Vegas baby!

Having sadly left our American family in the great state of Utah,family OTW have decamped to Vegas...the boy is pooped out after his first night on the town!

Cowboys and cowgirls

My whole family has the cowboy bug....grits for breakfast and jerky for tea!

Boom!

Drove up the canyon to do a little shooting with the lads today, pic is of my version of gun safety...Utah style.

Rodeo

A warm night in the heart of America watching the rodeo with my extended family.....a cool place for an Englishman brought up on john Wayne movies.

Yee haw!

My kids are enjoying life in Utah and spent today getting kitted out for tonights rodeo.....their dad is too but modesty forbids a pic of the scouse cowboy....cue jokes about my building practises!

This is how we roll.

The kids pick their favourite vehicles, I settle for the biggest planet destroying gas guzzler I can find...god bless America!

Off we go!

Family OTW are off to spend summer in our second home, sunny California , a break I've been grafting hard for the last 2 years, so roll on the family good times.(flying over Greenland as seen in pic always looks great)

sticky fingers

There is not much and iced lolly cant fix.

Nearly there

Posts for fencing and gates going in today, another week or so of good weather and all outside work on bothy should be done.....phew!

Happy friday

I have a happy baby....so I'm a happy dad, happy days.

Practise makes perfect

The wood guy made mock ups of oak staircase balustrades and stringer from mdf....I like them so carve away my good man.

Whats newel?

Considering the inherent crappiness of the drawings I supplied somebody did a bang up job on my oak newel post....ta very much.

By God

This is how I feel this weekend.

Little and large

Either my little boy has been helping build using his toy construction equipment or this is to scale and I accidently built a cottage 400ft high...if you knew me this wouldn't seem so unlikely.