Archive for September, 2009
Jersey bound
Friday, September 11th, 2009Keeping the blog updated can be a somewhat sporadic pastime, although I have a feeling as we exit our busiest summer of weddings since launch that the calmer winter will allow a little more authoring. We’ve had some time out as a family in holiday R&R mode. Young Jack wasted no time at all in getting to grips with what he loves most; the sea! Some grab shots and stuff from our week away!
So, Monday we went to Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust (once Jersey Zoo) just north of St Helier. This is an animal sanctuary famed for introducing breeding programmes for creatures (and plants I think) in danger of extinction. It’s famed for being the zoo where a young lad fell into the gorilla enclosure and lived to tell the tale! See this link. So a couple of images in honour of our friends from the trees. They’re a little typically holidaylike. Absolutely no excuses.
I guess every parent will remember pivotal moments like when their child started to talk. Jack’s first words are ‘bye bye.’ He uses them in the same fashion that an adult repeats the only words he has learned in a foreign language for ‘a glass of beer please’ when he visits a foreign shore for the first time. In other words, they are used for every event. So we have spent the best part of a week saying ‘bye bye’ to everything that passes by. ‘Bye bye bus. Bye bye car. Bye bye seagull. Bye bye shop.’ We took him to a pottery where you could paint your own items. He splattered the luxury egg cup holder (I’m 41 and I’ve never had anything more than a normal egg cup) in all the colours he could throw, then, when he became bored, dismissed it with a chorus of ‘bye byes.’ Little does he know that in ten days time his art will be turning up in the post kiln dried and complete.
Where are they now? Freddie and Steve at Silchester House
Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009It’s been two years since their Silchester House wedding and thanks for your note guys to let me know how things have been coming along since then. For private reasons to the couple, this wedding was a wonderfully emotional experience; I remember there being a lump in my throat for much of the speeches. ‘Nuff said’ on that note, the couple have some amazing travel plans afoot for the next year; trips to Australasia and the Americas to name just two continents. It’s been a commercial journey in the last year too, as Steve has launched his own business in the online search engine optimisation field, that dark art where we all battle to become Google’s favourite friend!
