Monday, 20 July 2026

Another gig for Florence

 She sang two songs this time.  She's a confident girl!



Jealous

 Arwen was jealous of the attention I was giving Brody.



Tonbridge swans

 






The view for the England Argentina game

 




Last day at the beach

Here we are on our last day at the beach.

Flo testing out a snorkle


Arthur trying on a knock off replica kit 




Dog walk

 We dog sat for April's rugby coach on Saturday night / Sunday.  She'd kindly looked after Arwen whilst we were away in Spain.  We took them for an hours walk round Dean Park, a local wood.  The dogs had a great time.  So did we!



Ribs for lunch

 I over ordered food before we left for Spain so had these to look forward to when we got back.  This was our lunch on Sunday.





Dog biscuit omleette

 I had some left over egg (for coating the pie), so I made a dog biscuit omelette for Arwen and Brody



Chicken pie with sweet potatoe

 With a little help from Florence, April  and Arthur I cooked this for tea last night.  Not bad.




Friday, 10 July 2026

Idiots

 I ordered 24 bottles of wine a couple of weeks ago and one of the boxes had pink fizz in rather than my wine so I took the box back to Waitrose and asked them to send me the correct wine. They've just redelivered the whole order of 24 bottles, not just the 6 that I was short! Plus i've been given a £15 voucher for my inconvenience!

Wednesday, 8 July 2026

Dog agility

 One of April's work colleagues looked after Arwen this weekend whilst we were away in London for the Metallica gigs.  There's a dog agility course near their house.









Metallica gig 2 (Sunday)

 









Metallica gig 1 (Friday)

 







Friday, 3 July 2026

Metallica weekend!

 It's the long awaited Metallica weekend. My friend bought them for us last year as he's a season ticket holder at West Ham but they were only delivered in the app on Wednesday!  It's all good, they've been transferred over to me now.

We're going with Shaheen and Kate, we're picking the kids up early at school (4pm) driving straight to to theirs, dropping the kids off with their baby sitter then Kate's driving us to the London Stadium.  We'll see the gig then head back to Shaheen's.  I think we have a restaurant or two planned on Saturday, then it's rinse and repeat on Sunday night.

England are playing Mexico at 1am on Monday morning so there is a plan to stay up and watch that!  Then we need to drive back (April's driving) and we're dropping the kids straight into school.  Urgh!

Thursday, 2 July 2026

Wrong box

 One of my boxes of wine from Waitrose was incorrect.  What was supposed to be pinot grigio, is sparkling rose. Not really my cup of tea really, or wine for that matter.




Nice surprise

 I received a letter from HMRC yesterday and it said i'd overpaid £460 in tax last year.  Whohoo!  It was a little convoluted to arrange to get it back but that's done now.

Tuesday, 30 June 2026

Does the BBC actually think this is they type of drone we're talking about here?

 


Can you spot it?

 I took the dog out early last week as it was going to be stupidly hot later in the day.  I spotted this.  Arwen didn't even notice.






5 course tasting menu

 Last Thursday we went to Mereworth Vineyard for a meal and some paired win.  What a beautiful day. 




Chiddingstone touch rugby

 I played for the Badgers over in Chiddingston on Saturday.  We got hammered in the first two games then lost again in the final game of the group.  It was much closer though and good fun.  I got the train to Penshurst then cycled to the ground with a friend.  Then cycled all the way back to Leigh to say hello to some friends playing cricket, then cycled home to quickly get showered and changed as we were due at a friend's 40th back in Leigh!


The kids got a couple of games too.

My leg's not great.  I got a nasty friction burn when sliding on the hard ground.


Foot long, who wants a foot long?

 I asked the kids if they wanted normal size hot dogs or if they wanted the larger ones.  They opted for the larger ones...




New dice stand

 I bought another dice stand from etsy the other week, i'd need another couple to display the lot though.


Here's my current nerd shelves.


Monday, 22 June 2026

Riding back from the cricket on Sunday

 Flo's decided to join in with the cricket every other week so this week we all cycled to Leigh and back from Tonbridge.  It's a nice ride.



Secret Fathers Day

 After cricket in the morning April took me and the kids into London for a secret fathers day.  First we went to the sister restaurant of Fallow, Fowl.  Fallow was where we went for my birthday last year.  I follow the two chefs on youtube.  After that we went back to London Bridge and onto Sixes.  An indoor cricket batting simulator / bar.  I came 3rd out of the 4 of us.  Very disappointed...

Fowl.  Lots of chicken wings.





Friday's morning walk

 With it being so hot during the day, i've been taking the dog out n the morning.  It's lovely.