Yomp NYE 2022

Yomp 2022 was on New Years Eve.   The lads... Seth, George, Joe, Fraser and Ben...

New Years Eve at Paul and Deb's...

Happy New Year everyone :-)

Christmas Footy Tournament

Today we played the Christmas Footy Tournament...

We played a round robin, a third fourth playoff and the final...

The final league standings....

Seth put a fabulous header against the bar against Matt....

Joe sizing up a shot....

Forest against Man City....

Harvey and Rayner doing the Hokey Cokey :-)

Pompey won :-)   Clive, Me, Tommy, Steve, Andy and Luke....

Another great Coalie Old Boys Footy Tournament.  Cheers All...

Christmas 2022

It's Father Corn Flake Christmas :-)

It was odd having the World Cup at Christmas, but what a final... Argentina finally beat France on pens...

Tree loaded ready for Christmas Day...

Grandma and Papa came round for Christmas Day...

Pressies....

Joe's space picture for G&P....

And a giraffe painting for Lisa....

Meeeerry Christmas....

The traditional lighting of the Christma pud...

Joe trying out his new camera....

And crumpets by the fire....

Happy Christmas one and all...
 

Joe and Ned Pompey

Joe and Ned went to see Pompey v MK Dons today.  Their first game sans adults.  Joe waited behind to get all the Pompey players to sign his shirt....

Sorting out footy cards...

Band Practice Jimmer's

We went down to Jimmer's this weekend to try out the new practice studio he has built in his shed...Complete with old picture of the Heavy Sounds Band :-)

Jimmer...

The nutty drumma :-)

Sarah cooked us an amazing breakfast in the morning.....mostly from their farm shop.

Great weekend.  Looking forward to the next one.

Dad's

Joe playing the balance game with Dad....

Eastbourne, Marys, Brighton

Me and Joe had a trip down to visit Mary's lot and Lisa down Brighton way.  Lola and Joe in Eastbourne Art Gallery...

Nice cafe in Eastbourne to recover our strength after the art :-)

The next day, me, Joe and Lola went to see Lisa at Brighton Uni.  In Lisa's Uni Kitchen...

We had a walk down through the Lanes.  Comic Book shop...

Lola likes a Funkopop....

Lisa took us to her gaming pub :-)

And a nice amble along the seafront....

Forest Green 0 v 1 Pompey

We went up to Will's for the historic first ever meeting between Forest Green Rovers and Pompey.  Limbering up in Nailsworth..  Pete, Will, Reggie and Joe...

Out come the players....

Pompey won 1v0, but Will won a Sky Diamond in the half time draw!

Desperate Dan pies for lunch the next day....yum :-)

Waiting for the cows driving across Minchinhampton Common...

Work drinks in Emsworth

We took our normal Friday after work drinks to Emsworth today.  John, James, Françoise and Steve in the Sailing Club...

And a meal in the Sussex Brewery....

Sunset round the Millpond

Me and Joe had a lovely sunset walk around the millpond tonight

Joe at Seth's Birthday Go Karts

Joe went to Seth's Go karting party today...

Da lads....

And look who won :-)

Happy Birthday Seth.