Catchers in .. Rye (ouch)

Pix from my 41st Birthday Break ... a slow hr down the coast to Rye & Camber Sands

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Happy Birthday to ... ME!

41 ... oh Lordy. Tempus fugit.

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Tofu ...

... tofu, made delicious for You

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Tunisia 2009 (p/w brighton)

Norway 2008 (p/w brighton)

Brighton & Beyond (vol. 1)

What's the point of taking all those pictures, if you never see them again?

Brighton & Beyond 2007-2012

Another Photo book - this time a collection of Seecharan-James-Robinson pix from our fatal attraction on Guardian Soulmates (!) back in 2007, to life in Brighton via Blackheath, South East London.

password: brighton

Op .. op..op

Oppan Seecharan Style ...

Oh dear ... 

: - )

Holiday Snaps - Summer 2012

Spain 2012 Album (needs password after clicking this link - brighton - then wait about 30 secs for cover image to load, then go full screen and use the arrows. Enjoy x)

ps - the suggestion to buy your own is automated message from photobox, not our conceit!

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Back to School ...  

"Aim High"! (My Mum and Dad would be so proud of me!)

If (as I have recently been mulling) I return to studies and do a Masters, the most pressing academic question is this - will I learn anything more valuable than the fact that I am no larger than the world's largest toilet roll (look carefully at the height chart I am standing next to above)?!?#?! 

This is the kind of knowledge I can proudly announce Felix may be privy to should he choose this school, whose Open Day we recently attended, prior to applications for Secondary school next year ... boy's growing up!

P.S. Happy Birthday Nina-ni-nah-ni-nah!

M is for ME ...

that's ME stands for Melia Hotel Barcelona ... after 11 nights without sleep at #AVOID (EuroCamp Park Playa Bara), it was nice to end this year's family trip to Catalonia in a little style ...

Rest of the hols pix here

"The earlier it's found, the more effectively it can be treated" ...

public health advert (i would like to slash and set on fire) outside the gastroenterology unit, where we currently 'live' camped out in support of our father

... unless you had your surgery at the UK's second largest colorectal unit, where my father currently resides, in his 4th week post op - bouncing precariously either side of a thin dotted line called septicaemia (and too often on the wrong side for my liking).

Early stage tumour discovered pre- symptoms of any kind. Isolated. Not spread. 'Caught', indeed, through screening programme. PR ad above all correct and in order so far. Now for the effective treatment part ... post surgical leak ("happens to one in 5 patients" I quote a consultant directly). So "effectively" actually means "20% ineffectively". Symptoms left (un/ poorly) managed for first 10-14 days on ward, leading to 'last resort' treatment option: Re-opened - as emergency procedure. Been in festering state of delerium state ever since. a new 3rd drain added to his collection today, to drain the latest 800ml of "bacteriaemia".

"Effective management" ... but only if that is a public sector speak euphemism that means a treatment that leaves you worse off than the fatal illness itself; a man who walked into hospital without any symptoms or medical trouble in previous 40 years.

I hope one day we can all look back on this and laugh WITH him.

:` - (

Au Naturelle

Half-term 'boys' trip to the Natural History Museum, London

Don't lose your head, son!

Staring contest - you blinked first, Fee!

Jubilee Weekend, North Norfolk

"Call that a BBQ?!" - The man from Athens, he say No!

Ladies that lunch ... and Dad - before the weather & weekend turned south for the Winter

 Summer Bank Holiday? Perfect Weather for Camping, surely .. Book it. What could possibly go wrong? So went the conversation back in January

Brrrrrrrr .. Kids in Sleeping bags. Outside. Says it all really

Nicholas 'Pirlo' Seecharan - 2012 Penalty Shoot-out Champion

(2nd place: Nat the hat(-trick hero) Moreton Mayling

 Sod's Law - Weather picks up .. hours before we all have to leave!

Ottie .. in pretty good humour considering his Uncle had just vandalised his handmade Kalashnikov ... nothing can keep a birthday boy down for long. 

Nat 'Bob Beamon' Maoreton Mayling - Sporting Prodigy in waiting

Hulk!

Easy as 1 ...

2 ...

3 ...

Kids today, eh -- Felix' preparation for his school's "Crazy Hair Day" .. not sure of the educational value of that one but there you go. 'In my day ...'. No I won't go there, I feel old enough as it is already. He wanted blue - which was very promptly veto-ed ...

"Chris Hughton's Green & Yella army .."

Breaded Baked Fish Melee

Herb rich, rosemary & thyme covered baked cod, garlic, roasted aubergine and cherry tomatoes. Can't find recipe to share but this was pretty delicious, even if I do say so myself.

'Chich'

No, not the footballer. Chichester, and it's famous 1,000 yrs plus and counting Cathedral - only the oldest cathedral on the south coast, dating back to the 800s and viking times apparently. By complete coincidence, we chanced upon an RAF chapel inside where - at that time - it seemed appropriate to light a candle and say a prayer. Who knows, it may just have worked too x

'QT' for M & Me, on an adult day out to nearby Chichester

Junior Master Chef 2012?!

Caaaaaaaaaaalzoneeeeeee!

Felix cooks dinner for the first time .. Pizza of course .. but with a twist .. adventurous little soul. Veggie sausage Calzone .. yum yum.

"Not bad for a 10 year old, eh?!"

Absolutely. Thanks (not so) little man. First of many .. we parents can but live in hope

About Viewing Photos On this Blog

Good News - You no longer have to scroll down endlessly through pix that are uploaded - instead, clicking on the first photo in the series will open up a gallery that makes viewing multiple images in a post a lot faster and more user friendly. 

Thanks Google. 

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhh .. Shakshuka!

Yotam Ottolenghi's most vegetarian finest!

Can't believe we are able to get Felix to eat this, to be honest but it sure is tasty, thanks Yotam.

Recipe link here

'Bootiful, people' ..

 The Folks at Devil's Dyke

Easter Sunday, 2012

Boy's done good

... That's one humungous rabbit dropping