Christmas 2006

This year Ang and I spent Christmas in our lovely new home in Linton. We hosted Christmas lunch with my parents and brother Phil attending. It was a lovely day and Ang cooked some great food. We finished the day by playing the Really Nasty Horse Raising game! Click on the link below for some pics.

Christmas 2006

5th Wedding Anniversary in Ireland (Oct 2006)

In October this year, Ang and I went to Ireland for our 5th wedding anniversary. We hired a car (a nice Alfa) and drove from Dublin to Killarney where we stayed in a lovely hotel for a couple of days. While there we drove around the Ring of Kerry, had a couple of lovely meals in a traditional Irish pub and got very excited by a fantastic castle near Cork. We had a fantastic time and took some photos which you can see by clicking on the link below:

5th Wedding Anniversary Ireland

Photos of Our Visit to Plymouth & Eden Project (Sept 2006)

Earlier this year, in September, Ang and I went to a friends wedding down in Plymouth. The weather was fantastic and we enjoyed the day. On the Sunday we went to the Eden Project and walked around the amazing domes. As we tried to leave, our car (the Vectra) finally gave up and we had to come home in a very small Corsa! The two links below take you through to the photos that I took while down in Cornwall.

Plymouth Visit

Eden Project in Cornwall

Brazil Holiday Photos

Ang and I had a wonderful holiday in Brazil earlier this year - click on the link below to see some of the photos that I took.

Brazil Holiday 2006

Broadband Has Landed

Well, after many many many moons, I have finally got connected to the interweb via broadband at home! Talk Talk are officially rubbish (after 5 months they still hadn't placed a wholesale order with BT), and BT are slightly better - but they still took one and a half months to get me connected. The problem that the engineer resolved this morning was a wiring problem in the exchange - DOH! Well, now that I'm online you can expect to see much more of me. So whats changed in the past 7 months? Whats all this YouTube all about? I'm off surfing...

50 Ways to Train A Cat...

... was the title of the book that Ang was reading on Sunday morning. Why? Because 'little' Josh and 'big fat' Toby (our cats) had been attacking our Christmas tree all weekend and we'd just about had enough with them. Yes it was fun to start with when Josh jumped up and whacked a bauble halfway across the carpet, but after the 23rd bauble had dissapeared under the sofa it was time for some drastic training... unfortunately, despite our best efforts, no training succeeded and I'll probably go home to a toppled Christmas tree tonight. At least we tried.

While I'm on the topic of Josh and Toby, Saturday afternoon saw Josh clinging on to the top of the curtains in our living room!

WHY ON EARTH HAVE YOU CLIMED THE CURTAIN?

Nothing but a little meeow from Josh to explain his actions.

For the rest of the day both J & T sat on the table, peacefully looking up at the curtains but despite a "man look" I couldn't find what or why they were so interested. As I had my little goodnight chat with Toby about 11pm I thought I'd sit and stare at the curtains with him - if he'd managed to stare at the curtains all evening then the least I could do was to spend 5 minutes bonding with him and share the experience. After a few minutes I heard some rustling coming from the top of the curtains, and this time it wasn't Josh. Pulling the curtains back I couldn't see anything... but wait, that looks like a tail... hold on, ... A MOUSE! It had managed to hide between the curtain and the lining! Crazy thing.

Well, the next part of the story isn't quite as exciting but it involved Ang and I in our PJs with a broom each chasing the mouse out of the house as it ran from corner to corner and magically jumping 12 inches in the air!