Wow that's huge!!

Andy went to France last week on a fishing trip. There was 14 of them all together. After a long drive and lots of hours travelling they finally got there Friday afternoon (they left Thursday evening).

Andy's aim was to catch the biggest fish he'd ever caught and on the Tuesday at 8am he succeeded!!

Here's a pic of his 31lb 6oz mirror carp!!

Getting set for the charity concert!

We have our first production meeting tomorrow night for the Christopher's Fund charity concert in November.

I've already had people asking for tickets so I need to get them sorted soon!

This year, unlike previous years, we are going to have dancers too!

We've raised so much money each year by having the concert, I really hope this year is just as successful.

Sarah x

Front page news!!

Wow! I've not actually seen it myself yet, but had this article emailed to me and apparently it was on the front page of one of the local papers!! It should be in another tomorrow too!!

That will make four papers that Katherine has appeared in for winning through to the regional finals!!

Isobel has started school!

I've not blogged much over the summer. It's just been so busy here. I seem to be only blogging when there's some specific news. I didn't even blog about our wonderful holiday or our weekend at the Greenbelt festival!

Anyway Isobel started school yesterday afternoon and she's been this afternoon too and she's loved it. It's come round so quickly!

She looked so grown up in her uniform. It really took me back to when the others started and it's really brought it home too how Christopher never made it there, he was really looking forward to going to school :o(

Here are a couple of pics.

Sarah x

Well done Katherine!

Katherine got her GCSE results today and she did really well! She got an A in Physics!! Six B's, three C's and one D.

She needed 5 C's or above to get into sixth form college so she's easily achieved that.
The D was for textiles which she's not enjoyed from the start so she expected not to do as well in that although she's done better than she expected.

As a treat for doing so well I payed for her to have her nails shaped and polished and now she has lovely pink nails with a little flower on one finger on each hand.
Sarah x

Yay for Katherine!!

Yesterday I went on the train with Katherine to Wolverhampton to an audition for Idol Uk 2008, it's similar to the X Factor but it includes dancers as well as singers.

Katherine sang in the under 18's solo category, she sang 'there are worse things' which is a song from Grease in front of 5 judges and............ they really liked her!!

She's through to the regional final in October which is a live show!!!

I'm so excited for her!

If she wins in the regional final she will progress to the national final which is in November.

If anyone wants to come to support her in the regional final (the audience gets to vote to the more support the better), please let me know as I have 25 tickets to sell!!
Sarah x

New new hours!

I went into work today and my Manager said she had made a mistake and couldn't offer me the hours on Thursday that she first thought. After some shuffling about we've agreed for me to work Friday 10am-1.30pm. It's not ideal as Andy finishes work at 12pm on a Friday and it would have been nice to have had some time together but hopefully we can review them and see how it goes.

Sarah x