Happy Hallowe'en

Guess which one's the pumpkin!

What - Christmas before Halloween????

And its only just past Thanksgiving? And these pictures are from last year?? Has Dara got her calendar in a twist??? No - quite the contrary, for the first time EVER she has has got her act together in time......... So attention parents of all underage Robinsons - Christmas presents have been despatched by molusc mail to the four corners of the planet. Hopefully the postman will stand and deliver sometime in the next two months, after consulting the appropriate astrological charts and last posting date tables........

And Happy Halloween to all pint sized phantoms and Robinson renegades on Friday!

Love from Canada

D,C,P,T

Happy Thanksgiving

It was Canadian Thanksgiving last weekend, so all four of us were up at the cottage for the last time this year - perfect fall colours and even more perfect weather...Top pic is from across the bay in the kayak and you can just see the cottage in the centre in the trees...

This weekend we went to see Pip receive his second year scholarship award in London...Bottom pic is Pip in his new apartment...the 'after' pic following the earlier 'before' pic. He's having a wonderful time, of course.

And today was the Binscarth Street Party, where we all get together for one last time before the winter chills send everyone to hibernation. The middle pic is Tim performing in the Binscarth Band as lead vocals and acoustic & electric guitar. Such a shy boy...

Love and Thanksgiving greetings from all in Canada.

Happy Birthday, Tim!

Have a great birthday, Tim - sorry about the photo; perhaps someone can send me a more up-to-date one!

PETER'S PIPER PICKED ...HIS FISHING HUT! ! !

HOWS ABOUT THAT THEN.... YOUR OWN PERSONAL PIPER FOR YOUR BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS.... IN THE FISHING HUT ON THE BOLESIDE FISHINGS ON TWEED...COMPLETE WITH JAMIE .. BRIAN .. ( AND JIM IN SPIRIT )AND A GREAT FISHING PARTY.. CAN LIFE GET ANY BETTER ? HOPE YOUR ALL WELL...WILL SEE YOU SOON..

PETE.

October Sunshine!

October, on the beach, in your underpants.........life doesn't get any better!!!!

Love to All.......Jamie, Clare & Max xxxxxxxx

Peas in a Pod

Name those babies............ and spot the family resemblance!!
Love
Chip Dara Pip and Tim

Autumn in England

Just got back from my daily walk - at least our Autumn is beautiful, even if our Summer was rubbish! (Please double-click on picture to enjoy the full beauty of my exquisite camera work! Modest - moi?)

Thank you.

Lovely to hear from you all - Maizie is wonderful and we are all in love... particularly Jordan!

Will try to be a better Blogger and keep you updated.

Love to you all - can't wait till Christmas!

xxxxxx G

Introducing........

.........Maizie Kitty Grace, who joined the clan yesterday, September 12th (all the best people are born in September!) at 8.25pm and weighed in at 6lb 7oz (2.7kg). Her brothers are equally smitten, though fighting to hold her threatens to get out of hand!

She hopes to meet her Great-Uncle Peter and Great-Aunt Pauline tomorrow and is looking forward to meeting the rest of her family at Christmas.

Love to all, Bev xxxxxxxxxx

Pip's New Pad

Pip has moved into his new place in London (that's London, Ontario of course!) which he will be sharing with a mate for the next 3 years. We had 53 Ikea boxes to build - everything from bed to sofa - and the top pic is Pip wondering whether it would ever all come together...He's up and running now of course and into his second year at the University of Western Ontario...We'll let him supply the 'after' shot to balance these 'before' shots! Tim is reurning today from a couple of weeks at camp including a 3 day canoe/camping trip in the wilderness...and they call it 'school'!

Fingers crossed this end for the good news to come from the UK...

Love, Chip & Dara

September already??

Can it really be that it is already that monster Birthday month of September? Wishing all concerned a very Happy Birthday with another "birth' day on the way!! I keep waiting to hear that phone ring with the new arrival news :-) thinking of you Gabbi and Steve. I can't believe how gorgeous and big that little fella in China is getting too - I really can't wait till the cruise to get my hands on all of these babies!! Just a recent pic of the kiddos (Maddie a little serious that day !!) they are both settling into the school year with new teachers and doing fine, both are doing soccer at the present, obviously one is more interested in actually getting the ball than the other (the other is only really in it for the uniform so she looks like her brother!!)
We are still jobless this end which is good and bad, the kids are loving having Daddy around to play with but it's not paying the bills so the fun has to end soon!! We think of you all and are all very excited about seeing you in December in the meantime take care of yourselves and I expect to see some new baby pics up here very soon :-) love to one and all Heidi J TJ and M xx

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday, dear Dara,

Happy Birthday to you..........

Big Day and Big Tum

Jordan's first day at secondary school, and Someone still keeping us all waiting.

Isabel Grows Up!

Hello Family!
The Olympics are over and if you wondered what China was doing now they have finished, well, they're endlessly replaying on TV all the gold medals won by China just in case anyone missed the fact that they did so well! The other big news out of China is that Isabel is growing up fast. We thought you'd all like to see some pics of Izzy on her first two days of big school. She started in the Nursery of Suzhou Singapore International School yesterday. Fortunately for us all, she has a wide variety of uniform to choose from each day, as one of her favourite hobbies is dressing up (as you can see from the last picture!). She had a wonderful time on her first day, and it was a BIG day - we have to leave the house at 7.15, and we don't get home again until 4.30 - we're very proud of our big girl. Our little fella is gorgeous, hopelessly addicted to mummy's milk, and is piling on the pounds. He's a really happy little chap, and very easy (gets it from his dad!). Kevin and I are well and enjoying the 5 minutes or so we get to spend with each other every day! Lots of love to everyone! xxxxx

Canadians visit England

Lovely to see Dara and the boys, however briefly. And just as we'd got used to looking up to Pip there's now another one streaking upwards!

Home again

Am finally back home after nearly eight weeks away (with just a few days back home in the middle to catch up with my washing!)Brittany was lovely and the weather wasn't too bad - well, better than in England, anyway.
Easy 'Guess the Picture' - it really made an Impression on me!
Love to everyone xxxxx

JIM AND KATES MEMORIAL STONE.

THE MEMORIAL STONE WAS LAID LAST WEEK IN ST. BOLTOPHS CHURCH GROUNDS.. SO I THOUGHT I SHOULD POST IT FOR ALL TO SEE CAN YOU BELIEVE ITS COMING UP THREE YEARS THIS JANUARY SINCE KATE PASSED AWAY ! !

HOPE THINGS ARE GOOD WITH ALL OF YOU..... SEE YOU SOON

LOVE PETE AND PAUL. X X X

Your turn - where in the world are we?

SORRY CHINA CAN TAKE PART AS WELL....