Grandchildren

Cody having a go at painting.

Daniel at Yeovilton he enjoyed the visit.

Tyler trying out the hotel bed.

Jake showing off his new glasses that he had on Monday.

Westbury Court

While Barry and Sarah were on holiday Patrick an I stayed at their house for a couple of nights.  We could not go away on holiday as I had hospital appointments so we have been going out for day trips, as Patrick is working most Thursdays and Fridays so that we can go over to visit Alan and Siew Gin and the boys at half term.

On our first day we got up early and headed accross the bridge to Wales found a lovely little cafe and had a great english breakfast, the we quickly did a couple of geocaches as we haven't done any for a long time and it was a opportunity to see if we could do them with my new phone and it worked.

Then on to Westbury Court which is National Trust it is based on a dutch garden and has old fashioned vegetable and flower gardens it was really peaceful.

This part of the garden was laid out quite formally I much prefer the cottage garden effect.

This was in the walled garden and had some really old plants here hopping my garden looks more like this next year.

Patrick loves trees and this one was hundred of years old in fact you could get right inside it as the middle was quite hollow you can see how big the trunck is compared to Patrick.

We then headed for the Forest of Dean and had a lovely picnic, then on to a really great place for a cream tea, after a walk we called back for ice creams they were called welsh gold really big should have taken a photo.

The following day we spent a really good time with Sarah's mum and dad, had a great meal in an old Mill the history was really interesting, then Bryan took us to the canal and we enjoyed the walk and saw the road bridge open to let the boats through left camera in our car so no photo's.  Then back to Norah and Bryans for a cup of tea.  it was a very enjoyable day.

Gardening

This year we though we would do some serious gardening so we brought a Polytunnel

We could not believe how big everything grew inside and we have been eating lovely fresh vegetables

As you can see we continually have vegetables growing some plants got so large we had to put them outside.

Daniel's Birthday

This is a picture of Grandad and Daniel
sure a happy pair.

Grandma and Grandad went up the day before Daniels Birthday, so he had some presents early.

Daniel with his new scooter so he
could ride home from school
with Jake

Daniel on his birthday opening his presents
from mummy and daddy.

Visit to Yeovilton

Barry brought Jake and Daniel down for a visit so we went to Yeovilton as Patrick had not been for many years and the boys enjoyed going there on a recent visit.



Jake took time out to direct some helicopters on to the aircraft carrier.

Then Daniel thought he would have a go with some help from his dad.

Jake did not like going on the simulated helicopter so while Patrick, Barry and Daniel went off to do this Jake and I looked arround again at some of the planes and then Jake decided to make a large felt picture before the others got back.



I liked the way some of the planes have ended up at the bottom of the sea.

It was a good day out and Patrick is looking forward to his next visit.





Thanks Giving

We were invited to Sabrina's and Damith's for Thanks Giving there were 16 of us including 3 children and we had a great time.

Cody's First Thanks Giving

Picture of Damith carving the turkey with Sabrina getting the rest of the food out of the oven.

Steffan and Brandy giving a hand

Siew Gin waiting to get the photographs.

It was an enjoyable day and Tyler enjoyed eating Turkey.

Steak at Damith's

We were invited to go to Damith and Sabrina's for steak, I think Lloyd was quite upset that three of us wanted out steak well done. It was cooked to perfection and it was nice to meet Sabrina's sister, brother-in-law and Lloyd Junior.

Thought I would take a picture of the steaks we all had one Hish and I only managed half.


Alan and Tyler waiting for their steaks do you like their hats

Lloyd Junior