Luke's Achievements

Here's Luke (and Mum) in his St John's uniform rattling a tin under the noses of unsuspecting shoppers at Tesco. Luke joined the cadets after he left cubs and is thoroughly enjoying it so far - it helps that they seem to do an awful lot of sweet eating when they meet!

Luke has made some major achievements this week: first he was made a prefect at school - he is now authorised to boss people around! He also learned this morning that he achieved a Distinction in his Piano Grade I Theory exam - 96%! We haven't yet heard how he did in his practical exam but we are hopeful of a good mark there as well.

Joe's Award

Joe was very embarrassed yesterday to be given an award in front of the whole school for Most Improved Lunchtime Behaviour! As you can see he was thrilled, and so were his Mum and Dad. He was even more thrilled today when he managed to get hold of the latest copy of Toxic - his comic of choice.

Another few from France

Mike pointed out that my photos were too big - that's why they wouldn't load. So here are some more: lunch time in Flaine. The boys have doughnuts and I've got an eclair. I think Elaine just had fruit - very restrained! Not a great photo of Joe skiing with Ski School but better than any we managed to get of Luke unfortuately. Wish I could connect the video to the PC, as we have got some fairly decent clips. I'll have to go and be patronised by some little boy in Dixons to see if I can sort it out.

Any suggestions as to how do you get the photos to appear in a 2 x 2 format?

Snow and Sun

Here's a snap from our skiing holiday in Flaine in the French Alps (I can't get any more to upload at the moment). The boys were delighted to be given poles for the first time - which was just as well as they were doing parallel turns by the end of the week and following Mum and Dad down red pistes from day two! We were very lucky with the conditions - lots of snow and a fair bit of sun, although there were a couple of snowy/foggy mornings.