Between Monday 21 September and Tuesday 6 October Gail, Steve, Carol and John were on Holiday on the East Coast of North America.

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Photo Albums

Bar Harbor  CN Tower  Lunar Eclipse  Halifax  Fairview Cemetry   Central Park Empire State Bldng  Grand Central Stn  Peggys Cove   NCL Gem       Ground Zero         NY Hotel  Hudson River  Jersey Boys Manhattan  Statue of Liberty            Times Square  Niagra Falls Niagra on Lake  Saint John  Toronto

Video Albums

Hudson River New York Hotel  Niagra Falls  NY By Day          NY By Night Central Park Empire State Bldng Grand Central Stn          Ground Zero  Times Square  Trump Tower  Odd Bits

On Monday 26 September Faustine came here from France to stay until Thursday morning. This was a business trip where each day she had to drive hundreds of miles to various locations around the UK.The trip was a success gaining her 3 new customers.

On Saturday 10 October Gail was taken on a mysterious car ride. She had been told by Carol and Karen that they were taking out during the afternoon for a meal to celebrate her 60th birthday. She was also told that to prevent her "inviting" anyone else along that the location was being kept a secret. She never for a moment suspected that the secret was in fact a surprise party for Gail. All our family were hidden away inside a Toby Carvery at Sutton Park. The party had been arranged way back in April and she never suspected anything amiss!

Christopher has achieved his graduation in MA Managing and Leading People at Coventry University.  He will be attending an award ceremony on Friday 20/11/2015. Well done Christopher, your achievment is all the more impressive when we take into account that not only were you studying for this Masters Degree, but also you studied and passed the Police Promotion Exam. If that in itself was not impressive enough you also achieved this whilst bringing up your twin daughters! We are all very proud.

On Saturday 12/09/2015 Sam and Pete were married in Mauritius. This was later followed by a wedding receptiion at The Great Barr Hotel. Please click the Pictures to see the various photo albums.
Wedding Honeymoon Reception

On Fri 03/07/2015 With Paul and Zena we went to Bletchley Park
On  Sat 04/07/2015 A Party was held at The Methodist Church, Meriden to celebrate the twins 3rd birthday.	Photo Album 1  Photo Album 2  Video 1  Video 2
On Wednesday 29/07/2015  With Keith and Allison  We went to Fradley Junction
On  Sun 05/07/2015 With Carol and John We Visited National Trust Rock Houses - Kinver and also Bridgnorth
Thu 30/07/2015 Daniel & Faustine came over From France until Monday 10August
Tue 11/08/2015 Keith's Dogs Came to stay for 3 days Until 13/08/15
On Tue 04/08/2015 we took the twins for a day out at Packwood House (National Trust	On Thu 06/08/2015 we took Bryony for a day out at Beacon Park - Lichfield
On Tue 11/08/2015 we took the Twins for a day out at Beacon Park - Lichfield	On Sat 22/08/2015 there was a big family gathering and BBQ at Christine's house to celebrate Liam's 18th Birthday Party
On Sat 22/08/2015 Neil and Donna celebrated their 25th Wedding Anniversary Party at the Community Centre.

Once again it has been such a busy period that I have not had the chance to update my website until now! Here are my main highlights:
Saturday 11 April Oscars First Birthday was celebrated with various family members attending Jimmy Spices Restaurant in Sutton Coldfield. To View my photo album please click here
Friday 24 April With Carol and John we visited Packwood House a timber-framed Tudor manor house near Lapworth, Warwickshire. Owned by the National Trust since 1941, the house is a Grade I listed building. It has a wealth of tapestries and fine furniture, and is known for the garden of yews. To View my photo album please click here. Later the same day we then visited Visited Baddesley Clinton. Belonging to the National Trust Baddesley Clinton is a moated manor house, located just north of the historic town of Warwick in the English county of Warwickshire; To view my photo album please click here.
Tuesday 26 May Steve and Paul Went to the Barclaycard Arena (Formerly called the NIA - National Indoor Arena) in Birmingham to watch a Dr Who Spectacular. This live show featured over 100 performers and was conducted by Ben Foster, who conducts and orchestrates the musical scores for the TV series. Music was be performed by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and members of the BBC National Chorus of Wales.The show also included a host of the Doctor’s famous adversaries including the iconic Daleks and Cybermen, the spine-chilling Silence and many more fan favourites. To view my photo album please click here.
Saturday 30 May Bryonys 3rd birthday was celebrated by way of a buffet and garden party at her home with several family members in attendance. Click here for my photo album.
Sunday 7 June Rebecca is proud to share some photographs of Oscar in celebration of his first Birthday. Click the picture to view the album.	Tuesday 9 June 2015 Carl and Heather finally announce the forthcoming new addition to their family. Her baby is due in mid December. Congratulations to both proud parents. Click the picture to view the picture in large size.
Sunday 7 June With Carol and John we visited Waddesdon Manor a country house in the village of Waddesdon, in Buckinghamshire, England. The house was built in the Neo-Renaissance style of a French château between 1874 and 1889 for Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild (1839–1898). The house, set in formal gardens and an English landscape park, was built on a barren hilltop overlooking Waddesdon village.The last member of the Rothschild family to own Waddesdon was James de Rothschild. He bequeathed the house and its contents to the National Trust in 1957. Today, following an extensive restoration, it is administered by a Rothschild charitable trust that is overseen by Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild. In 2007–08 it was the National Trust's second most visited paid-entry property, with 386,544 visitors Click here to view my photo album.
Friday 26 June Paul and Steve went to the Symphony Hall, Birmingham to a live concert A Night at the Movies With David Arnold & City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. From James Bond to Sherlock, Independence Day to Godzilla, re-live some of the most iconic film and TV music moments of all time with the man behind the music. Please click here for my photo album.
Saturday 27 June This date saw a family outing to Drayton Manor Park and Zoo. Carl, Heather, Christopher, Alison, Ryan, Rebecca, Amelia, Megan and Bryony all attended together with gail and Steve. Click here to view my photo album.

Congratulations to Christopher who has now been promoted to Sergeant and has began working at Coventry.Since my last update we have been on a Warners Holiday at Alvaston Hall, Cheshire. Please click here to see our photo album.
At the end of this mini break we visited a National Trust House - Little Moreton Hall. Please click here to see our photo albumOn Wednesday 25 March we visited another National Trust location - Calke Abbey. Please click here to see the album.I mentioned in my previous post that our fitted Freezer had been replaced with a dishwasher. As luck would have it we then found that our combined fridge/freezer unit also required replacement which has also been done.Keith and Alison now have another King Charles Spaniel. "Lady" is approx. 4 years of age and has already enjoyed a couple of sleep-overs with Otis and Millie! Here are some pictures of them together.My Forum software is driven by PHPBB3. The software was recently updated to PHPBB 3.1.3  bringing with it several new changes. One of which is called a "Pages" function. This has led to me altering various parts of my website to take advantage of this new function. Two examples are 'Gails Page' and 'Family Tree' - you will notice these pages integrate into the website much more smoothly especially the Family Tree. Whilst doing this work I discovered that the Family Tree software was out of date and so this has now been updated to webtrees 1.6.2. Also the software that provides the page you are now reading has also been updated to Serendipity 2.0.1. The version of PHP has also been updated to 5.4.27.  Our Virgin Media Superhub 1 has also been replaced with a superhub 2. Hopefully these changes should improve your viewing experience.