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Christmas Day 2012
I saw two kids unwrapping gifts, On Christmas Day, On Christmas Day, I saw two kids unwrapping gifts, On Christmas Day in the morning. So with customary randomness* I would like to go out of sequence on the recent travel reporting and share some of Christmas Day with the world. The real reason for doing…
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Oxford 27th December
We travelled from Rhymney to Apsley on 26th December. Because we had a bit of time to spare we decided to take it leisurely and maybe visit somewhere on the way. For this reason we stopped at Oxford. Instead of taking the M4 from Cardiff to London, we instead went north and then across via…
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Rhymney 23-26th December
Introduction So even before the start of a new year Leigh and I discussed what challenges we wanted to take into 2013. I dislike New Year’s Resolutions as I can rarely stick to them, but I do like the thought of having a goal or a challenge, just not making it a fixed resolution from…
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Paris or Bust
The first video of the family and friends trip to Paris last year posted to Mark’s YouTube channel: You can go to the You Tube Channel to visit new ones or videos of other things.
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Naming the Beast
There was a short list, and a very short list it was, for Elliott’s name. We had a much longer list with Ben, but he did steal two of the names from that list that were our favourites with Benjamin and Connor. So with Elliott we kept the list short, using one or two from…
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Elliott’s First Day
So our second son, Elliott James Keating, was born on the 9th February 2012, the gallery below shows a selection of the images from the very first day of his life, taken by Daddy with a Canon 5D MkII and his iPhone 4.
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Christmas Lego Display
Once again this year we built a Lego Xmas village on our display shelf. there was the addition of an extra Christmas set in the shape of the newly released Lego post Office but we also decided to add elements that felt Christmassy to us. So…. There are some Harry Potter figures running around the…
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Layla and Ben meet Santa
So, yesterday Ben got to meet Santa (in the guise of a bearded Welsh chap, real beard, actually Welsh) at a local playgroup near to his Great Nans. Layla was happy to meet Santa and rewarded everyone with a huge cheery smile, Ben was less pleased. He did me proud (this is not sarcasm), Santa…