Christmas Eve 2017

Lovely to go to church and meet up with friends for a drink on christmas eve - merry Christmas everyone xx

Alfie's Christmas party

Alfie had a Christmas party with his walking group friends.

He was awarded a rosette for winning musical chairs and another for 2nd prize in the best fancy dress.

London Athletics Championships 2017

A trip to the Athletics to see Mo's last track event (5000m) and Usain Bolt's last ever event (4 x 100m)

What a day!

Mo got boxed in by team Ethiopia and got Silver, then GB women's team got silver for the 4 x 100m then the men lined up for the 4 x 100m...

The noise levels and excitement were awesome as Bolt got injured in the anchor leg and Mitchell-Blake beat Coleman into 2nd place to take gold and a new European Record.

Pafos 2017

Lovely week away with the Martins and Bella in Pafos, Cyprus.

Nice location, lovely people every where we went.

Late flight from Stansted meant arriving after midnight

 

 

We did a few walks and saw some culture - it being European City of for 2017

 

 

Built some dams

Did some sun bathing

 

and Andy danced!

 

Pretty Muddy 2017

We did it ... again.

50th Birthday meal

Slightly impromptu meal at Mexico with Grandad and Auntie Pat, Jo, Diccon, Celeste, Cam and Bella, Clara, Jon and Me :-)

more university trips

Today was Durham followed by York on Sunday

Durham is a beautiful city and by far Cam's favourite university. It's city based and more what he is looking for. AAB as a entry requirement will certainly give him something to aim for.

University trips

Cam and I started out Friday morning for Nottingham. After we realised that the sat nav was set to Avoid Motorways the journey sped up!

We arrived just after lunch and had a good look round. It was campus based and Cam wasn't so keen on this set up.

Sweeney Todd

I went with Sam and Becky for a rather nice Mexican and then onto a veeery hot Hazlitt Theatre for a Valley Park production of Sweeney Todd.

Vitality London 10K

 

 

lovely 10k run again - bit slower than last year but still really good fun. 

Impromptu night out in London

Jon and I went to London to walk along the river, have a nice meal in the Tate Modern and then a stroll back.  Jon nearly got abducted by aliens but was luckily ok 😜

Folkestone 10 miles

Jon and I did the Folkestone 10 miles.  Lovely route along the sea front

We did it in a very respectable 1:40:46

Centre Parcs

A lovely week in Centre Parcs at De Kempervennen. An early start - and some delays at the airport before going finally off.

Some good skiing, cycling, bowling and relaxing. 

Chatham maritime 10k

Lovely 2 laps of St Mary's Island and a pb 56:40!

The Weekend at the O2

Cam and Bella went to see The Weekend and got a special show by Drake. Dad and I went to cable car over the river and then a meal while waiting for them.

Odeon Limitless

We got Limitless cards in September 2016 and so far have seen the following films:-

David Brent - Life in the Road
Bridget Jones
The magnificent Seven
Miss Peregrine's home for peculiar children
Jack Reacher - Never go back
Inferno - why did they need to change the story from the one in the book?
Fantastic Beasts
Dr Strange
Passengers
Bad Moms. - best comedy so far
Star Wars - Rogue One
La La Land - not what we expected - brilliant
Lion - brilliant film
Trainspotting T2

Parkrun pb

Freezing cold run this morning, the river was actually frozen. Got a pb 25:51 and was 1st in my age category.

Happy New Year

What a lovely way to welcome in 2017 - a gangsters and molls themed party at the Maddams with the Martins too.  Dancing the night away, lots of Disarono, and some time in the hot tub (Cam only for that one!!)  Home for a well earned new year lie in at 3:30 am.