From being completely lazy for most of the year, we have not really done much on the website. That does not mean we haven't been busy, and I will try to show some of the more interesting events of the past few months in a couple of posts.

First up, we managed a short trip to Wales to visit Ealey and Gerry for a weekend in Wales. Blessed with fantastic weather we ventured up the Geyer (a hill near Abergavenny) and visited the lovely Llanthony Abbey where we enjoyed a lovely beer near the old monastery.

We popped the pictures in the gallery but here are a couple:


Lena and Gerry


Andrea, Ealey and Gerry at Llanthony

Happy New Year Everyone!!!

2007 was a great year! We celebrated 2008 coming by watching London's fireworks from the apartment of a friend.

Andrea's Youtube videos
Greg's Flickr site

I have sometimes been a bit lax on updates from this site, so please use the above links to see what we've been doing. I will pop these links onto the sidebar so you can come back to them.

2007 was a great year: during it we had many great events.

Lena's 1st Birthday
We moved house
We became Aunt and Uncle to Eleanor
We had a fun family trip to Scotland

In 2008, we want to:

Improve our house
Visit Australia in April
Holiday in Iceland
Go Skiing (wishful thinking)
and much much more!

Happy Birthday Lena!!!



To celebrate Lena's Birthday, Greg made her some pizzas, and Andrea made a cake with a special recipe and we got to enjoy a lovely day together. Some of you might expect a phone call or two, as Lena now has her own delightful telephone, with some cool ringtones.

We also were happy to pick up our bronze turkey ready for Christmas. This 5.6 kg beast will feed the 5 of us twice over we believe, so no need to dash out to the supermarket for a while after Christmas - maybe even until New Year!

So we upped house and moved one more time, or is that one last time maybe.

At least this time, we didn't move far, it is about 200 yards from the old place, on a busier road, but bigger and fitting our needs. We were lucky enough to have Francois, Phiona, and my Dad helping us move our stuff in, and managed the bulk of the move in 1 big day without professional help.

Lena is enjoying the new house, finding her newly learned crawling skills really useful, and also finding the steep steps a challenge rather than a barrier. She is also getting social with some other young children...



The new place is a lovely end of terrace house, 3 beds, nice living areas and a good sized kitchen, which is something we really prize in our modern living. The next challenge is the decorating, changing some of the more dated styles to fit in with how we want to live.



To top off the move, we set ourselves the very short deadline of a week to prepare for a housewarming party. At the last moment we did some panic buying of beer, wine and food, which means we are still very well prepared for anyone who wants to pop round for a quick beer.



I also have put a bunch of photos onto flickr of the housewarming