Best New Year Ever!

It's Christmas

The contents of our wonderful stocking....courtesy of L Forbes and all of our friends and family. Thank you everyone

China

Yangshou

BBQ'd Pig's faces anyone? . . . no?

Warrior

Giraffe in Beijing

The Mrs, walking the Great Wall

Mao

Centre For the Performing Arts
(Which strangely, when you are far away from it, looks MASSIVE and then gets smaller the nearer you get)

A show off, Shanghai

.............and we are back

So some time has passed, more roads trodden, amazing times (some bad) and we have arrived in our wonderful home from home in Goa, for Christmas. Here is a little of what we have been up to.......firstly Japan.

Filth

Pants

3 Birds

Mmmeow

Dog - Kyoto

Vietnam

. . . sorry this has taken so long . . .

Bicycle Barbie, Hanoi

Someone who looks as if he could be, but actually isn't, a pilot, Da Lat

Fried crickets, delicious

Greg, a man unable to edit any of the tiny details from his already quite long stories, jumping from the boat in Halong Bay

A wardrobe.

Rice Paddies, Sapa

Local delicacies

Uncle Ho's final resting place

Train passenger sat opposite on the way to Nha Trang

Photos of Tommy #4

Tommy in mirror: Vietnam


Tommy/dragon: Hue, Vietnam


Tommy with admirer: Vietnam

Photos of Karen #15

Karen mid-squat, New Zealand

Karen just out of a skate tunnel, Quito

Dorothy Lowe: A Photographic Celebration

#2 Dorothy, arms flung out, celebrates having successfully terrified local wildlife.

Family Time in Perth #2: Black & White Stuff

Dot, beneath horns + David in Background

Olivia, helmeted & wearing a 50% bulldog face.

Dot, trying to look excited about us going tubing

Family Corker

Walk on the beach (boring caption, sorry)

Graham Lowe

Mary

Photos of Tommy #3

Tommy; Museum of Art, Hong Kong


Tommy; Perth, Australia


Tommy; 'The Farm', Australia

Dorothy Lowe: A Photographic Celebration

#1: Dorothy, arms flung out, runs across the beach intending to terrify local wildlife.

Photos of Karen #14

Karen eating an apple, New Zealand

Karen trying on my new spectacles, Miami

Family Time in Perth #1: An Introduction to the Australian Relatives

Uncle David is married to . . .

. . . Auntie Mary, who's the grandmother of . . .

. . . Boston, who's the son of . . .

. . . Olivia and . . .

. . . AN-THON-Y!

Please try to remember their names because you might be sat next to them at the wedding.

Sydney, Australia

Our glamourous host; Sophie Johnston. (Widgeon)

James Boyes; a grumpy and effective whale deterrent from "The North"

Keisha

 A portrait of Keisha done by a local artist.

On a visit here, Sophie became quite abusive to a member of staff and was criticized for having an attitude problem.

Naomi Clements, pre-swing carousel

Bondi

One diamond encrusted turtle ring. Bought but never worn.

The rotting carcass of a flying fox kindly held up by Sophie Johnston. 

(James Boyes declined)