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Daddy visit
The little man came down to the grassy area outside my work, so Philip and I popped downstairs for a coffee and to hang with the G monster for a few minutes. These photos are a bit of a combo effort - Philip (who usually takes photos of weddings) took them on my camera, and I did the computer tweaking at home after work: .
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Happy Birthday Uncle / Godfather Ross!
Can you believe that this photo is 17 years old?! Happy birthday Ross! Much love from the Far East, and in particular much dribbly (and slightly grumpy, if we're being honest this morning) love from your godson. .
Pink bowties and waistcoats with yellow smiley face buttons are going to come back in style. I just know it.
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Tell me if you're sick of the holiday photos
Stark raving mad dude jumping off a structure at the Galle Fort (we gave him about US$10 to get this photo). He came over and looked at the LCD preview after I took the photo and said "I'm like a bird!"
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George exchanging flowers with Wijey (one of the villa staff in Galle). The flowers were a gorgeous pink, but I struggled to get the colours right when I was editing this - so I went black and white. I'll try again over the weekend. The photo might look a little soft - it wasn't anything I did to the photo... unfortunately the lens was coated in condensation (the camera had been sitting in an air conditioned room and it was 38 degrees Celsius outside)
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Gorgeous little Penny at Sigiriya
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Rachel and George playing on the beach at Galle
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One of the many curry dinners we had on the trip. I ate the equivalent of my bodyweight in poppadoms.
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Charlie watches Tim hurling an old coconut husk back into the sea
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The whole team at the beach in Galle (before anyone asks, George was looking away in every photo I took)
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George the Parrot
Unfortunately my editing skills weren't good enough to obscure the occasional glimpse of "Little George"...
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More from Galle and Sigiriya
Kirstie and Robin rehearsing for their House & Garden photoshoot
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Rachel and George in the swimming pool at Vil Uyana (Sigiriya)
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Charlie the Explorer at Vil Uyana in Sigiriya
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Arabella and Paddy in Galle
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George in the yard of the Galle villa
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Sarah with Kala's puppy, Jemma
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More random holiday photos
A group of Sri Lankan sisters (and one brother) on the beach in Galle
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Penny reflecting on life with Rabbit and Taggy (her blanket)
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George with the bathroom scales (again) and having a cuddle with Aunty Sarah in Sigiriya
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Trunks and Bunks
Two elephants enjoying a splash in the river at the Pinnawela Elephant Orphanage (there were another 80-odd elephants just around the corner)
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Bunky and his mother take a walk along the beach in Galle
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A few random photos from the memory card
I have a load of photos, but plucked out a few to upload before bedtime: .
George leaning on a whale bone in the Galle villa yard
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Doing an elephant jigsaw puzzle with Rachel
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Divebombing: Robin (L) and Tim (R)
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Sunset at the Galle Face Hotel
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George with his new favourite toy (bathroom scales from the hotel room in Colombo)
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First photo of our holiday
I certainly didn't expect it to look like this: .
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We were about to board the Singapore to Colombo flight just after midnight, and who should we bump into at the boarding gate? Mr Alex "Chuck Norris is my homeboy" Bellingham, formerly of Hong Kong and currently of Spain.
Alex was en route to some business meetings in Dubai and was about as surprised as we were at the chance encounter (given that the last time we saw him was when we were farewelling him and the family from Hong Kong in 2009). We had a lovely - but quick - catch up, then boarded for the painfully timed flight (left at 1am Singapore time, arrived in Colombo three and a half hours later at around 2am local time). Alex put on the eyemask, earplugs and passed out... we tried to settle an overtired little boy who spent much of the flight screaming. Oops.
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