The trouble is, of course......

....that with such a small cup you need lots of refills!

"My cup and plate are TINY!" says Kezia

They had cool fun.

Afternoon tea for Sarah's birthday

Auntie Joe had an afternoon tea (just for the girls) to celebrate Sarah's birthday. The little ones had their own dinky cups, saucers and plates.

All smiles on Sarah's birthday (well, sort of...!)

Well, 3 of the group seem happy enough to be celebrating Sarah's birthday at Dinton a few weeks back. Not sure why James and Kezia aren't joining in with the smiles.

The Blog is Back

Our blog is back - we still haven't managed to fix our own camera, so we are unscrupulously nicking other peoples' pictures instead. We have 5 or 6 to upload at least, but to start with here is Kezia with cousin James a few weeks ago, helping him to open a present he had got through the post.

York Uni get together

Two weeks ago, we all met at our friends Fee & Brian's house in Biggleswade for a reunion of the old York Uni crowd (plus hangers-on such as Tristan!). It was a lovely, lovely day - the first time we had seen some people in the group for over 5 years, and certainly the first time that the 5 Yorkies who went to Kiel together all those years ago had been together for even longer than that. We hope to have a few of the big group shots to put on here soon, but here is a quick one of the kids enjoying their al fresco lunch.

Slightly strange one of Kezia with one of Lucy's dollies - it is just a shame about the red-eye.

With Becca. We all (12 adults and 7 kids!) had a great day - we should soon have some more snaps of the get-together, but these 3 will have to do for now

The Pangbourne 10k Race

Very small pictures here - you might need your magnifying glass! Back on September 12th, I ran in my first ever 10k race (at Pangbourne just outside Reading) - 5 of us met up to do the run - here we are beforehand (Robert, Claire, me, Liz & Mike). It was part of a training build up to a half-marathon I would like to do next year (though that is looking a bit unlikely now, but still) and it was great fun. I finished 228th out of 357 finishers!

And here we all are afterwards! I ran the route in a very pleasing 58 minutes and 51 seconds - not too bad for a beginner over a multi-terrain course. About 2 hours after this photo was taken I felt direly ill with what must have been dehydration, so I will learn that lesson for next time. Overall, the whole thing was great fun though.