thyme to celebrate megan’s double figures birthday!

the lads enjoyed proper fish and chips afterwards at cleethorpes with dan, james and corey

away at grimsby town today, battled hard but ended losing 3-1

at beautiful downtown bramall lane with joseph, enjoyed sheffield united beating norwich 1-0

great football friends! jon, zac, dan, jose and reniel

happy times in hovden

skye in her other happy place - high in the sky!

joseph had a great shuttle, laterals and ladder sprint session with adam today

yummy food!

lovely to hang out with sam and isak

home from home in tananger with the lovely lindals

a great time was had by all!

freezing foreign family fun!

skye took to skiing like fish to chips - a natural, very stylish and composed

while the girls were all about free wifi!

the family settled straight in to lounge lifestyle..

the kids got on great, lots of fun with sarah and emilie especially

anette welcomed us with pancakes!! yum yum!!

playing bananagrams in hovden

megan’s nearly home after another great day’s skiing

joseph played with chesterfield’s u11s group tonight against sheffield united’s emerging talent group at graves

and then enjoyed burrowing in their three finished snow holes

the kids digging snow holes

great early pressure from the rangers against mosborough at sgp westfield this morning

on the home swing!

the stunning reiårsfossen in setesdal

joseph waiting on the summit of nos at 1183metres after riding the hovden express chairlift

because the apartment was so well positioned on the slopes we could easily pop back in for lunch and ski home for dinner

another best bit was chilling at the brilliant badeland pool and spa in the evenings

meg shows off some superb slalom skiing skiing skills in the afternoon sunshine

hello ski slopes!

amazingly simple and well-appointed apartment, massive thanks to georg!

warming up on the learner slope with its nifty conveyor belt lift

getting boots and skis

...the kids were amazingly patient, endured a tedious frustrating back and forth journey to hovden with roads closed by the storms and snow

and back onto the ferry...

love these guys soo much!

fantastisk til å bli med for gudstjeneste på imi tananger!

arriving in stavanger

megan made a new friend in amsterdam, miffy!

the kids enjoyed their first proper ski lesson this evening, they took to it like fish to water!

for a nice long winter’s walk with mags, out along derwent edge then back beside ladybower

lost 7-1 to burton albion at welbeck defence college today, nonetheless heartened by a really positive performance

long way to go on a school night considering we couldn’t ski after all - however we did enjoy mucking around in the snow!

skye in full gcse art flow!

joseph in action again for chesterfield academy today against lincoln city, lost 3-1

baller barnet

joseph and megan went out to longshaw for a walk this afternoon with isaac, tasha and friends

back in footie action at sufc camp this time in wisewood

chilly new year’s walk at high neb and stanage causeway