That’s your lot?Nah, this is my Mum’s allotment! Like a cottage industry in the making.Food in abundance.Colours and smells (yes that’s ‘compost’, or as we call it horse sh*t!) galore. And clearly full of Filipino and child labour. Naughty Mummy! One of those poor kids up to his waist in raspberry thorns, poor little lad, earning below minimumRead More

I know, I’ll hand over to Ollie so he can do a blog of his trip to Penang.Now there’s a great idea.Over to you No1. Son – Ollie’s 1st blog!Can’t wait! Hi! It’s me! Well, first off, it has been a good week/camp. Of course, I missed my family and the usual things I doRead More

    OK OK I do have a new camera!Artsy Fartsy!                  

OK so Ollie’s schooling with Eton is sadly reaching an end this week. Very sad in fact, as we have certainly been through a lot together with his pupils and teachers – people we now class as family. We love you all and thank you for the support, guidance and friendship over the years. MeRead More

Phewy! Yep we had two concurrent parties. Father’s Day and the Thank You Teachers party. Goodness me. Well actually I loved this as I had a beer at each and was doing shuttle runs – ha ha! Come on you know me so well by now! Here are some gorgeous shots of party No.2 –Read More

OK OK I know some will love and some will hate this one. Also slightly out of order or proceedings of our London trip – but it’s a ‘quickie’. I am reaching a back-log of the UK trip as we did so much and therefore so much to share. We went to show Ollie StamfordRead More

Our 1st full day in London – hmmm what to do what to do??? I had a food idea in my head that I feel really needed executing whilst we were here. Yes let’s explore the foodcourt in Harrods – woo hoo! A beautifully sunny day, No.14 bus and off we all went – arriving outside the iconicRead More

My great mate, that I just happened to be with last week in UK whilst on holiday, popped me an SMS. Thanks Brownie. Guess why?    Yes – TWENTY THOUSAND PLUS views now of my blog. It is just amazing to think back to when I started this – sad times.Now to family times, and fun times. You guysRead More

Maybe these beautiful snaps may cheer up a dreary day if it is Autumnal where you are. Here is same same as always – bloody hot, so off we troop to the Gardens as inside the greenhouses is just oh so lovely and cool. On the way though we stopped at Peach Garden for lunchRead More

Yet another “Great Escape” kicks in to action tomorrow midday Singapore time. Only Mary and Amy are doing the “digging” this time, and will go back to Philippines to kill about 18 birds with one stone.  Amy was just desperate to go back with Mary and see Mary’s kids and the monkey of course, and her beingRead More