phil collins
Okay, so the Christmas cards should have arrived by now. If you didn't get one then that's largely because we didn't have your address and, more importantly, we ran out of red card and pritt stick. And the will to live after 5+ hours of cutting and sticking..
We decided to make the cards back in July, on the sand dunes of Swakopmund, Namibia. A morning was spent getting together all the necessary supplies of card, scissors and tape. Then caught a taxi back to our hotel, in readiness for an afternoon making the banner. The date was July 7th and it was in that taxi we got the first news of the bombing in London. Somehow cutting card up and cavorting round sand dunes didn't seem important anymore. Instead we sat on the same sand dunes, reflecting on everything and feeling a long way from home.
Anyway, without getting too maudlin and sentimental, come the next day we cut the card up and did the cavorting round the sand dunes. In many ways the photos and the card are our little tribute to those that died on that day in July...
Other news - this year is the 20th anniversary of LiveAid. Remember Phil Collins and his mad dash across the Atlantic in Concorde - he tinkled the ivories with Against All Odds in both Wembley and Philadelphia. Well in his honour we are recreating this remarkable feat on Christmas Day. Christmas breakfast in BotolphClaydon, then our own mad dash across the Atlantic (8 hours of bumper 16x16 sudukos which I've been saving for the past 3 weeks..), and Christmas dinner in Gravenhurst, Canada. If requested we'll even sing Against All Odds in both locations....
We decided to make the cards back in July, on the sand dunes of Swakopmund, Namibia. A morning was spent getting together all the necessary supplies of card, scissors and tape. Then caught a taxi back to our hotel, in readiness for an afternoon making the banner. The date was July 7th and it was in that taxi we got the first news of the bombing in London. Somehow cutting card up and cavorting round sand dunes didn't seem important anymore. Instead we sat on the same sand dunes, reflecting on everything and feeling a long way from home.
Anyway, without getting too maudlin and sentimental, come the next day we cut the card up and did the cavorting round the sand dunes. In many ways the photos and the card are our little tribute to those that died on that day in July...
Other news - this year is the 20th anniversary of LiveAid. Remember Phil Collins and his mad dash across the Atlantic in Concorde - he tinkled the ivories with Against All Odds in both Wembley and Philadelphia. Well in his honour we are recreating this remarkable feat on Christmas Day. Christmas breakfast in BotolphClaydon, then our own mad dash across the Atlantic (8 hours of bumper 16x16 sudukos which I've been saving for the past 3 weeks..), and Christmas dinner in Gravenhurst, Canada. If requested we'll even sing Against All Odds in both locations....
