The Denholms in Singapore: August 2010

Corinna gets Gold for her GCSE's

Looks like its fizzy apple juice for Archie, but he did learn how to open a bottle of champagne!

After her final day helping at the Youth Olympic Games Corinna finally came home to find her GCSE results and we were all over the moon, she surpassed all our expectations. She can take the A Levels she hoped for having gained Geography A*, Chemistry A and Biology A, in total 10 GCSE's, bring on the bubbles.

First Day of Term - August 26th 2010

Doug is at the bottom of the slope!

The school are changing the term dates to be more in line with the other Internationl Schools here in Singapore, the kids had to go back to school on 26th August after a 6 week summer break.

Is Guada getting smaller, or is she feeding the kids too much. Archie is now in the Senior school, with long trousers!

Youth Olympic Games 14-26th August 2010 - Corinna the Horse Handler

The European Team won Gold - fantastic

happy lilttle horse handler in her great uniform, she loves it so much she wears it riding (not the trousers though)

Mario the Colombian Silver winner

Marcello the Uraguayan Gold Winner

Bronze - first girl from Saudi Arabia, Gold - Uraguay, Silver - Columbia

Alberto from Chile, 18 who Corinna looked after

Mario 16 yrs from Columbia and all his family, he came 2nd after a jump-off and won Silver.

Corinna helped as a Volunteer Horse Handler for the Inagural Youth Olympic Games held here in Singapore. She helped the South American Team and specifially Alberto from Chile, whose horse that was drawn for him was a bit of a handful!! it was all good fun as Corinna did it with a girlfrieind Tirtha and some other Polo Club friends, they supported Caroline who was competing for Singapore and they had a fantastic time meeting lots of new frieinds from around the world.

Adam Family to stay

The infinity pool 57 floors up, overlooking the Central Business District

View from the Sky Park of the flyer and the F1 Pit Stop and Kallang River

Nin & Alex on top of the world or are they RayBan models??

Doug, Libby Nin, Alex and Archie
We took them to Marina Bay Sands Resort and up to the top of the Sky Park - Floor 57, which has an amazing view across Singapore skyline, it beats the Flyer handsdown. An amazing view on a clear day.

Ian, Andrea, Alex and Libby came to stay for a couple of nights while I was still in the UK with the kids. Guada, Niall and Jet looked after them for a couple of days and then they went off to Malaysia for just over a week, came back to Singapore and stayed with us for a week of fun and madness.

Four Poster Bed

playing with drapery, it softens it a little. So pleased with our 4 posts

Time for a new bedbase, our last one having broken its back in the middle of the night.

We had a four poster made to fit our Tempur mattress, made of Teak from Bali, or probably Java,we love it.

Trip to London

We went to see War Horse with Mummy - amazing puppetry, seen nothing like it, so lifelike.

Had a nose around Covent Garden before the theatre.

Didn't realise you can buy Archie for only 19.99 - what a bargain...........and they are soft and cuddly and don't answer back. Wouldn't swap him for the world.