And here's Aidan and George dancing at mum and dads during a lovely day with Alice and the four boys.
Saturday, 23 January 2010
Dancing and sledges
Here's sledge mk II (with a lot o help from the extreemly talented Dave Homer - the Resistant Materials teacher from school).
And here's Aidan and George dancing at mum and dads during a lovely day with Alice and the four boys.
And here's Aidan and George dancing at mum and dads during a lovely day with Alice and the four boys.
Wednesday, 20 January 2010
Sunday, 10 January 2010
Sledge making
Went sledging with Mark and Isaac and the premier boy. Embarrasingly Owen and I broke Marks sledge attempting a large jump. We decided te replacemet 'Grew family sledge' should be home made. Cue an evening in a chilly conservatory bodging a sledge from scrap wood. We were ably assisted by the expert advice of James our new curate, from Canadia, and thus an expert in all things related to snow. (Isaac also pitched in before bed time)
Wednesday, 6 January 2010
Obligatory snow pictures
Here they are. The standard child with snowman shot, complemented by my washing line ice tower.
Friday, 1 January 2010
Merry new year
Merry new year to all, and to all a good night.
Mark doing an excellent job of Reading to the three eldest Jupp/Grew children. Post settling we enjoyed an excellent Mexican, (food, not an actual Mexican) followed by some Wii action and some fireworks by the light of a "death star moon".
(appologies for the poor fireorks picture!)
Mark doing an excellent job of Reading to the three eldest Jupp/Grew children. Post settling we enjoyed an excellent Mexican, (food, not an actual Mexican) followed by some Wii action and some fireworks by the light of a "death star moon".
(appologies for the poor fireorks picture!)
Tuesday, 29 December 2009
Sunday, 20 December 2009
Coventry Sport Tour Pt 4
The Grew/Jupp Sports tour of Coventry took in its forth leg yesterday. Following on from Ice Hockey, Rugby, and Dog Racing, the latest event was Basketball. Namely the Coventry Crusaders vs the London Leopards.
A reminder that a complex scoring system gives us a number between 6 and 13 where 13 is best. So far Ice Hockey scored 10 ish, Rugby 8 ish and the Dogs 6 ish.
Last nights offering was wonderful. With extroninarily low expectations of a sporting event hosted in the local sports centre with 50 people watching we were always likely to be plesantly surpirsed but it was way better than either of us had dared to dream. The Crusaders currently lie third bottom of the BBA (British Basketball assosiation) league 2 having lost all but one of their 11 games this season! However, a really close exiting game with lots of shouting at refs and exited players/ocoaches that Coventry won in overtime gave us a dead cert score of 5 for Quality of game. There was a hero's performance from Mark and I's man of the match "John" who neither of us had ever heard of before, crually sin binned for a soft foul with 8 mins to go, he came back on for the last 4 mins to inspire Coventry to an unlikely come back from 8 points down then push for the win in overtime.
As you can see the fans were exstatic!
Scores as follows: (All out of 5)
Refreshments - 1 (A packet of squares and some polos, although the laminated price list on the table did say "tuck prices" which was a point in it s favor)
Transport - 4 (50p to park next to the sports centre)
Merchandising - 1 (2 t-shirts on sale at the 'tuck table')
Quality of game - 5 (Outstanding, genuinely quite exciting)
Entertaining extras - 3 (Cheerleaders but I teach most of them and they were writhing around mildly inappropriately so that most of the crown tried their best not to look - scored very highly on volume of digital clocks and air horns, laminated arrows held up by one of the many many officials)
Value for money - 2.5 (£6 - very expensive but the game was good so almost worth it)
Springfield factor - 3 (should have been a 5 by rights because this is coventry and we were watching basketball, but the whole thing felt quite home grown so not terrible)
Fellow spectators - 5 (A real highlight, a very cross man from london shouting abuse, getting into arguments with refs, local children and berating players - excellent)
Overall then after some mathematical jiggery pokery we get an impressive score of 13.5173764. A comfortable leader so far. However, Mark and I have high hopes for the Coventry Jets (American Football) - if nothing else the Springfield Factor should be off the charts.
A reminder that a complex scoring system gives us a number between 6 and 13 where 13 is best. So far Ice Hockey scored 10 ish, Rugby 8 ish and the Dogs 6 ish.
Last nights offering was wonderful. With extroninarily low expectations of a sporting event hosted in the local sports centre with 50 people watching we were always likely to be plesantly surpirsed but it was way better than either of us had dared to dream. The Crusaders currently lie third bottom of the BBA (British Basketball assosiation) league 2 having lost all but one of their 11 games this season! However, a really close exiting game with lots of shouting at refs and exited players/ocoaches that Coventry won in overtime gave us a dead cert score of 5 for Quality of game. There was a hero's performance from Mark and I's man of the match "John" who neither of us had ever heard of before, crually sin binned for a soft foul with 8 mins to go, he came back on for the last 4 mins to inspire Coventry to an unlikely come back from 8 points down then push for the win in overtime.
As you can see the fans were exstatic!
Scores as follows: (All out of 5)
Refreshments - 1 (A packet of squares and some polos, although the laminated price list on the table did say "tuck prices" which was a point in it s favor)
Transport - 4 (50p to park next to the sports centre)
Merchandising - 1 (2 t-shirts on sale at the 'tuck table')
Quality of game - 5 (Outstanding, genuinely quite exciting)
Entertaining extras - 3 (Cheerleaders but I teach most of them and they were writhing around mildly inappropriately so that most of the crown tried their best not to look - scored very highly on volume of digital clocks and air horns, laminated arrows held up by one of the many many officials)
Value for money - 2.5 (£6 - very expensive but the game was good so almost worth it)
Springfield factor - 3 (should have been a 5 by rights because this is coventry and we were watching basketball, but the whole thing felt quite home grown so not terrible)
Fellow spectators - 5 (A real highlight, a very cross man from london shouting abuse, getting into arguments with refs, local children and berating players - excellent)
Overall then after some mathematical jiggery pokery we get an impressive score of 13.5173764. A comfortable leader so far. However, Mark and I have high hopes for the Coventry Jets (American Football) - if nothing else the Springfield Factor should be off the charts.
Saturday, 19 December 2009
Something to aim for.
And something funny and Canadian - definitely makes me want to live in Canadia
Saturday, 12 December 2009
Sunday, 6 December 2009
Tis the season.
We put the tree up a little earlier than is optimal this year due to Catherines work eating into potential tree putting up weekends. Still, nice to have it up and a cracking tree.
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