During 2001 Gail, Carol, John, Pat, George and
myself went on a cruise down the River Rhine in Germany. At that time I had the
latest "State of the art" Analogue camcorder and took the following videos. In
those days computing was still in its infancy with restricted hard drive storage
space, YouTube videos were restricted to very short clips. Video editing
software was almost non existant. At that time I simply transferred the entire
contents of my camcorder tapes to one huge video file which for playback
purposes was obviously not very efficient making it almost impossible to locate
a particular piece of footage. Also I was unaware of the locations of many of
the clips - It was only whilst working on this project some 15 years after these
videos were taken, that I was able to identify the location of the Hotel in
Belgium (Video #3 below).
I have not attempted to improve the quality of these
old clips but have simply split the large file up into several small sequences
and then inserted an opening title.
Wednesday, January 20. 2016
Happy New 2016
We celebrated the Christmas Period with Festive pub meals at
1. The
Whitehouse
2. The Boathouse.
Christmas Dinner was at the Toby Carvery,
Shenstone (Known locally as The Highwayman)
On Tuesday 22 December 2015
we attended an Aladdin Pantomime at the Birmingham Hippodrome Theatre. Neil had
arranged the two front rows for members of the PPFC Community Centre, Gail and
myself sat at the very front.
New Year was celebrated in our traditional
manner of taking a mini holiday with other members of the PPFC Community Centre.
This year it was to Scarborough with a Harry Shaw coach arranged by Neil. During
this break we also made visits to Harrogate, Whitby, Bridlington and York.
I have made an alteration to the layout of my website. The Video albums have
now been merged with the photo albums. This should make items easier to find
plus the videos have now been cross-referenced much better than they were
previously
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Tuesday, December 15. 2015
Hello Georgia
We are delighted to announce Georgia Emily Jones was born at 3.38am this
morning Tuesday 15 December 2015 weighing 6lb 15. Mother and baby doing well at home.
Thursday, December 10. 2015
Soon Be Christmas!
On Friday 20 November 2015 Christopher was awarded his B.A. in Business
Studies. The Award was presented to him at Coventry Cathedral. Well Done Chris
we are all very proud.
Well done Ryan for Passing your driving test on Tuesday 8 December.
Bryony takes a ride on a train - the Santa Special at Chasewater.
On Thursday 26 November 2015 we had a lovely day out at Chatsworth House and
Christmas Market.
Bryony's School Play was at the Nursery on Wednesday 9 December 2015
Our traditional Visit To Mary in Porthcawl took place on Thursday 3 December 2015
Sunday, November 01. 2015
East Coast Explorer
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Gail, Steve, Carol and John were on Holiday on the East Coast of
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French Connection
| 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. |  |
A Birthday Surprise!
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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 Jones M.A.
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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. |  |
