In the UK

We arrived in the UK on Friday 18th April, since we have been here we seem to have done so much. First stop was Grandma's house, it was nice to see her and Trevor too. It was alittle strange not to have Grandad around but we have been able to visit him almost every day. He likes the nursing home he is in and seems contented which is the main thing. Grandma has lost alot of weight and I don't think she is really very well. Stephen Anna, and Charlotte had been to see them before we arrived the were really impressed with their latest grand daughter.
When I was researching our family tree I came across a distant relative of my Grandad Heath, She was the grand daughter of Great Grandad Heath's sister.
Trevor and I spent a lunch time in Lutterworth chatting to her and her husband.

We have also been able to visit my cousins Peter Holt, Michael Cork as well as uncle Johnny, and Auntie Vera. We stopped off for a few hours on the way up to Cumbria, Steve and Anna's. They are both fine and the new Heath is very much like her Grandad, beautiful. We visited the house stephen and Anna are looking to purchase, If any of you haqve spare years to help painting etc. they will be very happy to see you. It is big, it needs some TLC, and I sure there will be room eventually, in one of the six bedrooms. We plan eventually to make this our UK base when visiting.
27th April was my birthday, I forgive you for forgetting it, Stephen cooked a wonderful meal, Roast Pork and stuffing, roast carrots, parsnips and potatoes
and gravy. It was great.
After a couple of days here we will make our way down to Leicestershire, then on to Brighton area to see another new addition to the Heath's Analiese, then off to London and back to Kuwait.
My next big date is a medical checkup on 11th May in Kuwait.
30th May we are off to Cebu, hopefully, our house will be finished, if everything goes according to plan I will return to Kuwait and close down, Ruth may also come back to Kuwait later, that is if we have someone to take care of Adam.
bye for now got to beat stephen in a Suduko. Bye

David & Ruth

Visiting Grandad

Yesterday was a very interesting day, First we went to see grandma, She is basically well but continues to lose weight. She is ok around the house but not too good out side. Trevor and I spent a couple of hours visiting with a second cousin who we had never met before. she is the daughter of my grandads nephews, well it was interesting to talk to her she is doing a family Tree of the Heath family. She has gone back to the 1700.

Arrived in UK.

We are here at last, Staying in Enderby for one wee then up to Barrow via Manchester, Hopefully down to Brighton London, back to Kuwait.

Pictures of us all

Travel Plans once again.

The excitement builds, we are off to the UK on Friday 18th. We will spend the first week with Grandma, Grandad and uncle Trevor in Enderby. After that we will go up to visit Steve and Anna, and finally after a break in Leicester we will visit Jane and probably do Londan again. There is always so much to see.
After we return to Kuwait on May 3rd it will be all systems go to get ready for our Cebu move. At least for Ruth and Adam, I too will go to the Philippines but must return to Kuwait to finish off my contractural obligations.

We hope and pray our house will be finished by 30th May, it should be and we keep pressing them to hurry along. All who are travelling, May the Lord keep his guiding hand on each of us. I suppose as a family we do travel alot more than the average 'bear'. Well keep up the good work whereever you are.

Adam and the Maintenance School

Today Adam had a trip to my work place. Not really exciting but he enjoyed it. Apart from making me some, many, a mountain of scratch pads from old test papers, he had the opportunity to sit an English Comprehension level test. This is a test we give to our students to decide if their English Comprehension Level (ECL) is good enough to go on for further training. Pilots need an ECL score of 80, so when I tell you that Adam attained an ECL of 78. which is a really good score since he is only 10 years old and the test is designed for adults.
We are now getting really excited about our trip to UK, and seeing everyone. The 18th April will be here every quickly.