Yule Yomp 2018

It's the Yule Yomp 2018 :-)

We started down by the beach at the Farndell's and ate and drank our way round Emsworth visiting 7 houses....

From Chalkie and Emma's house we walked round the sea front to Bryony and Richard's place...

Team photo outside Lumley Mill...

On round Lumley to Dom and Carolyn's house...

Then Lyzz's place before braving the field way in the dark....

Our house....cheers :-)

Geoff and Sarah met on this very spot at my 50th birthday party - 3 years ago!!!   Yay :-)

Round the beach to the Oiller's and Piper's....Yo!

We finished at Paul and Debs.   Another great Yomp and a fab day :-)   Cheers all and Merry Christmas...

5-A-Side Xmas Do

It was the 5-a-side footy Christmas Do today.  We had a mini 5-a-side footy tournament before heading down the Coalie for a drink.  The beer was followed by Pete's speciality 'Springbok' - Bailey's and Creme de Menthe.....  Roland, Danny, Simon, Clive, Julian and Chalkie, also out of picture: Chris, Sonny, Steve, Scholesy and  Jon.  Cheers Boys :-) 

We had a fabulous curry, before returning to the Coalie for a couple more of those 'Springboks'!

Sunset Kingley Vale Walk

We had a late afternoon walk up Kingley Vale today.  Seth came along with us.  The boys played footy on the way up....

And found dens in the woods...

Tree climbing

Nearly at the top.  This is just before they lost the football in a massive bramble bush!

 On the top...

The sun started to set....here's Lisa doing some gymnastics on the top...

Joe and Seth watching the sunset...

Very nice walk and a nice drink in the Coach and Horses afterwards :-)

Christmas Day

Merry Christmas!!!!!  Joe and Lisa getting ready for the big day...

Handing out the pressies...

Joe looks pleased with his XBox....

And Lisa, with her trip to Iceland :-)

Karen cooked up a fab Christmas Dinner....

Joe got started on FIFA 19...

Nice walk round the pond...

Lisa reading one of her many new books...

Cheers all.   Merry Christmas and thanks for all the fab pressies....

Lisa Gym Comp

Lisa had her vault and Beam competition today.

She was pleased with her beam routine...

Go Lisa :-)

Man City and Pompey Trip

Me and Joe did a football tour to Manchester this weekend.  First was Man City v Bournemouth: 

Watching the players warming up...

About a zillion pounds worth of talent...

Pep looks a bit worried...

The game is tight in the first half...come on City :-)
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw9TJJoC0jc&feature=youtu.be

The score is 1 v 1 at half-time, but Man City go on to win 3 v 1.  This is Raheem Sterling's goal...

Pep was stressing until the last ball was kicked...

Joe chilling out in the B and B with 'Friends' on the ipad...

Next day it was Rochdale v Pompey in the 2nd Round of the FA Cup....

My Ball!!!  Oliver Hawkins...

The game was close and looked like being 0 v 0...

But Pompey scored in the last minute!!!  1 v 0 to Pompey and into the third round of the cup.

Great footballing weekend :-)

Sunflower Beam

Karen and Lisa went to see Sunflower beam at the Wedgewood Rooms tonight.  Lisa's first 'proper' gig...

The singer came out to dance with the audience...

 They both had a great time...

Bognor Cinema Curry

On the beach in Bognor with Rayner, Natalie and the kids...  Moody Band Photo...

Joe and Seth dancing along the sand...

Karen, Rayner and Finn... 

We all went to see Nativity Rocks in cool little independent cinema in Bognor and afterwards had a fab curry...

Cheers :-) 

Spag Marshmallow Towers

Joe and Seth had a go at building Spaghetti Marshmallow Towers....

The record with 12 marshmallows was 93cm....   Combined effort...