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The 15th of March was the day we all went into Cheltenham for a walk around the town centre (Anna still often preferred to have someone’s hand to hold onto when walking around outdoors at the time, and wasn’t shy about letting you know when she had walked far enough, and expected to be carried the rest of the way!). Anyway, the Promenade itself hasn’t changed much in the four years or so since we moved out of Cheltenham to move to Kazakhstan. I think this is FINALLY the last of the UK videos we recorded on our trip over there this year. There are still a few more post’s worth of pictures to publish, but after that we will be into Kazakhstan based pictures and movies.

Tags: Anna, Cheltenham, Kazakhstan, United Kingdom, YouTube

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Sep 08 2010

Painswick Church

Category: Anna's Photos — ChrisM @ 11:14 pm

After a walk around the gardens in Painswick, we popped into a pub and had a nice meal. Following that, we popped into the church across the road and had a look round. The grounds outside have a lot of Yew tress, that have various stories attached to them. Some people believe you can successfully never complete a count of the trees, or that the trees move around the grounds. Other people believe that whenever you plant a new tree to add to the (apparently) 99 trees already there, an old one will die, maintaining the level at less than a hundred already. As we were walking around with Anna, we didn’t have the time (or motivation to be honest!) to actually count them ourselves. Oh, another 14th of March entry by the way.

: Inspecting Her Find

: The Mysterious Yew Trees In Painswick

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Sep 08 2010

Painswick Gardens

Category: Anna's Photos,Personal — ChrisM @ 9:02 pm

As I mentioned in the previous video, Dad, Irina, Anna and I went for a walk around a large garden on the 14th of March. Anna managed to walk around quite a lot of the grounds, the rest of the time we took turns in carrying her. She really seemed to enjoy looking at all the different flora around, and other than the fact that the entrance fee was pretty steep it was a pretty good afternoon out. I am already looking forward to when Anna is a little older, and going back there when she can hopefully appreciate it even more. I’m also hoping we’ll be able to go and visit the tree that was adopted for her. We recorded the exact location via GPS, as well as quite a few photos, so we will be able to point out the exact tree to her 🙂

: Anna With Irina Amongst The Snowdrops

: All Four Of Us

: Dad (Grandad) With Anna Next To The Maze

: Anna And Daddy During The Walk

: Anna Finds An Anna-Sized Alcove

Tags: Anna, Dad, GPS, Irina

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Sep 07 2010

Walking Around Painswick

Category: Anna's Videos — ChrisM @ 11:05 pm

The next day (the 14th of March) we went for a walk with dad around a garden and the grounds of a big house in Painswick (and also popped across from a pub to check out the Painswick Church And Yew Trees). Stood amongst a sea of Snow Drops (assuming I’ve remembered the right name for the little white flowers?), and then panning to the little maze, which was created to celebrate the 250 years of the garden/grounds being around. A little later we went for a walk around Painswick Church, where (depending on the local stories you believe), there can never be more than 99 Yew trees, you can never count them all in one go, and/or the trees also move around!

Tags: Anna, Dad, YouTube

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Sep 07 2010

Blurred Vision BEFORE The Pub

Category: Anna's Photos — ChrisM @ 11:02 pm

Before we headed off to a pub in the countryside for a meal, Aunty Chris and Bob came in to Dad’s house and Anna seemed very happy to have a fresh audience to perform in front of 🙂
It was the 13th of March, and as Dad was driving, I was able to have a few drinks in the pub. This isn’t the reason for the somewhat blurry nature of this picture – for some reason there was a lot of digital noise in it, and this was the best compromise I could come up with…

Aunty Chris And Anna

btw, this is Aunty Chris from Dad’s side of the family, in case anyone remembers seeing an Aunty Chris who looked a bit different 🙂

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Sep 07 2010

Present Time – A Little Delayed

Category: Anna's Photos,Personal — ChrisM @ 10:08 pm

Delayed in two senses. When Nick came up to Evesham (btw big congratulations to him for recently passing his driving test!) he bought the Christmas and Birthday presents that we had not been able to open due to being in Kazakhstan at the time. Even though his son Jack was about to be born, we really appreciated him making the effort and making sure we had some more time together (he also had a job interview in Cheltenham, so the timing was perfect). The second part of the delay? The video of this evening was posted a little over a month ago. I have been very slack recently at posting to this blog, other than occasional tweets. Now that PockeTwit (my preferred Windows Mobile twitter client) isn’t working due to OAuth being required for logins, the site has been quite bare recently. I am hoping to put up a few more posts by the end of the week, and if I can just create 36 hours in a day, I might even manage to post more next week 🙂 Oh, 12th of March is the date these photos were taken, which reminds me, I need to check if AnnaMerriman.com is still pulling these posts in automatically, and also start manually embedding those videos that don’t make it across.