December Pics

20091213 December 2009

Tummy time

Jocelyn and her voice

Tree & John Visit

20091119 Tree & John Visit

Jocelyn and her Friends

<<All the babes.jpg>> <<thomas' girls.jpg>>

Pics from the Last Couple Weeks

20091024 Granny & Granddad Visit

Granny & Granddad with Jocelyn

Jocelyn- 4 weeks and 5 days (mobile tracking)

A high concentration moment

Pap en wors..Ek het nou ales gesien..

 

Jocelyn - Day 10

Jocelyn

 

Lawrence - 1 day old

Day 2 with little Jocelyn

NCT Lads

Jocelyn Erin Bowen - Day1

Jocelyn Erin Bowen

Hi Everyone

We are ecstatic to announce the arrival of Jocelyn Erin Bowen, the most wonderful little bundle of joy who entered the world in the wee hours of Monday morning (14^th Sep). She weighs a very health 4.26 kg.

Mom, dad and baby are doing very well and we expect the little on to be home in the next 3-4day.

Have a look at our pictures here: http://picasaweb.google.com/the.bowenz/14092009#

Love

Gwyn, Lawrence and Jocelyn

Country Pubbing

We took a trip out into the country today for lunch at the UK's oldest Free House Pub (The Royal Standard of England - www.rsoe.co.uk ), here are the pics!

20090802 Trip to oldest freehouse

NCT Group

 

 

Baby Shower Pics

20090718 Baby shower

Adopt a Pothole (seriously, I kid you not)

“The Empowerment Gateway Group announced recently that they have received authorization from the Govan Mbeki Municipality to repair potholes in their area of jurisdiction.

The authorization has enabled Empowerment Gateway to launch the Adopt-a-Pothole programme.

The program is a new Social-Economic Enterprise which addresses key fundamental needs in South Africa , being road infrastructure, maintenance and the alleviation of unemployment and poverty in local communities.

The Empowerment Gateway is now inviting the business sector to participate as sponsors and custodians in the Adopt-a-Pothole programme.

The programme has been designed as a practical business and enterprise development incubator and it will recruit, train and mentor unemployed individuals as business unit caretakers, admin and support officers and pothole doctors.*

The programme has the potential to create over 20 000 income earning opportunities nationally over a five year period.

These workers would then be repairing over six million potholes over the five years.

The Adopt-a-Pothole programme will not only be addressing the unemployment issue, it will also help everyday road users to reduce typical repair costs associated with potholes.

For more information about the Adopt-a-Pothole programme, you can visit www.adopt-a-pothole.org <http://www.adopt-a-pothole.org/>  or contact Ms Laurinda Seabra at 08209666568.”

Our New Gift List at mothercare.com

Due to a number of requests, here is our gift list

10% discount code: AF9

If you are interested in getting us something for the little kicker.
L&G

Dig the T-Shirt

SIR JASPER - RESERVE BEST PUPPY IN SHOW

http://www.showdogs.co.za/results_2009/allbreed_champ/highway/highway.htm

Latest scans of Baby Bowen

Polaroid of Lawrence at work

Ola, Our Pics from Barcelona

20090430 Barcelona

Some cool pics from Nic & Michelle on their diving adventures

Gwyns Latest Cake Order

From Cake Decorating 20070718

Easter Braai

20090413 Braai

KNP - Awesome pic by Margo Bowen

More pics which Terence snapped while he was in London

http://terencelegrange.blogspot.com/2009/03/richmond-park-part-1.html

 

also see http://www.myvirtualhut.com/

Pics from Terence's Visit

20090227 Terence Visit

Look what Gwyn got

 

Snow in London

20090202 Snow in London

http://1x.com

An awesome photography site which Terence recommended – worth a look!

 

http://1x.com

What goes through your mind when someone says "Let's go for a drink"?

 

New Manifesto - funny one

my first 10

Hi Guys

Most of you already know that I am training to run the London marathon on the 26^th of April. For the past month I have been doing a number of 5km runs and feeling confident that I could take on the big 10km.

So this morning I entered the Tadworth 10 (http://www.tadworth.org.uk/Tadten.html). It was probably the coldest day I have experienced in the UK with our car measuring the temperature at -6.5 Deg C, but that was not going to stop me.

The race consisted of two laps of challenging hillside which almost broke me. I am used to running 5km in around 28minutes, but my first lap took 55minutes, I decided this was due to all the hills and sub zero temperature. I then, with a lot of pain and grimace, finished the second lap in a disappointing time of 1hour and 48 minutes.

But the story does not end there, on reflection of my poor time I realised that I had actually run 10 miles and not 10kms… yes I have taken a leap from running my usual 5kms to a whopping 17kms in a fairly respectable time. The lesson learned is when you run a race in the UK think in miles and not Kms!

Here are some pics from the run along with a pic of a 30cm icicle which formed outside our bedroom window (taken at about 14h00 this afternoon)

All the best

Lawrence

20090104 running the first 10

Visit to SA: 26 Dec 08 - 1 Jan 09

Hi Guys

Here are some pics from our whirlwind surprise visit to SA. It was great seeing you all!

Best
Gwyn and Lawrence

20081226 SA Visit

Justin's web albums - Lawrence 2nd Cousin

http://picasaweb.google.com/justin.allis/

Bowen Dog Pics

20081226 Bowen Dogs