Dressing Up!

I thought I would add some more photos as I havent had time to post about anything specific. I can only take credit for the bottom one as my son in law took the others.

The twins love the opportunity to dress up, today they went to the grand opening of the new playpark in their village and it was fancy dress, they went as Yogi and a bumble bee. My daughter had bought the main part of the costumes in a charity shop. They had been hand made by some clever person, and today she added the bee's head part with antennae and Yogi's hat, collar, tie and picnic basket. She did a great job!

 Last week they went to their second cousins birthday which was held at a pony place so they wore their Woody PJ tops and hats.

The last two photos are of them having fun with their uncles!

The Royal Wedding

Last Thursday I drove down to Devon to spend a couple of days with my Mum and then one day and night with my daughter and family. I had arranged to sit with my Mum and watch the wedding, I took scones, strawberry jam and Cornish clotted cream and made a cream tea for us to eat while watching!

We really enjoyed the coverage of the wedding, I liked the fact that the whole wedding had a stronge spiritual emphasis and that William and Katherine had written their own prayer.I pray that God will bless their marriage and life together.

 When the wedding was over I took my Mum for a drive across Dartmoor where we found an ice cream van and stopped to eat a cone each in the car. While our children were growing up we lived in Devon and spent many a lovely day picnicing on the moors and paddling in the lovely cool streams. Such a great place for children to grow up. And now some of my grandchildren are enjoying the same upbringing, moors and beaches what could be better!

Lazy Saturday Afternoon

Today we didnt need to leave the house, we had so much fun in the garden and hardly came in the house all day....even had a little nap out doors too

Bluebells

We live in a beautiful part of the UK and near to out home is Ashridge Park, around the beginning of May the bluebells arrive, however because of the warm weather this April they have arrived early. This is the first time the twins have been visiting when they have been out. We had a lovely walk, the photos really dont so them justice and the aroma was amazing

Sabbatical

We have just returned home after a weeks sabbatical in Sussex. We stayed at a Christian retreat place called West Watch, in the Ashdown Forest which is run by some friends of ours, we have been before and always have a relaxing time. There is no mobile phone reception or internet which adds to the relaxation. We stay in a little cottage, the gardens are beautiful and are visited by many different birds. The weather was lovely and we took our sports car and travelled around the countryside with the hood down!

We took a trip to Hastings and visited my cousin, walking from her hosue down to the Old Town for fish and chips and a walk along the beach

Another day we went further along the South Coast and visited Eastbourne, eating sandwiches on the beach

We are now home and ready (did I say ready?) for a busy week ahead with family visitng and the Easter programme at church

Trip to visit the President

 GuGu, the Presidents daughter

President Jacob Zuma

This is what I wanted to post about yesterday but couldn't because of my uploading problems.

 If you check out my daughters blog she explains it all much better than I can

http://littlefingersandfrosting.blogspot.com/

My son in law is now on his way back from visitng and spending the night with the President of South Africa! Quite an odd thought really. I have only received a brief message from my daughter saying that Martin had had an amazing time, they had dinner together and stayed up chatting until after 11pm. I am looking forward to hearing more.

Back to Normal!

Fantastic...I am back to normal thanks to someone who answered my question on 'help'. Just had to click the 'Compose' button and not the HTML one.

These are some chicks that have hatched on my daughters little farm...cute eh?