the new (step) family

well, am over writing stuff now, these are some more photos from the wedding, of us and our new stepish family. i can't figure it out. i think carol is our aunt. and then her two boys and their cousin. and three of the 4 generations of brides girl side of the family.

more wedding and scotland

sorry, these photos are a bit out of order... picturesque loch and mountains, ahhh, the scottish highlands; the wedding clan, happy congratulations; liz and me and one of our nicer looking waiters, hehe; me and the bro and cuzs at the snow; the cuz clan at the wedding.

enjoy, ahhhh, aren't we all handsome and gorgeous!

weddings, engagements, snow and quadbiking.

well, och aye, here i am in scotland with the family (or some of us anyways), there's mum, dad, bro, cuz liz, cuz anf, unkie malc, his new wife carol (welcome to the fam), new step cuzs alex and pat. and then their fam too. it is beautiful, today we have seen cloud, rain, sun, snow and everything else inbetween (is there anything else inbetween??). the pics are malc and carol at the loch, ahhh, isn't it beautiful, postcard material, wish you were here! Groom and children, cutting the cake, my side of the rodgers clan, happy husband and wife.

so, friday was my last day at mt school, good and bad. jumped in the car with mum and dad to drive up to scotland. Got to Boat of Garten by Sunday, fab place. Spent sunday night and monday catching up with the fam, which has been fantastic. and sunday was the most beautiful day(who picked on me for saying lovely in my last posting??? everything was lovely, and my vocab has become very limited since working with my kids... sitting, good boy, eating. Good sitting, stop, listening. are you doing good listening?? good boy, you get the gist). anyways...

monday became overcast and windy as, and so we had Malcolm and Carols wedding inside. We would have been blown into the loch otherwise. and celebrated into the night at a beautiful scottish countryside home that had been turned into a function centre. The quartet added a great atmosphere to an already welcoming place and as for the food.... it was delicious.

so, today, no rest for the wicked, the kids (being me, jordie, liz and ant) went up to ummm, some ski slope in Scotland near inverness, sorry, can't remember the name. We caught the funicular up to the top which is apparently the talles peak in the UK with the tallest treeline and fastest land speeds in the UK. it was snowing, windy and cold, but also lovely! Afterwards we had a pasty for lunch and went quad biking. I am really bad at quad biking, but it was fun all the same. the stream crossings were very fun too.

and now relaxing in a lovely hotel called the Boat (at Boat of Garten). Oh and on Sunday, we caught the steamtrain from the station from something to do with Harry Potter, so that was cool. Unfortunately, i didn't get to Loch Ness, hopefully next time. I think mum and dad went there today. Wonder if they saw the monster. he's not under my bed.

well, that's about it for me. some more photos to come shortly, many things to show you all, and might write about my other adventures with my parents in Paris and Wales and other fun places.

love you all,
deev

and by the way, NO i am not engaged, but CONGRATS to Ty who has just told me she is getting married, yay. so am in scotland just after a wedding finding out about friends getting married, romance must be in the air!

party party party...

well, has been a busy busy few weeks since my parents have arrived. I broke up from school, and we jumped in the car and drove to Oxford, where i had a lovely birthday with my parents. Well, somewhere between Oxford and Churchill. And i had a lovely birthday dinner (see the top photo). Then we went through some lovely English Villages in the countryside (see photo 2) and back intime for the next party party party!!! this one was bery bery be different to our first one, but as usual, we all had a blast. Photo 3 is again some spanish friends and photo 4 is a lovely group of aussies...

still to come snippets from trip to wales with parents and trip to france over easter. had a lovely time. I have fallen in love with paris, but then again i fall in love with almost every place i go.

so back home now for to work for 4 days and then jump into the car again with my parents and drive up to schotland for my uncles wedding. Really looking forward to that. Jordan was staying in my bed whilst i was in paris, but he left this morning before i got home. would have liked to see him, but that is what the weekend is for.

hope you are all well.
love, kisses and buy yourselves a freddo frog.
deev

oh and we all love Johnny Depp. (random thought for the day), no really, we do!!

france

bonjour.

well, am in Paris avec ma mere et mon pere. and i will write more in french when i can have someone to correct me...

we went to an italian restaurant tonight in paris, can't speak very good french or itialian; so had a great laugh.

just wanted to update my blog, but will put some of my other adventures through england with my parents up when i get home (so you can all see photos).

well,
bisous
deev

p.s. am well and whilst we are here, my bro is in my room in England, partying it up with my housemates.

bring on spring!!

well, i love the spring, as i said before, it is still light at 7:30pm, and the flowers are out, the sun shines (sometimes), the birds sing and people even sometimes smile!!! one of the photos is of us yesterday. the sun came out and so we all went out to the street, however the sun then decided to hide behind a cloud then played a game of hide and seek with us as we went in and then it came out again so we went out and it went away again.... grrrr boo hiss the sun. we also accidently locked ourselves out as the door blew shut, luckily the window was open so could get back in... so we saw the sun and had a great house congregation outside... BEAUTIFUL!!

on friday arvo i got some time off in lieu (for going to a nighttime concert with the students) and so went to see some cool photos at southwark cathedral... except the exhibition wasn't as big as i thought it would be so we went to the tate modern... there is a photo of me looking into the window of the tate modern to Jose and Tana (who went with me) and behind my reflection is st pauls, it was quite a nice place to go for coffee on a warmish friday arvo. after that went to a dinner with a whole heap of lovely spanish people in Kilburn to eat sushi... (see photo of spanish guys)

ummm, oh what else is new.... spot the happy davina because she met some strangers at the airport... any guesses from the photo for who they are??? (sorry about the flash in the mirror!) it was fantastic to see my parents again. will be travelling with them a bit throughout april until we go to scotland for my uncles wedding and then they fly home... boo hoo.

well, that is all for today.
party on friday to celebrate my b;day, mat's (old) b'day and clements b'day all in april, so hopefully that will be good. and only 2 days of school till holidays. yay.

love you all
deev