Category Archives: Featured Articles

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Elsie’s first birthday – and a mini street party

25 May Filed under Family Photos, Featured Articles. 2 Comments.

The sun seemed to shine on the righteous this Bank Holiday weekend, as we had a bit of a houseful to celebrate Elsie’s first birthday. Much as we did the same with Lily – and not being the type of folks for Christenings, we thought … Read More →

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Friends Reunited: Ben Cole visits from Canada

13 May Filed under Blog, Family Photos, Featured Articles. No comments.

It’s great catching up with old friends.  Sometimes it goes far too long between seeing friends.  It’s hard enough to co-ordinate good time together with people who live a few miles down the road in these busy days of raising children, let alone people who … Read More →

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Broken left collarbone and 7 lug stitches

19 Apr Filed under Blog, Featured Articles, Sport. 11 Comments.

Not a very good day on the bike really. It was meant to be a relaxed reintroduction to mountainbike racing after ages off the sport but it turned out to be 20 minutes racing then a trip to Fairfield hospital via Mountain Rescue Land Rover … Read More →

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Easter week in Woolacombe

18 Apr Filed under Blog, Family Photos, Featured Articles, Video. 2 Comments.

Lovely time last week in Woolacombe with our old Gloucestershire mates the Greenwoods. So great to go away and have such fun with people who make life so uncomplicated for us with our semi demanding 11 month-old.

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Lily-Livered… Lily does the U11s Liver Hill fell race

31 Mar Filed under Featured Articles, Sport. 2 Comments.

A very proud pushy dad here… Lily did her first running race this evening at Marl Pitts – the junior event in the Liver Hill fell race. She was so excited – so was I. The course for juniors was (I’m guessing..) about a mile … Read More →

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Cannondale Six Carbon – my lovely new bike

27 Mar Filed under Art / Design, Featured Articles, Sport. 1 Comment.

Had the great pleasure of building up my new bike from Wheelbase on Wednesday night. Just waiting for a slighly nicer day than today to take it for a spin… it’s light, as it looks, and I’m sure it’s going to handle as well as … Read More →

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A weekend in Ripple and a trip to the Forest of Dean

16 Mar Filed under Family Photos, Featured Articles, Sport. 1 Comment.

Had a lovely time this weekend with our old mates Andrew and Denise in Ripple, near Upton on Severn. The catalyst for going down there was an invitation from Andrew to come and run in the Forest of Deal half marathon, so it meant that … Read More →

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Cadair Idris and the Rhinogydd – another lovely weekend of gentlemanly leisure

2 Mar Filed under Blog, Featured Articles, Google Earth, Mountains. 1 Comment.

A fine weekend of walking in Wales just gone.  My cousin Adrian brings together ten or so of us each year at this time for a trip to the hills. 

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Our half term hols… Peebles and Edinburgh

23 Feb Filed under Family Photos, Featured Articles. 1 Comment.

We spent ages weighing up the pros and cons of a big holiday with a little baby.  It’s a big deal really trying to get things right because we wanted to get on with things and have some fun – for Lily, Katie and I … Read More →

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Listen Up! by Merchandise

13 Feb Filed under Featured Articles, Other Music. 1 Comment.

Merchandise‘s new single arrived with me yesterday and seeing the cover, that familiar toon style of illustration and the brown/orange thang is really starting to stamp the Merchandise brand on all that they do.