This is my new car

If only! Actually, this is a Porsche Turbo that I drove around the Elvington air field / race track outisde York recently, inspired by watching too many episodes of Top Gear and their 'Star in a Reasonably Priced Car. It was a gorgeous hot day, perfect driving conditions and the Porsche is a fantastic little car. I think I managed to get her up to 100mph at one point...it was of course all over too soon but the accompanying instructor let me stay on for an extra lap as he was about to go on his lunch break and was feeling in a good mood!

There were a lot more supercars at Elvington that day:

They look good, but I genuinley thought the Porsche has a more classic, timeless look. But then I would, wouldn't I?

Next door to the airfield is the Yorkshire Air Museum which we (me, Sara and her dad) mooched around. The biggest plane there, in fact the biggest plane I've ever seen anywhere, was this WWII Halifax bomber ominously named Friday the Thirteenth:

There's some more pictures we took at Elvington and the museum over on our Flickr page.

I mentioned in my last post there's lots of news. Briefly Dave now has a new job as an HR adviser with a local authority....he also successfully passed the 2nd year of his Masters degree course, only the dissertation to go now!....most important of all we now have a new patio and garden! Piccies to follow....

Normality has been resumed (sort of)

OK, where have we been? Well, now that Owen has reached five months old (yes, five months!) and we're starting to get a little bit of normality back into our lives, then hopefully we'll be blogging a bit more frequently from now on.

Here's a recent piccie of Owen which I absolutley love. It kind of sums up his attitude to life!


And he's now starting to eat his (liquified) solids. Rice, apple and carrots are his favourites.


There's some more pics of Owen on Flickr and I'll upload some more over the next week so take a look.

Also we have finally given up our luddite fight against social networking and have put ourselves on Facebook. Look us up under Dave's name and you'll find us lurking over there too...

Lots of news to tell you but as there's quite a lot I'll save it until the next post. In the meantime, here's a treat for our foreign readers. Despite being tales from SE23, I have posted precious little about Forest Hill itself. So, here's a little flavour of what you're missing:



Forest Hill Day at the Horniman Museum - lovely!


Power sub-station fire at the end of our road - no electricity all morning!