Good Times Photographs

22 weeks bump pic

2009-01-12T20:56:00.000Z

Me and Alan

2008-12-23T18:11:00.000Z

And our footwear

17 weeks, 5 days pregnant with twins

2008-12-13T15:13:00.003Z

When walking around outside in this cold winter weather, wrapped up in winter coat and scarf, I can still easily pass as not pregnant. I don't have an obvious bulge. But in a thin top pressed close to my skin you can see that I am pregnant now. (I am very proud of this!)

I look at my stomach every night when I get ready for bed and I imagine the babies in there... I am in awe of nature and what's going on inside me. I just think it's such a miracle, and so special... and then I starting thinking how can we be this lucky?? How can it continue to to be ok...? And then I tell myself to stop thinking negative things. etc etc and this inner dialogue/argument starts up between pesimism and optimism..

Backgammon Live in London Tournament

2008-11-12T15:54:00.001Z

Being soundly thrashed by Zoe in the third round of the Main. :-(

1950s party

2008-10-31T09:16:00.003Z

Howard and Mike Howard and me

Friends and small person

2008-09-19T16:32:00.001+01:00

Pailly July '08

My sister at work

2008-09-19T16:31:00.000+01:00

Surrounded!

Friends & Family

2008-08-17T15:21:00.011+01:00

Family

Friends

Husband and wife

Mother and daughter

Howard and Saskia

Fun in the living room

2008-07-06T22:38:00.006+01:00

Singles boxing is hilarious!

My husband demolishes my daughter in a Wii boxing match!

Sitting down to a spot of Wii tennis

Holiday in Egypt

2008-06-21T12:20:00.014+01:00

A bunch of dates on the beach The Egyptian carpet I so wanted to buy, but didn't. Too expensive at £200? Maybe, maybe not. It has the signature of designer at the bottom left, 'Ahmed.'

On my camel for a trek with the Bedouin people...

... and some tourists!

The Sinai penninsular. A harsh landscape of grinding heat, red rocks, and dust.

Harsh can also be beautiful

Trying some Shisha at the Bedouin camp

I look great, right?

2008-06-04T18:25:00.003+01:00

Saskia took this delightful photo of me about half an hour after I'd got out of bed one morning. (I don't really smoke a pipe)

Transient sadness

2008-06-04T13:31:00.004+01:00

I'm not pregnant any more. At the three month scan we found out there was a fatal abnormality with the baby, and I had to have an induced delivery at Addenbrookes. Poor little thing was never meant for life. Why? No reason. Just nature. Sometimes we don't get to choose what happens.

Free Tibet Protest in London

2008-04-07T12:24:00.005+01:00

Howard in action Making our feelings known outside the Chinese embassy

Short Haircut - not good!

2008-04-07T12:21:00.002+01:00

We're at someone else's wedding

I'm Pregnant!

2008-03-05T11:19:00.002Z

Hoooray, at last, at age 38, new hubbie age 45, we have managed to conceive a child(ren) with a little help from the fantastic ARGC! A brother or sister (or both!) for Saskia.

A Well-Chosen Spot

2008-01-25T17:32:00.000Z

Christmas 2007

2008-01-02T15:38:00.000Z

Dad playing a tune

One half of the table about to pull the crackers

Waiting for me to stop taking photos so we can eat Christmas Dinner (vegetarian/vegan)

Mum and dad admiring Saskia's hand-made wooden coasters

Jo about to open one of her presents

Howard smiling at me!

Blast from the past - Saskia is GORGEOUS!!!!!

2007-09-28T22:21:00.000+01:00

Some Photos from the Wedding

2007-09-18T16:54:00.000+01:00

Mr. & Mrs - just!
Happy now the deed is done

Mum, dad, me, Howard, and Saskia

My "Hen Night"

2007-09-18T16:30:00.000+01:00

Gyatri's kitting me out..
Mum (Susan), my sister (Jo), me (me), my aunt (Jennifer)

Alan and his balloons

Lovely ladies: Lucie, Jennifer, Me, Jo, Sylvia

Gibbon

Saskia and Saorise playing passing the lemon

Jo twirling a blindfolded me around for some guessing games

Aaahh, the night is young and the dancing's just begun

Honeymoon in Thailand

2007-09-11T23:07:00.000+01:00

Pose carefully...
Nice hotel swimming pool

Playing Backgammon at the beach bar

It was the rainy season after all...

Some roads were slightly affected

There was a hazard risk

Sea Kayaking

Kayaking through a mangrove swamp through a small ravine

Beautiful beach; Our longtail boat; Me

Howard relaxing reading, 'The Omnivore's Dilema'

Our own private beach at the hotel

Getting a fresh drink on the jungle trek - warm coconut milk...

The huge Buddha tree

Four lovely ladies from the staff (Curly from maintenance, front desk manager, spa manager, housekeeping) "Loomers" the lot of them!

We were lucky enough to be invited to the staff party. A colourful bunch

Stuck up a mangrove swamp without a paddle

Indian Dinner Dance July 2007

2007-07-22T21:47:00.000+01:00

Me and Alan

On the dance floor

My mum & Alan (with Howard and Nancy)

Howard doing his stuff!

Beautiful Saskia

2007-06-23T22:48:00.000+01:00

And Then We Went To See Muse At Wembley

2007-06-20T22:33:00.001+01:00

Me and a bloke Stage looks excellent at night

George Michael at Wembley Stadium

2007-06-12T16:57:00.000+01:00

Mike and me in the audience It was a large audience - 72,000 people... because we went to see George Michael - the first ever concert since Wembley stadium was re-built. Hooray for us! We were far away and George was the size of my little fingernail. This is the best I could do with the zoom lense, which seemed to emphasise every little quake in my hand, and made me feel like I was mad. I held the camera as still as I could, both elbows resting on my knees, foot up on the seat in front, and took many shots - almsot all of them were blurred due to my exccessive shaking. It was like I was sitting on a bus. My pulse was annoyingly firm that evening.

A bad day today

2007-06-07T22:03:00.001+01:00

Sometimes I get in a bad mood. Today was because I spent ages trying to get a fly to go out of the house - propping the door open with a bottle of red wine, flapping at the fly with a tea towel, closing curtains and doors to darken the place. When it finally flew out I was so elated I accidentially knocked over the open bottle of red wine, which spewed its contents over the floor, and at that exact momemnt another fly flew in.

Misc Beautiful!

2007-06-06T22:41:00.000+01:00

Bluebells near where we live.

Saskia playing the guitar in the back garden

Wit as seen through the window. We stare in rapt fascination at one another.

Weapons of Mass Destruction

2007-06-06T22:30:00.000+01:00

Me and some naval defense weapons

Wit, who has killed mice, voles, shrews, rabbits, birds, and other lovely creatures.

Howard presenting 'Little Boy', a nuclear bomb

Southened Shakedown

2007-04-11T10:05:00.000+01:00

Motorbiking out from the Ace Cafe in London, to Southend on Sea

I'm in there somewhere!

Sexy ladies

A VERY different bike!

A Right Bunch of Knee Geeks + Nola's Wine

2007-03-07T22:35:00.000Z

The famous names from KneeGeeks internet forum meet up in a pub near where we live. Every one of us has had an anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction operation - but I'm the only one whose surgeon botched the job :-(

Show us your knees!!

The Core Griffiths Family, March 2007

2007-03-05T21:26:00.000Z

We have crowned my dad as head of our family! (right to left: mum (the true boss), Jo (the actual boss), dad (no-one's boss), and me (boss of the bosses)

Winter Fun Outside Our House

2007-02-09T16:32:00.000Z

One day in February it just totally snowed. Saskia was home from Brockwood and built a fabulous snowman. Figs for eyes, a spring onion for a mouth, and carrots for a nose. Saskia is wearing her pyjama top. As you do.

Remembering what snow is..

The view of our little house in the snow from the back

If you enlarge this picture you will see what Wit is staring at:

Mexico Pics

2007-01-09T12:00:00.000Z

Saskia getting her hair platted on the beach Welcom to Punta Allen - little did we know of the sickness waiting for us there...Hello to a lovely creature
Our prison cell
Before the sickness struck
Three cold, wet ladies having fun. Yes, we are. Bar on the beach

Mexico - Christmas Day on the Beach, Exploring ruins, and Snorkelling in an Underground River (notice the gruesome skull carvings)

2007-01-09T11:38:00.000Z

My sister is actually an India girl. My daughter is from Iceland. My fiancee is so shy to show where he's from (land of fatties) Gorgeous. Beautiful. Idylic. Something out of a fantasy. The beach is also quite nice. Trees growing out of ancient steps. Old Mayan ruins tucked away in the jungle in the interior of the Yucatan peninsula. There were no other tourists here.
Just trying it out for a moment. Always wondered.
Shulls carved into the wall for gruesome reminders of past activities.
That was a bloody FREEZING cenote - and underwater lake and river where we snorkelled. The water was so fresh and clear, but so, so cold. It made you want to go to the loo. Desperately.

Lovely Twos

2006-11-22T10:37:00.000Z

Half Term Fun

2006-10-26T11:40:00.000+01:00

We Demonstrate! (Part of the Mark Thomas mass lone demonstration campaign)

2006-10-26T11:19:00.000+01:00

Howard and I went to jazz evening last night. Here are the resulting pics.

2006-10-16T15:57:00.000+01:00

Krishnamurti Parents and Children's Gathering in Saanen, Switzerland - where I attained Sainthood (6th Photo)

2006-08-10T16:54:00.000+01:00

The Miraculous Return of Wit + Unexpected Additions!!

2006-07-23T21:24:00.000+01:00

Interesting place to sit and contemplate - must try this

2006-07-05T17:52:00.000+01:00

Progress is being made - scars fading

2006-06-23T16:12:00.000+01:00

Seventeen Days Post Op - Looking Good!

2006-06-02T15:59:00.000+01:00

Underneath the Dressings - Ugh So Much Metal!

2006-05-23T23:46:00.000+01:00

Back Together Again - Aaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh!! :-D

2006-05-22T17:00:00.000+01:00

Seriously Painful Ouch

2006-05-22T16:37:00.000+01:00

What a Beauty

2006-05-22T16:17:00.000+01:00

I finally got Saskia a new bike

2006-05-11T14:14:00.000+01:00

Queen Convention 2006, North Wales

2006-05-11T13:53:00.000+01:00

Freddie Mercury - we still love you!

2006-05-11T12:39:00.000+01:00

Outside the National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London

2006-05-03T22:48:00.000+01:00

Taking our Portraits at the National Gallery, London ;-)

2006-05-02T19:15:00.000+01:00

My Glamorous Mother's Sixtieth Birthday Meal

2006-04-26T22:26:00.000+01:00

Grils Night In

2006-04-23T10:53:00.000+01:00

Nancy speaks a question to the magic necklace thing

2006-04-23T01:06:00.000+01:00

Anyone bring their bike? (First ride out of the season from Ace Cafe to Southend-On-sea)

2006-04-21T09:56:00.000+01:00

Mother and Daughter!

2006-04-17T21:01:00.000+01:00

More of Madrid

2006-04-17T19:54:00.000+01:00

Madrid 2006 Visiting Susana & Mandy

2006-04-17T10:18:00.000+01:00

Friends on the Trampoline

2006-03-31T17:25:00.000+01:00

Disembodied Foot?

2006-03-31T17:20:00.000+01:00

Leave Me Alone - I Just Woke Up

2006-03-09T21:50:00.000Z

There She Is

2006-03-09T21:41:00.000Z

I have an idea - lets smash up a bed!

2006-02-17T11:49:00.000Z

How dare I? How DARE I?

2006-02-05T21:57:00.000Z

It wasn't a dream

2006-01-26T15:18:00.000Z

There's a weird creature in my office!!

2006-01-26T15:09:00.000Z

In Switzerland Jan 2006 - Visiting Ariel

2006-01-23T18:08:00.000Z

I must keep my eyes open

2005-12-24T12:39:00.000Z

Right - on your backs and start cycling!!

2005-11-11T20:41:00.000Z

Photos of me very, very happy becasue I'm WARM under the SUN and in WATER!

2005-10-20T18:54:00.000+01:00

Foxy Little Minx!!!!! - ahem... that's me. And Nancy's parting. And Gyatri's upper right arm.

2005-10-04T18:08:00.000+01:00

Freddie Mercury - we love you!!

2005-10-04T18:04:00.000+01:00

Saskia can dance so well in her lovely pink top

2005-10-04T18:00:00.000+01:00

One is not amused

2005-10-04T17:54:00.000+01:00

Madonna and backgammon - fantastic! But if we could get rid of the scary, weird dog it would be perfect

2005-10-04T17:51:00.000+01:00

Don't get me on a bad day... Some things can seriously PEEVE me

2005-09-21T18:33:00.000+01:00

Weird hysterical people

2005-09-04T17:31:00.000+01:00

Howard catching his first swarm

2005-09-04T16:56:00.000+01:00

We can fly!

2005-09-04T16:50:00.000+01:00

Sicily 2005

2005-09-04T12:35:00.000+01:00

Italy August 2005

2005-09-04T12:26:00.000+01:00

Switzerland August 2005

2005-09-04T12:23:00.000+01:00

Fancy Dress, London June 2005

2005-09-03T21:42:00.000+01:00

Family Photos

2005-09-03T21:37:00.000+01:00

Hippy party July 2005

2005-09-03T21:02:00.000+01:00

Old Friends

2005-09-03T20:52:00.000+01:00

My business address

2005-09-03T20:39:00.000+01:00

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