I rarelyget a chance to take photos of my MIL. She is VERY camera-shy! So this morning when we visited her for her birthday I sneakily took photos of her while she was looking at some photos that Maurice’s brother John had bought of Mark and Angela’s wedding in Australia:
And here’s her cards, you can tell which one is from us! (Tim Holz stamps that my lovely friend Burnice bought me for my birthday!)
Remember my goals for the year? Well, the time has come to review them and I decided to include one about the garden. I do enjoy going out there really, I just need to prioritise it! So this last week I have been out there for 30 mins each day (usually it turns into at least 1 hour!)
Yesterday it was raining so I tidied out my greenhouse:
Maurice’s nephew Mark (on the right) got married last month to Angela in Australia. We couldn’t make the wedding itself, but invited them down for a nice meal at our favourite posh restaurant. That’s John, Maurice’s brother on the left.
Mark and Angela make such a great couple – congratulations! Here’s to a long and happy marriage!
might look all innocent here – but he is TURBO- charged at the moment! It must be the Spring!! But he just runs away all the time, and he runs and runs and runs. Today I wanted to walk a bit further than I normally do, but when I wanted to turn round, he just followed another dog and it’s owner running along the beach! He completely disappeared out of sight, then suddenly he appears as a little black dot in the distance running back to me. However, he still gets distracted by smells along the way!
OMG! 2 posts in 1 day!!!
Here’s my April pages - inspired by Document 2010 over on www.ukscrappers.co.uk. The idea is to do 2 12 x 12 layouts, and 2 pages on 6 x 4 divided page protectors. These divided page protectors can hold memorabelia too! Proper scrapbooking :) (Sorry the photos aren’t better, I will have to experiment about where to photograph the pages so that I don’t get reflections from the page protectors.)
I am so pleased with the way the garden looks right now! Here’s a taster!
I have just posted ‘a walk round my garden’ on my other blog http://123pierce123.blogspot.com/ so do go and have a look!
I am working on my ‘Everyone has a Story’ album, and thought i would do double page spreads for each decade. Then I wondered how I should do the journaling… Maurice and I had such fun remembering all these things! Here’s my 1970s:
| 1970s | |
| Transport | Bicycle, Family Car = Mini Moped/motorbikes Puch maxi Suzuki TS100 Hinda CB 125 |
| Clothes | A little bit hippy Motorbike gear |
| Work | School Woolworths Accountancy: Metal Box |
| Hobbies | Motorcycling Pop music Photography? Sewing, making own clothes |
| Loves | Maurice |
| Live | Busticle Lane Stoney Lane |
| Music | Slade Led Zeppelin Deep Purple David Bowie T Rex |
| Social life | Motorbiking Drinks at the pub |
| Friends | Sarah, Jo, Sue Stewart, Sue, Gary, Mark etc Amex crowd |
| Holidays | Caravans in Lake District, Cornwall Camping in Wales, IOW |
| Radio station | Radio 1 |
| Food, drink | Chinese, chicken in the basket Cider Pork chops, sausages Golden City |
| Significant events | Left school Got married |
I got distracted yesterday so didn’t finish my post. Here’s a few more:
TheCzech republic is famous for it’s strong beer:
This is King Wenceslas who overlooks Wenceslas square
And is where the Prague Spring uprising against the Communists happened in 1968 – here’s the memorial
Talking of memorials, this one really moved us:
Finally a couple of pictures from the top of the tower with the Astronomical clock, which overlooks the Old Town Square – really beautiful!
First, the Charles Bridge. I just love the statues on the bridge! Do you know that they are replicas of the original 15th and 16th century statues, which are now in museums around Prague?
A local jazz band playing on the bridge.
Inside St Vitus Cathedral – such fabulous stained glass windows
Just a couple of photos from our trip to Prague this week. Unfortunately my photos were not brilliant, not sure why, perhaps the grey weather?
View towards the castle and St Vitus Cathedral over the Charles Bridge
I love the gothic towers on this cathedral, seen from the top of the tower with the Astronomical clock.
And here’s the Astronomical clock, isn’t it fabulous?
Be back later with more!
I have just finished reading this book. It was a really good read, very thought provoking. It is really about the ‘fall’ of the aristocracy since the 1950s.
Maurice on the other hand doesn’t read anything quite so intelligent! He sits in bed chuckling away to himself and often has to tell me the joke – causing me to read the same bit in my book over and over again!
