Sunday 30 May 2010

MILs 89th birthday

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:

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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!)

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Gardening

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:
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Monday 24 May 2010

Mark and Angela

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!

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Friday 21 May 2010

This dog….

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!

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Thursday 20 May 2010

My 1970s layout

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Here’s the finished page!

Wednesday 19 May 2010

Document 2010

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.)

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Walk round my garden

I am so pleased with the way the garden looks right now!  Here’s a taster!

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I have just posted ‘a walk round my garden’ on my other blog http://123pierce123.blogspot.com/ so do go and have a look!

Friday 14 May 2010

My 1970s

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:

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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

Thursday 13 May 2010

And some more….

I got distracted yesterday so didn’t finish my post.  Here’s a few more:

TheCzech republic is famous for it’s strong beer:

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This is King Wenceslas who overlooks Wenceslas square

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And is where the Prague Spring uprising against the Communists happened in 1968 – here’s the memorial

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Talking of memorials, this one really moved us:

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Finally a couple of pictures from the top of the tower with the Astronomical clock, which overlooks the Old Town Square – really beautiful!

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Wednesday 12 May 2010

More Prague pictures

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?

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A local jazz band playing on the bridge.

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Inside St Vitus Cathedral – such fabulous stained glass windows

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Friday 7 May 2010

Prague

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

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I love the gothic towers on this cathedral, seen from the top of the tower with the Astronomical clock.

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And here’s the Astronomical clock, isn’t it fabulous?

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Be back later with more!

Saturday 1 May 2010

Bed time reading

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.

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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!

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