Tuesday, 13 January 2009

Quarry Bank Mill, Jan 01, 2009

We went to Quarry Bank Mill in the frost for a walk on new year's day. Sam enjoyed it, well, he slept. Jo and I enjoyed it, especially the coffee cake in the cafe.





Xmas rolling

Sam's first Christmas... in the company of the grandparents. He thoroughly enjoys his door bouncer, as you might be able to tell.


















































Wednesday, 17 December 2008

ynys mon

After Kate's wedding to Nick, and before, we stayed with mam in Rhyl. Here's mam and Geraint with Sam. Below the shot of the three of us, Jo can be seen walking and waving across the interior of Beaumaris Castle. Then there's Jo and Sam exchanging smiles. And finally Sam preparing to go to sleep during Kate's wedding ceremony and snore...



Thursday, 27 November 2008

spoonfeeding sam

From the top...

after a bath
during a bath
doing the tango with dad
having his first mouthful of baby-rice from mam (most went down the bib)
mam on the bottle (she won't let me put any boob-feeding ones up here)
flat out...







Tuesday, 7 October 2008

Sunday the fifth

Over to Cardiff to nose around Lowri's house. Some pics of Harri the hair...


Saturday the fourth

We went to Birdlip to the Royal George http://www.theroyalgeorge-hotel.com/ for Pama Bach's birthday meal. This is the hotel where Pama Mawr took her 67 years ago for their first date.
Everybody turned up: Lowri with her boys, Chris and Harri; Catrin with Mark; Dad and Ronnie were there from the night before. It was the first time Sam had met Harri and, to be honest, they didn't make a great impression on one another. Everyone else was very fond of the new arrivals. I managed to get a photograph of four generations of Bruces, from Sam up to Pama Mawr - see below.
Some of the photographs were taken in a scrum similar to that seen outside a nightclub as Girls Aloud leave, so eyes are often looking towards the wrong lens.












Friday the third

We went to Hardwicke for Pama Bach's (my grandmother's) 97th birthday celebration and travelled the day before to make sure we arrived safely, which we did. Sam was pleased to meet his great-grandparents and great aunt and their friends.
These images, and all the others from this weekend, are high-res so might take a while to download, but will give you a good print if you're inclined. Katharine: I'm going to get some nice prints done to send down to the gps and yourself, but I'm not stopping you printing them off here in the meantime!