Archive for August, 2010

Visiting the Air Traffic Control Tower

Birmingham air-traffic control tower

Image via Wikipedia I went with the BCS today and joined them for a tour of the new Air Traffic Control Tower in Ronaldsway. It was a pretty good tour and I have some photos I’ll be uploading to my main blog if I’m still awake in a few minutes It was interesting to get…

Arthur at play

I was just thinking about how quickly kids grow; so I thought I’d take a  quick minute of Alexander messing around. Check it out: He’s just at that age where everything needs to go in his mouth: food, toys, jigsaw pieces; it’s a good thing we don’t have loose diamonds running around, or you know…

Clothes for the twins

A clothes merchant in Porto, Portugal

Image via Wikipedia The house seems to be full of clothes at the moment, but if you think about it, we’re a family of 5 now, we were 3 only a year ago. So if you just think about how many baby clothes we have running around at the moment, well, there are quite a…

Surcharges on tickets

If there’s one thing I hate, it’s been offered a ticket for a price, then being subjected to a whole bunch of surcharges and extras. It doesn’t matter if it’s a flight ticket or lady gaga tickets, if the ticket price is £20, that’s the price I expect to pay when I check out. At…

Our 11th Anniversary

It was our 11th Anniversary a few days ago so we took the opportunity, as you do to exchange gifts. The theme for 11th anniversary was steel, which meant I couldn’t go for one of those pretty corsets or anything sexy. (It was steel for crying out loud!). So instead, I managed to find some…