family

it was my lovely wife jane’s birthday on friday and i had been so useless i didn’t even get her a cake. in my defence, i am always totally rubbish, so it wasn’t anything personal.
life has been completely hectic of late so it was great for just the two of us to go out for meal.

unfortunately we showed our age by feeling tipsy after one pint/one glass of wine and too tired to stay for a dessert or even coffee !

anyway, many belated returns jane !

it’s a party weekend. preschool party saturday lunchtime, family birthday party for esther and my mum last night and sunday is esther’s 6th birthday party.

i woke up this morning to the smell of chocolate cake being cooked. it was esther baking a cake for her school fete.

esther did all the cooking herself and it won first prize for the best cake. it tasted absolutely fantastic so no wonder it won.

the sea’s a liquid so why does it need a saw ?
broken joke requring punchline: why did the sea saw ?

here are jane and kezia in marlow. a very nice place on a very nice (and hot) day. it was officially 42degC today (probably)

today (19th June) is jane and lynn’s day for doing the london to brighton bike ride ! the support team is ready (with their buckets and spades) to meet her at the finish line.
details here

kezia finally becomes gemma

have i got two identical wives ? is this a trick photo using a mirror or digital editing ?
no, it’s jane and a portrait of her drawn by kezia.
the real jane is the one on the right

kezia seems to be spending more of her time as her alter-ego ‘gemma the dog’. she’ll often refuse to talk and simply say ‘woof’ instead. she even wakes up at night in character.
last night we went for tea at our friends’ house where kezia played with the real dog Gemma upon which she bases her other persona.