8 Keeling brothers

Hip hip hooray

Dad / Grandpa arrived home at 11.30 this morning after his hip replacement on Friday. Here he is, getting out of the car, from where he made a beeline for his cigars. 

 And here he is puffing away.

JV Night - Henning Wehn at the 606 in Lots Road

A Call to Arms (again!)

The Keelings v's Sedlescombe - Sunday 22nd July 2012

We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many, many long weeks of practice and of fitness training. You ask, what is our strategy? I will say: It is to play total cricket, by bowling, batting and fielding, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us; to wage cricket war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark and lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our strategy. You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: victory; victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival. Let that be realized; no survival for the Keeling name, no survival for all that the Buddha has stood for, no survival for the urge and impulse of the ages, that Keelingkind will move forward towards its goal. But I take up my task with buoyancy and hope. I feel sure that our cause will not be suffered to fail among the men of Sedlescombe. At this time I feel entitled to claim the aid of all, and I say, "Come then, let us go forward together with our united strength”.

Put your names forward bravely (and quickly!), after our great victory last year you must all be gagging to join the team - see our celebrations from last year below:

Been trying to load a photo - dead fumnny one too - but been defeated by the technology!

Grave matters

Being at Jacobs it was time to revisit the grave of my grandparents. Mum and Dad gave me directions and twice I failed to find the flat grave stone 'slightly to the right of the path from the lychgate and behind the church'. The third time I walked from Jacobs, met my Mum there and she showed me. Better directions would have been 'Walk down the path on the left of the church, continue after it ends over some grass and between some very old graves and it is just after the next path you come to'.  In case anybody else is seek-disabled, here is a map. The yellow dashed line is the clue to 1) Sir John and Lady Keeling's resting place. Their oldest son is also in a much better marked graved at (2). It took me 40 minutes to walk from Jacobs via the park field, Hurst lane, Churchland lane, then right after Killingan wood across some fields. You can enter the cemetery by Jacobs gate, apparently so called because the people from Jacobs always walked that way to church. 
George
PS you can click the pic if you want a bigger view. And google map here. 

Detention for Grandpa

Grandpa had to attend corrective driving school today, due to a bit of accidental speeding a month or two ago. It set him back £80 and four hours in a 'very boring' lesson on the perils of driving too fast. The lessons were conducted by (according to him) Mr Jimmy and Mrs Jemima Knowall. Mrs Knowall strutted about on her platforms as she spoke and, as the floor was loud, he could not hear a word she said. There were only two ten minute breaks and poor grandpa couldn't even get out for quick puff at a cigar. To his credit, he did not fall asleep. The photo is for illustrative purposes only.

How to see the calendar

Granny asked how to see the calendar which Rob was so nice about. You get to see it by clicking on Jacobs Calendar at the top right under the picture of Jim and Paul. But David says that it does not always work. I don't know why - yet.

And by the way I'm in Gran Canaria with Ruth and my friends Alex and Gavin. I really should be on a lounger by the pool soaking up the rays. Or should I have a second breakfast? Decisions decisions. x George

George is a genius

George is a genius
George has put up a calender on 8brothers so we can all see when it is good to go down and look after Granny and Grampa!!
Well done George!!!
Rob

Imo the Winner

On Saturday Imo ran in the South West Schools cross country Championships at Exeter, in a 3 km race. She was in the U15 girls race (she is still twelve, for four more days). There were 70 runners and she finished 19th. She was the second fastest in the Somerset team. Next month she will run in the national competition.

A week ago she had another great race and made history at her school. In the Kings Hall cross country she finished first, beating all the boys and finishing one minute ahead of everyone else. Cool!

The Master and Margarita

Also - now I've embraced my inner blogger -

I've been working on a new stage adaptation of The Master and Margarita, which will be on at the Barbican in March. It's going to be brilliant and tickets are very nearly sold out.

More info here: https://www.barbican.org.uk/theatre/event-detail.asp?ID=12872

Come and see it!
xxx

NEW YEAR IN BERLIN

NEW YEAR IN BERLIN - a little snippet
With thanks to the delightful staff at Gasthaus George's Gorgeous Flat. We had such a great time....
xxxx

Poppy says: ps. If you drag the speedy snippets onto your desktop you can enjoy the slideshow at your own pace xx
And I stuck some glue in the works too ...