1968

Finally got around to redesigning the site completely – well, nearly completely…. Got a new recently as well – a dark green Ford Mundano. Boring, but big, safe, reasonably driveable and (hopefully) more reliable than that bl**dy Astra and, for that matter, the previous bl**dy Astra.

We have a new four-legged member of the family; a grey kitten called Grace who now has her own area in the album which no longer exists as of some date in the future  (how do I know?).

Continued the continuation by adding pictures from the maritime museum in St. Helier. We went to a vineyard and a pottery as well, but I was too busy carrying Lois’s shopping to take any pictures. Contributions to the J. M. Skilleter Wallet Restoration Fund are urgently required and will be gratefully received.

Just got a new (well, newer) car, so decided that the most logical thing to do was to update the web site. I’m still trying to decide why that was logical, but it hasn’t stopped me from doing it. Robert’s in bed, so this update is all my own work. If nothing else, the speling…

Righty-oh then (he says, out of character, but in an attempt to confuse the spellig checker) this thyme, I’m really, really, really going to get around to uploading the latest version of the web site to good old www.skilleter.org. Even though Rollercoaster Tycoon is beckoning at me seductively from it’s CD jewel case, and I…

Off to Jersey Zoo, or ‘Durrell’ as it is now called, after its founder; Gerald Durrell. I can’t say I like the new name, but I still took lots of photos, the best of which are to be found in today’s gallery update. Went to the beach at St. Brelades in the evening, just to…