Pieces of a Man

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30.12.04

Sub-zero

Oti dived straight into the freezing water today at Lyme Park then spent the next hour happily getting wetter and wetter. We also went to see Jo's new allotment.

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25.12.04

Xmas in Wales

Heading to the beach
Teeth gritted, everyone heading off to the beach on Christmas Eve, just before the heavens openend.


Overlooking Skokolm Island
Boxing Day, setting off for a walk up the cliffs. Waves pretty big.


Let the games begin
Tom taking a senak preivew of the questions in the background before taking on the kids at Triv.


Beach
Strange rock formations on the beach near the farmhouse.


Paddling
Oscar playing on the beach on Christmas Day. Chucked it down with hail right after.


Jogger
Yani on Christmas Day heading back from a climb on the rocks.


Boules
The Xmas Day tournament, early stages. Jon and Tom run out winners.


Nana
Yani helping Mum reorganise her wind defences.

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17.12.04

Booze Up

End of year party at work. Ended up in the last ever night of the student union building having a drunken sing-song.

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5.12.04

Going to Goa

Celebrated Mum'n'Dad's 40th Wedding Anniversary by buying them a trip to India.

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27.11.04

Birmingham 1 Norwich 1

We were very, very lucky. Report.

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5.11.04

Burn, Baby, Burn

FireMum chucks another piece of fuel onto the towering inferno that was this year's bonfire.

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31.10.04

Tasty

Oscar can't resist having a few bites of the pumpkin.

Craftswoman
Yani in the early stages of a model of St Paul's Cathedral.

Witches
All ready to go out and trick or treat.

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21.9.04

Yani's 5th Birthday

Yani's 5th Birthday
Yani was lucky enough to have a birthday on a Tuesday and a party on a Saturday this year - 2 cakes!

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5.9.04

Arthur

Day trip with the Reddish Mum's group to Camelot, the one just near Bolton. Kids loved it, especially Oscar who got to see lots of knights, jousting and met this hero King Arthur.

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31.8.04

Rhyl

Day out with Dad visting a castle just outside Rhyl and then going down onto the beach. It was a brilliant day, lots of sunshine, not many people and tea in a sea front 'chips with everything' cafe before we came home.

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12.8.04

T'n'A B'day

Celebrated Tom'n'Anna's birthday with a meal at an Italian.

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31.7.04

Auntie Eileen

Went down to London to the 70th birthday barbecue of Auntie Eileen and Uncle George.

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9.7.04

Ground Force

Day 3 of Sam and his gang doing work on the garden

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21.6.04

Florida 2004

Two weeks spent motel hopping in a hire car the length and breadth of Florida. Started in Orlando, then travelled through Sarasota, down to Miami and then back up.

Airport
Departure lounge at Mcr airport.


Jaws
Close encounters at Gatorland nr Orlando.


Showtime
Kids watching croc wrestling.


Denny's
A 3am, jetlagged start on Oscar's birthday.


Denny's 2
Birthday cake at Denny's on Oti's birthday in the evening.


Chicken Tonite
Feeding time at Gatorland.


Splash
Swimming at Juniper Springs in the Ocala national forest.


Disney
Meeting Minnie.


Floating bar
Basking off Lover's Key near Fort Myers.


Castle
Fairytales come true.


Hat
Getting sweaty and Disneyworld.


Bucket
In the kiddie's fountian at Sarasota.


Shade
Picnic at Lover's Key.


Bashful
Meeting Snow White.


Pull!
Oscar tackles the Sword in the Stone.


Twins
Yani and the Tweedles.


Fries
Dining as we crossed the Florida panhandle.


BBQ
Picnic at Bill Baggs state park off Miami.


Home, James
The drive back to Orlando airport.

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4.6.04

New York, New York

Trip to New
York to give a presentation at the eLIT2004 conference at St John's University. Result.

Take
off

Continental Boeing 777 to Newark.

Brooklyn

Sunday
morning stroll on Brooklyn Bridge.

Pizza

Conference delegates having coffee in Bryant Park, next to the NYC central
library.

Nets

Amateur baseball in Central Park.

Nibbles

Ethnic food tasting tour - Chinese, Jewish, Italian nibbles and the
story of immigration round the Upper East Side.

Anticlimax

The house that Marcus Garvey once lived in, now a boarded up shell in
a Harlem project.

Taxi

Crosstown traffic in Greenwich Village.

911

Reconstruction at Ground Zero.

Campus

A view towards St John's University in suburban Queens.

Ex-President

Times Square coverage of the death of Ronald Reagan.

Billboard

Ads for the new series of Six Feet Under on 42nd Street.

Boot
camp

Luxury campus accomodation for the conference.

Trains

Patriotic subway trains on the New York underground.

UN

The United Nations building.

Yani's

An illustrious tailor's shop.

Cheap
seats

The crowd at NY Yankees v Texas Rangers.

Ball
game

The view from the top of Yankee Stadium.

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