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Thursday, 20 March 2008 |
 Aidan and me
All taken using my Apple MacBook Pro via Photo Booth.
Aidan and Joshua with me.
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Sunday, 16 March 2008 |
Met up with a couple of old school friends from my days at the Avenue Comprehensive (the site is now a Tesco Extra) in Newton Aycliffe. Darren I had seen every so often over the years anyway but Stefan Jose I hadn't seen since I left that provincial backwater in 1984, nearly 24 years on. Daft thing is, Stefan has been here in Bournemouth since '97, the year after we came down ourselves.
Balding heads and aching joints - we're all getting on! All that was missing was Scott Walker and it would have been a full house.
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Tuesday, 04 March 2008 |
So soon after the Shek family reunion it was sad to hear that Uncle Chan, married to the eldest Shek sister, has just passed away.
I will be flying up to the North East this weekend to attend the funeral on Monday.
As a child, not that I was ever involved with the extended family to any great level (I was pretty rubbish at all that), I always remember the both of them together as being the elder statespeople of the group, quietly dignified at all times and well respected.
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Monday, 03 March 2008 |
 A friend via work, Tim Hughes, has published a book entitled Wales's Best One Hundred Churches. Some information is provided below.
Synopsis
The churches of Wales are one of Britain's great
unheralded treasures, yet for many years there has been no book devoted
to them and they await the kind of complete coverage given to churches
elsewhere in Britain. Astonishingly, this is the first opportunity for
a book on the subject to show them at their best in colour as well as
words.
The archetypal Welsh church is not in town or village, enhanced
by generations of patronage: it is the isolated, simple, evocative
walls-with-roof, in a landscape often spiritually charged. The Welsh
churches tell us about medieval times, and the Age of Saints that came
before and, amazingly of the pagan Celtic times before that, which they
were meant to erase.
Illustrated in colour, "One Hundred Welsh
Churches" encompasses a millennium of churches around Wales, from tiny
St Govan's tucked in its cliff-face, through ruined Llanthony to the
magnificence of the cathedrals at Llandaff and St David's. It is an
invaluable repository of history, art and architecture, spirituality
and people's lives which will appeal to the historian and the tourist,
communicants and those without a god.
The book is also avalable in paperback version.
You can see more information on the following page: Wales' Best 100 Churches
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Monday, 03 March 2008 |
 Acabanes in Thenac
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Sunday, 17 February 2008 |
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Thursday, 07 February 2008 |
 Happy New Year, Chinese New Year that is.
It is now the Year of the Rat. The first in the sequence of 12.
Being the first sign of the Chinese zodiacs, rats are leaders, pioneers
and conquerors. They are charming, passionate, charismatic, practical
and hardworking. Rat people are endowed with great leadership skills
and are the most highly organized, meticulous, and systematic of the
twelve signs. Intelligent and cunning at the same time, rats are highly
ambitious and strong-willed people who are keen and unapologetic
promoters of their own agendas, which often include money and power.
They are energetic and versatile and can usually find their way around
obstacles, and adapt to various environments easily. A rat's natural
charm and sharp demeanor make it an appealing friend for almost anyone,
but rats are usually highly exclusive and selective when choosing
friends and so often have only a few very close friends whom they trust.
Are you a nice rat or a dirty rat?
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Wednesday, 06 February 2008 |
 Shek Family Reunion
Click for Gordon's photos from the event.
Ha, will need some help now putting the correct names to the photos so I don't offend anyone with my total lack of knowledge of who is who. Actually it was good to meet up and see everyone together, but also to leave all the oldies at their own house party (of course I do not count myself as one of them) and head off to another party of our own for a couple of games on the Nintendo Wii.
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Wednesday, 06 February 2008 |
Me and Angela were up North for a big family reunion on Monday. It was for my mother's side of the family and al the Shek sisters and brother were there.
We will get some photos put up onto the Shek Gallery site in due course. Having the photos done with each sibling and their children actually made more sense of who is who.
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Friday, 18 January 2008 |
 Sandbanks, Poole
Ha, look at it now, all grey and dull. Typical.
Roll on the summer.
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Monday, 31 December 2007 |
 Here's wishing everyone a great night tonight and see you all in 2008!
Bring on the next new year in February. Chinese New Year that is. Happy Mahogany.
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