New Albums for September 2016

Great Barr Hall Lichfield Pauls House Great Barr Hall Snowdome Tamworth

Great Barr Hall: Towards the end of August Keiths dogs came to stay while Keith and Alison were on holiday. I took them for a walk to Great Barr Hall. You can see from the above album how much it has deteriorated since my previous visit in March 2009

Lichfield: Friday 9 September 2016 Steve and Gail took the twins to see their 'old house' in Lichfield

Snowdome: Saturday 10 September Bryony and the Twins went to the Snowdome

Tamworth: Friday 16 September, Steve, Gail, Carol, John, Pete and Karen all paid a visit to Tamworth

August 2016. Please click thumbnail to see the complete album.

Barmouth Canons Ashby Kedleston Hall

In addition to our visits to the above 3 locations during August 2016. Between 27 July and 3 August Daniel and Faustine came over from France and stopped at our house for the week.
Between 23 August and 7 September. Keiths dogs "Bobby", "Daisy" and "Lady" came to stop whilst Keith and Alison went to Cyprus on Holiday.
On 8 August Steve went with Paul to Star City to watch the latest Star Trek film "Beyond"
on 27 August there was a family BBQ at Sam and Petes House in Erdington to celebrate Sams Birthday.
Not only did Callum get his "A Levels" but he also passed his driving test at the first attempt!

Photo Albums for July 2016. Please click thumbnail to see the complete album.

Anderton Boat Lift Blackpool Berrington Hall Bourton on Water   Brockhampton   Bryony Graduation Cirencester Croft Castle Georgia   Jodrell Bank

Photo Albums for June 2016. Please click thumbnail to see the complete album.

Arboretum Chirk Castle Oscar Powis Castle Twins Holiday

New Photo Albums have been included in my April 2016 Collection. Please click the thumbnail to view.

Hans Zimmer Concert Georgia Oscar

It has been quite while since I have updated the front page of my web site. This has been mainly due to a very large computer project that I have been meaning to do for several months but required some alterations to my computer hardware. In the past I have managed to free up a considerable amount of space in our house by digitising various things such as photographs, my music collection and books. In the past a considerable amount of space was taken up with VHS tapes to keep our video recordings. This was later reduced by moving things onto CD/DVD and then disposing of the taped versions. However there have now been vast improvements in computer technology with larger capacity hard drives plus the increased speeds of wireless networking within a building. It has now become practical to move stuff from those CD/DVD discs onto hard drives and stream the content around the building. To do so however I had to upgrade various items of computer hardware some of which proved to be a challenge - mostly getting things to fit into the motherboard. This has now been completed.

The weather has been so mild this year that I had to give our lawn its first cut on 12 February - Quite surprising when the last cut was only in November.

On Thursday 25 February My Aunt Doreen (Whitehouse) was buried in Walsall Wood. There was a service at St Johns Church followed by a wake at King Street Progressive Club. I met up with several family members I had not seen for several years including my cousins Mark, Christopher and Tracey. It was quite surprising to see how Sandra and also Graham's families have now grown. My former next door neighbour Norma from Herbert Road was also in attendance.

On Monday 29 February having noticed that Millie was now panting much more than usual I took her to the Vets. Millie has now been put on heart medication.

On Friday 4 March the twins had "sleepover". The same day Faustine came over from France on a business trip and so Faustine also slept here from Friday through to Wednesday 9 March.