Canadians in the UK

Finn and Tim taking tea; boozing it up at The Halt; Spring springing in Pauline's garden; and Pete holding on to Bev to ensure she doesn't follow Jim into the Cothi...

Sad/happy times.

Mothers Day

Saying goodbye to Pop on the Cothi (You can enlarge images by double-clicking)

Two Today!

Happy Birthday, Iasabel Daisy! Lots and lots of love from Nana XXXXXXXXX

The Floridians in the snow ..................apparently catching it in your mouth is the only way to really explore this funny white stuff!! they better get used to it looks like we are waving bye bye sunny Florida and hello snowy Indianapolis!! all a little hectic but hey ho we've been here before!!!

Love to one and all

Heidi Jamie Tyler and Maddie xx

Home Sweet Home

Huh! What have Yangshuo and Shanghai got to offer compared to good old Wicksteed Park? Have just returned the boys to their snow-sun-burned parents (four days in Courchevel), but we managed to have fun without them!

For some reason, the pictures below require you to turn your computer on its side for a better view. They were the right way up when I stuck them onto the blog page! Sorry. Don't damage your monitors.

Some photos from our trip down to Yangshuo in Southern China with our friends Tash and Chris and Isabella over the Chinese New Year holiday...had a wonderful time, despite it being our 3rd time down amongst the lumpy hills...two 2-year-olds on a 29 hour train trip was memorable in itself, but we also enjoyed cycling through the rice fields and seeing the New Year in with more fireworks than you can throw fried rice at....we finished up in Shanghai for some night views. A happy year of the Golden Pig to you all! xxxx

10 T0day!

Happy Birthday, Jordan!

IDENTITY OF KELVIN FROM NEW ZEALAND REVEALED...

SHERLOCK ROBINSON...

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...