I Will Drive 500 Miles…York

5th July 2018 Family Life No Comments
Weather was not so brilliant today so we opted for a change of plan.  Wee man was booked into Junior Segways session at 11, which was cool fun for him, sister had her session yesterday as she is older and had the opportunity to do the adult version, tour round…

I Will Drive 500 Miles…Scarborough

2nd July 2018 Family Life No Comments
Took a wee day trip to Scarborough today, both Yve and I have been at separate times in our childhood, but never together nor as a family.  My memory of Scarborough is of an outdoor pool with massive symmetrical slides, that went up a hill that you climbed and then…

I Will Drive 500 Miles…Filey

2nd July 2018 Family Life No Comments
It’s Summer 2018 and we have a 2 centre family holiday to take care of, this for us usually involves a fair amount of driving.  The last one I recorded was “June Road Trip”.  This one sees a fair amount of better and more thought through preparation, staring with me…

Forced Rhythms of Pace

23rd June 2018 Adoption Family Life No Comments
Reflecting these past few days about pace and how we manage our lives, with Wee Man especially and with Girly Girl we have come to appreciate that there are times when we need to stop and oft force ourselves to regroup and recalibrate as a family.  Wee man is high…

Habit forming …

21st June 2018 Life No Comments
For about a year now Yve and I have been working on our weight. We decided collectively on a weekend away in Feb 2017 that we needed to work on our weight and this our health, this Father ain’t getting any younger ye know. Well took us till about May…

Inspired by my World

19th June 2018 Family No Comments
It has been some time since I have updated this site and while I have had inspiration and musings that would have been worthy for one reason or another they haven’t made it onto these pages.  Lots I could tell you, not the time. Fathers Day here in the UK…

Too busy reading

14th December 2014 Life No Comments
One of my last posts was towards the end of Movember and in it I had my glasses on and indicated that I was “too busy reading”.  For those that know me, this will perhaps come as a poorly scripted joke, since I have never been much of a reader,…

Now you see it now you don’t

14th December 2014 Family Life No Comments
Well it didn’t take long after the end of Movember for the facial hair to come off.  As is no secret I wasn’t overly impressed with the facial hair on me and the family liked it even less, especially missus.  So we are back to the normal, clean cut, clean…

17th Movember

17th November 2014 Family Life No Comments
Trying to keep it going, had some fun this morning on the way to school.  Wee man is not good with not being given the lead and being told something other than what he wanted so we started our school walk with sourpuss walking a wee bit back.  So as…