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.
The impressive train shed of the newly opened St Pancras International Station, now the London terminus of the Eurostar service, the Christmas lights on the Champs Elysee leading up to the Arc de Triomphe, and the Paris traffic seen from La Defense - all taken at either end of my just completed business trip to […]
This Halloween, we went for the space alien and evil angry eyebrow looks. They were by far the scariest in our street… Boo!
Charlie poses with some of his presents on the morning of his eighth birthday last week, and with his SpongeBob cake a few days later at his “official” birthday party. That’s also him glowing the brightest while playing laser tag at his party. All in all, it’s great being eight, says the birthday boy. He […]