new year’s soirée with mitchells & my folks at richard & miriam’s

out to damflask for a nice short walk

a simple seafood buffet - merry christmas everyone!

quick but jolly visit with john and anne-marie on the way home!

marianne cooked us all a fantastic roast chicken dinner with yorkshire puddings and all the trimmings!! yum yum yum

joseph and skye walking along ovingdean beach with brighton marina in the distance

great to have a pre-christmas catch up with marianne & adam, important to check who is the tallest of them all! megan, of course!

then it was over to rotherham for the team’s christmas party and bowling

away at doncaster rovers, nice cold clear winter’s day, lost 7-2

megan played her part in an entertaining friendly between ecclesall rangers u10s & u9s at umix

fine food with fab friends

routine 5-0 demolition of king edward VII by joseph and his silverdale y7 team this evening, joseph got a brace

belated birthday party with god’s gang boys bouncing at jump inc

some brilliant play from joseph and his chesterfield team today in round robbin games against grimsby, scunthorpe and rotherham

the boys are loving their dinner! pateley sausage, mash, peas, carrots & onion gravy

nice evening in florø

megan played for ecclesall rangers u10s against worksop united juniors, a valiant effort but ended losing 10-5

nice day for flying, looking north east en route bergen to florø

back to bergen?

joseph represented silverdale this evening at the sheffield schools y7 5-a-side tournament at goals norfolk park, played 6, won 5, only losing here to an excellent meadowhead side who themselves went on to lose to birley in the final

kicking off school football league match tapton v silverdale, ended up a straightforward and pleasing 2-5 win, joseph scored the fifth with a simple tap in at the back post

megan played her part in an entertaining game today at wisewood between joseph’s former club, sheffield rangers and megan’s ecclesall rangers u10s - bragging rights to joseph though, final scoreline a little unfair at 5-1

footie classic - kyle walker heroics in net after claudio bravo is sent off in man city’s champions league game at atalanta

askeladden sunset

joseph played in his team’s 2-2 draw with burton albion at warminster road today, unfortunately playing time curtailed due to minor injury

out for a walk at damflask

skye visiting her great grandparent’s grave

visiting granny farmor’s granny, grandad and aunty winefred’s grave in pateley bridge cemetery

nice to be with mum and dad in pateley for their long awaited - like 12 years - housewarming party, with evelyn, siggy, susan and friends

look who’s baking bread

megan and her victorious rangers in training at graves

joseph playing in chesterfield’s fiercely contested 0-0 draw against notts county, despite the scoreline the match was the highlight of yesterday’s tournament at lincoln

great win in the cup for megan and her ecclesall rangers u10s, beat greaseborough 9-0

skye and sylvie at lincoln cathedral

nice weather for an autumn walk in the peak with nigel, hope to castleton, then hollins cross, lose hill and back

nice weather by the river aire at woodhouse grove school for joseph’s game against bradford city, lost 8-4

fin og stille kveld på ågotnes

the hnoms helge ingstad, norwegian frigate that sank in a sad and sobering saga

out to a new rig, itself freshly arrived from china, the deepsea yantai

beautiful sunset over st georges graves this evening as megan and her ecclesall rangers blues were well beaten by abbey lane blacks

joseph played in a hard-earned 5-4 win away at lincoln city today

megan was made captain for her first competitive match for her new club ecclesall rangers this evening - they played a strong stradbroke side at ravenscroft, after going ahead 1-0, the game ended 6-3

as a special first day of secondary school treat, joseph was inducted in the hidden gem society!

succesful first day back at school!

joseph playing for chesterfield in first league game of the new u12s season, away at grimsby, ended up losing 6-3

to lincoln for the keith alexander tournament, really hot and sunny

hooray! we have done it! 142miles and 5days later, we have arrived safely at whitby!

approaching the bottom of the ingleby incline, it's the last big push of day 4, up onto the top of the north yorkshire moors

looking back over beautiful nidderdale as we set out on day 3, refreshed from a nice stay overnight in pateley bridge

we're making good progress! high in the yorkshire dales above helwith bridge, ingleborough and pen-y-ghent visible in the background