Charlie holds up a sign we made for last night’s Arizona Diamondbacks game at Chase Field. Despite holding it up between innings througout the entire game, for some strange reason the cameramen decided not to show it on the giant screen in center field. Hmmm, and we thought we were being nice by saying thanks!?

Charlie on his last day of school (top) looks the cool school kid much more than he did on on his first day last September (below). We’ve been so busy lately we haven’t had a chance to blog so we’re playing catch-up now (and cheating by post-dating this post). Charlie was […]

Much excitement in these parts yesterday when Prince Edward came to town to officially open the new, improved Priory Park. During his walkabout he even had a short chat with Charlie, which went something along the lines of this:
Prince Edward (watching some bikers and skateboarders in the skate park): “Do you ride your bike like […]

Charlie poses for his “baseball card” photo in his new uniform. Yesterday was Opening Day for the Horsham Junior Baseball Club and Charlie’s team, the Athletics, played the Red Sox. Charlie went three for four with two runs scored and in general had a great time even though the A’s lost 29-24 (with a controversial […]

Charlie took part in a concert at his school last week, playing two pieces on his recorder. The first is a duet with a classmate and the second a solo for which he didn’t even need to have the music in front of him. Bravo, Charlie! Put these on your iPod! Video one | Video […]

We lucked out and got just enough of a sunny day to make our annual trip to the bluebell wood today. It’s always a special day in a very special place for our family. Charlie’s bluebell slideshow 2008

Charlie has a close look at an iron railing during our visit to Bruge last weekend, where we also checked out the windmills at the edge of the old town. It was our sixth (we think) visit to this magical place and Charlie’s second, and we’ll definitely be back again soon, particularly as we found […]

Charlie with the yew tree we planted today along the route of one of our favourite walks. It first sprouted up in our garden when we were living in Bletchingley and had been confined to a pot ever since. We hope it will thrive in its new home, and we’ll be checking up on […]

That’s Charlie at about 6.15am, managing to stay still long enough to have his picture taken with all the presents that Santa brought in the night. He didn’t stay still for long, especially when he opened a couple of presents in particular. Happy Christmas!

Charlie with his classmates during their Christmas concert today, and below, at the microphone for his ’solo’. He was thrilled to get to sing with a microphone for the first time and he and the rest of Year Three were brilliant Christmas stars. Watch a short clip of Charlie here with a longer one here.