our house is officially ours. we've yet to spend a night in it, but we will soon!

Ani & Damien's New House: isnt it cute?

We are going on holiday on Saturday and i am so excited! i am really looking forward to getting away (even if it is only to Devon!) and not having to go to work! I also have Friday off this week so that means only a 4 day week yay!

Look how lovely Brixham is, i don't care if it rains every single day i'm just happy to be going

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So, as you all know, Giz and I are finally going to actually get married after all our years of engagement. The purpose of this post is to invite you. We're getting married on Saturday July 8, in Bristol, at 11.30am. There's a party in the evening. Please do come, we'd love to see you there

If you can come, please leave a comment or buddy one of us and we'll send you the maps n addresses n stuff.

Well assuming we've made it over the Atlantic, Lisa and I are now (a) married, and (b) relaxing under the Mexican sun on our hopefully fantastic honeymoon.

Thanks to everyone who came along on Saturday, and our parents for making it all possible, and mostly to Lisa for making me a very happy man. See you in a couple of weeks!

Following recent moves by the BBC and others to make more historical material available to wider audiences over the internet, Boinng is proud to present a treasure trove of gems from the Cook family slide archive, illustrating the formative years of yours truly in graphic detail - The 1970's. These date from about 1974 onwards - I'm the small one, the slightly bigger one is my sister Tam, and you can probably figure out the rest (thanks to my Dad for posting them!)

It's probably about time we came clean... on our first year's anniversary on Saturday, Lisa and I went to Southsea, and had chips, and sat on the end of the pier, and then I slipped onto one knee accidentally and before we knew it... we were engaged! Who knew?

To say we're happy is a bit of an understatement - expect a wedding about this time next year

Boinng's Gallery has been updated to reveal the wonder that was Tim's 30th.

Tim had no idea where he was going, what he was doing or what we had in store for him. He was picked up at 10am on Saturday morning, whisked away to the ferry port, met by another contingent and onto the Isle of Wight where he was treated to the wonders of Sandown.

At the hotel he was met again by a further surprise contigent of the party...

The hare and the tortoise

The hare and the tortoise were having a race,
And the hare expected to win.
(Confidentially, all the intelligent money
was rapidly going on him).
But the tortoise was happy, he knew he would win,
Cos he had something no-one expected...
A two-litre customised road-racing shell
That was secretly fuel injected!

behave dave

update : you can find our pics in the gallery
UPDATE 2: i've finally put up the last pics, the ones from the music quiz.

so we're back! at oliver's place though, with an awful keyboard (qwerty), so there's more to come in the next few days including even more pics ;-p

btw, JayBourne, is that Jo?
oh and Kristen (if that's how it's spelled :s) you have to log in and buddy me! and have Martin do the same thing

to the rest of the boinngites : don't feel left out, the coming of a great boinng meet-up is starting to become inevitable!

The reconstruction continues as the Reviews went back online tonight - they still need some work, since I don't like the front page and it's a little hard to find things without using the site search, but it's a start.

If anyone wants to review anything, you can now... in theory...