Tag Archives: Christmas

Christmas 2024 and expanding families!

Posted on 18 December 2024 by Thea Stainsby

I have had to delay this year’s Christmas letter so that I can share our latest news! You see, the year has been bookended by additions to our family. Charlie Franklin Wilson arrived on 21 January to Alex and Sarah, … Continue reading →

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Statistics Asia, Europe, Americas 2014-2015

Posted on 10 September 2020 by Thea Stainsby

Between August 2014 and September 2015 we travelled. It was a 390 day journey around the world and back again, hitting 26 countries, most of them new to us. We slept (or spent the night) in 150 different beds and … Continue reading →

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Iceland – ticking all the boxes

Posted on 6 January 2015 by Thea Stainsby

Following the success of Hayden’s PhD defence, we decided to have a family Christmas “somewhere exotic”. Think warm weather, tropical beaches and swaying palms. No, that is not exotic enough for this bunch. After much communication and research, the family … Continue reading →

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Christmas Greetings 2013 from the Stainsby’s

Posted on 22 December 2013 by Thea Stainsby

This must be the 7th year that you have not received a Christmas card from the Stainsby’s. Instead we have vowed to provide a donation in lieu of buying the cards and postage stamps. As I look back on previous … Continue reading →

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la Cavalcada de Reis Mags d’Orient (Three Kings)

Posted on 8 January 2013 by Thea Stainsby

The Three Kings (Melchor, Gaspar and Baltasar in Catalan) visit children in Spain on the twelfth night of Christmas like Santa visits us on Christmas Eve. We joined the parade in Barcelona that welcomes the Kings on the eve of … Continue reading →

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Merry Christmas from Bruce & Thea

Posted on 23 December 2012 by Thea Stainsby

Our Christmas greetings come to you this year from Barcelona, where we have rented an apartment for a few months, as a base for our travelling. After an exciting year on the road we are finishing it with a trip … Continue reading →

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Cleaning Up – 2010

Posted on 22 December 2010 by Thea Stainsby

 What happens when you are not rushing off to work every day? You notice that this could be cleaned and that could be cleaner and oh… look at that over there, it needs a dust. And so that was how … Continue reading →

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Christmas letter 2009

Posted on 25 December 2009 by Thea Stainsby

It is a little after Christmas, but here is our Christmas letter… This will be a very different letter to the ones you have received over the last few years. For one it will be much shorter. [Thea: that didn’t … Continue reading →

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Christmas preparations

Posted on 20 December 2009 by Thea Stainsby

It has been hard preparing for Christmas this year – just Bruce & me. This is the first Christmas we have truely been on our own. But Dotty has gone, Matt is in the Middle East, Phil has Krysti & … Continue reading →

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