Natural History Museum

I loved visiting the Natural History Museum when I was young and it is a great place to take MiniMe at the weekend. We usually start with a walk around the dinosaur exhibit with MiniMe leading the way as he tries his best to read all the dinosaur names. This is usually the busiest section of the museum as the queue of peoples slows down as it reaches the moving Tyrannosaurus rex but MiniMe loves to... [Read more]

Back in Training

Following our grading at Vale Farm Sports Centre on the 12th December 2008 we attended a training session at Willesden Sports Centre led by Sensei Ohta. The session was open to everyone 4th Kyu and above with a grading session straight after for those grading from 3rd to 1st Kyu. We were not eligible to grade because it had only been 1 week since our last grading session but we could attend for the... [Read more]

Return to Stanton House

We first went to stay at the Stanton House Hotel in 2008 and enjoyed ourselves so much that we went to stay again but this time to coincide with a Japanese Bazaar, which was organised by the local Swindon based Japanese community. This time around we were joined by some friends who also wanted to visit the hotel so we arranged to all stay the night. The snow had cleared in London but on the drive to... [Read more]

Spring Flowers

It’s been mighty cold recently but the first signs of spring are starting to appear in the garden :)  Read More →

Christmas & New Year

The Xmas period is officially over as the ornaments were removed from our Christmas tree today and the tree packed away for another year. MiniMe was a little late putting together his Xmas list this year but he managed to get his letter written in time so that I can use the ’special’ post at work to make sure that Santa received everything in time. We went shopping on Christmas Eve for... [Read more]