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Abba!

Claire, Caz, Deb, Sarah and I went to a Bjorn Again concert at the weekend which was excellent! It was at Claremont landscaped gardens in Esher which is an open air amphitheatre. Everyone takes picnics and champagne, its very civilized! We were a bit worried about the weather as it had rained all day but it turned out nice! Much dancing and arm-waving was had by all! Su-pa-pa, tru-pa-pa! Plus fireworks at the end, perfectly timed to James bond music!

BBQ Pics

As Kate promised, here we are in our hawaiian glory...(arty photo with pineapple taken by JP)



and the cooks, (who can't have done too bad as I didn't get food poisoning!).

More on the BBQ

I think Kate is talking up David & Jeremy's firefighting abilities. They were reduced to frantically blowing on raging infernos that threatened to start the Great Fire of Egham. (Not sure why blowing would work anyway - when you watch people lighting little campfires dont they blow on it to get the flames to grow and take hold? - Still, Im just an accountant, David is the fireman.)

Made the other mistake of playing with Helens twins. Now back to sleeping in the spare room, (especially as I recently made the mistake of telling about this.)

Deb's Hawaiian BBQ!

A good time was had by all at Deb's 30th birthday BBQ at the weekend! So of course I couldn't resist getting a grass skirt and a coconut bra! (Photos to come.) Duncan's Hawaiian shirt was also rather 'Magnum-like'! My home made birthday cake also went down well. There was loads of food being cooked by the very able David & Jeremy. The odd sausage fire was not a problem for them!

Another good BBQ!

This weather is so good at the moment we are going to wear the BBQ out! We had one saturday night with a few friends. There was even more food than normal, as no-one ate the salad and we are now eating sausages all week! But Anthony left us plenty of beer to go with them! The BBQ must have been very chilled out as Anthony fell asleep for a while! Then he got his second wind and he was the last to leave!! Nothing quite like a 'power nap' at our age!

First Comments Bug

The 'Show Comments' option above doesn't seem to work 100%, which is annoying as it worked fine when I was testing!! Bloody computers, enough to drive you potty. Hopefully I'll figure it out at some point...

Comments Are Back!

Well, as I've got pretty much bugger all to do at work I've spent the morning updating comments to fit the 'new look' site. I think they work, so try posting and let me know if it breaks!

Website Changes

As you may have noticed the website has changed slightly. It wasn't meant to happen today as the full look is not ready, but I stuffed up the old site by accident, (and me, an IT professional!!). You may notice one or two teething troubles over the next day or so.

Just to tell you a bit about the changes - the picture to the right changes each time you view the page, (though at the moment its only got a choice of about half a dozen, in the coming days I'll be adding the full range of our photos and at the same time overhauling the gallery section of the site). The check boxes at the top allow you to filter the posts you see on this and the archive pages, (alright so its not very useful but it is clever! There is a possibility of other people posting to this site in the future, and it also means that you dont have to read the rubbish I post.) I've also added the ability to have fun polls, at the moment you can say whether you would use a scouring pad to clean your car!

The comments section will be back soon, (hopefully), but until then if you have anything you want to tell us then use the contact us page.