Beautiful Days 2016

Me and Pete took the kids to the Beautiful Days Festival...

Our Beautiful Days 2016 Film:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJQ8W6g1OKw&feature=youtu.be

Uno!

The nappy busker...

Joe and Iris making smoothies, people power :-)

I sneaked off to see 'Oh My God It's The Church'.  Never heard of them before but they were brilliant....

I even appear in their YouTube video :-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeFquN78igA

Must be lunchtime :-)

Me and Joe had a trip to the stars on the big wheel...

Lisa went about as high on the trampoline....

Clay making....

Two spacemen and an alien...

The kids watching Reef...

Joe the Rocket Man....

Two cool rock dudes...?!?!?

Hula Challenge....

The theme for Sunday was Stars....

'Whyyyyy are we waaaaaiting?'

The umbrella people...

I took the kids to see Billy Bragg.  As entertaining and thought provoking as ever....

Lisa dancing to Terrovision....

Lisa and Natasha in the Big Top doing a jig to 'Mad Dog McCrea'....

Lisa's late night Helter Skelter....

The kids love the late night fried potato shop.  Cider was good too :-)

Fire jugglers...

One of the best performances was from Coral....

The final act of the weekend was The Levellers.  Here are the kids 'dancing' to One Way Of Life....

Finish with fireworks...

Lisa and Joe.  Tired and happy....

Joe helped to clear up on the final morning...

What a great festival :-)

See ya next year.

Balloon Festival

I took the kids down to the Southsea Balloon Festival today....

Our favourite was the spiky doughnut....

Lisa and Joe on the trampolines :-)

Camping East Dean

We went for a wee camping trip up to East Dean with Natalie and Raynor...

Setting up camp in the valley above East Dean...

Lisa in her usual pose :-)

The kids on the rope swing...

We walked through the woods down to East Dean...

The kids playing Yenga Dominoes in the Star and Garter pub....

Bringing back unfeasibly large trees for fire wood...

They got it back :-)

Round the fire...

Seth and Joe....our two resident pyromaniacs...

In the morning the fire was still warm, so we stoked it up and cooked crumpets with Nutella :-)

One last swing :-)

Great trip :-)

Holiday Fun

First Pompey game of the season..... 1v1 Carlisle....

We went to Hayling Fair.  Here's Joe on the Dragon ride....

Joe showing Papa how to do it on the 2p Routlette....

Dodgems :-)

Joe finally finished his Euro 2016 Panini Sticker Book!

Ferrari Driving Goodwood

For my 50th Birthday a group of friends bought me a Ferrari Driving Experience at Goodwood Motor Racing Circuit.

I drove a Ferrari 355 F1 GTS.  Ferrari made 529 of the F1 GTS cars.  It has the special F1 Flappy paddle gear box :-)

Getting some pre-race advice!

Unleasing the 380 horse power down the pit straight...

The top speed of this car is 183mph.....I managed 100mph down the main straight...

And back to the pits.  Brilliant fun.....I want another go :-)   Thanks for a great day guys!!!!

The next experience....fly in a Spitfire.... 60th Birthday??

We went for a sandwich in the Flyers Cafe....but they have rebuilt it.....actually looks like a spaceship has landed on it.  The cafe is not open yet.  We found a sandwich in the other cafe :-)

When we got back to our car look who had parked next to us.....is this a sign that I should get one???

What a great day....

Kayak Langstone and Geoff

Me and Karen had a paddle over to Langstone for a spot of lunch today...

The wind was out of the west, so paddling was quite hard work and the pub was a welcome sight :-)

High Tide at the Royal Oak...

On the way back we met Geoff blasting up and down on his windsurfer...

Perfect weather for wind surfing :-)

Skipping across the waves...

I'll let him off for sending a tidal wave over my kayak :-)