Thanks Gill for lending this to me......Alistair what are you thinking?
A bright sunny day, so a trip once again to Southwold.......mmmmmmm it was minus zero, very nice but very very cold!!but Southwold looks good with the sun shining from the harbour..
Anyone fancy buying a hut? there were several for sale today! hope you can see the lighthouse in the distance...
I took a little walk to get this, and it took Ivan half an hour to get me warm again...flipping heck it was a very chilly wind coming from the North Sea..... see what I do to get you some nice pics!
Mean and moody you can just see the choppy sea.....
Here somewhere is yet another seagull picture!!!!hope you can find it........
After all Dives Bah Humbug about Christmas, decided to put the tree up this year again.....Oscar has never seen it..... I wonder how long he will take to climb it...
This may not be very clear, but you can get the idea.... Think we feel Christmassy at last.....and Dive even took a photo this morning...
Sunday Jazz with some of the sweetest old lads in the business....they may look old but play Jazz like young ones....had to grab the photos in a hurry before it got to full of people...so not great but you can get the idea.... the dear chap on the Tuba will be 89 on Wednesday!!!!see Dive hope lives!!!!
Dave looks a bit grim on the drums, but he is still great.....
After yesterdays rain and miserable weather, Oscar and I settled down in a cosy warm room, and I envy that he was soon snoring away, he looked so cosy could not resist taking this..
Dive was correct it has got far worse this snow, the weather forecast said it would get clear!!!
Think it is an indoor day although years ago we would all have gone for a lovely walk in this and made a snowman!!
This morning early we had our first real snow. took this photo first in the back garden, and then it got a lot worse!!
This was a while ago out the front garden.....
This tiny photo is the only one I can find of our landlord Tony Mercecia in Zerafa Street in Malta in 1957......
This is Charlie cat proving that he can reach parts that us humans cannot!!!!The other two cats thought we were too noisy!!
How about this one he does love the camera... he is Oscar the same name as my little ginger boy!!!!! (not Dive or Full)!! my cat! he loves being at his nanny and grandads...come to that so do I! Earlier I had borrowed Wellies (as luck would have it Julie and I share the same shoe size)!!!!so while Julie did her magic in the kitchen Alan, Sherdan and Ivan did some gardening, Oscar and I went walk about, little monkey took me all over the place, it' s so good to see the boys able to climb trees and chase about in an orchard, lucky them...
And this is Sherdan and he will break many a girls heart me thinks!!!!!just look at those innocent eyes....no wonder the camera blurred...sorry handsome....
Here are some of the family party ....unfortunately poor Bailey had not been well so daddy John, her and Charlie cat had a nap while Julie, Michelle, Ivan and I watched to see if Alan had won on the horse racing on TV!
Happy 50th birthday Son... as you have taken all my photo albums of you and your brother as babies.. this is what I am left with!!!!
Enjoy......
Once again I have been spoilt!! went to Norwich Theatre Royal last night with a friend and saw the above....
Lemon and Almond Tart and Mincemeat pies..... that I made for some friends who came for an evening meal....and for my "girls from Alistairs site" yes he did have custard with the tart!!!!!
Spoilt again with some more roses.......
Recently have met up with some friends I had lost contact with, but we go back a long way, and am happy to know we are still friends and I have started to see them again....Julie had a party for her birthday and I was invited... lucky me......
Now here is barbi!!!! I just made the cake and Ivan iced it.....this pic I took at the party before we ate it!!!!!!!!
And here she is giving in!!!!!
Had a lovely bunch of roses brought me last week, thought they would look good on here!!!
A statue of a Pilot of 1940, very impressive......
Some uniforms that bring back many memories.....
John worked on these Meteors in the 50's.. I have loads of the other planes Dive and Full but you can see them when you come over here....
This is what evoked the memories for me though.. seeing how we used to live, it does make one realise just how lucky we are nowadays with all the things we have now .. I wonder if the youngsters appreciate what they have to what was?
Of course we always had fresh vegetables home grown and made our own bread, just the doodlebugs over head here that bothered us in those days.....
Just a little taste of where we went last week... have so many photo's that I am trying to sort a few at a time so as not to bore people....as Dive and Fulls Dad was in the RAF and a founder member of our local RAFA, so the boys and I have always been keen to have anything to remind us of how John loved to take us to many many airshows...
This of course always reminds me of when we first went to Malta in the 50's the NAFFI was our number one place to go....
I know this mosaic is not like Dive and Katie saw, but could not resist it....
Not finished yet...
And this is of course a typical Dive shot!!! the one of Mum on the left!!!now you know why he has a weird sense of humour......
Thursday ,Jan and Derek and I went to the Flixton Aviation Museum.. Think it had only started when the boys were little and we went there....what a difference... lots of memories there.....
She dissapeared into the trees, so we followed... and what a joy it was hope you can get an idea from these....
The boardwalk takes you through wildlife heaven.... and there are signs about the wildlife at each turn.....a lot of work has been put in here....
We are so lucky to have such a place so close and we should have paid more visits, but will in the future.....
We reached the river and there are seats there a beautiful sunny spot, well it was the day we went...
There sat several dragonflies, and this one let me take its photo!!!!
Here is the view from the end of the walk.....
