Thirty odd hours of travel is hard work. After a layover of eight hours in Hong Kong to stretch our legs and savour a bit of local food, we eventually arrived back at the airport only to find our 1am flight had been delayed by a further 2 hours. As you could guess, by this stage we were exhausted and the picture of Mitchell passed out on the departure lounge seats says it all. We eventually arrived into London at 8.30am Sunday morning (London time) after mor...

The life of a modern family. 'Busy' is the word so many people use to describe their life. Some wear it as a badge of honour. It's unavoidable, but I'd like to think we as a family get the balance reasonably right between the mundane 'busy' of school, work, shopping, cleaning, picking up, dropping off and just getting on with things, whilst pleasurable 'busy' involving trips to far fetched places to ride our mountain bikes, keeping ourselves fit and active and...