The alternative newsletter

Christmas greetings to you all. As many of you will be sending out newsletters to us over the next month we thought we'd send out our very first one.

January saw the arrival of the new year, which took us all by surprise. The children had great fun building a 25ft snowman which was actually visible from space. Lois sang at the O2 arena and was subsequently offered a recording contract with EMI.

February followed swiftly after with a record 2 sack fulls of valentines cards for Lydia and a new job for Kathryn. She is now a government advisor for the Acceptable Response to Secondary Education group.

March is often associated in our house with springtime and this year was no exception. Andy was fairly busy this month running round the coast of Britain non-stop for Sports Relief, but is thinking of trying something that is a bit more of a challenge next year. Sammy did his bit for the charity by running his first ever sub 4 minute mile. Hopefully he will start speeding up now.

April, Kathryn was pleased to have finally completed her genetic research, resulting in breeding chickens that laid chocolate eggs in time for Easter this year.  Quality family time was spent gathering chocolate eggs from the coop.

May,  took us from chickens to Turkey as we had annual family away time.  Fun and laughter aplenty was had as we enjoyed the warm temperatures and had some much needed downtime.

June, Andy continues to work hard on his plumbing endeavours and was very pleased for the privilege of fixing a toilet this month.  He is now flushed with success!!

July, this month saw the arrival of wonderful school reports.  It is our joy and delight to tell you all about how much our girls have achieved in this academic year.  Lois continues to hold pole position in her class, leading in every aspect.  Lydia maintains a simple delight in her education, enthralling all who cross her path with her imaginative approach to learning.

August, Kathryn renewed her car tax, whilst Andy waited in the car outside. All in all a busy month.

September,  we are delighted to report that Sammy took only 4 days to fully potty train and is now confidently passing on his new found skills to his peers.

October, Andrew completed some training for work which means he is now able to fly as well as maintain aircraft.

Over and above any other month, November follows October for which we are truly blessed and grateful.

December, as we reflect on the year gone by and so many times happy times that we have been unable to mention them all, we are thankful for so many wonderful friends and family around us that we have the undeniable joy of spending our hard earned cash on at this time of year.  

Yours in Him
The Bests!!

Toys R Us shocker

Reports are just coming in of the arrest of Geoffrey the giraffe. Apparently he has had a load of children carrying out his every command and working in his shop till late at night. Even worse, he is getting them to sing and dance for him and broadcasting it on TV. He has been compared by some to a modern day Fagin as most of the children where collected from the streets and promised "millions of toys, all under one roof". As if this wasn't bad enough, he isn't even CRB checked. Scandalous!