Category Archives: 2009 kids in tow tour

Gansey – a parenting revelation

By 6000 | 6000 | July 24, 2009

Behold! A picture of Gansey – the beach in the Isle of Man where I spent most of my childhood summers. Gansey (gets bigger here) It had everything a young boy could want: ample sand for beach football or cricket, sun, sea, rocks with the essential rock pools, a small river etc etc. It was perfect. At [...]

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Back home

By 6000 | 6000 | July 21, 2009

After a 20 hour trip during which I was impressed with National Express coaches, during which we were repeatedly thrown all over the sky (most especially above Nigeria) and during which the children were mysteriously (but thankfully) well behaved, we find ourselves back in Cape Town, where the Mountain is flat and the people are allegedly rather cliquey. Not [...]

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First of two…

By 6000 | 6000 | July 19, 2009

…quota photos. We’ve spent the day on the beach today and are now playing catch-up on the packing for tomorrow’s mammoth 20 hour trip back to Cape Town. So today’s post will be a quota photo (which, even at this terribly late stage has not yet been selected) and tomorrow’s will be one of those [...]

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CLAW!

By 6000 | 6000 | July 18, 2009

CLAW!, originally uploaded by Ballacorkish. They’re extending the runway at Ronaldsway Airport and this little baby was flinging around rocks the size of my living room with seemingly very little effort. After observing the driver’s habit of tucking the ignition key just behind the hydraulic piston on the right at the end of the working [...]

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Great

By 6000 | 6000 | July 17, 2009

Important family day today, as we took the kids to meet their great-great-great-great grandfather. A man known to me as my great-great-great grandfather and to my mum as her great – well – I’m sure you get the picture. James Creer, the Weaver of Colby. And he is, of course, dead. And has been for [...]

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