Intro

Welcome to the blog! This here to the left is I with poor excuse for goatee beard (now since gone). Apologies to those who have stumbled upon this blog by accident and are eating breakfast. To my right, the much more pleasing to the eye, future wife Bec.

I don't have to rush off to work this time, so thought would spend a bit of time here. Prompted into this by Alaskan-dwelling sister who started a ball rolling with her 'British Import' blog; www.tamsink.blogspot.com .

The general idea being to put pictures and stuff on here, basically relating to what the Harpenden division of the JR clan is up to.



Future updates will probably include various embarrasing pictures from stag do (not till July though) and wedding itself. I shall endeavour to include things about what the other Harpenden JR's from the posh side of town, Mr and Mrs JR senior are doing, along with resident dog of little brain Tig. Tig is seen on right in typical gormless pose with stuffed toy in mouth.

I have plenty of mildly embarassing photos of Bec but I need to get permission before posting them on the world wide web!

The two photos here were from christmas before last: a bit old but the only ones available I have of my parents. The one on the left is mother, being quite typically photogenic. You'd never guess she was a nursery school teacher, really. My mother's ability to be shameless and grow old disgracefully is so far unlimited! Below, Dad is somewhat more regal in his photo, in his natural environment: i.e. outside on a hill somewhere with an impossibly big rucksack, even if does only have tea in it. The character behind Mother is ex-pat Tamsin, on a holiday sojourn back to these shores. It was about 5 deg C on that day, which makes it a considerable warm step up from Anchorage.


Enough for now.... got to hop off to Sainsbury's to get some nosh! Meeting some characters from work tonight for a guiness or two (well, it is St Patricks day).....