February Excursions

February has been full of surprises, some more welcome than others. Warm weather sure is nice, but (in my eyes) it's accompanied by this fear of impending doom due to global warming.  

For Christmas Jack was kind enough to buy us 'lads' a Jersey War Tours half day tour voucher, and ten days ago we cashed it in.  We had a great day out. Phil, our tour guide, really is an encyclopaedia when it comes to Jersey history, especially world war two history, and has access to a lot of historical sites that normally you're not allowed to go in.

We were able to visit the Radio Tower at Les Landes, a bunker at La Pulente, Victoria Tower, and, most importantly, the round tower at Greve De Lecq.  In the round tower there's this sort of quasi museum with lots of world war two artefacts, and, most importantly weapons!  The best part is that you're allowed to handle all the items, which led to an obligatory photo (see below). 

If you're interested in maybe booking one of these tours for yourself, then head on over to https://www.jerseybunkertours.com/.

As a family we also recently entertained LV and the urchins from St Ouens.  The urchins were treated to a trip in the truck and a walk in the woods. 

I was asked by WV if she could sit on my shoulders, which was fine right up until she decided to give a rousing 5 minute long chorus of "I'm the king of the castle, and you're all the dirty rascal" directly in my ear.  The chorus only stopped when BV went on Jacks shoulders, which meant that WV was no longer the king of the castle!

The warm weather and nice walks was offset by the incredibly sad passing of Harry Zambon last weekend.  Harry was an inspirational young man who helped so many in such a short amount of time.  It's with some degree of certainty that I can say that he will be greatly missed, not just by his family and friends, but by all those in the wider society that had the pleasure of interacting with him and his sense of humour.

Doggy dreadlocks

I realise it has been a little while since the last post and I imagine our reader wondering to themselves whether or not there would be another.  Dad and I were attempting to alternate writing duties but we seemed to have collectively failed. 

Tonights post was prompted by dads appearance on BBC radio Jersey this morning at approximately 7:07am.  It's a short interview about mum that was recorded before Christmas and you can listen to it by clicking here and going to the 1:07 mark. 

January seems to have come and gone very quickly.  I managed to get off island once to go to the O2 arena in London to watch an NBA (basketball) game, which was excellent.  The NBA have started playing the occasional game in a different country to try and promote the league abroad and so London was lucky enough to host the Washington Wizards vs the New York Knicks. 

Dad has been taking care of the dogs as per usual.  Jessie has recently had another instance of getting 'bunged up' which is no doubt in part to eating dodgy things such as cow poo, dead crows, and goodness knows what else.  This has lead to vet visits and much rejoicing when she finally 'laid a steamer'. 

Beanie and Jessie joined Jack and Dan the other day in 'helping' to dig a trench for a pipe.  The weather was terrible and Beanie got so muddy she found herself with dreadlocks.

Daniel has managed to get away to go over to Salcombe for a couple of days to check out the new Seafari boat which is currently being built in preparation for the 2019 season. 

My life at the moment currently revolves around working, and attempting to fix the truck.  In the last few weeks I've had the truck down with DLC in Gorey who's basically completely replaced the entire brake system, which is good for my safety if you consider that my knees are the crumple zone.  Other great news is that ATF fuels have just opened at Maufant garages and their petrol is under £1 a litre (my fuel consumption is under 10 miles per gallon).  I might have been better off to buy a boat instead!

As far as woodworking goes, I managed to complete a set of live edge shelves that I'd been building for the best part of a year. 

There are some more photos here on my Instagram.  I'm really proud of it, although I realised I could never actually make any money from my woodwork given the time that i've put into it.