Skiing in LGB, and Paris

Me and Joe drove down to Le Grand Bornand in the French Alps to meet the Emsworth crowd for a weeks skiing and snowboarding...

Joe, Seth, Simon and George...

Joe on the planks :-)

Me and Paul celebrating a great day with a cold one :-)

Looking out of our balcony down at le Grand Bornand...

Joe and Seth on the lift...

Lunch on the St Annes run.  Hot and sunny all week in February!

All the lads at the top :-)

Spot of apres ski in Le Pub :-)

Back on the slopes with an eager skier....

Meeting up with Rayner, Finn and Seth...

Joe and Seth...

A bit of off piste action with Simon...

 More apres-ski :-)   Joe in shorts in the snow!

Joe with skiing hair...

More hot and sunny weather...

We celebrated a fantastic week with a spot of night skiing and a cracking meal, and a few shots in Chinaillon...

On the way home me and Joe stopped in Paris, and went to see the Six Nations Rugby Match between France and Scotland...

France were too good for the Scots...

It finished 27v10...

We went to Montmartre after the rugby...

We climbed the 300 steps up to the Sacre Coeur...

Magnificent Catholic Cathedral...

Bit of cafe life in Montmartre...

Looking over nighttime Paris...

Back home on the ferry, what a fantastic week :-)

Lisa and Karen in Tanzania

Lisa with the Maasai tribe in the Serengeti, Tanzania...

All photos (apart from this one) were taken by Lisa on her camera...

Lisa, Karen and Gran went on Safari in Tanzania.  Scary elephant!

Serval cat.

They rode around in these Land Rovers...

Family of lions...

Some happy hippos...

Lion creeping up on a baby elephant....

Friendly elephants...

There were lots of exotic birds...

The Serengeti...

The giraffe is the national animal of Tanzania...

Hello!

Beautiful blue Heron...

  Cheetah checking out his lunch...

Zebras crossing...

They've heard something...

A parade of elephants...

Ooo ooo ooo...

Tortoise hurrying across the road...

A Superb Starling...

Karen with the Maasai ladies...

Traditional dancing...

Animals grazing in the Ngorongoro Crater...

Hungry giraffe...

Maasai Primary School...

Kiswahil lessons...

The board...

Lisa at the lunchtime picnic spot...

One last elephant.

What an amazing trip.  Thanks Gran and thanks Tanzania :-)

Red Sky at ESSC

Our first appearance at the Emsworth Slipper Sailing Club...

It was a great night :-)  Video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odPYOx5R_bw

Climbing Joe Scouts

Joe, Seth and Finn went climbing with the Sea Scouts this evening...

Made it!

Weekend at Will's

We had a fab family weekend at Will and Rachel's to celebrate Reggie's birthday.  The meal...

And the cake. 

Happy Birthday Reggie.

Norwich 0 v 1 Pompey

We went to Norwich to see Pompey, top of League 1, play Norwich, top of the Championship, in the FA Cup today....

95th Minute goal from Andre Green!!!!!  Pompey won!!!!
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OswZ7lKiBco&feature=youtu.be

Green gets bundled...

Celebrating in our digs...Cheers...

A little wander round Norwich the next day...

Play Up Pompey!

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...