To start with, I really enjoy both looking at and reading the posts on this thread, thanks everyone.
I live and work in Andalusia, Spain as an English teacher and believe it or not after being in and living in a foriegn country for such a long time you actually start to forget your own language; my wife, kids, neighbours and students are all Spanish therefore I spend all my time speaking Spanish. OK, it's good for my Spanish but pays a price with my English.
It is for this reason I HAVE TO go back to the UK at least once a year to top up my English hahahahaha. It's also a really good excuse for spending some time with my UK family, see old friends and have a decent pint of English ale, when you can only drink lager it's pretty sad and you get bloated quickly.
OK, photos, Pentax K-x with the 18-250, it really is a good lens and covers nearly all of the bases.