Boys BBQ

These two chiefs are two of my best mates, Ben & Scott:

An invitation to a Sunday BBQ became a minor union of three old school fellas. The two chaps pictured here I have known since meeting at Chiswick secondary school age 12 so, 24 years and counting!




We are missing one other from this group and that is [big] Dave and which made me think i must have a few old snaps of the boys together...hang on!

Scott's stag weekender in Budapest, 2008 (age 33)

And then here's a classic:

Boys Summer Holiday in Crete, 1994 (age 19)

Not much has changed that is apart from Ben's long neck and a fashion for wearing waistcoats (and oddly we always seem to order ourselves the same way for group photographs!). Time moves on you grow, you change, you do some stuff, you get married, you have your own family and there is always more to come. The passage of life even at this stage often feels surreal in retrospect. Where does the time go? ok, who hasn't said that before yet somehow it is all so completely natural, improbable and impossible at the same time yet -and for want of a better word -exactly how it should be.

Scott enjoying a moment with his daughter Charlotte.

Mummy and her Olive.

"Uncle Ben" with Olive.

Hang on, is that Uncle Ben encouraging underage drinking...what?

Don't worry that's Kellye's non-alcoholic beer!

Charlotte and Olive hanging out in the paddling pool.

Kate and Scott share a laugh...