Uncle Colin - a plea for help

hey everyone


i have an appeal for assistance from my Uncle Colin. he is rather keen to recall the name of a band and one particular song that they did. whereas he has no sure clue as to which band or which song, he has (with some minor input from my Dad) narrowed it down to who it could be.





here are the clues he gave us :

* the band is a duo. or possibly a solo artist, or a band with 3 - 6 members in it.

* the "band" is Irish, but could be English, Welsh, Scottish, American or from one of the less vowel-heavy areas of Scandinavia. he didn't mention Australia, but you never know.

* their "huge hit" was in the 80s. or it might have been the 90s or within the last few years.

* they had/have a huge following and everyone, bar a few obvious exceptions, knows them.

* the band are of an undetermined or perhaps ambiguous sexual preference (thanks for checking, Dad)

* the singer - and this should narrow it down - wears a t-shirt and a jacket.

* their style of music was/is "unique".

* the band is none of the following - Pet Shop Boys, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Manic Street Preachers, The Cure, The Cult, White Stripes, The Beatles, The King Elvis Presley, Spanga, Tiffany, Ned's Atomic Dustbin, N.W.A., The Who, The Smiths, The Stone Roses, Queen, The Rolling Stones, T-Rex, Wham!, Elton John, Guns N Roses, Metallica, Rick Astley, Depeche Mode. we thought it best not to suggest Falco.

Uncle Colin thinks it might by R.E.M. or if you will "rem", and their only massive hit being the never played live Shiny Happy People.

i should make it clear that Colin had engaged in a day long, brutal battle with Guinness which had just come to a draw at the time that he posed this question.

any information you might have on which group he is on about, if not just Michael Stipe and his chums, would be greatly appreciated!


be excellent to each other!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

more (if not all) pics from the weekend

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well, i suspect that the last time i put this many pictures all in one post i promised never, ever to do so again. oh well, as i am not sure how to break them all up into separate ones, here we go!

these pics, whilst not in chronological order, are all from the last 3 or so days where we have been having loads of fun with the visiting Harlo gang. some of the pictures, like this first one for instance, show Colin and Angela bravely walking away from the kitchen and just having fun!





William didn't seem particularly disorientated by having three days of going to and from Grandma and Grandad's house, as far as i can see. far from it really - i think he's taken quite a shine to being the centre of attention!





queues, for let us be honest there were that many people there that queues were possible, were formed to have a go at holding William and giving him a big loving cuddle. as patient as Angela and Erika were for a turn, though, it did seem that more often than not Grandma was at the front of the queue!





yes Gillian & all involved in New Zealand, the above pic is primarily for your benefit, as it shows of William wearing the splendid shoes you sent for him! he quite likes them in the sense that he has tried to eat them more than once. as far as we can work out, something appearing to be edible is William's sign of approval thus far.

now then, with a few South African born people on hand and the odd token English born person, an impromptu Test was arranged to see who might make it into the next English team. James showed quite some style in taking up a defensive position, ready to send the ball flying through the air.





a skills display was not limited to James, mind - Lyla has quite an accurate throwing arm on her, and regularly connected the ball with the stumps!





i believe that Andrew and Christopher intended to carry on with the match after we had gone home. i might (might) have led them to believe that the unwritten rule in their Uncle Bob's house was that if you did a shot that was so good that it broke a window, he bought you an iPod thingie in celebration of it; the bigger the window broken equaling a bigger GB size one too. i suspect Colin & Angela intervened and told them that this wasn't the case, which is a bit of a pity.

onwards to another arena of contest, then, and one in which James feels he cannot be beaten. that would of course be the arena of being a Jedi Knight. here he is showing off something that looks like a lightsabre, and indeed the magnificent t-shirt that the Harlos brought for him!





now that i think about it, another reason Colin might be quite content to stay in the kitchen is that he doesn't get beaten so frequently with plastic toys whilst he is in there. when he comes out of the kitchen he seems to be transformed into "Darth Colin", and has to battle for the fate of the galaxy.





Colin is not the only one who has been tempted by the dark side of the force, apparently. here we can see young Jedi Knight James having to put aside his personal feelings and battle his cousin, she who has become Darth Lyla.





it's a bit like Anakin vs Obi-Wan, really. except without all that lava. and indeed ramifications for the future relationship between Luke & Leia. well, OK, it's not really a bit like Anakin vs Obi-Wan, then. at least the version by James and Lyla doesn't feature Jar Jar Binks, i guess.

James vs Lyla had a somewhat happier ending, anyway, as they were reunited by the power of the force of their love for sitting with Grandad.





and, whilst we are on the go with family pictures, here's one of us kindly taken by Erika, before Colin & Angela sat down and joined for the pic you have already seen. which, if you read this site in the order i post them, means you have just, sort of kind of, engaged in some form of time travel. i think.





and just in case you think i was kidding about Grandma somehow being forever at the front of the queue to give William a love and a cuddle.....





and why, in the words of the greatest film critic ever, although he never ever said it on his show, not?

to end off this rather epic post, then, here are glimpses of the magnificent Easter Egg hunt(s) conducted on Sunday. the plural is hinted at as there were, sort of, three of them. first Lyla and James hunted some down, then Andrew and Christopher, and finally us sort of adult types had a go at it.

i am not at all sure that photographic evidence of the "grown ups" hunting for eggs exists, but who care when you have smashing pictures of Lyla finding some?





now, i could use this next picture to claim that Richard participated in the egg hunt with some skill, but it would be dishonest. this, rather, is a picture of him simply just undertaking to "look after" the eggs Lyla found!





just look at the sense of pride on his face. the last time i saw him that happy was when he found the zoom button on a DVD player, something that enabled and empowered him to watch the whole of Convoy whilst focusing exclusively on the chrome rubber duck on the front of Kris Kristofferson's truck.

instead of discussing Richard's love of yellow eggs and films about trucks driving in an absolutely massive line, let us instead admire some pictures from the great hunt. here they are crossing the mighty Bridge Over The River Koi in search of more religiously inspired confectioneries.





there were more pictures like the one above, but they just show Colin and Andrew taking pictures. as good as the two of them look taking pictures, it would all just be a bit silly for this site to have them here. which is saying something.

onwards, and in the trees and plants many, many fine examples of Easter treats were to be found!





it was very, very kind of Grandad to go along with James and Lyla to help them find the eggs. it was kinder still of him to eat one or two of them, just to check that they were suitable for his beloved grandchildren.





and, after they had found all the sweets, what were they to do with them? well, there was only one option for James - to show them to William and see if he was allowed to share them all with his beloved baby brother.





and on that naturally nice note, so ends this rather large post! we've all had a fantastic weekend, i trust the same is true for you wherever you are!!


be excellent to each other!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Long Cooked Friday (and Saturday)

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it perhaps goes without saying that i am uncertain as to how your family works, but let me give you an insight into the mechanisms of ours.

For Good Friday Colin, despite spending the majority of the Thursday flying, kindly agreed to cook us some delicious fish and chips, with real, proper British fish & chip batter that he had brought with him. probably in violation of several customs regulations, but never mind.

whilst Colin slaved away in the kitchen (although as per previous comments he seems to like it in there), Dad generously showed the visiting Harlo gang his range of sleeping spots. he had a snooze on the couch, followed by an hour or so in his bed, ending with a nice 30 minute 40 winks on a lounger thing up by the pool. the moment he woke up, of course, he demanded to be fed. the message was thus relayed to him that it would be ready in five minutes.

precisely five minutes after that statement (and he has clocks, even a sundial, all over the garden for this sort of incident), he sat himself at the table; a table that was, alas sans food.

i was then instructed to take this picture of him and show the happy tourists in the kitchen.....





which got this response from Colin.....





oh, i see. i hadn't noticed that bottle in the kitchen before; a picture forms of why the kitchen is the place to be for our visitors.

anyway, moving on, we had a terrific feast of fish, fritters, chips and ribs for Good Friday. i trust you all had a most splendid and tasty meal too. nice one Colin, Angela, Mum and, well, everyone who was involved in cooking rather than sleeping, really. oh go on then, thanks Dad for the table we ate at.

moving on to Saturday and we had the case where Dad decided to take control of when exactly we ate with more precision than those who dare to relax on holiday do. he decided a braai was in order. to this effect, he, Richard, Andrew, Colin and Christopher went off to the butcher to get some meat. a butcher who apparently is very busy indeed, as the four of them were forced to wait for two (two) hours in a pub before coming home. thank you for the sacrifice, boys.

here are but some of the fine items they bought to cook upon an open flame.





as tasty as all of that looks, you have to bear in mind that we got to eat it with full knowledge of the manner that Dad and Richard decided to cook it. well, OK, i encouraged them a bit for the next picture, but they didn't need all that much encouragement.....





well, Jamie Oliver, you have an awful lot to answer for......


i do trust that, over the weekend, when you ate you did so at a time which was accommodating and pleasant for all, and that those who cooked did, for the most part, remain clothed.


be excellent to each other!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bunk Beds

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James, every now and then, has an odd or perhaps unusual request. the most recent example of this was, out of the blue, his expressed and earnest wish to have bunk beds in his bedroom.

well, as we kind of need to swipe his bed back soon to convert it back to a cot for William, this did not strike us as a bad idea. not bad at all, really - a shrewd investment, indeed, since it sorts James and William both out for beds for a bit.

behold, then, the very finest bunk beds we could find that, in their infinite generosity, those nice people at the credit card company invested in!





erm, yes, if you are commenting that you cannot see all that much of them in the picture. they are a rather large set, and do tend to dominate James' room. this makes it rather tricky to get a pic from an angle that gets all of them in, really. i mean, i could get a ladder and climb up to take a pic through the window, i suppose, only i am not going to.

whereas i hope you like what you can see of them, i can at the least assure you that James loves the whole thing!





he's not at all sure if he prefers the top bunk or the bottom one, so he's been alternating nights on them to try and find a "best fit". he has also had a hitherto unknown wish to get to bed as soon as possible on a night - and doesn't rush to get up at 5am anymore. if only i had known then i would have indulged those kind, giving types at the credit card place a year or so ago!

whilst not sleeping on them yet as such, it seems that William is rather taken with them too!





well done to Michele for coordinating them getting into the room OK!!!



be excellent to each other!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Harlo Invasion Africa 2010 AD

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well, usual obligatory apologies for the lack of updates for a week or so - busy times what with Easter, interest rate fluctuations and indeed the arrival of the Harlo gang to our fine shores!

it is a delight to have the Harlo gang here with us for a bit. the last time they were here - i think - was for Richard & Erika's wedding, when we also announced that James was "on his way", so to speak. how jolly nice of them to come over and see him now that he has arrived, along with William!

here's Colin & Angela using their most might muscle to get in on a family picture of us!





thanks to this whole internet thing, James has engaged in many a conversation with the Harlo clan. he already loved Colin, Angela, Andrew and Christopher to bits anyway, but as one would be is thrilled to have them here in person!





indeed, it seems that Andrew and Christopher are well delighted to meet the family that they had not met before too, as shown here with James and Lyla during a brief interlude in a splendid search for Easter Eggs on Sunday.





and just how is the holiday going for them thus far? well, i think it's all OK. i am not sure what it is they do at home these days, but Colin & Angela seem to have taken a right shine to being in the kitchen doing dishes as often as they can.





i can only assume that at home Andrew and Christopher do that much housework that their Mum & Dad now believe doing something like the dishes is a nice relaxing break. oddly, when they popped over to our house they seemed reluctant to do our washing for us, but never mind.

righty-ho, many, many more pictures to follow! and one or two curious tales, too!


be excellent to each other!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sunday Afternoon

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well, the batteries in the camera somehow managed to stay charged up long enough for a few snaps this weekend, so here we got with the usual, somewhat regular update on how James and William are coming along!

first up, here's James doing his best to encourage William to smile for a picture. a nice gesture, considering how frequently James does not wish to smile for pics, and indeed how often he tries to stop me taking pictures of William!





yes, that's James on a Sunday afternoon still in his Ben 10 pyjamas. well, it is a Sunday, and you just try getting them off him!

moving on, here are the fruits of James' efforts to encourage his brother to smile. it might not be a full-on, classical smile in the traditional sense, but all the same William looks just as cute as ever in this one!





those of you with an eye for the finer details will have observed that William is sat on our new couches - many thanks once again, Mum & Dad!

moving away from the new couches, here's William in his pram, doing his wild and wide eye thing!





and finally, moving back to the new couch, here's a fantastic one of the two boys together!





hope you all had a most splendid weekend!!!



be excellent to each other!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dad Graces The Fourth Estate....

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just a quick, in current slang terms, "big up" for my Dad and his recent appearance in the newspaper!!





nice one Dad, good luck with all of that!

beyond this, i am led to believe that my Dad has invested in that most luxurious of items, a shed. looking forward to getting the pics to put here!



be excellent to each other!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ashes To Ashes Series 3

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well, this is a spoiler free update on the return of this ace series! i just couldn't resist loading up this picture, for somewhat obvious reasons!





if the reasons are not obvious, well, welcome and i hope you have enjoyed your first visit to my site. for everyone else, oh yes, i really hope they sell these shirts!

oh, go on then, here's a pic for all you Gene Hunt purists!





fire up the Quattro!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Hurt Locker

The Oscars, bless them, are a strange affair. all film fans want to see "the right" films get rewarded. whether it's your personal favourite or the film more or less everyone saw or heard about, that's what you want to see celebrated on the one and only night glitz and glamour can go mercifully guilt-free. it's always a frustrating conversation when they get the big awards wrong. The Hurt Locker, sadly, is one of those moments of frustration.

considering it's a bit of a con that it even qualified for the 2009 awards, seeing as it made and released in 2008, it's rather curious that a film so few had actually seen made it to the nomination stage, let alone win the big awards. as of last weekend, The Hurt Locker had made $26,500,000 at the American box office. this, comparatively, is not a lot of movie ticket sales for 8 or so months, and certainly indicates very few saw it. not that the biggest money maker should win the award, mind.

well, i gave it a watch as open-minded as i could. the conclusion, alas, is that this is the worst Oscar decision since Peter Finch got the Best Actor award for Network on the basis that he died before the awards, and thus got sympathy votes that should have been celebratory ones for the amazing work the likes of De Niro and a young Sylvester Stallone did that year.

there will be *** SPOILERS *** ahead. this is worth pointing out as not many have clearly seen the film, but then again i suspect not that many will be off to watch it.





ostensibly, The Hurt Locker follows a bomb disposal unit during the last month and a bit of their current tour of duty in Iraq. their "explosives expert", played by the brilliant Guy Pearce (more on him later), gets blown up and so for the last few days the team has to contend with a new, somewhat maverick expert played by Jeremy Renner. that's it.

if you leave to one side the "been there, done that" thoughts of this story line, you are still left with a problem in that there's not a great deal to the story. no, i am not belittling the service men and women in the real world, before you start. but if you are making a film to inform or (as the first poster for the film, right at the bottom shows) entertain, a good idea is to come up with something of substance for the two hour duration. this doesn't have that.





Jeremy Renner has been getting applause for his role in the film, and to a degree this is justified. unfortunately, he looks good by comparison rather than in his own right, outside of the two "cameo" appearances there's little in the way of competition on screen for him. characterization in this film is threadbare to the point of needing that massive Hubble telescope to see it. characters walk around in some sort of minimalist silence for the most part, only for every 40 minutes or so for them to deliver a deluge of dialogue. when those moments come along, you really wish they didn't - for the most part the soldiers dialogue sounds like it was written by someone whose entire experience of what the troops should say was based on a number of screenings of the end bit of Rambo : First Blood Part II, as well as watching and not quite understanding Platoon.

the notion that this features anything to make it the Best Picture or the best directed film of the year is bewildering. the director lacks the courage of her convictions - half the time we have "shaky cam", made to look good in the Bourne films and dire in all others that have copied it, for the rest we are treated to visuals which wouldn't be out of place in a lesser day time soap opera. how odd, just as one example, that the year Tarantino proves that he really is a gifted director with the dazzling Inglorious Basterds he gets overlooked for someone who makes a film that appears to be worse made than even the laziest of his efforts (Death Proof, Kill Bill 2 spring to mind.).





i have a theory that The Hurt Locker started off life as a "mockumentary", very much along the lines of Reno 911! and This Is Spinal Tap. vast chunks of the film look like they were filmed "documentary style" in a way to play for laughs, only to be re-edited into a more serious "fictional documentary style" when it was clear that the subject matter was no laughing matter and the film certainly wasn't funny.

in regards of this idea, it would explain the brief appearance of two quality actors in a cameo role, Guy Pearce and Ralph Fiennes, only to be killed off within five minutes of appearing. let's also consider the first posters for this film, before it was given such oh, so serious reviews. an example below.





now, does that look like a poster for a serious film, or does it look like some sort of humour being injected to promote some kind of action film? exactly.

The Hurt Locker appears to have won the awards because politically it seemed a good idea to recognize a woman for making a film about America's armed conflicts around the world, to show that films don't have to make lots of money to get recognized because the Oscars are about "art", and/or just because they really didn't want James Cameron to win. i defy anyone to show how this film was even close to being as good as, let alone better, than a number of films released in 2009. off the top of my head, Inglorious Basterds and Moon would have been better choices, given a few moments i bet i could list more. and i dare say you could, too.

it's rare that i would say don't bother with a film, but 2 or so days after seeing it the status of it in my mind has changed, with some thinking, from "average" to "a waste of two hours". if the curiosity of seeing the "best film" of "last year" gets the better of you, well, you've been warned.


be excellent to each other!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

in defence of John Grisham

there exists in this world a most curious type of "critic". they tend to be exceptionally elitist, patronizing and on the whole exceptionally pompus and full of themselves. they hate the idea of being seen in any way endorsing or applauding anything that's "popular" or sells well, instead apparently needing to show how clever they believe they are by only celebrating the obscure, complicated and seldom seen works of art. this is seldom more obvious that in the world of book reviews.

i grow very tired, for instance, of people who do things like comment on the film The Hurt Locker as though they have seen and understood it and yet discuss a film set in Afghanistan and write pretentious articles to impress their chums containing lines like "oh, i only bought the new Dan Brown to see if he has worked out how to write yet.". the mind boggles, then, as to why people who are so anti-popular tend to force their views on the popular world at large through the media. maybe it's a comfort thing.

i have more degrees in literature than is usually considered enough, but i really don't need to wave them about unless it is in jest. the likes of Dan Brown, John Grisham, Jilly Cooper, Tom Clancy and any other writer that has sold millions that you care to name keep the majority wildly entertained with their usually addictive novels. so what if they don't reconstruct some sort of metaphysical, post-modernist ideals of the human condition? is it such a crime to entertain and be entertained? methinks not.

the above, granted, might be a bit of an excessive introduction to say how much i have enjoyed the latest John Grisham paperback, The Associate, but i am sure you will forgive the dig at those types mentioned above that just can't bring themselves to enjoy a damned good book.





it's been over a year since the hardback appeared of The Associate, but i would imagine the majority of John Grisham readers are like me and just wait for the paperback edition to read in bed, on a plane, train or anywhere else. i am delighted to say that this book sits very nicely indeed in the top half of the 20 or so books Mr Grisham has written, and marks something of a return to form.

whereas the novel before this (i think), The Appeal, was pretty good, before that one he had published two right clangers. The Last Juror should have been a rollicking tale of revenge against the members of a jury but instead spent considerable time discussing the relative merits of the many fine churches of Mississippi. It was The Broker, however, that nearly made me quit John Grisham books. what should have been an ace tale of intrigue and espionage between lawyers and the government instead turned into page after page of how Italians eat pasta and when they drink coffee.

The Associate escapes the trappings of superfluous details that dominated the last two books mentioned above and gets right into the action, thankfully. i wouldn't wish to spoil any of the plot, but the book is basically about a soon-to-be qualified lawyer who is blackmailed into working for a law firm that's handling one of the biggest cases in legal history. the rest i will let you find out, not long after you start reading it really.

it's an addictive, enjoyable read, as a few late nights from my side can testify to. if you, like me, have felt somewhat let down by the last couple of books you have read by Grisham, pick this up without hesitation - he's back to what he does best.


and you should really read the book before the film version hits. Grisham has refused to sell the film rights for his last few books, so i was surprised to see him sell the rights for this one. in particular as the considerably unpopular yet oddly big money making Shia LaBeouf has been cast in the lead. LaBeouf is the reason the last Indiana Jones film will never be considered as great as the original three, and rumours abound that it's his "acting" display that has led to Wall Street 2 being delayed for a few months to allow some furious re-editing. the protagonist of The Associate, Kyle, isn't the most likable of characters, but he doesn't deserve the LaBeouf interpretation.


when Martin Scorsese, in the days before The Departed, was asked about if he was frustrated at never winning the Oscar, he gave a wonderful answer. "movie making is not about awards", he stated, "it's about making money. every film you make has to make enough money to let you make the next one.". i would imagine a similar approach is true of John Grisham. as nice as it would be to impress those la-dee-da darlings i mentioned at the start, it's no match for writing stories that entertain you and many millions of readers. and long may he continue to do so!


happy reading!!!!!



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happy birthday Neeharika!!

hey everyone

well, on this Monday afternoon of a long weekend i really should be laid on the couch having a lovely nap, to be honest. it has been a busy three days, but all the same incredibly fun! in particular on the fun front, today James & i were lucky enough to go along to his good friend Neeharika's 4th birthday party at a superb place called Horse Haven.

James and all of Neeharika's guests ran themselves ragged having a wonderful time, for there was absolutely no shortage of things for them to do!

beyond the obvious pony rides (which James wasn't doing for love nor money), a big winner for James was the amazing tarmacked track to ride around on bikes. it features a big hill to go up and down, with a "cave" underneath. James spent quite a bit of his day on this!





now, doesn't that pic above just scream of the Quadrophenia lifestyle? nice one James! or Dr Jimmy, recalling the album's protagonist!

it wasn't always the case that James rode his bike down looking so cool and smooth, though. every now and then it appeared to be a fun idea to race the bike down!





there was also a fantastic, well crafted jungle gym with a brilliant tree house sat on the top of it.





when it was time for the party to be finished there was a concerted effort from a number of the children to barricade themselves into this house to prevent being taken away!

now then, one of the best things ever that you can have at a kids party is easily a jumping castle. this party was no exception at all, and all the children had an ace time on it!





and i do mean on it - this is one of the few instances of James jumping on it as intended, for the most part he just tried to climb on to the yellow top bit for a lie down!

the one thing to get everyone inside, briefly, was the prospect of birthday cake and sweets, of course. here's the birthday girl blowing out the candles on her cake, and no prizes for guessing who has sat down as close to the cake as he can!





well, a fantastic day to round off a fantastic long weekend. something of a tiring one, though, so you will excuse me for the moment in not writing a good deal more!


be excellent to each other!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

visiting Ouma

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well, two things tend to happen in March. one is occasional, which would be Michele being pregnant, and the other is a constant, which would be my dear Mother-In-Law Monica celebrating her 29th birthday. i am, in some ways, delighted to report that we went off to celebrate the latter today.

when Monica came to visit William not long after his birth he did more or less sleep through her visit, so it was wonderful that he was alert and awake whilst we went over to see her today! here he is being fascinated with Ouma!





as it's her birthday i am supposed to say only nice things about my very dear Mother-In-Law. it's tempting to leave it as simply stating she is easily the best legal mother-in-law i have ever had, but i must say she is a wonderful lady beyond that!

moving on, here's the ever proud young Uncle Dylan with William!





it is a credit to Dylan that, despite the pile of Ben 10 books and discs i gave him today, all he really wanted to to do was spend time with William and James. i have been lucky to have wonderful Uncles too, i am glad that William and James have the same from Dylan and indeed "daft" Uncle Richard.

and the boys certainly are not lacking in the Auntie and cousin department, either! here's William being held lovingly by Auntie Natasha, as cousins Skyla and Jade flank him to ensure they are in the pic!





i think Tasha intends to show off the above pic to people without saying who the baby is, and when they ask respond "oh, didn't i tell you?". should be good fun!


and finally from today, Michele surrounded by as many as could get into the picture!





we tried to get all and sundry to pose, but what's the point? the above type of pic is far more fun and honest!!

well, we've had a fantastic Sunday, i really hope that you did too, wherever you are in the world dear reader!!!!


be excellent to each other!!!!!!!!!