Graham, whilst looking for some thing else, came across a couple of old photo albums, and brought them out to show. That got everyone very interested and he dragged a huge cardboard box full of old photos out of the garage. There were probably about 1500 pictures.

Much fun was had laughing at our younger, thinner, more hairy (and I don’t just mean the guys), badly dressed selves 😀

Here’s one of me from the mid eighties, when I was often mistaken for Lionel Richie, Not!:

And a more up-to-date one:

At one point Thom brought out his Chinese Hamsters, Itschy and Sparky.
Everyone had a go at holding them,

but then one of them ran up the inside of Paula’s sleeve!

I’m not quite sure how covering your eyes helped, but you were very brave Paula! 😀

Just got back from a fun day at Graham and Jackie’s. All the usual suspects were there. 🙂
We gave Thom a card an little present for his first day at high school tomorrow.

More food was sacrificed to the great barbecue in the sky!

We took Pepe with us this time and he enjoyed himself too. The girls did a lot of running around, and played in Bekki’s fun house.

Speaking of Pepe, he’s a real softie. Here he is cuddling his favourite toy!

Pepe is a Bichon Frise. (I was going to provide a link to the Bichon Frise Club of Great Britain but the link is dead). However thanks to the Wayback Machine here is the last copy from Oct 17 2001

He’s actually Jamie’s dog. He was a fifth birthday present.

After Steve featured a very scruffy looking Pepe on his blog last week, Jan took an ‘after’ picture of him today. The ‘after’ being after his appointment at the groomers.

Doesn’t he look better?

Apparently four adults have just spent their Saturday night constructing a 88cm high 3D jigsaw puzzle of a grandfather clock!

This thing was huge!

See the full story on the puzzle page.

Jamie had a wonderful birthday today. She got lots of wonderful presents. She especially liked here portable CD player and the new CDs she got.

I managed to get the afternoon off work. Jamie invited a few friends and lots of family round for tea. Everyone had a really good time.

Some adults even managed to make more of a mess than the kids.

And then tried to hide it! 😀

All in all an excellent day.