Random old picture of the week #4

Posted on November 19th, 2008 by Andy

Look at all that lovely hair!
originally uploaded by grange85

Helen and I pose for a school photo at St Paul’s school in Thames Ditton Surrey. I’d guess this must have been around 73 or 74 - do I look nine or ten? And so much hair…

I pretty much remember only two things from primary school…

1. My glasses getting run over by a school bus. Actually I’m a little puzzled that I don’t have my glasses on in this photo - I wore them all the time, so I suppose vanity or the photographer made me take them off - I’m inclined to go with the latter.
2. Helen getting left behind on her first day because she didn’t know to get on the bus and Anton and I getting a serious telling off for our negligence. She was brought home by a teacher. I recall being outraged that we got told off because of Helen’s stupidity - what a lovely caring big brother I was!




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(Almost) random old picture of the week #3

Posted on July 27th, 2008 by Andy

Scrapper
originally uploaded by grange85

This is me holding Scrapper - the first and only dog I was ever given - like I suspect many of my age (what am I 10??) the idea of having a puppy (the playing and the loyal friend) was more interesting than the reality (the walking on cold mornings and the cleaning up poo) - eventually Scrapper was given a more cat-like life, wandering around the village at his leisure and terrorizing the local farm life.

After threats from a local farmer Scrapper was “given to the laundry man” which Helen and I assumed was a euphemism for being put down and it was only many years later that we discovered that he really had been given to a laundry man!

Yesterday we visited Ju and Mary to meet the kitten that would become our new family member in a few weeks time. Penny will have a cat-like existence by default and Hanwell doesn’t have too many farm animals to terrorize.

Hazel meets Penny
originally uploaded by grange85

More pictures of Penny and her family on Flickr

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(Almost) random old picture of the week #2

Posted on July 15th, 2008 by Andy

Summer 1998

All the good pictures of my dad are currently out of reach so this one will have to do - this was taken 10 years ago but he hasn’t changed that much.

Happy Birthday Dad! - and here’s your pressie…

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(Almost) random old picture of the week #1

Posted on July 9th, 2008 by Andy

Adam has his Grade 4 piano exam on Saturday this is by way of a good luck wish and to show that, like the insanely ambitious parents we are, we started him off at a very young age

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