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Hi everyone!! Here's our latest news for March 2003. My mum and dad are here at the moment for their usual March visit and we're keeping very busy going out on the boat, to the Club, Hashing and visiting friends. The children are having a wonderful time with nana and grandpa and they have noticed such a difference in them, particularly Catherine who is now talking. Our next visitor will be 'Mr Angry' Mike Mac who is calling in on his way back from working in Vietnam. Hopefully he'll find another job here and stay on. Then my Aunt and cousin are coming for a couple of weeks and by then it will almost be time to return to the UK for the summer. I'm looking forward to seeing old friends at a University Reunion on 5th July. I'll do my best to catch up with a few more people this year - honest! We were given 2 months notice on our villa last week so we are in the process of trying to find somewhere else to live - preferably near David's school so that Clive doesn't have to spend his lunch hour picking him up every day. What a waste of all that hard work Clive put in painting the living room walls! Several people have asked us what we are going to do if/when war starts. Nothing I hope, unless we are strongly advised to leave by the Embassy. Life carries on as normal and these are some of the things we have been doing .... |
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| Hi. It's been such a long time since we wrote to you and lots of things have happened. One of the most important is that mummy now has a digital camera [her birthday present from daddy] so she is able to download the pictures much more quickly than scanning them - and they are much better quality. She's till 'experimenting' with all its features, mostly on us. So, here are some of them... |
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| Here we are with grandma who came to visit us for 5 weeks and looked after us when mum and dad went for their usual skiing holiday [no snaps of that yet as they didn't have the new camera then - and probably won't get around to scanning them!]. |
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| And here's Catherine relaxing with granddad. |
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| We also have a new four-legged addition to the family. Her name is Missy and she's about a year old. Some of our friends found her as a stray and rescued her. She's very loving, great fun and is obedient [most of the time]. She's a bit racist and doesn't like our housemaid at all. She also likes eating woollen rugs and plastic toys. We have to lock everything away when we go out! But we love her. |
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| We now have a lovely playroom to store all our toys in. Here we are with our friends Jennifer, Sarah, Tom and Hazel. The playroom was a 'big mess' after this party! |
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| David loves his new school. Last week was Sports Day and mummy and daddy sneaked out of work to go and watch. They didn't feel so guilty when they got there and found half their colleagues there as well, cheering for their offspring from the sidelines. [In fact you would have thought it was the Olympic Games the way that some people were carrying on]. David is in the centre of the line up for the hoop and bucket race. |
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| Here's David in the final strait with a very determined look on his face. [Current and ex-Abu Dhabi residents will recognise PE teachers Sharon Hussey and Adrian. I take my hat off to them for organising this group of sixty or so 3-4 year olds!] |
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| And here he is again in the Teddy Bear race. Two seconds after this photo was taken he spotted mummy and daddy on the sideline and ran off the track towards us dashing our hopes of Olympic Gold. Maybe one day. |
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| Or perhaps he will be the future Welsh scrum half - let's face it, they need some help! Here he is just off to his first visit to under 5's rugby. Clive should have told him that he couldn't hold his hand and run up and down the pitch with him though. Dream on Wales. |
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| Or perhaps he's going to be a champion jockey. Here he is on a school visit to the Royal Stables. Mummy's just thinking of the expense of all those riding lessons. |
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| Or a racing driver ............... |
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| Or perhaps he'll be like Fred Aistair - then mummy and daddy could retire. |
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| Catherine is enjoying ABC Nursery and is quite 'one of the girls'. On the morning this photo was taken she chose all her clothes to wear. |
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| She spent ages admiring herself in the mirror in her new dress from grandma. |
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| She loves her 'baby' and rocks her and feeds her with a bottle. We have never encouraged this and have given both David and Catherine the same toys to play with. So that proves the theory that it's nature not nurture that gives women maternal instincts! |
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| See what I mean? Look at the way she's got that baby by the scruff of the neck! |
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| Here they are having a wonderful time bathing in the kitchen sink. |
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| And in one of their more mischievous moment covering themselves in Sudacrem while I was chatting on the phone with Julie Head. A whole new pot full! But who could be angry with such darlings? |
