Lisa Gymnastics Chichester

Lisa took part in the Chichester Four Piece Gymnastics Competition today.  She has moved up to Intermediate Gymnastics and this is her first intermediate competition.  Y Balance on the beam... 

Round off dismount....

The Southbourne Gymnastics Club girls talking to Coach Becks...

On the bars...

Lisa won a silver for the beam....her first Intermediate medal :-)

And a bronze on bars....

The Southbourne Team....

Joe and Big Ben

Pompey and Man City

Me and Joe had a full-on Football Weekend.  Pompey v Stevenage and Man City v Liverpool...and Joe even got his hands on the Premier League and FA Cup trophies!

POMPEY V STEVENAGE.  Pre-match grub...Come On Pompey...

Pompey players warming up before the big match....Joe looks a bit worried (he is right to be!)

We're off!

Pompey were awful and got beat 3 v 0.  But the Pompey fans won the singing and there were still a few hundred still singing half an hour after the game had ended....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhWh_sS3yw4&feature=youtu.be

We stayed with Mark and Rebecca in Nottingham on Saturday night and then drove up to Manchester to the National Football Museum...

Joe checking out some kits...

We are the champions!

We discovered that the 1966 World Cup winning team had an extra member....

Shooting practice...

Yes...that's how they used to do it....Passing the kids down to the front....

MAN CITY v LIVERPOOL.  We went to the Ethiad for the second big game of the weekend....

A Japanese tourist wanted a photo with 'real City fan'  :-)

It was a brilliant game.  Full of speed, skill and aggression.  0 v 0 at half-time.

Both teams came close....

In the second half Liverpool scored from a penalty, but Man City piled on the pressure...

At last the equaliser.  Great game.  Good result.  1v1...

What a brilliant weekend of football....

Joe Oompa Loompa

It's was World Book Day at school today.....Joe the Oompa Loompa :-) 

Great costume work by Karen :-) 

Kaprun Ski 2017

Half-term ski & snowboard trip to Kaprun in Austria :-)

Check out the video here: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lE9ILS1_KWs&feature=youtu.be

Dinner with some of the gang in the Baum Bar....Dab Dab Dab....

Lisa on the slopes of the Maiskogel with the Kitzsteinhorn in the background....

Seth, Joe and Finn ready for their lessons....

Joe with his ski instructor..... ;-)

Karen on her first and last run.  Unfortunately the dodgy knees after her op made her hang up the snowboard for this week....

Geoff and Oscar in the mountains....

Lisa riding the powder :-)

Boarder Dude Simon....

Lisa on a chair lift over the Kitzsteinhorn glacier....

Karen, Lisa, Joe, Oscar, Geoff and Travis at the Kaprun Night-time Snow and Yodelling Show....

That's me riding the soft stuff :-)

The Ice Bar.  Three igloos containing a bar and some cool ice sculptures...

Lisa heading for a drink at the Ice Bar....

More big mountain action....

Kaprun pizza with Geoffer....

Joe skivved off his lessons and came out with me and Lisa....

Up on the glacier...

Celebrating the end of ski lessons.  George and Joe on the left.  Birte, their Finnish ski instructor, on the right....

The Fellows gang at the veeeeery top....

The funicular to the very top, and underneath us the X1 off-piste ski run....

I sneaked out early one morning with Simon and Paul....

Joe and Lisa are the last ones off the mountain...again....

Fellows ski race....

On the way back to the airport we stopped at Hohenwerfen Castle....

And had a wander round Werfen.....very quiet....shhhhh...

Coffee and strudel in Werfen...

Joe with his hand luggage....

Great trip....looking forward to the next one already.

Joe in the Sports Mail

Joe's footy match was featured in the Sports Mail this week.  There as a cool picture of him on a half page spread....

Up The Castle...