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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Anton & I ready for George Abbot

Helen ready for St Thomas More

Adam ready for Elthorne Park
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Some things never change…
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OK – this is completely random…

This is Hazel 15 years ago on the bed in our flat on Adelaide Road shortly before we moved into Studley Grange Road.

Some things never change…except the trousers.




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Scrapper
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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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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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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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