HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO DANIEL ON TUESDAY

To our lovely boy Daniel.
Grandma and I want to wish you a very happy birthday on Tuesday.
We are sitting here in the cold weather, wishing we could see you all, out there in the warmth of Singapore.
It is Saturday and we have missed the post but we are thinking about you in your school holidays
and hoping you are having a good time.
We hope you are all feeling better after your colds. Daddy says you are getting better, so enjoy your birthday, with your Pokemon. I am sorry I cannot play Pokemon, but I don't suppose I could beat you.
We are looking forward to our trip to see Uncle Julian and Auntie Ruth in France in two weeks time. I hope there is no snow, although I expect you would like to see some and make some snowballs. We are looking forward to some of Julian's cooking

Lots of love from England. Up the England football team in the World Cup!!
Happy birthday from Grandma and Grandad XXX

Christmas is on its way

Hi

Xmas update, started with a late night shop in Exeter last night , stopping for a curry and drink in a lovely old converted chapel. The lights were on and it there was a chill in the air. I'm making arrangements for the wrinkles pickup from the island and will let you know Ed & T final times asap, need to fit in Brighton with wanting to see you guys on the sun/mon( 20th-21st), so ferry times in due course.

Hope all well and happy.

love T xx

A Good Day

Hi all

What a good day i have had!

sometime during today i have lost me debit card, what a nightmare, first talking to India about it, second the hassel changing all of the passwords, internet etc. and third not getting a replacement for upto 10 days ( at the end of a month what good timing)

On a lighter note been to the pictures a couple of times seen NewMoon on friday which not like the book but not a bad film and tonight we went to see An Education which was very good.

More photos

Hi Folks,
have uploaded T's cd of photos from t'big 50th day, church, whopping great car etc at
ezappy's Flickr page, so there's always a backup copy online.. impressed?
Auntie Margaret(Mum!) and Uncle Hugh loved the trip back to the island and keep banging on about it! Lol

The Wonderful Life of a Student!

Good afternoon all,

So as to combat the previous post from my mother I feel it only best to 'PERSONALLY' tell you all how I am doing!

As your probably aware i am indeed down in beautiful Devon for the week to 'break away from the smog' and also to do some hard core revision, but as you can read from mum's post that clearly failed yesterday as we went shopping (i say went, more like me and Greg were dragged) Its OK though as i managed

to get a delicious Gingerbread Latte and all my troubles seemed to melt away! I do however have to bring every one's attention to the what can only be described as THEE fashion disgrace of the year- Mum wanted to purchase this purple duffel coat! Yes i know what your think i am merely pulling your leg but hence forth photographic evidence! I'm not going to lie to you but she looked like a bunch of gone off purple chipolatas!

This leads me beautifully on to the Uni update, as last Friday i had a what can only be described as the devils work of an exam. It was on Anatomy and Physiology, two of my worst subjects but necessary to qualify as a medic! Sad times ladies and gents, sad times. Anyway as you can guess the exam went swimmingly, that is if you use the analogy of swimming of force ten gales in the Northern Atlantic! Needless to say i have to wait 6 weeks for this result and then be told of the impending doom of a resit, hence the reason why I wanted to 'break away' and re-revise the subject plus the other subjects too!

However, fear not my wondrous family, there is good in this post! I am indeed going don la London with Father and the clan to watch the Children in Need Rocks (the royal Albert hall) Its a very showbizzy event and also staying at a very lavish hotel, the Mayfair in London none the less!

I am looking forward to it, however I don't know how 'gigy' it will be as can imagine it to be more of a posh show! Either way the line up is great with acts such as Take That, Muse, Leona Lewis, Paolo Nutini, Mika, Snow Patrol, Cheryl Cole, and also none other than Dame Shirley Bassey!!! Stay tuned folks to hear a in-depth on-set report live from my twitter or I'll get round to posting something on here when I'm back home!

So Without further ado i will leave you all exhausted from reading this mammoth post!

Stay well

J

PS- Sweep would also like to say hi as he has been sitting next to the mac the whole time I've been writing this, head butting me for love! Ouch!

Hi to all

Brilliant news about Daz and Roz we re all relieved and as you say hopefully they can get on with sorting themselves out for the future. I'm sure there will be off days lets hope they can be strong together.

Jason is here and we have had a day shopping in Exeter, retail therapy, good for the soul, but nothing out there.

He is off to Brighton tomorrow, to see Tara and then he's at the Albert hall concert for Children in Need with Richard and Co... nice..

We have new windows in the spare room which look fab, and will keep our guests warm at last.

I have the go ahead to decorate it!

hope alls well with you all.

T & G x

Hello

Marvelous News, Roz moved back in the Darren approx 2 weeks ago, we are very happy for them both & hope that they can now move forward together.

On other news, we've finally moved Darren completely out of the shed =0) to make room for our new treadmill, the old one finally bit the dust after approx 4 month's of trying to repair it! but at least we tried. We are reinforcing the flooring for Ed's running (he is very heavy footed & I'm just heavy...)also installed a heater & the good thing is once we've finished exercising we can open the wine fridge & take a bottle back to the house! all in all a win win situation lol

We'll keep you updated when it arrives!

PS: Hope Jason has a wonderful time with you down there in deepest Devon

Lovely Photos

Hi to all out there, just to say a great choice of photos,reaaly captures the days events nicely.

Had my friends from manchester stay last week took them to all the sites around here, fish & chips followed by Devon ice cream the highlight!! ( for me anyway).

Jason due to visit next week.

hope all ok x

Bob and Mimi have arrived!!

We've finally done it and submitted to the technology revolution! Matt is now thoroughly embarrassed by us! He'd better hope we don't do facebook next (still building up to that one!!!!)

Uncle Bill passing

It was sad to hear of Uncle Bills passing, our thoughts are with Chrissie and the family, I have a great memory of when we all went to his house boat, all the family were there , Merrow -Smiths, Bakers, great time playing by the river with our cousins. it was after Chris died i think. Bill was always a friendly and happy uncle.

Au revoir Mini!!!

For all who were lucky enough to not recieve a wailing hysterical phone call.. I have indeed sold Mini. She was a beauty and she served me well, but the time had come to go our separate ways. It was like taking a lamb to slaughter. She had no idea. Sad times..

Anyway, in order to become a complete green warrior/ tree hugging hippy/ serious Geography Student I have purchased a bike..

Drum roll please....

I would like to introduce you to Vera Lucinda..

Anybody know the law for drink/cycling? Haha jokes..


P.S Thankyou very much Ed, Tee and Mummy for a fantastic weekend. I thoroughly enjoyed Nan and Grumps Anniversary. The memory will last me a lifetime xxxx

The First Day

Hi All
Just to let you know yesterday was the first day that i wore my glasses! there were quite a few comments at work mostly good ones, surprising things look alot clearer now:)

We were sorry to hear the news about uncle bill, and would like to pass our thoughts on to Chrissie, mum and dad were informed of Bill's passing yesterday.

Mum and dad's picture frame is now loaded fully loaded, the hard part is now going to happen, showing them how to use it, this may take some time, no, this will take alot of time knowing what dad's like with modern technology.

Tina and oxford

Well done T & Ed for friday, I thought it went really well and a good turn out for Tina. It felt right to have her final resting place as Oxford and with Grandpa & Grandma, the sun came out which I think you know I see as a sign that we were right.

The box of tricks are safely back and waiting for a quiet moment to look at. thank you for whatever you have given to me.

Well done to Darren, brilliant fishing...

Got home about 11pm, after the school run and cuppa with Mandy & co, at least the motorway was open , so with greg asleep and bags of chocolate I sped home!

Hope your weekend was fun x

Darren's Sea fishing Update

Once again Darren has got into the papers when it comes to sea fishing, and it's not the local Isle of Wight one, but the Southern Evening Echo.

Auntie Tina

Auntie Tina will be spending her last evening on the Isle of Wight with us safe & sound. Hopefully Ed & I have sorted her bits as she would have wished. It's really feels quite sad, the end of an era but we have wonderful memories of a very special lady always in our hearts xx

Hi

Thanks for letting us know, stephen seems to have had the same idea as us. at least its all sorted.

just done photos for you on cd , Ed, so your collection should be complete.

see you tomorrow, safe journey x

Tina's Ashes

Hi all

Just to let the family know, Steve has arranged dinner in a local pub after the crem
it's between Wheatley and Stanton st John's
See you at the crem tomorrow

My 1st blog

Well this is all very clever and exciting,

Tina's Ashes

Tina will be at rest on Friday at noon with her mum and dad

While chatting

Hi

While chatting to Teresa we have created this