Patrick continues to be the first and last thing on our minds. He is mad as a box of frogs and a wee blether to boot, but you've got to love him.
As Spring turns into Summer, Sarah is really getting into her gardening. Nice way to relax at the end of a busy day of work. We went and saw some slightly bigger gardens down in Cornwall in the first week of July.
Patrick was christened towards the end of May. Afterwards we all went to Zizzi's and he did impersonations of Granda McGowan.
In May we headed down to London and had a lovely weekend with Toby, Rachel and William. We checked out Borough Market, then the Lady Diana memorial kids park in Kensington Gardens, which is fantastic! Popped into the V&A for a spot of paddling! And spent Sunday in Kew. It was stunning and Patrick and William were very cute.
We popped out to Pembroke for a weekend by the sea. Found Barafundle beach, which is an amazing spot. Patrick got his first taste of a seaside holiday - won't be his last if his Mum has anything to do with it. Headed out to Skomer and checked out the Puffins.
In April, Michael came down for the HONC. I think this is maybe the first time the Gales have ridden the HONC.
Over the Easter week, we took Patrick to the Cotswold Farm Park. He loved it! We kind of enjoyed it too - Sarah in the petting zoo! He'd never come across an Easter egg before, but he seemed to know what to do:
Did a Burn's Supper again this year. Turned into quite a big event. Which doesn't explain this behaviour.
We got our first ski trip in to the Chamonix Valley later in Feb 2009.
Cheltenham got it's heaviest snow since the 80's during Feb 09. I went skiing with Dave and Jules on Lekky. Then sledging with Sarah on Shab Hill. And finally decided to saw down a tree or two - as you do. The tree felling was legendary. I was at the base, Dave had the rope, it all went a bit sideways, but worked out fine in the end!
Fitzy did his last Munro in October 2008. A great day on Beinn Eighe.
cheers, Paul