The October boys

Yeah, happy birthday Nic, and to you for a couple of weeks ago too Steve. Glad we could meet up for that pub lunch. Sorry there's nothing like that planned for you, Nic but hopefully we'll be seeing you all next year.

While I'm on the brotherly love thing, I love your recent pics Julian. I swear you are getting better and better at this painting lark. And hi there Cath. Hope all is well and sorry we missed you when you were over the other weekend but we were all tied up with Stan's 90th celebrations. Love to the families all.

Back at Forty Green we have got ourselves a couple of cats now and are enjoying their company over a well earned rest at half term. Between times we are zipping about here and there trying to locate a car to buy as we are borrowing a friend's at the minute. Amy liked the car we looked at today but she doesn't have the staying power...she wants to buy everything we see!

Jan and the older girls are doing a production of Godspell this week in Thame's St Mary's, and in the day/night time those same older girls are sleeping rough in a make shift shack for a charity aid project called Slum Survivor. There are twenty four kids sleeping on Chinnor's 'White's Field' playground next to the windmill and Mill Lane School. They constructed a slum made out of wooden doors, cardboard, pallets, carpet offcuts and the like and are on a diet of rice and lentil dahl for the next five days. The weather is looking a little chilly for the time of year so we are hoping nobody gets pneumonia. They are only allowed to use the clothes they arrive in and may take a sleeping bag too...but it is not much protection against what the North wind seems to have in store.

eeeyyuusssshh! (shivers into hole in the ground)