2006

it’s back to work for me today. the christmas beard has now been removed and all the visitors are gone.
if you were one of the 415,000 unique visitors who caused 560GB of traffic to be downloaded from nearly 2 million page downloads last year, then thank you very much. you’re what makes it worth while posting my junk so thank you very much.
and also a big thank you to lovely jane for putting up with all the funkypancake related tomfoolery and time wastery.

(if you’ve been on hols you might have missed some good-ish stuff over the holidays, so have a quick squint at the december archive if you are interested)

jane did the santa run, much xmas preparations and celebrations (including chopping down our tree from a field) and plenty of other stuff

chat with john cleese, tate modern slides, james baptism, went to a flashmob, bournemouth beach in winter (taking our christmas photos)
delirious?, went to brussels for a conference, and plenty of other stuff

bonfire night, walked a quarter of the way round the world, played the clinking clanking game, 10,000th blog post, thames path part 8, drinks at number 11, roal dahl museum, and plenty of other stuff

started off in athens, then went to vienna with jane (stayed in a fantastic hotel), philip and fern, peter stringfellow, nearly killed paul weller, jane did the windsor half marathon, and plenty of other stuff

elton visited, went shooting with a gold medal olympian, thames parth part 6 and part 7, stopped commuting by train everyday, went to the reading festival, didn’t win a photo prize, family holiday in england (most of the photos were posted in september) then off to athens for a conference, and plenty of other stuff

church holiday club musical extravangaza, went up BT tower again, got wet at andy’s party, jane’s birthday, had my teeth x-rayed, saw three celebs in one day, my mum’s birthday, my brother’s belated birthday, mentoes exploding coke thing, discovered my mum carries tea bags everywhere, esther’s birthday, thames path part 5, and plenty of other stuff

managed to book a hotel in the wrong country (whilst travelling to it by taxi), stumbled upon the strandeesties, visited wellplace zoo for the last time, saw danny baker again, looked at scarecrows
, and plenty of other stuff

first funkypancake podcast (and here), my father-in-law’s big birthday, thames path part 4, jane did her first race, and plenty of other stuff

house invaded by a beast, went to butlins with my mother-in-law (for a christian convention)day out with kezia, went up BT Tower, met Russel for the first time, thames path part 3, kite flying, went to kew gardens with friends, passed the 5000 mile / 8000 km walking mark, went to the dogs and plenty of other stuff

princess anne, started the thames path (part 1 and 2), ricky gervais, met with blog friends, and plenty of other stuff

trip to the winter olympics, jane and my 10 year anniversary, kezia’s birthday, danny baker and plenty of other stuff

new year revelries, relies to stay, kezia got chicken pox, trip to the wetland centre, and other stuff