Its been a terrible August: lots of gray skies and downpours. And its friggin’ cold (15C today).  The only way through the gray, blah winters is to look forward to the summers…but is this now impossible?
Kayta’s British mates at work insist this is typical British weather, and that the hot, sunny summers of 1995-2005 [...]

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Not even a hail storm could prevent our annual Easter Egg hunt from going ahead.
The eggs weren’t really egg-shaped: they were in the shape of bugs, chickens, bunnies and very big bunnies (all from Lidl).
We descended upon the Whitchurch Millennium Meadow for the event. There’s even more photos in our gallery.
There were lots of [...]

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It’s been a long while in coming, but at last we have had a true summer weekend!
It must have been because Grandpa arrived from Toronto earlier this week - where the temperatures were in the mid-30’s!

On Saturday, we drove down to Bournemouth beach for a day of sunburning. We watched “human kites” flying [...]

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Tolii helped mummy pick the cherries from our cherry tree today. A few got eaten along the way!
Its been quite a cool summer so far this year - just 18C on some days and lots (!) of rain. No flooding here, but lots up in the north of the country.
In spite of this [...]

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From 33C in Toronto to 8C in London. Its “Global Freezing” here. It was so great to give my kids a big hug after returning from my Canada trip. And boy, one does notice their very Hampshire, English accent after being surrounded by Canadian kids for a few days!
We bundled up and [...]

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Every year it happens here in southern England - snow. Today, was the day for 2007. Tosha had never experienced it before and thoroughly enjoyed making snowmen. Tolii, an old hand and it now, made a dinosaur!

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Grandpa (aka Brian, aka Andrew’s dad) arrived at Heathrow this morning from Toronto. Tolii and Tosha were extremely excited by his arrival.
His flight was delayed leaving Toronto by 20 minutes because some loser didn’t retract the gangway properly and the plane snagged it when it started backing away. Who do they employ at [...]

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