Holly, Ellen and I took a small trip to mid-north wales last weekend and went for a walk and a drive around Lake Vernwy. The Dam at Vernwy was the 1st UK design to allow water to fall directly over the dam, giving rise to the impressive display you can see here. The Dam was built to supply water to the city of Liverpool and still does.
After 6 years without a proper break, I finally managed to grab a week in the sun in Gran Canaria, down in Maspalomas. Hopefully publish a few photos when I get around to uploading to the server.
February was a visit busy month for us. I was lucky enough to secure a ticket to watch Wales beat Italy at the Millenium Stadium.
Holly celebrated her birthday, much to the amusement of Ellen.
and I managed to fit in a weekend trip up to Wales to watch Wales beat Scotland in a bar, just off the beach at Llandovery
Although H & E were away from christmas, it did not stop us having a great time when they returned. Click here to view a small selection of the photos.
Jacob celebrated his 5th birthday a few days ago and Holly and Ellen went down to Dorset to help him celebrate. The party was held at the local leisure centre in Broadstone, complete with ball park and soft play area. However Ellen and Ryan made their own fun with the wind machine…..watch…
Hardly seems beleiveable but Holly started school this September. She has been there a few weeks now and really enjoys it. Luckily for Holly she is in the same class as Marcus, so has some old friends as well as making new ones.
It can’t have failed to escape your attention that we had a little rain in Gloucester over the last few weeks!
So much so, that all routes from Work to Home where flooded and I could not get home. T had to pick the kids up as myself and colleagues prepared to spend the night at work until the flood water had subsided. Fortunately, by Midnight, the rain had abated and the roads improved enough to attempt the drive home.
Finally made it home at 1am, and the kids came home at breakfast time. We spent the weekend dodging the rain, only for the water to be cut off Sunday PM, due to the flooding to the local water treatment plan. 9 days later we finally got tap water back, but for those 9 days, we have to collect bottled water from the supermarket and water from mobile bowsers just to eat, drink, wash and cleanse ourselves.
H & E were excellent thru, and now we can look forward to daily baths and showers again.
But hopefully now I have solved the video problem.. click on the image below to see a quick clip of the kids. If it works I will be posting a few more.
A few pics of Holly & Ellen
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This sizing seems to be a problem at the momenr for some people, I am currently working on this.
Being applying for a couple of jobs and had an interview that came to nought, so too busy to really update any PC stuff, other than patch the server with the latest security updates.
H has pretty much mastered Windows now and quite happily sits on “her” pc and plays the few educational games on their, or browses the Ceebies site. Thankfully I updated the router a few weeks ago and this has some basic content filtering to cover the moments when I an not there, but will need to look for a more robust solution over the next few months.
H also has the hospital on Friday to examine her ear, make sure no lasting damage from her recent ear infection, so likely to be another weekend far removed from the keyboard.