Yearly archives: 2009

But can she peel a banana with her feet? Sophie hanging out of a tree in the Valley Gardens.

I am armed with a cameraphone once again so expect to see more photos on here.

More in the gallery!

Yeah I know I am getting slower and slower at posting pics here. Here are some photos from our holiday near Venice in June. More in the gallery.

Finally I have made progress with Dad’s old slides, about two years after I bought the slide scanner and started working on the first batch of about 200 slides. They were in an awful state as you can see from the before and after pictures. I’ve also replaced the gallery – moving from pixelpost to Zenphoto which is a breeze to set up. The full gallery is linked at the top of the page.

A couple of days late posting this, particularly given we celebrated her birthday a couple of days early on Saturday! Mimi and Grandad paid us a visit for a few days. We took a picnic down to the valley gardens and enjoyed the sunshine!

What a beautiful weekend. We stayed around Harrogate as we have some guys in rebuilding our front wall and laying some paving and needed to stay nearby. Saturday we went to a jumble sale that Jean was volunteering at in Sophie’s school. A good laugh, all the local pensioners descended like locusts and even though I was about 20 mins late there were streams of them walking out laden down with bags of – well I’d call it crap but that is based on an assessment of what they’d left behind. They looked happy though. We just took a picnic to the park and lazed around in the sunshine. On Sunday we took Sophie to a school friend’s party which turned out to be a huge affair at their family hotel, bouncy castles, bungee trampolines, and mountains of good food for young and old. Sophie finally got the courage to go on one of these bungee jumper things and had a blast. Lauren’s second birthday is coming up soon – next bank holiday Monday to be exact – and we are being visited by Mimi and Grandad so another good weekend to look forward to.