I took part in the "Still Life" competition at my local photography club (http://www.earlshiltoncameraclub.org.uk), there was over 60 entries and this was my print that won:

Pencil shavings

For Tracey's 30th I organised a trip down to London to see Mary Poppins at the theatre. We travelled back from our week in Swanage on Friday 26th, and then travelled back down to Hatfield after dropping Tiffany off at Nanny's.

Arrived at the hotel in Hatfield (what a dump) late on Friday. On Saturday morning we caught the train into London and first stop was the Natural History museum http://www.nhm.ac.uk/. We were really impressed, you could spend all day in this place looking at all the exhibits. We then moved onto the Science museum http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/, but didn't enjoy this so much. Apart from the first floor, the exhibits were quite poor.

Then in the afternoon we went to Hamleys and the Disney store which Megan enjoyed.

Mary Poppins was excellent, we had really good seats, and we stayed around at the end by the stage door and Megan got her picture taken with Mary Poppins, Burt and Jane (11yrs). We got back to the hotel at about 1am.

The next day we went to see the changing of the guards, after waiting in the rain for 1.5 hrs they then decided to cancel all of it - gutted !!. The rest of the day was a bit of a damp squib, it was cold, raining, but we did manage a visit to London aquarium, which was good (and we bumped into Jane from Mary Poppins again!!). We were all very tired when we got home.

I was doing a Google search for Ian Houghton the other day and came across a Mini website that had copied my instructions and pictures on how to make a Mini Trailer. I had forgotten about the pictures and never made a copy of my old Mini website. The pictures can be found in the public galleries.

We've arrived back from spending Easter in Disneyland Paris. The kids really enjoyed themselves even if we walked their feet off !! Bank Holiday Monday was very busy in the park, but the 15th Anniversary on the 12th was even busier, some of the ride queues were over an hour. I've now got over 600 pictures to sift through before uploading the best on here. There are a couple of new videos from Disney in the video section.

The Eurostar from Ashford was very good, it took just over 2.5 hours to arrive at the park entrance. We stayed in the Hotel Santa Fe, budget accommodation, but then again we didn't spend that much time in the room.

Miranda and Mark have had a baby boy called Maxwell Ray this morning. He was delivered at 5.14am weight, 6lb 12oz's. The pictures have been uploaded into the private gallery section.

Megan got asked to see the headmistress on Monday, and not for the reason that my brother was always accussed of.

She had been working on her letters and spelling and her teacher was so impressed that she sent her to the headmistress for a special sticker. Megan was the first person from her class to get this. Megan has also been given some spelling exercises earlier than the rest of the class as her teacher thinks she's ready for them.

I'd better start saving for that Phd course now then............ 

Megan started reception class yesterday at Burbage Infants School. Afternoons only until Christmas, and then full time. She's not in the same class as her usual friends, but she came home yesterday saying she'd made new friends. Activites so far, sand pit, home corner, farm figures, stories and algebra......

I have made quite a few changes to the site and the way it functions behind the scenes. Thanks to Jeremy Wadsworth for the modified source code and support for when it all went wrong.

New modifications:

• Change to the way the images are stored. (DB to file system)
• Blog now added.
• User maintenance via website.
• Content maintenance via website.

Now I just need to sort out the video section and we'll be back to normal.