Week in the life–Sunday Dragon Boats!

Lucky I took my camera with me on my early morning dog walk!  As part of the seafront fayre, they hold a coach rally on the seafront just down from us.  Look at this gorgeous coach!  That’s real ‘go-faster’ livery don’t you think?  (Actually tonight it’s parked in a road just round the corner and we’ve just walked past it on our evening dog walk)  Not sure how old it is, 1930s/40s perhaps?

There is a certain sort of man that likes coaches!  It’s a real ‘anorak’ event, even on a sunny warm day like today!  This is one of the many stalls along the prom selling memorabelia and models of coaches.

Maurice was participating in this dragon boat race in aid of a local animal charity.  Mum and I walked down from her house and sat eating our lunch on a picnic rug.  There were 2 teams from American Express, Maurice’s  team were the Centurions, and I am sad to report they were one of the slowest boats!  But the other Amex team was the overall winner!

As you can see in the background the event was very well attended!

Here’s Mum and me in the American Express ‘Hospitality’ tent!  Well we were offered a cocktail and a sandwich!

Just along from the lake is this lovely wildflower planting.  It is so colourful!

I felt really tired when I got home, so I sat drinking a cup of tea and reading for a while under the shade of the tree

before watering my pots!

Sadly that’s the end of my Week in the Life.  I have really enjoyed taking these pictures and giving you a glimpse into my everyday life.  Now I have to decide how to record it all!  Should I just leave this here on the blog, or do an album?  Lots of ideas whizzing around at the moment, watch this space!

Week in the Life–weekend fun!

 

Sunshine at last!  It’s been very dull this week, not so good for all this photography.  Nicholas was home for 1 night between holidays (don’t ask!), so we cycled into town for a coffee and a bit of shopping:

The floral displays are just gorgeous at the moment, wish I had more time (and sun) to get better photos!  Sorry this one is a bit blurry.

Time for lunch and a catch up on my notes and computer forums

Sweeping the patio.  We have a large cedar tree which drops it’s needles all over the patio and then they get trodden in to the house!

A lovely hour spent gardening.  I tidied up this phormium, cutting out the dead stuff – it looks much better now!  Don’t forget Merlin’s tea!

It’s the seafront fayre in our town today.  There are fun fair rides and market stalls all along the prom:

 

We walked into town along the seafront so we could have dinner in our favourite Italian restaurant ‘Pomodoro e Mozzarella’, which is run by an Italian family and has a  lovely, lively atmosphere.

Walking back through Marine Gardens, these lavender bushes smell fabulous and I just love this planting of the yellow yarrow with the white agapanthus!

Here’s something I’ve been meaning to capture all week.  The gas board are putting in new pipework just round the corner and we walk past it nearly every night on our dog walks!

Week in the Life–Household chores

Friday has been all about household chores:

Laundry

Playing with Merlin:

Vacuuming and dusting

Changing the bed linen:

Grocery shopping:

Time for a quick cuppa:

A 4.30pm hairdressers appointment.  That looks better!

cook dinner (baked salmon with limes):

Greet husband home from work!

He saw my cameras out and couldn’t resist having a play himself!

Lucy decided to give Merlin a brush while she was waiting for her friend to pick her up:

And finally – a well earned glass of red!

Week in the Life–Exercise and flowers

Today was all about exercise (well this morning was!) and flowers.  I have bee trying to get up a bit earlier this week to get out for my dog walk before it gets busy.  I have been waiting for a nice sunny morning to take some pictures, but it just hasn’t happened this week!

This morning we walked along the beach at high tide.  (I have written down the tide times for my album)

 

 

Then I decided to go for my weekly swim early  - again to avoid the crowds (it’s school holidays here in the UK), and I swam my usual 30 lengths.  I found it quite gruelling today, but persevered as I wanted to report here that I had done my 30!  It’s a 33.3m pool, so that’s a whole kilometre that I swim!

After swimming I bought a coffee and went to sit in Beach House Gardens to drink it and look at the lovely floral displays, and memorial to the war pigeons! Carrier pigeons were used to send messages behind enemy lines and this little memorial remembers the bravest of them!

Then I sorted my sewing projects, quite flowery!  Here’s my ‘Tuscan Village Scene’ and a close up of the window box:

 

Watering the pots:

 

We had a bit of fun taking photos at dinner time: