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The Juniors sat down with few expectations to watch “Sky High”… and were not disappointed. Meanwhile the Seniors, on a higher cultural level altogether, went to the Questors production of Dickens’ “Great Expectations”… and were not disappointed either.

Well we were awash with sparklers and small children, the former thanks to John & Betsy who bought out the local shop’s entire supply, the latter thanks to all the families who came and brought their fireworks, their many children and their loads of lovely food.

While the Juniors sampled the great outdoors, hunting pheasants and building campfires in the Ashdown Forest, the Seniors opted for the great indoors, donning skates and bearing hockey sticks. Christian’s steadiness and Vinny’s speed compensated for Francis’ inexperience and Tim’s inability so the scores evened out in the end.

The Juniors learnt about the principles of aerodynamics (well, how to throw paper planes anyhow) and then found a use for excess hot air by using it to propel a balloon — one we’d prepared earlier — up into the sky and out onto the road. Meanwhile the seniors, more serious-minded of course, were learning […]

Quite a busy day as the Juniors, led by Dan & Ed K headed up town to see what goodness the Mayor of London had to offer as part of the Thames Festival. They came back in time for the other parents of the Juniors to socialise a little over cheese & wine and to […]

Well, an intrepid few of us headed out towards the open air Globe Theatre on the South Bank to see a production of Shakespeare’s A Merchant of Venice. Walking to Ealing Broadway we got drenched. Walking from St Paul’s across the river we got drenched. We were braced for a wet afternoon, but in fact […]

Well, our garden paid host to nearly 100 people last Saturday as familiar faces and their friends turned out for our barbecue. As usual, people were very generous with what they brought and we’ll be eating chicken legs in barbecue sauce for a week now. The weather was sultry but decided not to rain so […]

After a mass turnout, a total of three teams ended up dashing around London’s landmarks, taking photos of themselves in each spot to prove they’d been there. The “Vaughan” team — Francis, Pierce and Beau under Vini-the-drill-sergeant made it round entirely on foot and mostly running (stopping only for a few brief purchases in Cyber […]

A Grand Planning Session brought many ideas (and some useful ones) from the combined brainpower of the Seniors and Dermot. Only Vinny F & James McC were culturally inclined enough to attend the Ealing Youth Orchestra concert with Dan… and even then, maybe Sibelius wasn’t quite what they were expecting!

After football for the seniors, helped along by the sparkling talents of the Freely & Vilona family, the seniors settled down to reproduce Monty Python’s “Four Yorkshiremen” sketch. On Film. For posterity.