Well Jan 19th was the anniversary of the day that me, alex and si first stepped on the plane to Bangkok. Alex is out of the country again but it seems i was the only one to make a whole year away unbroken! As usual it seems to have gone quickly in some respects and slowly in others. I have lots of good memories and im still waiting for Si and Alex to get some new photos on soon!!

Happy New Year Glenny!! Hope you had a good one. Went to Boardwalk in soho, but they have stopped making my favourite pink cocktails.......... Noooooooooo!!! Jo x

Glen-sensei!! Wax on... wax off - still am recovering from the fact that the Japanese have never heard of the Karate Kid!! Huff HOW did that happen?? Thank you for your christmas pressies. Kathryn promptly stole the first dice man book. however I have managed to retain the sequel, so she'll need to swap it back at some point. I will have my own email address again soon but last time I gave you my email address I got a wurm... mind you the organisation that I work for now has no firewall to speak of, so we've basically got every virus going. Nice. Good to see that you haven't grown a second head from visiting Hiroshima. Christmas was better than I thought it would be actually. We did miss you, but it wasn't too painful. Yeah - as julie said the desert lasted a lot longer on boxing day. She did her best to finish up the pavlova, but she's not a master like you are. Mum also provided selection boxes and we wistfully thought of you. Some of mine was eaten by a grabbing Ellie... although I have a sneaking suspicion that it was Kathryn that ate my Freddo and not Jessica... Bah - who knows? I'm very jealous of Katie La Roche as she had her brother home for the holidays. Blick..... AND we didn't have any snow in sunny southend. Mum and dad bought the most pathetic looking Christmas tree ever. They got stuffed by the garden centre salesman who told them that the trees have a 50/50 chance of surviving til the next year if you plant them in the garden.... I got home on Xmas eve, and the tree looked like it wasn't gonna survive this year - let alone make it til next year!! Also I your garland hanging handiwork round the fireplace was missed this year. Considering we don't have a fireplace though i guess it doesn't really matter. We went to the Liddiards for christmas morning. The usual gang was all there... was quite exciting actually - Olly is doing perfoming arts or something and he's good. Kathryn and I made him perfom for us like a circus monkey - vaulting and sommersaulting over Nick and Robbie. Was entertaining. Olly looks like the fourth member of Busted now with his long hair. He was quite offended when I told him this and corrected me by telling me he was going for the 'McFly' look. Whatever. I'm obviously not as hip as I used to be. Do you know who McFly are??... you prolly don't actually... think they have only arrived this year... hmmm. I'm really really missing you glenny. Will try and get over to Japan for Golden week or whatever that is. I'm going skiing end of feb, and then south of france mid April , so May time would be good...
Say hello to Kiko-chan for me - looking forward to meeting her in the summer!! Hope you've told her all about us, and what to expect!! Well boy - glad to hear and see that you are very happy. I'm happy for you too - but you are such a long way away... And I can't even go into your room any more and smell the Glen essence that was still wafting faintly... well I could - but I think that would be called 'breaking and entering'... still work on the house is starting today and we'll all have rooms again once more!! Hoorah!! when the rooms are done I may go and spray some Lynx in one of the rooms.... Hope everything continues to go well for you out in Japan - keep safe and well my sweetie pie. Happy New Year to you and Akiko if I don't speak to you before then. I love you Glenny. Jo xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Hello Glen - Hope you had a great Christmas even though it might have been a strange one. We had a good Boxing Day and I am back at work just for today - skeleton staff - don't think I could be regarded as a 'skeleton' though. Just wanted to wish you and Akiko a Happy New Year and looking forward to seeing you in the summer. We'll have the full works again - turkey, crackers and XMAS CAKE. Take care of yourself and have a great time.

yea thanks to everyone who sent the cards, hope you all had a good xmas. I just got back from a bit of sightseeing to Hiroshima, new photos are already on the website of course... ;)

Sorry Glenneth, hey Akiko- MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR to you too! Welcome to the family! X

Hey Glenneth, MERRY CHRISTMAS! Hope you've had a good'un? Did you get our card? At your mum's at mo, traditional boxing day lunch.........YUM! Don't even ask your mum about the mash!!! Going to have some great photos, she was even swearing at potatoes! Think she was drunk?! Maybe I shouldn't have said that on here?! Oh well! Thought you'd be pleased to know i managed to squeeze in your portion of dessert as well as my own! Raspberry pavlova lush! Hopefully see you in summer! Keep happy xxx Oh and incase i dont get another chance HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!! xxxx p.s. do you have dragons over there????

Well its just past mid-night here in japan so i guess its Christmas day then isnt it!! Merry xmas everyone! Sorry i cant be there to enjoy it with all of you but i will be thinking of you and i hope you have a good one! Happy holidays...

Who's the daddy! Carlile-san it seems, bet you didn't change any nappy's, sampling fatherhood as well as the cuisine! you may not be surprised to hear we have nothing sorted for NYE, then again we are a little thin onn the ground, but I have an inkling Stu has something in the pipeline but i'll be dammed if he's organising it. Si good to have you back! u may or may not read this but will see you shortly, i missed your nack for arranging small gatherings to watch wierd films and such like so i'm sure a few of those are on the way

hope you made it back safe si, and alex i think you must be on your way home as well soon, take care also. You might be interested to see some new pics. These are all taken from my mac daddy 2.0 mega pixel mobile phone camera, finally got round to buying a usb adaptor so i can upload em... Merry Xmas Everyone!!!!

Goodbye India, with its rickshaws, caste system & love of cricket & hello to Southend again. A visit to the Last Post, Pink Toothbrush & Ian's new pad are all called for. After that V & I may have to make our excuses & be off to travel Europe & the rest of the world we have not yet seen. Si :P (PS the last of our travel photos may have to put on from home.)

wow note the pre-bird and post-bird thailand pics from alex. the evils of the opposite sex for you hey, yawn.... still least you put some pics on, is more than ive done :)