Early blackberries!

Here are the blackberries we picked today. We hope to get even more tomorrow though as there are lots on the bush that were red and almost ripe today.

Stokes Bay Today.

Jeremy preparing to cook the dinner!

A nice on of Jeremy smiling (sans fag in mouth for once!)....... can't wait til he gives up altogether (smoking not smiling!)...

I just like this pic - no idea what the boat is in the background though....

Dinner is almost ready!

If you look really carefully at Alfie's hair - you can see it blowing in the wind - now that's progress (having enough hair to blow about at last!) LOL!

Stokes Bay Today.

The girls all wore their new wetsuits (courtesey of http://www.mandmdirect.com/ - the discount online sports store in the UK) for playing in the sea. This worked out much better than usual, because they all changed into these suits at home and wore them in the car on the way to the beach. They were then used for playing in the sea - and kept them warm while they ate their tea on the beach - and they went home in them again too - so no faffing about changing into this and that at the beach!

Stokes Bay Today.

Today we had a lovely afternoon excursion to stokes bay - to cook tea on the beach using the kelly kettle base, and my cake cooling rack! We do have the pot set that goes with the kettle - but Jeremy thought the cake rack would make a larger "grill tray" and give him space to set some of the meat to one side if he though it was cooking too fast.

Cruise ship.

This is a cruise ship that is docked at Southampton. It's huge!

If there's a hard way. .

Alfie likes to climb up the slide. . Don't think he's the only child to like doing it the hard way!

New hide and slide climber.

We bought this in the Mothercare sale. The kids are having a lot of fun with it!

Work shirt. .

We get funny looks when jeremy wears his work shirt!

Gabi is amused. .

Smiling because she has been throwing pine cones at us most of the walk!

Impressive stick collection.

That's quite a good stick house lily and Roro!

The importance of reading.

A little home education on reading and signs!

Family picture

Couldn't get them all to be in the picture at once. Roro was too busy collecting sticks, and i was taking the photo!

Lily in the woods

Lily and her bracken umbrella!

Moor valley park

Another lovely summers day, and an outing to the woods. Gabi, lily and Roro are pictured here.

It's a lovely morning!

Camping overnight in Shrewsbury.

Walking home from school!

Friday, after school. Half term at last!

Off to try the climbing frame next?

On the roundabout

Just because Alfie can't walk yet, doesn't restrict him from trying all the play equipment!

At the playground again!

Alfie enjoyed a trip to the playground after dropping his sisters off at school.