Charlotte

This is Charlotte singing I hope!!!

Dad and his map!!

The longest waterfall in Cyprus
The hotel pool.
I have no idea how to match the words to the photographs

7 am and we are making a special cheesecake for the party

We were allowed to eat in the sitting room because it was Grandma Lally's party

Family photo

The family at the 90th. Sadly Callum and Charlotte were in bed by the time we actually got round to taking this!!

Lally at the family 90th party.
Saturday 13th October

Trying again to post a video

I am hoping that I have managed to upload the video of Lally in Aberdour yesterday morning. The video does take forever to upload, I am sure there must be a quicker way, however, I shall be happy if this works as I have been trying for ages to sort this out..
It looks as if I have..yippeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

I am hoping this is a little video of our garden taken this morning at 09.00.

Burj Dubai Part II

To answer Victoria's questions..........

Adam - A response!

So, I guess as the older brother, I should probably take the high ground and not react to such a direct insult to my beloved Tottenham Hotspur. However, this is football and there is no high ground - so watch out, Martin Jol is gonna get ya!!!

This one's for Dan...

The plum tree

Not too sure I should have put me on this blog however it does show the plum tree which is laden with fruit. Shame none of you are here to enjoy them.

Venice Beach as viewed from Scotland

Bleue and Saige in Venice Beach last December. As no-one has added their photograph, I as their proud Grandma, have decicded to do so.

Only in Dubai!

The 'Burj Dubai' is hoping to be the tallest building in the world when finished, and as you can see above.... it is pretty huge at the moment! Its basically like seeing 5 tower blocks on top of one another and they're still building!


3 weeks ago we moved into or new training facility which has spectacular views over Dubai creek, the Creek Golf Club and the Emirates Towers in the distance (Matching buildings behind the red roof which look like toblerone chocolate bars!!)

Unfortunately I'm not very good at this 'blogging' thing, and cant seem to get the pics to provide the panoramic shot I expected. Not a bad club house though!!

Slightly hazy day, but gives you an idea of the 'sand pit' I call home!

I wandered lonely as a cloud.....

So on Friday (which is our weekend) I was woken by a phone call which went something like this....

(Josh) "Tess, you need to get up. Danny is not coming so we have an extra place for ski-diving.."

(Tess) "Huh?"

(Josh) "We'll be at your in 5 minutes"

(Tess) "Huh?"

(Josh) "Your jumping, see you outside in 5 mins"

(Tess) "Huh?...Ok!"

So we went to Umm Al Quwaim Aero club where 8 of us then selected an envelope which would decide our jumping order...And you've guessed it...I pulled "Congratulations, you get to jump 1st!!"

I wont lie and say that sky-diving has always been on my list of things to do, but it was worth it just for the scenery!

And when it came time to move to the door sill at 9,500ft, I was strangely eager to jump...

The free-falling was an amazing experience which I will never forget...not very glamourous though!

Bonus..the parachutte opened!

And back to basics...the ground!

My webcam

This is taken with my new webcam, a birthday present from Chris and my mother as it is a state of the art one!!! I thought you should see that I am upholding the champagne tradition............ no surprise there then!!!!!
Even though the throat is stinky, champagne does help to deaden the jags!!!
I am jolly happy that I have managed to do this.

Meet Jeremy....

In the Summer Time, when the .................

..........rain falls and falls and falls!

Man, we had some rain today. What a summer we are having - Rubbish!

Meet Jake...

Jake is my 9 year old step-son; he is brilliant!




















Of course, we're all convinced that our children are brilliant, because, well - aren't we?!

Jacob was doing fine until his Grandmother sent him "The Dangerous Book For Boys"...

...strange things started to happen...



















...the horns, the tail, and honestly - no post production in Photoshop!

Just goes to show....
















..it's a "Devil" of a job raising children!

Welcome to Aliénor Maisie

Congratulations to Tara and Jan on the arrival of Aliénor Maisie born at 1.00am on 28th June. Such a beautiful little girl and gorgeous names.

Robbie Graduates High School...

Having graduated from High School, Robbie will be moving from Visalia to live with us in Los Angeles while he goes to college. So - no major change to our lives then!!!


















America is just big, I forget that sometimes, but when just one of the schools in town can fill an entire stadium with High School grads - ..well - you get the idea...













Greeting the faculty...












Dusk falls and the crowd goes wild...













Robbie and Wendi - very proud Mum! (or Mom as it is spelled here)


















Robbie's Dad, Bob.

















Jeremy (10), Jake (9) and Katie (5) (Robbie's sister) don't seem to be too impressed
















Favorite Robbie football photo



























"So, what are you going to do over the summer Rob?"

















Yep - he's going to have his cake and eat it!! Robbie with Keila - looks like a great summer ahead.

















Many thanks to Dan for setting the blog up - love to you all,

Andrew

Four generations of "ladies" taken four minutes ago. time now 12.48pm.

Great grandma (Lally) reading Callum his bedtime story.

This is my second shot at trying to get this on the blog, so I am not going to type in any more words just in case it doesn't work again.