2013 what a year!

                      Pleased to see the back of that one! or am I?

2013 got off to a dreadfull start with me suffering a double brain hemorrhage once in early January and again in early February. The stress and worry that we suffered as a family was pretty intense for quite a while and the healing process is still ongoing.
We have been through a lot but we are making good progress to putting this behind us. I am over the treatments and I am waiting for the all clear in May 2015 ,I am still working hard to recover from the weakness that I suffered in my left side and even though its slow going I really feel that I am making progress.
We have pulled together as a family and we have had some great support from all of our friends ,I really feel that things are getting back to something like normal and I am once again enjoying my hobbies of amateur radio and keeping Tarantula spiders.

December 2013 was a great time for us as a family and we all gathered at a cottage in Brecon for a family Christmas ,we spent all of Christmas week in the cottage and had a really good time, lots of food ,drink and fun including nerf wars which broke out on most days. This was probably down to me as I provided 6 of us with a nerf gun and ammo as a small christmas gift.

As you can imagine it really didn't take a lot for the fragile Nerf truces to be broken and all out Nerf war began, again!


 I was of course pretty sure that this was going to happen and as the supplier of the weapons it was only fair that I somehow gave myself an advantage. My wife who also realised that I may be at a disadvantage to the other younger members of the family upgraded my Nerf gun to one of these,
  This of course evened things up a little and it wasn't long before the wirrrrr of the motor sent everyone running for cover.




Great fun and lots of laughing which all added up to a great Christmas week in Brecon.