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Gabe’s 10th Birthday

Gabriel — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 19:36:37 +0000

For Gabe’s 10th birthday we had a survival day in the woods which was organised by ex soldiers.

We had to build shelters, learn how to make a fire and also how to get water from one place to another using a network of pipes held up by sticks.

It was good fun, Gabe invited a few friends and at the end of the day they brought out a load of snakes, giant bugs, lizards and a huge tortoise.

Sledging

dad — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:00:08 +0000

We had some unexpected snow and managed to get some sledging in – someone had built a ramp at the bottom of our school field, here’s some piccies.

line drawings : rain forest animals

dad — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:36:26 +0000

The basilisk lizard took me 2 days.

The emaerald tree boa took me 2 days

The hoatzin took me 3 days

Basilisk lizard

Emerald Tree Boa

Hoatzin

Jaguar

Quetzal

Slender Loris

Sloth

Spider monkey

Toucan

Tree frog

Vine snake

Iguana

Ruffed Lemur

buscando mis amigos

dad — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 18:11:45 +0000

estoy buscando los detalles de contacto de mis amigos – Pol, Ivan, Jonas, cualquier persona que quiere estar en contacto conmigo!

Por favor dejar tus detalles aqui – pincha sobre ‘comments’ abajo, dejar tus mensaje en la cuadra y luego pincha sobre ‘send’, voy a recibir los detalles en mi email y tus mensaje no seria publicado en el Internet.

Espero tus noticias,

Gabriel.

Skateboarding

dad — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:49:16 +0000

Gabe did a really cool jump on his skateboard when we were in Norfolk, luckily I managed to catch it on camera:

Darth Maul

Gabriel — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 19:01:40 +0000

I drew this myself. First I started with the body, then the head, then the lightsaber and last of all the letters. It took me about 5 days.

Darth Maul

canoeing

dad — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 15:43:31 +0000

There are two canoes at the barn for general use – all the kids have been much better and more able to use them than expected (at times a little too good as they race out of our reach/their depth etc) but they’ve been really good fun.

Tree climbing

dad — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:35:05 +0000

The weather has been mixed so we’ve been looking for things for the kids to do that doesn’t revolve around swimming in the river. Yesterday we went to a ‘tree climbing’ park where they have cables running from tree to tree and the kids (and adults) have to make their way around a course whilst attached by a harness. There were course of varying difficulty – all the kids did the fist course but Gabriel, as the oldest, had been given a ticket for the next course up. When it came to doing it he couldn’t get past the first hurdle as he just wasn’t tall enough, so he went back down and Quen and myself continued – half way round we saw another boy having the same problem but a monitor came to help him along so he could have done it afterall – although I think he would have struggled. Here’s some pics of Gabe in action – and one of Quen that he wanted adding.

Muscle men: Frankie and Gabe

Gabriel — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 08:54:48 +0000

Mr Moneybags

Gabriel — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 09:46:42 +0000

Gabriel’s counting his money – we just got round to repaying him the money we had to borrow when we were on the ferry back from Mallorca (they didn’t take cards on the boat and he and Olivia were cash rich from holiday money). We’ve been a bit rubbish at paying him back so he informed us that he was giving us a day’s grace after which he’d be charging 1 euro a day in interest! That got him his money back at least!

He’s planning on putting 20 euros into the bank – where they’ll give him another 15 for opening an account.

It was under pressure from Gabriel that we put adsense ads on his site – unfortunately they’re are not performing quite as well as he’d hoped and it’s going to be some time before he gets his first $100 cheque! He’s always squirreled his money away, unlike his sister who has a hole burning in her pocket as far as money is concerned.