Despite the Lambeth Registrar’s best efforts, we finally got a birth certificate for Indie and Pip went directly to Petty France for an express passport application. Indie was interviewed to determine her suitability for British citizenship, a passport photo taken in the split-second between Pip removing her supporting hand, and Indie’s head rolling off to one [...]
Pip, Laurie and I spent our last free weekend before we’re in the drop-zone by going camping as a family of three for the last time. As it was the Tilmanstone Church Fete that weekend we camped outside Folkestone, and my Mum & Dad came in their motor-home as well.
We had a very English weekend [...]
We spent this weekend in Kent at Pip’s parents’ house, celebrating their Ruby Wedding Anniversary. Congratulations, Sally & David!





The house was full, there were motorhomes in the paddocks, campers in the garden, and a jazz band in the bolt-hole. Archbishop Desmond Tutu and his wife Leah were the guests of honour, and in the Saturday night barbecue competition they chose my burgers over all others.





Sunday was a church service, then some memorable speeches and a lunch, accompanied by Jo’s Mother Hubbard’s Traditional Jazz Band, and the London Adventist Chorale.





On the Monday I took some formal photos, then Pip, Gin, Laurie and I went to the beach at Broadstairs with Venetia and Dave and their four boys. I swam in the sea for probably the last time this year (and the only time in Britain!)
The rest of the photos are here.





Update 22nd July 8:15 – Pip took some (weird false colour) videos. They’re on YouTube here, here and here. Continue reading Sally & David Williams’ Ruby Wedding Anniversary
My Mum’s posted her photos [...]
A video from my tech-literate Mum! You need the sound on. A cute first half, loses its way in the middle, but has an ending no one expects. So you have to watch the whole thing, but it’s only 90 seconds long.
Full screen and [...]
We spent Christmas at the Mosses’ in Felixstowe. That was a long time ago, but I’ve been trying to do some fancy stuff with my website. It hasn’t worked, so I’ll just post the photos.
Full [...]
We’re back from our Morocco holiday, and I’ve uploaded the photos. Pip’s going to blog her holiday diary with the full story, but for now you can see my photos on the gallery here (page 2 here), and Gin’s photos here.
Here are a few to keep [...]
Dom and Asia became Mr & Mrs Collison in Torun, Poland on 23rd August 2008. We all flew out on the Thursday morning and spent a couple of days enoying the city.
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We’ve just got back from France, where we camped for the weekend with my Mum and Dad. They’re just finishing their 2008 Grand European Tour and hadn’t seen Laurie for around four months.
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On October 7th 2007, my brother-in-law Jo & I ran the Loch Ness Marathon. We both finished, he in 4:15:24 (866/1427), and I in 4:36:05 (1096/1427).
Pip & Ginny ran the River Ness 10K at the same time, and Griff, Clare, Amy and Skye came up to babysit, as did my parents in their motorhome.
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