It was my Dad’s 60th birthday a couple of week’s ago so me and Gavin (brother) set about finding some old footage on Youtube from the year he was born and cut it together with some modern footage and some clips of us just larking about to create this spoof newsreel from 1950. We had [...]

If you know me pretty well you’ll already be familiar with the fact that every year myself and two good friends collaborate on a story together. They’re by no means literary masterpieces but they serve an entertaining purpose, for us at least. It began six years ago when we decided to try writing a book [...]

Simply because I promised to upload this picture for my mum, and that I think it’s great too. But that’s cos I’m a proud Dad of course.

Of no interest to anyone else, but at the request of the family, here are the photos from this christmas.

After a disappointing summer, weather-wise, the last few weekends have given us some lovely weather so this saturday we popped up the road to the Lickey Hills (about 3 miles). Here are a few photos of us playing on the minature castle and in the woods up there. The view from Beacon Hill over the [...]

Second Birthday for Elliot. Trip to Thomas Land at Drayton Manor Park near Tamworth. Queues, picnics, soaking wet log flume, pitch black walzers, endless Thomas the tank merchandise, splendid sunshine, great family day out, not enough hours in the day, elated little boy, fat controller, Dimitri Miroslav Randompole fishing something out of the log flume, [...]

Derby day in Birmingham today saw Aston Villa travel to St Andrews to play Birmingham City in the Premiership for the first time in a couple of seasons. Louise is a Blues fan, I am a Villa fan and Elliot, as a result of being bought a villa shirt first by one of Louise’s friends [...]

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Today Louise came across a double page spread in Visit Birmingham’s Pocket Guide for 2009. It basically gives you an example 48 hour itinerary for a weekend in Birmingham. Reading it reminded me just how much to do there is in Birmingham, but looking at it in more detail I considered; could I afford this [...]

Congratulations to Giles and Ruth on their recent wedding. A great day with the reception in the awesome grounds of Harlaxton Manor. Below is a small selection of some of the photos from the day.

This afternoon we attended the unveiling of my Grandad’s (Sidney George Ivens) memorial bench at his beloved cricket club in Willoughby.
Fantastic weather, lovely picnic and an under par performance from Willoughby first team (although to be fair, against the league leaders).
Very much a family occasion, so for the benefit of the family, some photos are [...]

This short video has been hacked together quickly in iMovie from some MPEGS from the Canon G9 camera whilst on holiday last week. One of the clips is Elliot dancing to a spanish musical duo outside a restaurant one evening in his jim-jams by the marina. The other clips are from the hotel’s children’s disco, [...]