Her first pair

Mrs Limey and I have been converts to Timberland boots ever since our first winter in Chicago...

So like the fashion victims we are - Mini Limey now has her own little pair.

Now don't tell me that these are not cute.

Why am I surprised

I have always known that us men are easily manipulated by the fairer sex.

However I was not quite prepared for it to work so effectively from Mini Limey. She is very very keen on taking the car through the automated car wash.

So when she today began to suggest that the car was looking a 'little bit grubby' I was surprised that she had noticed. It was her follow up that as the car was grubby it should go through "bubbles" that knocked me sideways.

So although still less than 3 years old, she can construct scenarios to try and ensure I do as she wants... Impressive - quite; scary - definitely.

On a seperate unrelated note the king of Candy Mike & Ike's are finally being sold here in the UK. When we stumbled upon them in a local shop I had to be physically restrained from doing a little jig on the spot. My US based friends will be relieved to learn that future visits to The Limeys will only require the usual pharmaceutical orders from now on.....

Recent news

Well we have returned and recovered from our week in Spain.

We stayed in a rented villa near to Alicante in a town called Algorfa. Algorfa is about 15 miles from the coast and up in the foothills of the surrounding mountains. Its very barren, with lots of bare rock and earth, but at the same time stunning. Oh and I almost forgot to mention the Orange, Lemon and Lime groves.

The weather was very good to us with daytime temperatures at a steady 30 degrees (89 F) with clear sky's and long warm evenings. The pleasure of sitting outside watching the sun go down behind the mountains cannot be overstated.

Back in the UK we are all back to work, and getting on with saving for our next trip.

I'm working for a Japanese / German computer giant, assigned to a retail banking account supporting the Windows 2003 roll out for the server infrastructure.

Mini Limey is fast approaching her third birthday, and seems like she has swallowed the dictionary. The inevitable WHY questions can only be a few days away..... Mini is also disappointed that back home we don't have a swimming pool 20 feet from our place of residence.

Try clicking through to my FLICKR pictures to see all about our holiday in monotonous detail... Especially the sunsets. Its just possible that I got slightly carried away with them.