Our Family newsletter for 2009

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"Mr Humbug sees the light" was James's school play with him in the leading role!

James and his friend Matthew at Camden Road skate park

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Joe's class had their MYP graduation ceremony. It was a nice occasion with musical entertainment courtesy of the legendary singer Mari Wilson - she no longer has her legendary beehive!

Lovely evening out at the Thames Festival 2009.

On the beach at Weston

Bob, Brenda, Sarah and the boys saw sand sculture, rode donkeys and had a nice day.

Dan's birthday outing - Airsoft

Going out for our wedding aniversary

Celebrating twenty years of marriage by going for dinner and dancing on a river cruise!

Holiday in Spain

We've just got back from Asturias (via the two day trip on the Pride of Bilbao).

It was jolly windy on the way out.

Lots of local produce at the farmer's market

Climbing in the Picos De Europa

Grainstores - on stilts

James, Dan & Phil

We spent a lot of time on the beach

Canoeing

See all the photos here (there are quite a few!)

What a difference 23 years makes!

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2009

We had a great weekend in the midlands - Chris (one of our old college mates and ex-flatmate of Sarah) was being ordained into the Methodist ministry. Sarah and Lucy went around their old haunts and Phil and Kevin took all six boys to Cadbury World in Birmingham. If that wasn't enough we had a barbeque with Phil's folks. Nice!

All the pictures are here. (oh, I stole some of them from Kevin's FaceBook - some are off various mobile 'phones)

Sarah and James went to the Wetlands Centre.

Bank Holiday Monday and despite the rain we went walking in the Chilterns.

David Hickman's Birthday Outing - Dan and James went with friends for an afternoon of high-speed go-carting.
Thanks to Paul and Barbara for these photos.

We went to Hawkstone Park Follies with Heather and Chris on Easter Sunday.

Here are a couple of photos from last year that I took off Sarah's Dad's PC!

The owls came to James's school!

Only a couple of us made it into the office - I walked from home, hour and a half door to door (I took this picture as I passed Euston) and probably the nicest commute ever! People were very cheery and the silence that snow brings is lovely. All three of the boys were very excited as their schools are closed and they're off to the Heath to go sledging. See it all here.

James's Birthday meal at Miso