Back to School!

Well, everybody went back to school a couple of weeks ago. Zoe seems to be really enjoying her new school. When Zoe and her friends go back to the Junior school to meet siblings and parents, they do suddenly look very grown up.
Zoe is getting to be as tall as Lynda.........















I have had another birthday and am feeling very middle-aged. There is a lot to be happy about though. I am still fairly healthy, as are the rest of the family. In a fit of denial, I have even entered a 10km run next month!
By the power of positive thinking, I still have plenty of active years ahead of me. Lots of people remain active into their seventies. So that gives me 25 years or so before I will feel "old".
That sounds like ages. In fact when you think of it like that, it is 25 years since I was in my early twenties.
Trouble is, that only feels like yesterday!

Fascinating!

I went to a session at the IBC Conference about the latest developments in IPTV (it is something that I need to keep up to date with). A speaker put up a slide which she had titled "Impacts of Streaming Media Usage on Channel Congestion". I forget what it actually displayed, I was mesmerised by the title!

I still haven't found a way to upload photos from this PC. I can probably email them as separate posts.
Note: now fixed. See below.... :-)

Don't forget to change Oscar's water! xxx

Single Room!

Well, I booked a single room (I checked). There certainly isn't room for any more than one person. I took a photo, but the computer in the hotel (I didn't bring my laptop) doesn't have a card reader.

I also have some pictures of some elephants on display in the park near the Van Gogh Museum. Apparently there is an annual elephant parade in Amsterdam, and the models are left over from that. They are auctioned off at some point. I am not sure that they would look so good in our garden though!

Ponies, Ponies, Ponies!

We had a great weekend camping near Fordingbridge in the New Forest last weekend. A fun site where Bill, the owner, gets the children to help with feeding the chickens and grooming Toby his elderly pony. The children used to be able to ride Toby around the paddock, but unfortunately he is a little too old for that these days.


Bill also has a dog called Daisy who was very popular (and spoiled by the children). Daisy also answers to the name of "Doggo"!