Emma & K went for a frosty walk (I was so jealous) the other morning and here are some of Emma’s Pics. Continue reading

My Favourite album of 2014 by far. Go on Have a listen. Continue reading

Ray Winstone is on this weeks Desert Island Discs. What a lovely bloke. Continue reading

I know its a grainy but I like this piccie. Had a great night at the Barn Dance bumping into people and treading on toes, now I know what a ball in a pin ball machine feels like. Happy New year!! Continue reading

Not seen it yet but what a great Poster. Unfortunately it wasn’t used so you cant buy it. Continue reading

Had a lovely Christmas Day with dad and the Corkys. K did an amazing Dinner and my Christmas cake (although very substantial) wasn’t too bad! Happy Christmas! Continue reading

Very Busy at the Thomas’s this weekend. Emma’s making biccies K’s sorting out recipes and I’m decorating…. Continue reading

We have been completely addicted to this years strictly. The standard of the final four dancers was so high that it was extremely difficult to choose who to vote for. My favourite dance is the Argentine Tango and this one by Simon Webbe is amazing. as is Frankie Bridge’s to Beethovens fifth. and Caroline Flacks Continue reading

This lovely track, sung by Marcus Mumford is off “Lost On The River: The New Basement Tapes” with lyrics by Bob Dylan and tracks performed by amongst others, Mumford and Elvis Costello. Continue reading

Had a really nice weekend despite lots and lots of rain. Emma went to Chris & Dereks so K and I went to Cambridge for a mooch, bit of shopping and of course, lunch at Bills. A big Hamburger for me and a fish finger sandwich for K. Sorry about the hooded bag lady lurking… Continue reading

Had a really nice weekend despite lots and lots of rain. Emma went to Chris & Dereks so K and I went to Cambridge for a mooch, bit of shopping and of course, lunch at Bills. A big Hamburger for me and a fish finger sandwich for K. Sorry about the hooded bag lady lurking… Continue reading

We recently had a week up in Scotland with the Corkys. It was a great week, we flew up, which was so much better than driving up. The weather was pretty good, it had rained a lot up there and a lot of the rivers and lochs were really high but what rain we did… Continue reading

Its Emma’s Birthday this weekend so she had a Medieval banquet to celebrate. Ten friends came, K got dressed up as a lady of the manor and I was dressed as a monk/jedi knight (sadly no pics!) with a cushion as a big belly which the kids thought was great fun to keep punching! Cheers!… Continue reading

For the lack of blogging over the last couple of months I needed a break, plus I had 5 seasons of Breaking Bad to watch,(Best thing on telly ever!) Season 4 of Walking Dead,(Awesome) 6 episodes of detectorists (great BBC 4 comedy series written and directed by Mackenzie Crook which may still be on iplayer.)… Continue reading

Yes, Bures well Wissington in fact which is just 8 miles away in the Stour Valley. We found an amazing campsite called Rushbanks Farm in a lovely location right next to the river. We went with Hatty, lewis, Liane and Livvy. We had a lovely evening playing Cricket and cooking on a real fire, yes,… Continue reading

Hatty and I took the kids to Duxford Imperial War Museum for the day. It was fantastic, it was so good we weren’t able to do it all in a day. The Airspace section was particularly good showing the history and science of aviation with loads for the kids to do. We also got to… Continue reading

Had a great night camping watching bats, the stars and munching teacakes and biscuits. And then in the morning we messed around taking selfies! Continue reading

Emma and I went for a day out at Ickworth. They had a fairy Craft day so Emma was able to make a crown.. Conquer the monkey bars.. And climb a pole. Continue reading

We went up to Chalkney Woods again, cooked lunch and put up a swing which Emma played on for hours and hours…. she definitely loves a swing! Continue reading

Emma and I held a snail race and my snail “slowcoach” was rubbish winning just one of the seven races, Emma’s “Turbo” was the champion. This was Slowcoach’s one and only win as you can see it had to go to a photo finish. I got a bit wrapped in the moment! So did Emma… Continue reading

Drove down to Gunpowder Park near Waltham Abbey and cycled the 26 mile round trip to the Olympic Park and back. The park is pretty good although we didn’t see all of it as it took us quite a while to get there. Emma did really well, although K was a nervous wreck worrying that… Continue reading

I drove the car to Chappel and cycled back and then we all did the walk to Chappel. So nice to do these walks that K & I used to do before Emma was born. Continue reading

Really enjoyed doing the Archery at the Festival Would like to do more of this. Continue reading

I’ve got loads of blogging to catch up on so here goes…. Back on the 25th July we went for a weekend of camping near Warwick. Stopping at Charlecote Park on the way. Its so cool that these days the National Trust provide lots of stuff for the kids to do such as bouncing on… Continue reading

Great track from Jez and Andy Williams formerly of Doves Continue reading

ALZ-112 has wiped out most of the Human race and a growing population of Apes led by Caesar are flourishing until they are discovered by a small group of surviving Humans who are hoping to get a Hydro- electric dam working again to power there community in the City. Caesar allows them to continue but… Continue reading

Lands on feet after being hit head on by a car https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djrHbre2IeQ Continue reading

A wee trip upto Scotland in October. The Corky’s are in another house just up the road so should be a good week. Decided to fly up though, We didn’t fancy the drive up, its over 500 miles and the flights were only £140! We looked at getting the Caledonian sleeper train up there, I’ve… Continue reading