Archive for the 'Noteworthy' Category

As you will no doubt know from my previous post - Our Wedding: The Big Day - Claire and I got married at The New Mill restaurant and you may be wondering “Why get married at a restaurant?”.
Well, I hope to explain our reasons here.
First off, neither of us is particularly religious, so a church [...]

Claire and I have now been married for 11 days, and whilst we don’t have our official photos yet, I thought I’d detail our big day for those that couldn’t attend.
This is actually the first of a series of posts that I’ll post over the next few days as there’s so much to write about [...]

This is just a quick post to let all those that couldn’t attend out wedding know all went brilliantly well. Everything fell into place and we had a fantastic day with no problems at all.
For those who did attend: thank-you very much for joining us and for your generosity. If you’ve got [...]

I’m happy to announce, exactly one year after I proposed to Claire, we have decided on a venue and set a date to get married.
We’ll be getting married on 4 July 2008 at a gorgeous little venue in Hampshire. I don’t want to give away too many details as it’ll spoil the surprise for everyone [...]

Congratulations Fiona and Alan on the birth of your little girl.

(More pics are coming soon.)

May she bring you years of joy and happiness.
Elizabeth was born at about 22:15pm last night, 19 July 2007, and weighed in at 6 pounds 12 ounces (approx 3kg).
Mummy and baby are both doing well and Claire is ecstatic to be [...]

A while back I mentioned I ordered a new car, well it arrived yesterday and I was like a child on Christmas morning, except without all the sweeties and wrapping paper.
As you may know, I’m a bit of a fan of Volkswagen, and chose to stick with VW for this car. I’ve always liked the [...]

I’m a big fan of the Madam & Eve and Zapiro comics and do most of my regular web reading using feeds in Google Reader (if you don’t have a feed, chances are I don’t pop round very often). Anyway, it wasn’t long until I discovered that there wasn’t a reliable M&E feed and [...]

Rest in peace my little sis. You’re in a much happier place now.

On 5 September 2006 at approximately 17:05, at the view point in the Wild Nature Reserve, further up the hill from God’s Window, just outside Graskop, Mpumalanga, South Africa, approximately 1829m above sea level, over looking the lowveld forests and the Kruger National Park in the distance, I proposed to Claire and she accepted.
This weekend [...]

Yesterday, I had the once in a life time opportunity to attend an event held for one of the greatest contributors to peace in the world; Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
The event was held to confer the title of Honorary Fellow in conjunction with the introduction of the Archbishop Desmon Tutu/Henley Management College Scholarship Programme for Ethical [...]