Sep 012010
Last week we all went camping in Kent. The campsite was Welsummer and it was only about an hour and a half away. The weather was fine at the beginning of the week, but deteriorated by the end of the holiday. The children played in the forest and also in the fields with the other [...]
Freya's Diagnosis
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Aug 172010
We had a letter from Great Ormond Street Hospital last week and I thought I would put the body of the letter on the web for safe-keeping: Diagnosis Left duplex system with non-functioning dilated upper moiety and ectopic ureter Dribbling incontinence Procedure Open left moiety hemi-nephroureterectomy Freya was admitted with the above procedure and underwent [...]
Aug 062010
Freya has been out of hospital since Tuesday and is doing really well – if you saw her you wouldn’t know that she had a major operation. These are some photos of Freya when she was in hospital on 28/07/10 and also of us in Hockley Woods where we went for a picnic yesterday.
Family BBQ
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Jul 172010
On this blustery afternoon all my relatives came around for a BBQ. It was great and we have lots of left-overs! Here are a few pictures…
Angus' Sports Day 2010
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Jul 162010
It was Angus’s Sports Day this afternoon – all two hours of it. Angus did well and won his heat of the sprint even though he was looking around at the competition. My relatives came by for the last half an hour. I got some pictures but I don’t think they wanted me to take [...]
Old Time Musical
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Jul 082010
Ross gave his last performance in the Old Time Musical at the Infants School this afternoon. He had a line: ”I say I say I say… Why did the sea blush? Because it saw the ship’s bottom” It was a good afternoon and Freya spent an hour in the creche building a house.
Freya's First Sports Day
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Jul 052010
This morning I went to Freya’s Sports Day at the Trinket Box. She had about four races and I had a go on the Space Hoppers. It was also a fund raiser for Cancer Research and I manned the Stocks. However I ended up getting some of the people who work at the Trinket Box [...]
Angus & Ross Go Camping
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Jun 252010
Tonight Angus goes camping at Belchamps until Sunday afternoon with 4th Thorpe Bay Scouts (note I created this website) - he is all packed and ready to go. Ross will join Angus tomorrow afternoon but he is only going for 24 hours and is camping indoors due to Ross’ age. This means that we only have [...]
Ross Photographed Outside Barclays
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Jun 212010
Ross had his photo taken with a trophy outside the new Barclays Bank in the High Street on 12 June – I thought you might like it.
Ross' Sports Day
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Jun 182010
This afternoon we went to watch Ross in his school Sport Day. The weather was a bit cold but at least it didn’t rain. Ross did really well and won the sprint in his heat at the end.