Joe's Photo Comp

Joe entered the Maurice Broomfield children's photo competition.  And won four prizes!

Joe receiving more prizes!

The winners from each year....

Well done Joe!

Snowboarding Banff with Jez

I flew out to Canada this week to see Jez and to do some snowboarding in Banff...

We stayed in the Blue Mountain Lodge.

First day boarding at Mt Norquay....

Lunch in the sun.  Gotta love that Easter Boarding...

Jez on another empty run...

Pompey went up to League 1 today.  Play Up Pompey!!!

Banff is surrounded by mountains :-)

In the pub watching the Ice Hockey Play-offs...they are mad for hockeee out here...aye!

 Sunshine Village.  More clear skies and big Mountains....

Still celebrating Pompey's promotion....

Looking west across the Rocky Mountains...

Jez hounding some pow!

Cheers...

Last run at Sunshine....or so we thought....Jez lost his phone and we had to go up again to rescue it.

Celebrating finding Jez's phone with a £6 jug...

We went on a bear hunt....

We didn't find any bears....only a few mountain sheep....

Johnson Lake....

Another day, another ski resort....this time it's Lake Louise...

That's me, and me and me!

Light lunch :-)

One of many cafe stops....

Last Day....at the top.....last run down.....

We stopped at Lake Louise's lake.....That's me falling through the ice!              I survived :-)

Brilliant trip.  Cheers Jezza.

Lisa and Amy Tinkler

Lisa (Southbourne Gymnastics Club) and Amy Tinkler (Team GB)...

Gymnastics World Cup O2

Lisa and Karen went to the World Cup Gymnastics at the O2 in London today...

The O2 in Gymnastics mode....

Max Whitlock (Double Olympic Gold Medallist) on the pommel...

Amy Tinkler (Olympic Bronze Medallist) on the beam....

The top three in the Women's Competition...  GOLD - Tabea Alt (Germany),  SILVER - Victoria Nguyen (USA),   BRONZE - Amy Tinkler (GB).

Lisa at the O2 :-)

Real Vectis v Coalie Old Boys

The Coalie Old Boys went to the Isle of Wight today to play Real Vectis for the prestigious Solent Cup:

Back Row: Chris Dickins, Chris Campbell, Geoff Bartlett, Sam Wedderburn, Pete Nugent, Ray Matthews, Neil Woolmer, Lee Farndell.

Front Row: Chris White, Ian Dickinson, Danny Fellows, Ross Down, Simon Oiller.

Talking tactics on the ferry on the way to our International fixture in the IOW.  passports ready lads!

The game kicks off in beautiful sunshine.  Here's Pete making yet another great catch from a corner...

Pete with another creative through ball :-)

Chalkie jockeying their strikers.

Geoff driving forewards...

We scored two goals in the first half after brilliant breakaways finished off by Ross.  Here's Chalkie sending another long ball to our strikers...

Unfortunately, Real Vectis got back into it in the second half and ended up coming out 4v2 on top. We broke out the beers at the end of the game....

It was a great game......  We'll 'ave 'em next time :-)

Real Vectis hold onto the Solent Trophy...at least until the second leg in Emsworth :-)

The disappointment is soon forgotten once the beer started flowing....

In the minibus on the way back to the ferry....

What a great day....looking forward to the next one already....

Joe's Photo Competition

Papa took Joe out to take some photos for his photo competition...

Some of his many photos....A pretty flower :-)

Gull...

Swan...

Joe likes taking photos of signs...

And he likes taking photos of Joe :-)

Thanks Papa.