Category Archives: Family Photos

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Nativity 2009 – double the Christmassiness

23 Dec Filed under Blog, Family Photos, Featured Articles, Video. No comments.

We got a double whammy this year for the first time – Lily’s nativity plays have been a source of parental pride for the last few years but this year was also Elsie’s first public performance – in her nursery nativity this year. The snow … Read More →

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Jenny: 18 = me: old

4 Dec Filed under Audio, Family Photos, Featured Articles, Other Music, Video. 1 Comment.

The little baby that my sister in law Fiona and her husband Graeme had in 1991 – not very much further back than yesterday, it feels, is 18. Like millions of others before me, the coming of age of a close relative has really brought … Read More →

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Wheelbase Cyclocross – organisational skills to the test

4 Dec Filed under Blog, Family Photos, Featured Articles, Sport, Video. 2 Comments.

It seems to be ground hog day. The torment is the same each year. I plan the course, I rope in everyone that’s needed. I liaise endlessly with the council, I pack the car late at night, I get up early… then – somehow – … Read More →

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Little Haygarths cyclocross racing @ Brockhole

17 Nov Filed under Family Photos, Featured Articles, Sport. 2 Comments.

Lily and her cousin Angus had a muddy but brilliant time racing their bikes at the Lakes RC cyclocross at Brockhole (the Lake District National Park visitor centre on the shores of Lake Windermere).

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Half term hols… a Cumbrian secret

17 Nov Filed under Blog, Family Photos, Featured Articles. No comments.

We discovered a lovely thing about Cumbria in half term that you mustn’t let on. When we said we were going to a caravan park for four nights near Millom, we were generally met with distaste and grumpiness. Cumbria has in the heart of it … Read More →

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Angus’s Seventh Birthday

19 Oct Filed under Blog, Family Photos, Featured Articles. 1 Comment.

A lovely day in itself to go and spend the day celebrating my nephew Angus’s 7th birthday on Saturday – and all the fun that this entails, but was was extra special was that we drove less than an hour to their new home in … Read More →

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Lily’s first Cyclocross of 2009

4 Oct Filed under Family Photos, Featured Articles, Sport. 4 Comments.

We just had a lovely weekend – a very deliberate effot to stay away from exercise for me after the intense and selfish build-up to the Theww Peaks last weekend – and a weekend of just hanging out at home and doing simple things with … Read More →

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Lily’s seventh birthday

7 Sep Filed under Blog, Family Photos, Featured Articles. 1 Comment.

Lily turned 7 yesterday and we celebrated with a smallish but perfectly formed family and friends gathering. Lily’s ‘main’ present was another bunny rabbit called Daisy, 12 weeks old, who was greeted by Lily’s male rabbit Ozzy in a VERY enthusiastic way. They’re being kept … Read More →

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Summer Holiday in Wales – Ogwen Bank

19 Aug Filed under Blog, Family Photos, Featured Articles. 1 Comment.

A third family holiday this year for us Haygarths in the UK – the ‘Staycation’ (or ‘Holistay’ – a more ‘English’ version of the new term I prefer) has really come of age. We booked a ‘log cabin’ (or really more a pine lodge – … Read More →

The Book of Elvis – by Lily

31 Jul Filed under Art / Design, Family Photos. 1 Comment.

Lily goes off from time to time and sites down quietly with her pens – like lots of six year olds do – to create something.  Usually it’s a card or a picture, but sometimes it’s something a bit more of a ‘project’. Last week … Read More →