... for a full half hour, till i pointed out that if he turned the engine off... we could top it up and it would stop dropping....

anyway, we are all good, and happy and healthy and just dealing with the day to day stuff that comes around to everyone.

Leon

when i die

2011-02-26T13:35:00.000-08:00

i know i know.. but this is a long running thing.

leon

baby

2011-02-21T13:29:00.001-08:00

edward charlie graves.... 10 pounds 7.

well done mary

2011 - the story so far

2011-01-29T04:49:00.000-08:00

Okay okay, so we do have even more photos of huge dinners we ate over chrimbo, but I am trying to block those debauched evening out now and try and focus on the recovery stage.

We had yet another great week in Bala, if a little cold. We came back via the Auntie's and had one day back at home before school started. That day was spend panic nesting, as I had to move all beds from one room to another in preparation for the newby child. It was an epic and certainly not my favourity job. But once done we all felt like it had made a big difference.

School started and almost immediately it felt like we had not had a day away. The snow had dissappeared, but it was still cold, my office was 6 degrees for three days, and the class room was only a little bit better at 11 degrees! Still it all got sorted out once the unions asked for a meeting.

After being inspired by Emma and her brilliant efforts on the Marathon training i also have set my sights on some big runs. Peter, Anna and i have all signed up for the plymouth Half marathon in May, and a few others are all up for the very first Gravesy Oke - Ivy run, which will take us right across Dartmoor in August, at a rough distance of 30 miles. with this in mind the training has started and booze has certainly been reduced (on certain days).

We have had several crazy days since the last post, we have catered for the graves family, twice, most of the Barkers once and dealt with a three year olds party. So now it is certainly bolt the door time and quietly await Bernards arrival without distraction.

I'll say that again, just incase anyone missed it - it is certainly bolt the door time and quietly await bernards arrival WITHOUT DISTRACTION.

love to all

leon

christmas dinner part three

2010-12-23T17:44:00.000-08:00

LAMB - - - - DONE!

CHRISTMAS FOOD PART 2

2010-12-22T01:05:00.001-08:00

BEEF -- -- DONE!

christmas food part 1

2010-12-22T01:03:00.000-08:00

HAM -- -- DONE!

pocket / car roof game

2010-12-04T10:38:00.000-08:00

Another game that should really be played before driving off to the garden centre is the pocket / car roof game when thinking about where to place your house keys.

Hmmm, not quite as expensive as the petrol / diesel game, but still worthwhile I feel now.

Leon

Let play the game " petrol / Diesel "... are you ready...

2010-11-17T11:55:00.001-08:00

Petrol

2010-11-17T11:54:00.004-08:00

Diesel

2010-11-17T11:54:00.003-08:00

Petrol

2010-11-17T11:54:00.001-08:00

BEST USES.....

2010-11-17T11:51:00.002-08:00

It is best I find, to play the game Diesel / petrol about five to ten times before you enter a fuel station in your wifes car on a really really really busy sunday lunchtime.

it tends to help you save £250 in recovery costs, so remember.....

PETROL

2010-11-17T11:51:00.001-08:00

DIESEL

2010-11-17T11:48:00.000-08:00

Kates developing humour

2010-11-07T08:41:00.000-08:00

So we were playing "shop" at the park yesterday and kate was the shop keeper. I was trying to be funny when she asked me what did i want, so i said "do you have the answer to the meaning of life", she paused , looked round at the shop area and then said.... we've got crisps!

She then followed this up on my request for the maps locating the mysterious lost cities of El Dorado with...... "it's a bit smudged!"

leon

bala

2010-10-30T17:49:00.000-07:00

Happy days.

what a great week, Bala is always the haven I need.... more photos to follow.

Leon

oldie but goodie

2010-10-08T17:30:00.000-07:00

you know you want to............ oooowwwpaaaa

trip down memory lane

2010-10-08T16:00:00.000-07:00

wierd evening that has lead to following links on you tube... ended up here , such strong memories of my youth... wondered if others shared same strange recollection of exactly what they were doing when this song was on....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Fc67yQsPqQ&feature=channel

sorry can't embed.

leon

brilliant

2010-10-08T10:37:00.000-07:00

LOVIN THIS RIGHT NOW....

LOVE TO ALL

LEON

daily life

2010-10-07T16:51:00.000-07:00

All i ask for is as the salary increases , so to the work rate and the reduction of mistakes. sprinkle in a little bit for difficulty level and bingo .... everyone is happy. Oh , hang on... no, we are not..... all the previous is not true.

more wedding scotland

2010-10-06T10:37:00.000-07:00

lovely weekend yet again. looking forward to the next time.... sometimes it's the only thing that keeps me going!
leon

wedding in scotland

2010-10-04T14:30:00.001-07:00

September

2010-09-30T13:23:00.000-07:00

I know it's all kate, but she is so much better looking than i am.

so september was mainly about going back to stinky work, and then running away at weekends to try and live the summer all over again..... and it kinda worked.

leon

fab friends

2010-08-22T09:27:00.000-07:00

Just love spending time with my friends and eating far too much food, and Tiki also likes eating too much food... as she stole a huge portion of lasagne from the kitchen side.... grrr!

leon

Summer holidays

2010-08-10T11:40:00.001-07:00

Well, it's all going well so far this holiday. A lovely week in a caravan in wales, back for a week at home, when I managed to floor the attic in a day, sort all the sheds / tools and gardening stuff out, have two days playing with kate and becoming number one dad. Then a weekend at the dartmoor folk festival that was great fun and again DRY! And today managed to spend lots of money on myself in town, followed by a completely pain free visit to dentist for the rebuilding of my broken tooth.

I've even manged to set a best time for my run up onto dartmoor with my new trainers this evening, and ran all the way to the top without a cheeky walk near the top...

something tells me my luck can not last like this, but happy to ride it whilst it does.

Leon

caravan holiday in wales

2010-07-31T02:55:00.000-07:00

So a beautiful corner of a farmers field in wales has a wonderfully old yet cared for caravan, that has a wood burner and gas lamps and comfy seats. we went here with some friends and fell in love with camping out with no running water or phone signal.

a very good way to start the school holiday.....

leon

More Morocco

2010-07-15T12:13:00.001-07:00

Morocco

2010-07-13T15:08:00.001-07:00

nuff said really

leon

more new cottage

2010-06-18T15:03:00.001-07:00

new cottage

2010-06-18T14:51:00.001-07:00

old cottage

2010-06-18T14:44:00.001-07:00

Old camera

2010-06-05T11:06:00.000-07:00

Hey , guess what..... whilst painting the cottage we found one of the many lost cameras behind a radiator.

brilliant, year old photos and a still fully charged and fully functional camera back in our hands.

Might be the start of a lucky streak!

Leon

New project

2010-06-05T10:59:00.001-07:00

To make something as cool as this......

The Sandpit from Sam O'Hare on Vimeo.

leon

Ten years on from Raleigh

2010-05-27T09:14:00.001-07:00

so a full on weekend at the "add a fictious pub name here to protect the identity" to kinda celebrate the fact that 10 years ago we all met each other and went to Ghana for an adventure. Was lovely to see some friends from far afield and was also very interesting to see how nothing has changed in those ten years.

To add excitement we managed a lock in in the pub till 6am, and also managed to have one of our friends car fire bombed.
but despite the flames and sub zero temperatures, it was a great weekend and i look forward to doing it again in 2020.

Leon

visiting Holly and Mary

2010-05-27T09:07:00.000-07:00

nothing, nothing beats a good body slam.

Leon

Boots

2010-05-27T08:52:00.001-07:00

She had these on for a good 20 minutes walking all over the house, she must have burnt some calories that day!

Leon

Chilli plants

2010-05-27T08:46:00.001-07:00

I was so excited about planting out these tiny weenie chilli seeds, took so much care and spent silly money on kit to give them the best start in life..... and three weeks later on..... i have nothing, nothing from 60 seeds!

I want chilli plants!!!!!

leon

Spag bol

2010-05-27T08:39:00.000-07:00

she seems to have gone off most foods for a bit, but theres always one thing that brings her to the table!

Leon

the zoo

2010-05-08T00:57:00.000-07:00

nice day with kate and daisy at the zoo.

leon

position 1

2010-04-25T14:26:00.000-07:00

so we embark on a voyage that will no doubt amuse me more than anyone else....

but for the record, this is Tiki, looking great, and waiting for a ball.

leon

feet

2010-04-25T14:23:00.000-07:00

nuff said!
leon

What to do if everyone else turns up in the same dress to a party!

2010-04-25T13:10:00.000-07:00

Show everyone your knickers!

leon

how too create fun.

2010-04-25T12:59:00.001-07:00

So she ignored the slides, and just slid down a slope and ripped the arse out of her tights, but boy she had a good time.

leon

she'll hate me , but it's worth it.

2010-04-25T12:53:00.001-07:00

To steal a line from my best man.... She is my favourite human being on the planet!

leon

Bala

2010-04-25T12:34:00.001-07:00

I am extremely lucky to have such amazing friends and to be invited to such a special place. Bala always, always lives up to my expectations. What a lovely long weekend with simply some of the best people in the world. Thank you all of you for making Easter one to remember.

leon

the new cooker

2010-04-25T12:31:00.000-07:00

i love it , i love it , i love it........ now if we can just get it to fit in the space in the kitchen!

Back online at last

2010-04-25T11:51:00.000-07:00

New house. New sun sets, new broadband. It has been an interesting month!

leon

Bagpuss all over again

2010-03-06T05:17:00.000-08:00

So for simply the reason of tidying up, the Wonderful Ninky Nonk ended up being put in the window, and then all of a sudden a strange thing happened.....

Every single person in Oreston comes to stand and stop and look into our window, hours sometimes days they stand and stare and admire the workmanship.

Today, whilst at the shops ( a good mile away ) i over heard a mother and her son talking, and she was saying " no i don't think it is a real Ninky Nonk in the window"

It's like the shop window in bagpuss, and i feel like we are doing a retro service to the public, giving a focus for families to talk and discuss and smile and believe in something magical.

As for the boy at the shop....... i whispered to him that it was real when his mum wasn't looking, and told him the garden was behind the house.

Leon

2010-03-03T12:03:00.001-08:00

Same old same old.... camera has gone again... this time i know where it is.....

so it will come back.

kate woke up from her sleep the other day, stretched and then said " oh , whats occurring?"

Brilliant!

For us things have all happened very quickly, we are now moving house in a couple of weeks. On the 18th of March to the Rue street place, so house party, big roast dinners etc will all be possible sooner rather than later, plus Marys job all sorted itself out. So the graves are pretty pleased with things right now.... if only i had my camera!
leon

2012 olympics

2010-02-21T11:33:00.000-08:00

So kate had her first go on a wii fit on friday - and beat all the older kids on a "fly like a chicken " game...... travelling 176 metres by keeping her balance and flapping her arms. Needless to say, we are already booking hotel rooms for the summer olympics in london to watch her take her place in history...... they do have "fly like a chicken" in the summer olympics don't they?

leon

more party piccies

2010-02-17T01:38:00.000-08:00

The Second birthday party

2010-02-17T01:23:00.000-08:00

Full on choco cake from a godless parent (much respect) and 27 people in our small cottage front room....... needless to say, Kate was pretty happy with her party, and did not want it all to end, in fact it was no mean feet getting her to not sleep in her party dress at the end of the day!

leon

Cornwall weekend

2010-02-17T01:14:00.000-08:00

Back to the motherland for a short break at the start of half term. A cheap deal due to having to sit through four hours of timeshare selling. kate decided quite early on that we should not buy a timeshare... so did I and also Mary... but we still had to sit through another 3hours and 56 minutes. still, we got to see chris and chrissie, and callum again, and the evenings were lovely, if just a little cold!

Additional..... the rugby was extremely lame yet again.... and i am sure i said i would stop watching england if they continued to be so pants!

leon

2010-02-11T12:41:00.000-08:00

After a three walk thursday, millie is trying to take up room on the sofa, and kate keeps moving her on. It is a battle of wits i think that will go on for a long long time, and experience tells me the dog will win!

leon

2010-02-08T12:41:00.000-08:00

Pure unadulterated fun.....

2010-02-08T09:19:00.000-08:00

Kate and daniel spent a good 15 minutes just laughing hysterically at being on the swings.

Oh if only things stayed this much fun and life was this simple. Feeling low? go sit on a swing and remind yourself of what being a kid was all about!

Leon

2010-02-08T08:59:00.000-08:00

So spent the weekend with our friends steve and debs, Dave and larry eating this piece of cow. it was late christmas party, and good fun was had by all. Kate copied Daniel all weekend ( she is learning the art of Mirroring and how that helps in the flirting world!)

And Steve and larry had to learn the hard way that you never ever bet against leon in a golf match...... they had to suffer the winning song and dance "peanut butter jelly time!" over and over again ......

leon

2010-02-04T13:05:00.000-08:00

So yet another full on day at work ( to be honest they all are at the mo) but had some wonderful wonderful feedback from so many parents about how inspired their children were about geography ever since i started teaching them! Normally I hate parents evenings, but blow me, parent after parent wanted to thank me, and told me that their little dude liked geography the most and wanted to do it for gcse, if i was their teacher. Even some bloke came up to me and said " I haven't booked an appointment, but just wanted to take this opportunity to say that you are one of the most inspiring teachers here, what you have done for our girl is out of this world, so thank you!"

i really welled up at this stage!

anyway.... it'll be back to normal tomorrow, perhaps it was the full moon that made everyone go crazy.

leon

2010-02-03T12:03:00.000-08:00

Worked all day today, started at school at 7.30am, taught every lesson, had meetings in both lunch and break, had a member of the department out so set work for their classes too, picked up kate, cooked dinner, washed up, marked 2 whole sets of year 8 books, now watching a geography video for tomorrow, plus it's year nines parent evening tomorrow after school and yet I still smiling........ have no idea why !

Got a big weekend of fun coming up with friends, having our second christmas.... so big roastie and plus a bit of rugby to watch.

May be thats it?
leon

2010-01-31T12:35:00.000-08:00

the weather at the beach was quite wild, and yet calm all in the same day. perfect for geographers with new cameras!

Leon

2010-01-31T12:12:00.000-08:00

My Jedi wife.

2010-01-31T12:03:00.000-08:00

taking it easy at the beach with our friends Chris and chrissie this weekend, kate has discovered her pockets, and now walks everywhere with her hands in them!

2010-01-27T11:33:00.000-08:00

I also love my dogs, Even if I have been a bad parent to them this week.
This is Tiki in about the best health i have seen her.......

leon

2010-01-23T09:27:00.000-08:00

i love clouds.... I'm such a geographer.

2010-01-23T09:21:00.001-08:00

a lovely lovely sunny day out at Mount Edgcombe. kate enojying the beach and making sand castles for everyone..... and Tiki!