A Sunday walk

We went for a walk with Donovan's family on Sunday through the forest behind their house. We came upon this tree that had fallen over in a strong wind. Most of the roots were over a rock shelf and had no chance of embedding properly. Look how big the tree got though, it looked strong and healthy, but with a strong wind the true strength of it was proved.

A healthy winter soup

Delicious!

The children at the park

Ever go to the park with your family and notice that your wife is having more fun than the kids?

The seesaw:
This spinning roundabout type thing that spun really fast:
And then her favourite for the day, the dish she is sitting in spins around, what fun she had:
Oh, yes. I was there too (Gill dresses me, not literally you understand, but she buys my clothes.)

Pancakes sponsored by...

Just thought I'd catch you all up on what I do for a living these days - I told you about the online debt collecting system www.getting-paid.com previously.

I've got my finger in a few other pies as well. Finding clients is the overall banner for most of our (Peter Carruthers and I) efforts. It's at www.findingclients.co.uk

A while ago I built some software called the System Building Tool it's at www.nomore247.com

I've got another few ideas up my sleeve but that's it for now.

Cheers

Pete

Aren't they just beautiful!

Thanks goes to my cousin Jenny for these lovely pancakes. The turkey baster was a great idea and now I know how 'they' get their pancakes all the same size! Okay, almost all the same size. And the vanilla essence really does make all the difference. The kids loved them, and so did I, I had mine with chocolate spread, delicious.

I'm a real wild child

The 'honeymoon'

I knew we were going away somewhere, but I didn't know where. I was so surprised when Pete told me we were off to Dublin! I was excited the whole way there. I have wanted to go to Dublin for the whole time we have lived here, and now I have.

We stayed in the Belvedere Hotel. When we got there we went for a walk around the fair city. We walked along the banks of the Liffey, it is a beautiful wide river running through Dublin City.

In the morning it was out and about to see all of the different shops. We had a traditional Dublin breakfast (although I must admit it was just a normal English breakfast) but still very tasty. And Pete is sure he tore a calf muscle shopping :) He says he can walk for miles no problem, but shopping is another kind of fitness all together. We both had a great time in Dublin. And a very big thanks to Donovan and Eva who had our kids for the night. They had a good time too, dinner, movies the works. Thanks guys.