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 [...]

September 19th. In honour of today’s ‘Talk Like A Pirate Day’ (which I missed last year due to a salty mission to Weston Super Mare) here are a few things to get you in the mood, so to speak.
Loading, Ready, Run’s guide to talking like a Pirate. Essential viewing to avoid those social Faux pas…
http://loadingreadyrun.com/videos/view/49/How-to-Talk-like-a-Pirate

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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 [...]

This was flying around the office today and made the geeks amongst us smile. As simple as it is it really does sum up what most of us do who don’t know how to do something on a computer. If you’re one of the ones doing the ‘asking’ then why not try following this diagram, [...]