Bring out the Barbie!

It was the best feeling to invite our friends over for a barbie last Saturday afternoon.  

Am planning/hoping/praying on many more of those lazy days in the sunshine. 

First BBQ of the year!  

Playing under the sprinkler

Nanny & Poppy

Mum and Dad are here, living the country life.  Getting stuck into the garden, and into the daily routine.
Here's a snap shot of what we've been up to in the past 5 weeks before they sadly return on the 31st May.

Jaimie with her Poppy

Day out on the Norfolk broads

Norfolk Broads

Punting along the Cam River in Cambridge

The Castle in York

Just chilling at a bar in York

Pretty as a Tudor picture

The Three Tuns

Shopping in the Shambles, York

York Minster

The shortest stree with the biggest name

York Wall

3 mile walk around the city wall

Friends and Anniversarys...

JP and I celebrated our 10th wedding anniversary.  10 years!
With Mum and Dad here to look after the kiddies, we escaped to London to help Marie celebrate her 40th birthday!   Marie and Dill are x-HKers like us, so it was more than wonderful to see them again, catch up and PARTY!!

Marie, Dill, her sister, Karen and partner, Chris and us two lovebirds

Lunching at Nobu, London

There's that same glass of champas again!

Daffodils and Tulips

The flowers are out and we are in bulb heaven.  It's been amazing watching the the flowers emerge as I take Matilda around the field every morning.  First the snowdrops, then the daffodils came in the hundreds.  The girls took this opportunity to cut and sell them on the side of the road for one pound a bunch.  Guess how many they sold?  23!!   5 star effort!!

And here are some other pretty flowers that are too irrisitable for me not to take their photo...

Easter Holidays

I wanted to show you these photos from our recent holiday in Les Arcs 1950, France.
We drove the car through France, with a perfect stop-over in Paris and then a meander through the Champagne region.  Heaven!!
The weather, ironically, was warmer there than in England!  (not really surprising as it's been a lonnnng winter!).

We also shared the holiday with Jaimie's best friend at school, Thalia and her family.  Tanzin celebrated her 9th birthday on the slopes.

It was brilliant and we couldn't get over how much the girls, especially Tanzin, really enjoyed skiing and didn't want to stop!  Even for our daily crepe for lunch!

At Notre Dame Cathedral, Reims

Now that's a beer!

That's why he needs the beer!!!

Vin Chaud per moi!

Ski school every morning

Vines ready to ripen

Best smell in the world, fresh hot baguettes

Langres, a walled anicent city

One must have champagne in the Champagne region!