Saturday 1th May 2007 As I knew it was going to be a busy day on the motorways due to the football traffic for Wembley, and plus the fact there were 4 ships in Southampton today, I thought I had better have an early start to make sure I didn’t miss any of my Arcadia [...]

Monday 9th October 2006 I woke up at some ungodly hour that seems like days ago at the moment.  It was still dark whatever time it was?  I went down stairs and straight to my office to check out the webcams.  Yippee was just coming up Southampton water and by the time I had made [...]

Tuesday 27th December 2005. Wow, woke up this morning to a fine sprinkling of snow. Am I the only one that’s excited because nobody else is up and the mini coach should be here at 9.30am. Decide to check on Lizy at 8.15am and she’s casually lying in bed watching TV! At 9.15am im still [...]

Sunday 27th November 2005 The day has arrived and we have a surprise to spring. Luke comes downstairs in his new football strip hoping to have a game later but we have other ideas. It doesn’t quite sink in when we tell him he can play football if he likes but we are going on [...]

Friday 21st October 2005 – Operation Secret Squirrel Day! Well 5 days ago I spotted a bargain for a cruise, and there’s no way you can dangle a carrot like that in front of me and me not take it.  The cruise just happened to be the same Artemis cruise that had been booked months [...]