joseph’s birthday tea at nando’s, a very popular choice

wonderful walking at wetton in the white peak

took the opportunity to visit the national gallery with skye, touched by nicholaes maes’ captivating painting from 1653 of christ blessing the children

top treat today, taking this talented treasure on a trip to london!

the dirty work continues, wrecking out the big rocky render from the front porch

happy birthday miriam, cheers!

goodbye green marble, hello brown beech! time for new the window boards and cupboard top!

beautiful red sunrise over sheffield

looking across to statfjord b from a

joseph in action for silverdale in the cup at forge valley

joseph in action for silverdale in the cup at forge valley

megan going great guns for porter today, went down fighting against worksop town juniors at warminster road, ended 5-4

a great day for our wonderful friend sarah, celebrating her baptist ordination at the kings centre

great contest in great weather as megan’s porter fc took on eckington boys whites at norton in the cup, no shame in losing 3-2



great big grey skies at gardermoen this afternoon

a very happy birthday gathering!!

revelling in our first tour through a nether edge market for a couple of years!

a new adventure - plum jam making… it’s bringing out all my delia smith and mrs beeton’s tendencies!

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different game this week for megan’s porter fc team, playing stocksbridge park steels at oughtibridge, clearly a top a league outfit, losing 3-0

the chess brains lock horns…

walking along stanage

another hidden gem inductee! after her first (demanding) week at high storrs (summer) school, megan has very much earned her hot chocolate and cake stripes!

birthday curry at prithi raj together with the westerns

quick walk and swim with the girls

lovely to hang out with the calladines at eyam

homemade cauliflower curry, tarka dahl and rice, yum yum!

visiting john and anne-marie

badminton

fish and chips yum yum

a lovely visit with evelyn today

a swim in and a walk by the river wharfe at grassington today

megan’s porter glory beat staincross rangers 4-2 away at royston this morning

really lovely to spend the evening with amy and esther

megan in action with her porter fc team at the glapwell football tournament

after two years of waiting, finally d day has arrived! dishwasher day that is..

whilst over in sweden cousin kerstin was being confirmed - even though we couldn’t be present in person, it was lovely to watch the ceremony online

megan’s porter didn’t really turn up against a surprisingly effective eckington bfc (former brampton rovers group), losing 7-2 in a friendly away at their very well presented school street pitch

beautiful day at bamford in the peak for skye’s birthday outing!

joseph and the gods gang boys enjoying an event at the allotment

joseph’s final game for chesterfield at barnford hill park, oldbury, battered halesowen town 9-1 in the jpl cup

beautiful evening up at sola ruinkirken

sola quarantine national day

meanwhile just up the road at carlton park, joseph’s sheffield rangers were playing shaw lane aquaforce, started ok but got out of hand in the second half and finished losing 6-2

massive win for megan and the porter glory at water royd drive, dodworth this afternoon, thrashing dsc 8-1 in what her coach described as, “the best performance he has ever seen from the team”

convincing 9-3 win for chesterfield over evosoccer at warminster road this morning, joseph playing at right wing back

sola quarantine day 4 - white

sola quarantine day 2 - red

rangers lost 4-2 to kitlocker at jubilee this evening

sola quarantine day 1 - blue

so joseph’s latest thing is blindfolded chess... still got thumped in embarrassingly short order!