Our Life Down Under

Edel arrived last night to much excitement. Breda-Ann nearly knocked her over at the airport as she appeared through the gate.

She has come with her friend Joanna from France and they seem to be dealing with the jet-lag pretty well.

They have gone out for a drink tonight and left us old folks at home. I expect a few sore heads tomorrow.

Ella is very excited to have her Auntie Dee here, so excited in-fact that she took about 5 steps today all by herself! More news and maybe a video about that tomorrow.

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Val sent me an email this morning with some pictures of Ella. You can really see her tooth coming through now. You can see the pictures at the usual place here.

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For those of you that don’t know, Val’s family suffered a huge tragedy on December the 9th. Noreen, Val’s sister was killed in a car crash in Galway.

I won’t say too much about it here, now, but thought some people might wonder why the website hasn’t been updated for a while.

I’m now back from Ireland, while Val and Ella will stay for a few more weeks.

We’ll get back to weekly updates of the website soon.

Edit this appeared in The Mayo News

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My Grandfather, much loved and missed, has been included in a historical website for the Indian Navy, which he served in during the war.

My Mum and I were contacted by the websites maintainer, Rakesh Koshy, after he saw pictures of Grandpa on our Flickr site. Mum worked with him on some of the details included in the Bio, and scanned the pictures you’ll see.

It’s a nice record of his service and I’d love you to go over and have a look. You can find it here.

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