Southwold again!!!!

Went for a lovely trip to Southwold yesterday lunchtime, and we sat and ate fresh crab sandwiches on the edge of the river, and watched the Sunday sailors going about their fun.

Trust me the camera was not out when the men jumped overboard to stop the boat, apparently with all that wind they have to do that to stop the sail! missed a couple of good shots, but hope you enjoy these...

Happy Sunday sailing and getting wet.... they have a nice sailors rest bar on the shore so sure they got wet inside as well as out!

Evening July Walk

A lovely walk on a Saturday evening with a cool breeze blowing after a hot humid day, took these few photo's hoping they would show you what a great little place Beccles is....

These two geese decided to pose for me!

Seems so peaceful doesn't it...

Not as good as some people can take. (Dive and Katie) but have done my best with my little camera...

Nice lot of boats in for the summer..

We came across these newly put up notices, and hope you can click on them and read about our history...

Great little piece of local news that should get some people to the Beccles Museum!
That is if they get this far up the river bank......

Oscar feeling the heat.

It is so hot at the moment here, feel sorry for all the furry animals!, Oscar cooled down on the old path and played with a stick......but mostly he sleeps in this weather..

I suspect we will be moaning about the rain soon!

Hangar Dance

Hope these do not frighten you too much! this was me ready for dancing the night away at the annual 40's Hangar Dance, held as one would guess in the hangar on Ellough Airfield..... close by.....sadly I forgot my camera, so these few are from my dear niece's mobile phone hopefully more to follow, as another nice person took a few......

You cannot see here the wonderful people who were dressed in all sorts of forces uniforms, american as well, some sailors of all ranks.....and everything people wore in the war years.....it was so clever, so many nurses, spivs, tarts and people in posh frocks with gloves which we wore then...and of course stockings with seams, some who had their partners draw the seam on their legs as we did in the war ....all shapes and sizes of people.... ..The hangar was full , 540 people we believe.... all in aid of the local Waveney Hospice Care charity... and a really good night was had by all...everyone behaved well.. of course with all the MP's and guards around with rifles etc and a dog!! of course I can remember it for real.... in fact the invitations were made like the old identity cards, and I still have mine from 1940.. whoops.....

The big band were so great we are very lucky to have such talented people who can play wonderful music.. and the dancing by some, well, it was a joy to watch , and to join in as well....learned to do some swing jazz with a sailor, well not a real one! but he was very nifty on his feet......

Dear Liz and James Liz being saucy as usual.....and looking good....

Ivan and me ....he was dressed as an ARP warden, but he refused to wear the hat....

This is rather blurred but you can see we were having a good time..

Hopefully as I have said there may be more...

Flowers

It would have been my Mothers birthday yesterday, this is a rose called Evelyn May, her name, and it smells delicious....my dear Jan bought me and my brothers each one, after Mum passed away, and they are really lovely..

Begonias doing well...

My water lily again this year...

Wedding Cake

Set the wedding cake up on Sunday morning at the venue, (this is taken at mine before I went....) the wedding reception took place at Manor Barns, and wow what a place, really swish, and I have to say "wedding inspire" who were the ones who were putting white chair covers on with burgandy ribbons etc and lots of other beautiful things, made the place really special, so hats off to them, glad they liked the look of the cake as well.....

I will hear how it went no doubt, but the bride and groom could not help but be impressed when they walked in......I know I was....

This is the middle tier....

The top tier....

I was really pleased with it, after not being sure the flowers were OK as there were quite a lot of them....Hope they liked the taste of it as well.....

Dive and me

Think I must be shrinking! Height-wise, not sideways ! Thought I would prove Dive is not such a hater of the realm!! he he....There was a whole lot of Union jacks on the stand....