We’re still having lots of fun in Munich! Hannah is really enjoying playing with her mega blocks as you can see from the video above! We started off encouraging her to build by saying “Wow” everytime she put one block on top of each other. She still expects it and when we don’t do it [...]

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Well, hello to all of our friends and family who are well and truely snowed in! We’ve been keeping up to date with the weather over in the UK and it sounds like you’ve had LOADS of snow! Much more than we have got here! We’ve got a good few inches and the sky is [...]

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IMG_9687-16, originally uploaded by Graham Lay.
We’re back in Germany safe and sound after a wonderful Christmas break in Freeland with my folks, Mandy, Dave and with Becs’ Mum.
We did many wonderful family orientated things of which the most memorable for me was spending the day with my Dad (aka Grandad now!) and Hannah at Cotswold [...]

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Now that Dan is working in Munich in the week, we are even more determined to have lots of nice family time at the weekend, so yesterday, despite the blustery weather, we took ourselves off to the park to play!
Hannah is changing daily and is getting more and more independent! She now likes to come [...]

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Hey there folks! We’ve just finished a fabulous two week summer holiday and the photos to prove it (please click on the photo above to be taken to the photo gallery).
We have been hanging out with Mum Linda in North Wales for the first week and the second week was shared with a wonderful two [...]

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Well! What a day! We are all totally exhausted, but for all the right reasons! Today was the NCT babes joint 1st birthday party and fun was had by all. Although Hannah hasn’t quite reached the big 1 yet, 5 out of the 7 babes have and Hughie and Hannah celebrated early!
We were all reflecting [...]

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This weekend was meant to be our first camping trip with Hannah - we had our tent, our chairs (including a little one for Hannah), our duvet (we’ve never got on with sleeping bags) and the case was just about packed… and then we saw the forecast - not just a few showers, but torrential [...]

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We’ve not ever really blogged on this subject and seeing as it’s important to us and part of our every day life I thought I’d say a little about what our community means to us.
In essence, we try to let our lives reflect the relationship we have with God and this is never more true [...]

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Becs, Hannah and I were invited to take a tractor ride tour of a farm in Salford nr Chipping Norton. The farm is owned by Nigel Fawdry and his father who are 5th and 6th generation farming Fawdry’s. Nigel gave us a really lovely informative tour and told us all about the environmental preservation work [...]

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No, before you jump to conclusions, Hannah is nowhere near walking yet! However, today Hannah had her first go in a Baby walker (you know the thing, a seat with wheels!) and she seemed to love it! It’s on loan to us from Helen and Dave and Hannah is fascinated by all the buttons and [...]

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