Happy Birthday Alex & Aunty Penny

Hope you both have a great day.

Love Bec & John

Silly pics!

Sorry, just thought I would share this with you all. We spend quite a lot of time putting things on the cat head which he tolerate very well.......
Here he is sporting a little sombrero.

Anna

Out with the old and in with the new !!!!!!

After seven years outstanding service Denise and I have had to "let it go" as they say, that is our trusty old Mondeo !!! I must admit that it still feels like brand new as far as I am concerned and as Merv would say "A second class ride is better than a first class walk" although he did refuse to get in it on the odd occasion !!!!



Also pictured are some new kittens that popped out of a cat we are looking after for the cats protection league. If anybody would like their children to see but not have a kitten you are more than welcome to come and have a stroke and leave us to clear up the mess !!!



By the way the car has been replaced but is too shy to have its picture taken at the moment.


Bye for now.......Diddle

Greenhouse

Hi everyone
Thought you might like to see the this latest edition to my greenhouse. Mother and sibling doing well. Thanks Don.................Merv.

FLOOD!!!

As promised here is a picture that Craig took of Mum and Dad's garden "the Meadow" the water was over their bridge so Dad couldn't get to his Allotment to Water his plants!!

love to all

Amber xx

floods on the Meadow

hey its me again I went down to the meadow this afternoon and saw this, in fact it is higher than that now, this picture was on the bbc oxford web site!!!

hope you are all keeping dry

love to all Amber x

buttercups on the Medow

I took this picture from the bridge when the Buttercups were out and remembered of walking through them with Nanny and getting Yellow shoes

Shreddies - Knitting with Nanas

I was feeling a bit miserable yesterday because I was thinking that I have no Grandparents. This really cheered me up though!
Anna
Hey are you impressed that I've posted a video!!!

Fraser Baptism

I've finally cracked it, hello to you all, I've just had a look through all the messages, i'll pass on the news to the sisters as they've not worked it out yet!
Fraser is getting Baptised in Eynham at St Leonards on the 22nd July at 10.45 would the cousins like to come, if so could you e-mail me emma.muir@talk21.comby Sunday 15th so i can let the church know for numbers, thanks Emma. PS 'keep on blogging!'

Oliver?

Does anyone remember that horrid dog that lived in one of the houses down the rookery? I think its name was Oliver. Well Amber you should remember cos we were chased by it once on our way back from the meadow. I remember I was very cross because as we started running from him you grabbed the back of my jumper and stopped me from running as fast as I wanted to to get away from him! We used to peep down the Rookery to see if he was down there. He had evil eyes!
Anna

Well, I seem to have discovered a solution to global warming. Forget bio fuels and electric cars, the answer is...homemade ginger beer!!
To be honest, it was only the first batch, but it was enough to blow your socks off. It tasted like homemade schnapps or something - pretty foul anyway. Nevertheless, I persevered and you'll be pleased to know that the second and third batches are delicious, although I'm at a point where I think I'm going to have to keep two plants going simultaneously because the 8 pints per fortnight just aren't enough!

Mitchell and Webb

Is anyone else a big fan of Mitchell and Webb? Just in case you haven't stumbled across it yet there' a new series of 'That Mitchell and Webb Sound' on Radio 4 (which is where it all began). If anyone wants a link to the listen again feature here it is: That Mitchell and Webb Sound Tee hee! Dawn x

Look I have made myself a contributer!

Hi again!
If you look to the right there is now a list of contributers AB with is me Anna and GodwinHQ which is all of us at the moment. And when I do a post (like this one) you can see its me that posted (AB)

Anna

Become a contributer..........you can sign in as yourself!!!

Hi All,

Dawn mentioned a while ago being able to sign in as yourself to post on the blog. I can sort this out. You will then be listed on the blog as a contributer. All I need to do is send you an invite to your email address. You will have to set up a Google account but this is very easy, infact the link will take you through the steps. Its just like setting up a hotmail account or other such things. If you want me to do that let me know (via email as I will need your email address) or if you are happy to carry on signing in as godwinhq then that is fine too! Please someone do it cos I want to see how it works!!!

Anna

OK, it’s not Port Meadow but we have our own floods here. This was taken last year near Cheltenham on the way to work.

Firstly, sorry for not taking more time to look at this blog before. I could come up with lots of highly plausible excuses about time and commitments and the dog eating my homework blah, blah, blah but no one who knows me would believe me so I won't waste your time.

However, what I have noticed is that as a clan we seem to have diversified (or infiltrated) into a wide variety of professions, hobbies, interests and locations. I've got to admit that I do less than I could to stay in touch with everyone (it's a sad reflection that it took a funeral for me to catch up with my cousins and extended family).

So in the absence of actually meeting someone face to face (heaven forbid in this digital age), if anyone has a website, email address, profiles or blogs that they want to share then perhaps we need to get a directory of them going.

Is there any way with this blog (I haven’t investigated yet) that we can create a sort of address book with our various contact details on, preferably one that is private to us? Perhaps something we could add into the extended info on the profile?

Matt

 

Some of the next generation of the clan.
Jack, Ben, Robin, James and William, Jesame, Ella May and Kizzie

James seems to be doing his best to unscrew his brother's head.

I've been teaching mum (Beth) to use Picasa to organise her photos and even a technophobe like her is quite excited by it. It has a neat function whereby you can load pictures directly from your albums onto this blog so once mum gets the hang of it, expect to be inundated with photos. For anyone else who's getting to grips with digital photography I can heartily recommend Picasa (just Google it for a free download) and no, I'm not being sponsored by them.

Matt

Heading to the river

 

Heading out to the river with the pram, brings back a few memories.

Taken by Beth June 2007

Explosion?

OK OK which one of you Eynsham dwellers blew Newland Street up yesterday? I hear the lots of people had to be evacuated from their homes.....

Anna

Azorean Holiday....

hi all
we are back from our holiday in the azores and as you can see from our attire we went whale watching. our clothing consisted of a ankle length yellow waterproof mac and a life jacket. the trip was definately not for the faint hearted as the sea was rather rough! penny says very rough!! when we arrived at the whale destination the boat slowed down and we just drifted, it was at this point a large hole in the sea appeared in front of us. as we entered the hole a large wave decided to fill the boat. hence penny needs a new phone as her rucksack filled with water . the water then went in at the neck of her mac and out at her feet. but we did see whales so it was well worth it. sorry there are no pics of the whales as we had to use both hands to cling on to the boat. the rest of the holiday was very very nice.
penny and merv.

Happy birthday

Hi John Happy Birhday hope you had a good day
Craig Amber & Ben

Happy Bithrday John!

Love Anna & Anthony xxxx

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOHN

Hope you have a lovely day.... he he! to all who don't know John hates his Birthday and will no doubt be a grumpy guts!

Here is a picture in happier times as John devours our house with a hammer....

Tree felling!

Hi Dawn!
Not quite a picture of the house but a picture of Anthony, our friend Phil and his son Josh felling one of the huge confers in the back garden. The tree was as tall as the house (three stories) and Phil climbed to the top and lopped off sections!!!

Anna

thank you Anna

Thank you for you advice today Anna, I really appreciate you being there... once again it made me realise how lucky we are to have each other. And whatever is thrown our way what Nan & Gramp have taught us is invaluable....

Nan's magic wisdom too make things better lives on in each of us and you were there with her genes to help me get through!


Thank you so much XXX

Love becca

New Home

Congratulations on your new home Anna & Anthony; may you have many years of lots of fun and happiness!

With all our love Becca & John

May Birthdays

Happy birthday Leon (18 years) Jesame (2 years) Paul, James, anyone else i forgot?
Amber xx

brown jug with hunting scene from 79

hi all
i always promised nan that i would try and find out a little bit about this jug. it bore the inscription w gessy, the bull inn, charing cross, launton. on friday penny and i went to launton near bicester and found the bull inn. a large thatched building.
i showed it to the landlord and he was very impressed and took numerous photos and then he showed me a list of landlords from when the inn first opened. low and behold the landlord from 1873 to 1879 was william gessy. the jug is dated 1875. cased closed. nan could never remember where it came from although it had been in her family for many years. secondly are there any twitchers in the family (birdwatchers) if so please visit www.eco-watch.com/livecams scroll down and click on blue tit cam.you will have to be quick because they are growing fast and will probably fledge within the next 8 to 10 days
merv.

We Have Lift-Off!

Hello Goblins!

Just to let you know that I have finally embarked on the great Ginger Beer quest and have started a plant! The fresh yeast was a bit weird, it came in a block like a bar of saop (like I remembered it) but the instructions said to stir till it became liquid. Well, after being a little sceptical and fighting the urge to call my mum (some things never change), suprise, surprise, it became liquid! I will be feeding it religiously for the next 10 days at which point I will be dividing my plant and will have a spare plant. If anyone wants to join the quest, let me know. I'll keep you posted and will let you know how things progress. First batch will be ready 3rd June, so perhaps I should find a way of dropping off a batch for the family picnic so that it can be sampled by a panel of experts?

Dawn

Mags...

Hi there,
If anyone is interested Custom Made has been featured in a couple of magazines this week. You can have a look on my other blog www.custommadeuk.blogspot.com

Anna

beccas memory garden

hi becs
would you like me to dig up some cowslip plants for the memory garden. you could keep them in a pot or plant them in a rough patch of ground until you are sure where
you want to put them . i am going down on sunday with your mum and could dig them up then . please let me or your mum know.
merv.