Felix Henry

Hello Family!
The Olympics are approaching and the censors are crumbling under the pressure... decided to have another try at hacking into the Blog after reading Silly Uncle Peter's last post and we're in! All is well here in Babyland, Felix will be 3 weeks old on Thursday and continues to delight his parents, his big sister and his Nana...he's doing well, despite the heat (his Nana's wilting a little!), and is now weighing in at over 8 lb (3.68 kg)... feeding well, definitely a boob man, like his daddy... and has a fondness for sleep, preferably on his father's/grandmother's chest. He's a generally placid little creature, who likes sleeping like a frog, making snuffly noises and drinking milk...shows little interest in the world in general, but does make an exception for boobs and cuddles, and is quite partial to his big sister, who is taking her new responsibilities very seriously, and is excelling at putting nappies in the bin, stroking and getting toys, and only occasionally asks me to stop feeding him!
Wishing you all love, and can't wait to be all together at Christmas...will try and get on here more often!
Happy Birthday Maddy - is the boat going to be big enough for the two of them?!
xxxxx Kirsty, Kevin, Izzy, Felix and Bev xxxxxxx

BIG DAY IN INDY........

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MADDY.... FOUR TODAY........ PHOTO FROM BALLERINA GALA PRACTICE DAY WHEN WE VISITED IN JUNE..... I THINK SHE'S GOT IT .. BY JOVE SHE'S GOT IT .... WHAT ARE WE LETTING OURSELVES IN FOR AT XMAS ? WITH TWO PRIMADONNA'S ! ! ! AND NOW LADIES AND GENTLEMEN WE PRESENT A MADDY AND IZZY DUET..... I CAN PICTURE IT NOW...... SCARY.....VERY SCARY..

HAVE A WONDERFUL PARTY MADDY....LOOK FORWARD TO THE PHOTO'S.

LOVE GOLF AND NANNY. X X X X X

PS . WHY NO NEW ARRIVAL PIX FROM CHINA THEN ?

IS FELIX SHENRY SHRY ?

Tight lines Pop Jim...

We'll raise a wee dram to you tonight...Love from all of us, Chip, Dara, Pip & Tim

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

HAPPY BIRTHDAY POP JIM

I KNOW THAT YOU HAVE BEEN BUSY OVERSEEING DAD IN RUSSIA THIS WEEK, AND HELPING OUT ALL THAT YOU CAN THERE:-) I JUST WANTED TO LET YOU KNOW HOW MUCH WE ALL MISS AND THINK ABOUT YOU.

WE WILL RAISE OUR GLASS'S TO YOU AND CELEBRATE YOUR LIFE - ALL 90 YEARS OF IT :-)

LOVE HUGS AND KISSES
HEIDI JAMIE TYLER AND MADDIE XXXX

Bye for now

Just off to China for five weeks so shall be out of touch for a time (China is still censoring). The pic is for Chip (or anyone else) to identify - from my recent weekend in Yorkshire. Love to all XXXX

I'm getting too old for this!

I feel a bit like Forrest Gump...I can't seem to stop running...Just completed the Ottawa Marathon - Canada's national marathon - in 3hrs 30 mins which unfortunately is my qualifying time to run the Boston Marathon next year...which means I will have to run that one too...Drat! This was a tough one, as I had to train through the snowiest winter Toronto has seen for a generation...Very different to the heat of the Barbados Marathon I ran 5 months ago! This pic is me and running buddies celebrating after the race.

Hope Pete is reeling them in, that Bev has a smooth fligh to China and Paul enjoys spring in Indy!

Love Chip

From China (via UK)

Last pic of Kirsty before she gets thin again - not long now! This was taken when they went to watch the Olympic flame running through Suzhou.

BOUGHTON UPDATE

JUST A COUPLE PIX FROM OUR FEW DAYS ON THE SUFFOLK COAST RECENTLY.. PAULINE NOW WITH THE SCHOLTEN CLAN IN INDIANA .. PETE ABOUT TO DEPART TO MURMANSK AND ONWARD TO THE ARCTIC CIRCLE IN SEARCH OF SALMON..... BEV FRESHLY BACK FROM YORK ( FOR THE FIRST TIME CAN YOU BELIEVE ! ! ) NOW STARTS PACKING FOR CHINA TO HELP KIRSTY PUSH.....

HOPE EVERYONES WELL .. LOVE TO ALL PETE AND PAULINE

Tyler's new room!!

Here is the young mans newly decorated room!! you can take a Brit out of England but you can't take the 'English' out of a Brit!!!!!
Now all who visit can feel right at home!
Love to one and all

Heidi and gang xxx

ps if the flag is upside down or something odd - it is way too late to change it now!! :-)

Run Robinson Run!

Here are the results from the Toronto Yonge Street 10K race this morning:

Timothy Robinson 45 Mins - placed 9 out of 107 in this age category and 795 out of 10,000 runners

Chris Robinson 45 Mins - placed 33 out of 303 in his age category (he crossed the line with Timmy as he was coaching him in his first race)

Pip Robinson 40 mins - 17 out of 263 in his age category and 236 out of 10,000 runners

Both Pip and Tim got personal bests. What are they running from??

Love to all

C,D,P,T

PS Chip says its in the Robinson genes

Nutter at large in Lisbon !

Have you seen this man...if you have, please do not approach him as he may be dangerous. Do not engage in eye contact or any form of conversation.

If you do come across him...please contact us on: nutterontheloose.com or escapedfromtheleas.com

Bluebell time

Just to make all you ex-pats a teensy bit homesick!

bday boy and trouble!!!!

Just an update haven't posted for a while!! (sorry) Tyler turned 9 and has a new Beckham Galaxy kit to prove it !! and Maddie is 99% attitude as you will tell by the face! Hope all is well wherever you may be, and that all the bumps are progressing nicely!! We are looking forward to being finished up with school and have some down time!

Love to one and all Heidi and gang xx

Quiz for Bev

I have posted my guess under Comments...so, now it's your turn...I was also away this weekend (in fact I have just got back tonight), so where on earth was I?
Love, Chip

Quiz for Chip

OK - so where did I go this weekend?

Happy Birthday, Tyler

Happy birthday to you,

Happy birthday to you,

Happy birthday, dear Tyler,

Happy birthday to you!

Have a great day!

Miramichi, New Brunswick

I was travelling around New Brunswick last week and spent an afternoon driving up the Miramichi Valley, Canada's equivalent to the Tweed in the salmon fishing world. So I thought I would post a pic of one of the salmon fishing lodges in Doaktown, a village in the centre of the valley, to see if I can tempt Pete there some time. After all, what does a man do when he's fished the Kola Peninsula?? I had a look around the lodge (in typically Maritime fashion, there was no-one there when I visited, but they had left the door open and wouldn't have minded me having a peek...) and it looks very comfortable and is right on the banks of the river. Check it out without the snow at http://www.ledgesinn.com/ I also called in at the most famous salmon fishing shop in the country: W.W.Doak (www.wwdoak.com )...Pop Jim would have loved the place! New Brunswick is still deep in snow - on the coast road I was sometimes driving between banks of snow 8-10 feet high on either side. And here in Toronto, Gibson discovered how sticky the spring snow is when he returned from a romp in the park with snowballs amusingly attached to his undercarriage! It took a warm bath and howls of embarrassment to de-ball him...

Love from the Great White North, C, D ,P and T

Home again

Back from the land of dragons and lanterns (for a couple of months!) having had a lovely holiday - all the excitement of a three-year-old birthday followed by an amazing trip to Beijing to see the Forbidden City and the Great Wall - awesome!

Love to everyone from all in China - they're still suffering blog censorship quite frequently. (CNN and BBC World were constantly having the plug pulled on them last week whenever they reported on Tibet - it's really wierd, just like having a power cut but only on the television.)

Happy Birthday, Mother

Love you, miss you always.

ttt

We miss you Kate

Thinking of all the happy times and missing you on your birthday...

How brave to be wearing a white cardigan while balancing a chocolate Chip on your lap!

Love from all in Canada xxx

MEMORIES OF A HAPPY LIFE. LOVE FOR ALWAYS ON YOUR BIRTHDAY. WE ALL MISS YOU SO MUCH . X X X X PETE AND FAMILY.

Timmy's ice hockey team made it to the league final last night, which instead of being played on the rutted ice of an outdoor rink at the local park, was played on the perfect surface of the Ricoh Arena where professional hockey is played...An exciting game which they lost, but T scored a couple of classy goals, so he was very happy!

The other pic is from a couple of weeks ago when I was down in Orlando for the radio shows and had the unexpected pleasure of interviewing a kookaburra...at least he was more talkative than the penguins I had on the show last year...

Love to all, C,D,P&T

Just helping out!!

Come on we all the know that 'blue bump' was care of Celebrity cruises and the midnight feast's!! A little help from your friends was all you needed to get rid of it!! love H x

Snowy Indiana

Hey one and all, just some recent pics of the kiddos after the recent snow Maddie has this constant grin as she zips down the back garden slope! and Tyler is perfecting his snow boarding skills for when we take him to the real slopes!! hope all is well, we are surviving our first winter, although we have never had so many sick children in such a short spell before! A Christmas in the sun sounds good to us! Love to everyone Heidi Jamie Tyler and Madison xxxx

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VERY REMISS OF ME........THIS PHOTO ...TAKEN IN OCTOBER '07 .... IS JIMS FINAL CAST OVER HIS FAVOURITE POOL ON THE RIVER TWEED AT LOWER BIRGHAM. WHERE WE SPENT MANY MANY VERY HAPPY WEEKS CASTING A FLY AND SIPPING THE WHISKY........

YOU COULD NEVER KNOW JUST HOW MUCH WE MISS YOU..

SURPRISE SURPRISE WE HAVE GOT A BLUE BUMP TOO ! ! ! !

GONE SOUTH IN THE NORTH EAST OF THE WEST INDIES...

JUST A COUPLE OF PIX FROM OUR RECENT TRIP TO SPLIFFLAND......WE VISITED ST.GANGER.... THE BEAUTIFUL ISLAND OF MARIJUANA ......THE GRASS ON THE ISLAND OF MULL WAS JUST STUNNING......ST. DOPE... PORT POT...NOT FORGETING OUR FINAL DESTINATION CAN- NAB- BLISS... A GOOD TIME WAS HAD BY ALL....THE SHIP WAS FULL OF CANADIANS AND NOT ONE OF THEM NEW CHIP OR DARA...I DONT UNDERSTAND IT.....WE MET SOMEONE ELSE FROM INDIANAPOLIS WHO DID'NT KNOW HEIDI AND JAMIE EITHER... ITS JUST AMAZING......

LOVE TO YOU ALL PETE AND PAUL'

Kirsty's pics

Kirsty's photos

Don't forget to double-click on collage photos to make them large enough to see.

Happy Year of the Rat

Hello Everyone!
We're back! Finally found a way around the censors - found a proxy server to route this through. Won't let me post photos, but I'll send them to Mum to put on. Since allowing me on for Katie Nana's anniversary, access has been denied again - what a controversial lot we must be! Anyway, happy Lunar New Year to all - tonight is the Lantern Festival, the last official day of Chinese New Year, and it is a little like a war zone outside, with each family seemingly celebrating with its own pile of industrial-sized fireworks. We thought initially that the whole of China was celebrating the news we got today, which was IT"S A BOY! Izzy is delighted, and wants it to be called Donald...still heavily under Disney's spell, after a trip to Hong Kong Disneyland last week. She refuses to answer to anything other than Goofy, and sleeps in her Minnie Mouse hat. We were lucky to get away on holiday at all- millions didn't, after China's worst snowstorms for 50 years, you may have seen some news coverage. The snow for us was beautiful rather than disastrous - only 30 cm, but still Suzhou was debilitated...school was cancelled for a week, mostly due to the roads being still blocked - 1 snow plough in a city of 8 million doesn't go far - the rest of the work was carried out painfully slowly by the road grannies, little old ladies with brooms and shovels. It's all over now except for the odd pile of snow.
Anyway, lots of love to you all...sorry not to be catching up this summer, but will be a bit busy!
Kirsty,Kevin, Goofy and blue bump xxxxx

New Addition!

Hi All,

Just thought we would introduce our new golden Labrador puppy.....her name is Jessie and she is now about 10 weeks old....we were pretty prepared for the poop and wee, but saliva filled shoes?????

Love to all

Clare, Jamie, Max and Jessie (oh..... and Kitty and Pablo the cats!!)

xxxxx

Snow! Snow! Snow!

Don't know what Bev is complaining about in terms of weather........ We've just had 35 cms of snow in the centre of the city and can hardly move for the stuff! And there is more forecast for the weekend too. Still it looks pretty, and Gibson and Timmy enjoy it!

Love

C,D,P &T

Venice

Venice very wet, but then I suppose that's what it's famous for. Lovely few days - carnival very colourful which more than made up for the dismal weather. Love to all xxxxx