Category: Family

  • What happens when you break down in France (10 things I learnt)

    When you go on a family holiday and your car gets a longer holiday than you do, you just know something didn’t go to plan. This year our camping trip to france had a little ‘incident’ that left me pushing my French skills to the limit, learning new words concerning vehicle parts, pleading with insurance…

  • Memories of Nan Root

    Taking Nicola to swimming club tonight we were talking about memories of her Nan and that reminded me of my Nan. Two things immediately sprung to mind, the first was going to Nan’s for lunch. She’d always lay on a huge spread of food, filling a table that to a 6 year old as as…

  • Our Sydney holiday photo (after a little CGI…)

    In June 2004 we went on holiday to Australia. The photos were shared on my web site, crafted hand coded pages in the days before I used movable-type to blog. One day, I may move them into the main blog but for now they still live in their own little folder at http://www.steveroot.co.uk/australia/. Amongst the…