a video experiment

While we were at the orphanage at rehoboth last year the kids sand to us after we had had the most amazing brai (barbeque) on the last Sunday we were there. For those interested .... (be warned - this is like the song that never ends!

A Second Day of Snow!!

Sorry folks - you have to endure the robin pic. The snow almost vanished by last evening but much to the delight of my wife (who is not working today and so will spend most of the morning happily playing in the stuff) it's unexpectedly snowing again! Wow - two days of snow in a winter! Global warming - what global warming?

The annual Day of Snow

Today the annual snowfall happened in South Wales, U.K. to my wife's absolute delight and glee - I tend to have a Scrooge-like mentallity towards it personally born out of too many bad experiences with the treachorously slippery nature of the stuff. Anyway it was an opportunity to tale some Christmas card pics of robins in the garden and our cairn terrier fighting his way through to his "piddling tree". He looks suitably disgusted and a fast shutter speed was required to conceal his shivers. Here's some pics. Be suitably horrified or enjoy! Flash

2007

I've just realised how boring this blog has become - it needs some graphic input to spice it up a bit. I've neen busily beavering away at a family history project over the winter and one bit of it is almost complete - hope to publish it on a website soon. I know it won't be of interest to the world but it still amazes me how interlinked families get and how out of nowhere you find some distant cousin umpteen times removed who has some invaluable bit of info about your family or vice versa. This business certainly appeals to the "private detective" instinct - and it's really addictive. The problem is that you can get the tree trunk done fairly quickly but then you get caught up in the branches and Here's a picture I took in Cardiff just before Chritmas - this guy with stilts was about 10 ft. tall and I happened to be following him as he was walking to his pitch. He overtook a mother and little girl and promptly frightened the life out of the little girl.