I have to confess to not really being in the mood for my usual jovial glance back at the week just gone. We’ve had a tough one, starting literally with the week, when Louise’s Mum called us early on Monday morning to say “she wasn’t feeling very well”. I’m not going to go into loads [...]
Final preparations continue for the new arrival. This week we erected Oli’s crate, and sacrificed half of the kitchen to accommodate it. We are all quite excited about our new family member, mixed, certainly in my case, with a fair bit of trepidation. For the girls of course all they can see are the good, [...]
It happens every year. Right around now, eight weeks out from our holiday, things conspire to remind me that we are actually going. Having booked stuff months ago, written up a plan of sorts, and other than the daily subliminal knowledge of the trip getting me through every stinking day at work, it is filed [...]
With a new trip booked, we are all, to varying degrees, (me more than most I admit) thinking about another journey to our favourite state, Florida. Even the girls, who can be ambivalent to the (what seems to be an) annual event, have been chatting about it, and last Sunday night, Rebecca asked if we [...]
It has been another quiet, uneventful week in the World of Williams. I am of course being sarcastic, as the major event was a worrying turn of events for my Dad. He went into hospital on Wednesday for a routine operation, which involved a bit of keyhole, his liver and some graphic detail best skipped [...]
It’s been a bit of a week all things considered. It seems a little trite and inconsequential for me to witter on about the unimportant events in my life, with the catastrophic events in Japan and beyond this week. It is something I can’t really get my head around, and so I can only express [...]
To the chaps who look after the servers and stuff that support the Kayak website I apologise. I fear I have given your infrastructure a bit of a beating this week, not only from the laptop, but also from your excellent iPhone app. I can report that all is functioning correctly, apart from one element. [...]
It is a constant inconvenience that I live on the wrong continent. Yep, you guessed it, the annual addiction has kicked in, and both Louise and I have reached the “Goddam it, we need a holiday” point simultaneously. I have therefore spent my week using a Kayak, and I don’t mean one of these. It [...]
Despite a very tiring day on Saturday, we embraced the theme park commando ethos, and Adam made a point of setting his iPhone alarm for 8.00am. However, with the whole clocks going back thing, this all went wrong, as Adam manually adjusted his phone before going to sleep, only to find the iPhone then adjusted [...]
Adam’s alarm woke us around 7am, so we had a plentiful five or six hours sleep, which was splendid. We showered (separately), and made our way to the restaurant for breakfast. Things were pretty quiet at this time of day, and we had “kids in a sweetie shop” expressions as we cast our eyes over [...]
So my trip to DLRP is done, and so I thought it only right and proper to tell you all about it. This trip really was sponsored by the DisneyBrit Podcast. Go on click the link! I’m going to break this report up into three sections, each representing a day of the trip, so this [...]
I thought I had to do a special midweek post to mark a landmark event. Anyone who knows me will realise that my life is a constant stream of injustice, bad luck and persecution. What do you mean I am a drama queen? What do you mean I have a lovely family, habitable house, enough [...]
I need a holiday. Really, I am exhausted. This isn’t helped in any way by our house going up for sale, so as well as having to prepare for the important stuff, such as our trip, but I’m also having to cosmetically enhance the house to fool some idiot into thinking we’ve done loads of [...]
Before I start, can I just point out, more for my benefit than anyone else, that it is 25 days until we go to Florida! This is not a gloat, well not solely a gloat, but more of a wake up to me that this thing is close now. The whole new job thing has [...]
For those too young to understand the reference in the title, your life is poorer for not having embraced the poodle permed, leather trousered, white teethed Lothario that was the lead singer of Europe, Joey Tempest. The title of course refers to their finest hour, well three and a half minutes anyway. The countdown reference [...]
The time is drawing close when I need to make my annual trip through the absolute maze that is, buying theme park tickets for our Florida trip. The sheer enormity of the options available are enough to scare anyone, even someone who has been through this as often as I. The simple stuff is usually [...]
I have been incredibly lucky. Don’t get me wrong, at times I have also been incredibly unlucky, but the luck I refer to being good is that since 1999 I have been able to go on holiday to my favourite place more or less every year. So in some respects, each year follows a similar [...]
