Bowenz.com: March 2008

Sunday, 30 March 2008

Last few weeks gone by

Hello All,

Hope you are all doing well, we wanted to share some of our recent picswith you.

We drove up to Manchester over Easter weekend to see Tessa and Brons newbungalow. It was a cold and rainy long weekend, but good to be out ofLondon. We also popped by to say hi to Gran and Grandad, who are doingwell and in good spirits. This weekend Gwyn and I went down to the riverto check out the annual boat race between Oxford and Cambridge, Saturdaywas a miserable day! Today (Sunday) we took a trip up to Clivedon Manor,a beautiful day with glorious sunshine... Enjoy the snaps.

L&G

Take outside our old house in Ealing - 27 Radley Lodge

River Thames on Sat - waiting for the boat race

Clivedon

Mooi

Clivedon

Manshester - Sushi Making

Man Trap - The Mill Manchester

Manshester - Sushi Making

Monday, 24 March 2008

Thomas & Carin have a blog!

"http://korea-a-go-go.blogspot..com/"

Thursday, 20 March 2008

Phuket 7-9 June 08

Gwyn and I will be going to Phuket for a couple days on our trip to Malaysia and Australia.

Just to make you jealous this is the hotel:
http://www.katagroup.com/karonbeach/index.htm

Wednesday, 12 March 2008

Earth Hour - the global movement helping our planet (made me chuckle from a SA view point)

One hour without lights, a small token gift to our planet... (and your power bill!) Join me and the fight against global warming and switch off your lights for an hour at 8pm on 29th March 2008

Sign up for Earth Hour with me by visiting http://www.earthhour.org/user/gzQ0

Basically it started in Sydney, and this year lots of individuals and cities (well done chch, auckland... come on!) will be turning their lights out for an hour. The impact Sydney made last year: 2.2 million people and 2100 Sydney businesses turned off their lights for one hour - Earth Hour. This massive collective effort reduced Sydney's energy consumption by 10.2% for one hour, which is the equivalent effect of taking 48,000 cars off the road for a year.

South Africa is already scoring HUGE earth points, and they did not even know it.... All you South Africans, make sure you remember to switch off your electricity on the 29th :))

Monday, 10 March 2008

Wet Wet Wet

Howdie all,

Gwyn and I have just got in. It has been a day of horrid weather. Caught the train in to work and had to get off the tube one stop early as Blackfriars station, my stop, was flooded. So I had to walk the the extra distance to work, in a category 5 freaking blizzard. The brolly got ripped out of my hand and by the time I got to work I felt like a wet dog. Beautiful.

Anyhow we have some great news, Gwyn today passed her British citizenship test, so is one stop closer to the British passport.

Off to see the family in Birmingham this weekend and then Gwyns family in Manchester the following weekend. No rest for the wicked!

Love to all
L&G

Tuesday, 4 March 2008

Gwyn has been promoted

Gwyn is a bit shy about things like this, but I think it is something to celebrate: Gwyn has been promoted to Group HR Systems and Development Manager! She will now be moving into more of the personal development side of things while still being in charge of all HR systems. Very exciting! Well done Gwyn