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

Sad and Happy, Happy and Sad. What to say!  Ollie off today for 6 days for his school field trip to Penang in Malaysia. Blimey when I was his age I used to go camping at Kingsdown, Kent on the white cliffs in a flipping tent, in the howling wind and rain. He gets toRead More

My baby girl turned 5 today – oh my goodness. So with much planning – almost military grade, we organised a party for her and and her school mates, along with Ollie and a couple of his ‘keep him company’ pals. I think it went very very well. Thanks to my Mary and Ollie forRead More

Off we go to Ollie’s school this morning to see the much awaited output of all his and his classmates hard work. The Exhibition!!! And boy was it good. There was a comments book and I left something along the lines of “I’m 44 and I actually learnt a lot today from the kids…” WeRead More

“There’s canvases in them there hills…” That’s my cry. Why…? Well because Mr and Mrs Totton took me and family Kennett to Fort Canning this Saturday morning. Armed with cameras. Bottles of water. A change of clothes. And at the end of the session, 6 very sweaty bodies. It was our new photo shoot. SomethingRead More

One of those; “Oh my God we’ve got nothing to do until Sunday evening!” weekends. What shall we do…? What shall we do…? I know let’s go explore the new stuff at Sentosa. So I booked an hotel for one night, let’s not do ping pongs back and forth to home, and let’s blitz theRead More

Bit of a strange one this – a bit like “The Perfect Storm” – calm and then boom! Best laid plans fell over –  we no longer were to wait to collect from the airport in Singapore, but had to jump on planes to collect from Philippines, destination unknown. I won’t go into detail here,Read 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, andRead More