Our Graduates

Our two new Canadian graduates: Pip's High School Graduation pic and Timothy's First Year snowboarding class pic...

Pip has advance university acceptances from four unis now in Ontario, Quebec and Nova Scotia, so he's going to have to make some decisions by May about where and when...Right now, he's counting the days until his Grad Trip to the Dominican Republic...Whilst we are likewise counting the days to our UK trip with Tim.

Speaking of whom: he is now tearing up the black runs on the Ontario ski hills after year one snowboarding. This week we had another 15 cm of snow, followed by 15 cm of freezing rain...so no blossoms on our trees yet! I'm just back from New Brunswick, and even the dog is pretending he doesn't know me any more...

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WHO THE HELL IS KELVIN (SEE COMMENT ON PETE'S LATEST BLOG) AND HOW DID HE MANAGE TO BREAK INTO OUR BLOG??!!!!!

BOUGHTON SPILL ! ! ! !

A FEW PICTURES OF BOUGHTON-ON-SEA...... PLEASE SUBMIT DESIGNS FOR AN ARK.....

HOPE EVERYONE IS WELL...... HEIDI AND FAMILY INSPECTING INDIANAPOLIS THIS WEEK END...JAMIE STARTS NEW JOB BY 2ND APRIL ! ! SO SELL YOUR HOUSE AND RELOCATE YOUR WHOLE FAMILY IN 3 WEEKS......SOUNDS FUN TO ME...

LOVE TO ALL PETE AND PAUL.....

Global warming or what?(Bottom one is 2006)

My cherry tree on April 8th,2006 and today, March 1st, 2007.

watach out on the roads!

Snow isn't the problem on our roads it's the underage drivers!!! we have to go to the beach and squint and pretend to be in the snow!! Love to you all Heidi and gangx

A very ancient monument ......

.....with the Coliseum in the background! Have had a lovely few days in Rome, seeing EVERYTHING! My feet are worn to stumps and my camera almost worn out. Love to All

Now THIS is what you call snow!

The guys we employ to clear our driveway arrived at 3am. The snow plough came by before 7am. And Toronto got on with its day....... much to the boys disappointment there was no snow day at school despite 15cms of snow overnight.

Portuguese Update

Hi Everyone,

This photo was taken by Heidi "Bailey" Robinson on our post cruise trip to Sarasota.
But it´s obviously the good subjects that count !!!!!
Real Estate her in Portugal going well, lots of new products to learn, but there´s definitely too many ZEROS on the end of these properties.

Love to all Jamie, Clare and Max

After the snow

We walked up to the weir on Sunday afternoon - have never seen so much water coming over. The pond was overflowing into the river.

Snow collage

I'm just trying clever stuff with a new download from Google called Picasa2 - it's FREE, too!

Wimps!!

Now this is what we call snow in Canada...Snow so high that the only way in and out the house is down the chimney...

Devestation!

My beautiful garden after two grandsons (and their mother!) had paid a visit!

This is Toughton NOT Boronto....

Day off school

Bet Pip and Tim wished this happened every time it snowed in Canada!

Snow Day in England

Trying to beat Pete at getting the first snow picture on the blog! This was my garden at 8:30 this morning - schools all closed, Luton, Stansted, B'ham airports totally disrupted, in fact The Midlands has vitually closed down - and all for two inches of snow (can hear Canada laughing from here!).

JUST TO PROVE YOU CAN...PETE... JIM IN HIS ELEMENT...S.

Frozen Farm

Can't work out how to put more than one picture on at a time - can anyone help?

Frozen Farm

We went to feed Pop's ducks but the pond was frozen so they'd gone to the river. So we went to see the new lambs instead (only two so far but more on the way).

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Am trying to get my own contributor name so am posting this to see if I.ve done it. B

Canadian Update

Hi everyone

Canada has been a bit quiet recently as Chris has been traveling (surprise!). He visited Disney World and Canmore Alberta in the last 2 weeks. Meanwhile Pip is very proud of himself (hence Bev's entry below) as he has received an early acceptance to Western University - a very prestigeous school just 2 hrs west of Toronto. Well done Pip!

Here is a picture of Chris cheating at skiing......

Love Chip, Dara, Clever Pip and Tim

Congratulations! What a wizard!

Well done, Pip, on being accepted for Western (Canada's equivalent to Oxford for those uneducated ones amongst you!). And, yes, the photo really IS Pip! Love, Bev

JUSY GOT BACK FROM YORKSHIRE DALES.....SO A COUPLE OF PIX TO PROVE IT....HEY...AND DID ANY OF YOU THINK THAT I WOULD SINK ? HOPE EVERYONE IS WELL...KEEP ON BLOGGING... LOVE PETE AND PAUL. X X

Back seat driver

Izzy lets her boyfriend Lucas taki the driving seat for once...

Happy Birthday, Paul !

Lots of love, Bev

BETTER LATE THAN NEVER......A RECENT KATE PIC ON A DIFFERENT SORT OF CRUISE....THR GRAND UNION...PETE. LOVE TO ALL. X X

SORRY .... COULD NOT HELP MYSELF FROM POSTING THIS ONE FROM FLORIDA...I THINK HEIDI COULD DO WELL WHEN SHE GETS HER NEW CAMERA........LOVE TO EVERYONE...EVERYWHERE...PETE. X X X

Happy cats

Dear Canada Family, we thought you would like to know we're being well looked-after and we're very happy, even though our lives are not quite as peaceful as they once were! Love from Clem and Ginger

We miss you too

Flowers for Katie-Nana

We took her some daffodils and snowdrops and hyacinths and love from all of you.

One year on.......

....and we still love and miss you just as much. Hope you've found some heavenly babies to look after, dearest Katie-Nana. XXXXXXX B.

Remembering Kate

Here's a picture of Kate at Farringford at peace and, as always, happiest in the garden. How fast a year goes by...a memory from Chip, Dara, Pip and Tim

Late News from China

Happy Old Year Everyone...making a stylishly late entrance, China have made it into 2007....Father Christmas managed to find Isabel on the train, as we sped through the night on Christmas Eve and woke to frosty rice terraces and cold water buffalo on Christmas morning...we sang 'Do they know it's Christmas time at all' as Kev wandered through the train in his festive hat...but they didn't....a lovely Hong Kong Christmas followed, with Izzy getting mixed up with Rice Krispies and wishing all and sundry a 'rice christmas'...was she the only child in the family to have a Pot Noodle for Christmas lunch? (She did have some brussel sprouts in the evening!) anyway, looks like everyone had a happy time...hope the old 'uns upstairs had a smile on their faces watching us all! Lots of love xxxx

FOND FAREWELL IN FLORIDA.....FLIPPIN FLECK....PETE.

Finn's belated birthday cake

"That's the trouble with a Christmas birthday - everyone's too busy to remember your cake!"

floridian meeting of the minds!!

Thanks for making the effort to visit C and D, great to see you, the kids were all looking for you when they woke up Thursday morning! They travel all this way to see us and all we could feed them was Pizza no wonder they are "not keen" on America!!
Heidi and gang x

Delayed happy new year from Boughton...hope you all had a great one....we need to lose 2 stone each after the boat trip..to get back to size...so once again happy new year from the fat bastards...

just before the arrest!

another check mark on the list .......... standing on the panama canal!! quickly followed by people trying to track him down! needless to say Dad kept a low profile the rest of that afternoon!! Happy New Year to everyone Love Heidi

happy new year

Happy New Year from Spratton

We had a lovely Courchevel Christmas - enough snow for skiing because we were quite high though no actual snowfall while we were there.The fog on the way out only delayed us for two hours so we were very lucky compared to most folk flying out on the same day. Finn not very impressed with the actual snow though he loved riding up and down in the gondola and Jordan found he could still ski after all having spent weeks beforehand convincing himself that he couldn't. Nana still not very brave but then green and blue have always been her favourite colours (when pink is not an option). Poor Gabi exhausted after having to do clever stuff in the mornings with Steve and instructor stuff in the afternoons with me and Jordan. Hope every one had a great Christmas, love to you all, Bev

Happy New Year from Canada

Happy 2007!
We have just returned from a week up north at the cottage...much restorative peace, but not much snow and even the lake was largely unfrozen. The pic is Gibson posing with one of our inuksuks beside the driveway to the cottage after a sprinkling of snow. Hope everyone's travels and rests were equally restoring.
Chip, Dara, Pip and Timmy