Destination: United Kingdom

14 July, Monday

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 | By ronsan | Views [219]

Bastille Day! Today we had to get stuck into the packing with a vengeance as Chris was returning with a truck. We went to the local supermarket first, to pick up the boxes and then spent a few hours wrapping and packing, sorting and stacking. Chris ... Read more >

13 July, Sunday

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 | By ronsan | Views [203]

Today was the Bideford Water Festival, which promised to be very inteesting. It starting with a blessing by a local Minister, and with everyone singing the hymn, Eternal Father, Strong to Save. Before that though, on the walk into town, we saw a quite ... Read more >

12 July, Saturday

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 | By ronsan | Views [339]

When Joan's house was being inspected by the purchasers, a wasp's nest was found in the roof. Apparently it had been gassed ages ago and was inert but the purchasers asked for it to be removed. Today a man came to remove it and it was an amazing size! ... Read more >

11 July, Friday

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 | By ronsan | Views [230]

Chris had to return to Crowthorne for work for a few days and so we decided to have an explore with Jean. We headed south to Cornwall, through more beautiful rolling hills and hedgerows filled with purple foxgloves and other lovely wildflowers. Not ... Read more >

10 July, Thursday

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 | By ronsan | Views [239]

Ron, Sam and I set off for Devon around 10am on another dreary day! Jean and Chris were clearing out his mother's house in Bideford (she had died recently) and we went down to help with the heavy stuff, as well as to have a few days break visiting Devon ... Read more >

Homeward Journey - Singapore

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 | By tregenza_family | Views [631]

The London to Singapore leg of the journey was with British Airways and two of the TV screens in our row weren't functioning. Not long after take-off neither were the overhead reading lights - 13hrs on a plane with two children, no TV and unable to get ... Read more >

Tags: travelling with children

Gallery: Singapore Night Zoo and Cousins

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 | By tregenza_family | Photo Gallery

Gallery: Cotswold Wildlife Park

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 | By tregenza_family | Photo Gallery

Spanish eyes

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 | By wandering_jess | Views [1419]

The bulls, the sangria, the passion, the spirit and the crowds. That just about sums up the key ingredients that make pamplona a visitor's paradise playground. Everything about Pamplona during the festival of saint fermin was celebrated with a fervour ... Read more >

Why Liverpool is not known for its world class musem exhibits.

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 | By timoth | Views [292]

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I don't have much in life, but fuck I've got a nice hat.

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 | By timoth | Views [360] | Comments [7]

Greetings all, Well, I'm about four months late in doing this, but as someone who didn't start university until 28, that shouldn't come as a big surprise to those who know me best. I've decided to start updating the blog because I've got so many half-... Read more >

9 July, Wednesday

Wed, 9 Jul 2008 | By ronsan | Views [251]

Well - once again it poured down, so we didn't go to the Cotswolds after all! Instead, we stayed in Leamington Spa where Ron had his first English haircut since we emigrated to Australia and I had my eyebrows and eyelashes tinted. Boring, but better ... Read more >

Gallery: Last Days in Oxfordshire

Wed, 9 Jul 2008 | By tregenza_family | Photo Gallery

Leaving UK

Wed, 9 Jul 2008 | By tregenza_family | Views [539]

Hi all. I'm writing this from the departures lounge at Heathrow Airport. It took 2 hours from driving the hire car back to the Europcar office next to one of the runways to finally being able to slump in a chair with a refreshment. We had to do some ... Read more >

Scilly Parents

Tue, 8 Jul 2008 | By chloe | Views [684]

They have been and gone and apart from the odd rainy day they enjoyed it!! It was so nice to have mum and dad over to see the beauty of the isles of scilly and to show them where I work and my favourite places and to meet Al of course!! the first full ... Read more >