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Easter is late this year, so that meant Lent didn't start until March. On Shrove Tuesday there was a pancake party at Chesham Methodist Church, with the minister, John, doing some of the cooking (and pancake tossing) himself.

Bridget and the boys went along whilst Malcolm went off to Dublin for a work-related meeting (and sampled one or two Guinnesses on the way - see the Flickr log).

In celebration of her 40th year, Bridget has decided to walk along the length of the Thames Path, meeting up with friends new and old along the way. The full account of the walk is related in a special part of this web site.

On a beautiful and bright Saturday in March, Bridget started her quest at the Thames Barrier, getting to Tower Bridge to end this first stage. Along the way there was much to see, including what used to be the Millennium Dome, now called "TheO2". She shared this part of the walk with old friend Liz and her husband Stuart.
Talking of old friends..... Paul, otherwise known as Gringo, celebrated his 50th this year at a surprise party organised by his wife Karen and other friends and family. The party was held just outside Ipswich, so we dropped the boys off at Grandma and Grandad L's, and had a great evening meeting up with the "Ipswich crowd". Nearly all the gang were there, the only ones missing were Kevin and Rosemary, as Kevin was in some far-flung place on business (China I think).
James was quite taken by a Gary Larson cartoon in one of our books that depicts a "Jurassic car park". So creative as ever he decided to create one in the garden using some of the toy cars that live outside and just a few of his increasing collection of plastic dinosaurs. James says "I used the allosaurus, diplodocus, a raptor and stegosaurus because they are all jurassic. I didn't use triceratops (my favourite) or t-rex as they are (of course) from the cretaceous period".
Having met up with friend Liz (and her husband Stuart) on the Thames walk after a gap of 11 years, Bridget invited them to meet us at the Chiltern Open Air Museum where there was a crafts weekend. After a great afternoon where we watched ferrets, birds of prey, glass blowing and corracle making, Liz and Stuart came back for dinner and were pressed into reading the boys bedtime stories.