Showing posts with label Burghley. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Burghley. Show all posts
2 August 2015
July - a month in pictures
Goodness July has come and gone in a flash. What did we do? Visiting, babysitting, knitting, gardening
31 August 2014
Family - a Burghley get together
On Saturday we finally got to have our aborted get together with friends. Venue Burghley Garden of Surpises.
After a cool start, too cool for the children to strip off and play in the fountains, we managed our picnic in the sunshine. A lovely day was had by all.
This friendship goes back years, actually more years than I care to admit! Judy and I first met when we were 12 and we cycled to school together. Judy was the year above me being just slightly older, but we worked part time and socialised together. We met our husbands at the same time, they being friends from their village and school. So as you can imagine we all have lots of shared memories. Whilst Judy's family moved away to Northampton before they got married we kept in touch and visited one another a fair bit. Both of us went on to have 2 daughters a piece - their daughters being Katie and Chloe, who both have a daughter each Charlotte and Amelie. We have shared holidays and weekends away. We don't see one another that often these days, life and families take up lots of spare time (we wouldn't have it any other way), but when we do, we just pick up where we left off. Easy friendship, and I am thankful for it.
So without further ado, here is my photographic record of the day. Hopefully Katie and Chloe's husband's, who weren't able to join us on this occasion will enjoy them and feel a little bit part of the day.
The "boys" catching up, took them a while to walk down.......
Tim kindly took a group photo, Laurie decided he wasn't going to be in it either, though you can just see him popping up in the moving one, thanks Google
The ball game started to get a bit rough!
A lovely day, thank you all for coming and to Beck and Chloe for arranging it.
After a cool start, too cool for the children to strip off and play in the fountains, we managed our picnic in the sunshine. A lovely day was had by all.
This friendship goes back years, actually more years than I care to admit! Judy and I first met when we were 12 and we cycled to school together. Judy was the year above me being just slightly older, but we worked part time and socialised together. We met our husbands at the same time, they being friends from their village and school. So as you can imagine we all have lots of shared memories. Whilst Judy's family moved away to Northampton before they got married we kept in touch and visited one another a fair bit. Both of us went on to have 2 daughters a piece - their daughters being Katie and Chloe, who both have a daughter each Charlotte and Amelie. We have shared holidays and weekends away. We don't see one another that often these days, life and families take up lots of spare time (we wouldn't have it any other way), but when we do, we just pick up where we left off. Easy friendship, and I am thankful for it.
So without further ado, here is my photographic record of the day. Hopefully Katie and Chloe's husband's, who weren't able to join us on this occasion will enjoy them and feel a little bit part of the day.
The "boys" catching up, took them a while to walk down.......
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| Miss C wasn't too happy about her granny holding Miss J |
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| Rufus with his new school haircut |
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| he still has a few curls just at the back |
Tim kindly took a group photo, Laurie decided he wasn't going to be in it either, though you can just see him popping up in the moving one, thanks Google
The ball game started to get a bit rough!
A lovely day, thank you all for coming and to Beck and Chloe for arranging it.
8 July 2013
Weekend.... what a weekend
My weekend started with a trip up to Stamford to spend the day with the boys. With the summer finally here Rebecca and I spent the morning at Burghley's Gardens of Surprises.
Then playing in the garden after nap time
Rebecca's neighbour Martin is part of the Red Arrows Team, and she got a call from his wife to say that they would be passing over the house at 4:47pm on their way back to base, so we made sure we we watching the sky for our own private flypast, complete with white smoke. How cool was that?
Saturday was a day of odd jobs, cool drinks and knitting in the shade. Here is some of what I have been working on over the past week. See you get lots done when you have no internet connection!
Now on to Sunday. Exciting day, not only did Andy Murray win Wimbledon (thanks Tim for the blow by blow commentary), but we went to see Michael Buble at the O2 with the girls. I can't tell you how great it was. So I will let the smiling faces say it all. Bonus for the girls was that Bryan Adams came on for the encore....... only downer on the day was the nearly 2 hour wait to get out of the car park.
Thank you Peter for driving us, but I know you enjoyed it too! xx
Then playing in the garden after nap time
Rebecca's neighbour Martin is part of the Red Arrows Team, and she got a call from his wife to say that they would be passing over the house at 4:47pm on their way back to base, so we made sure we we watching the sky for our own private flypast, complete with white smoke. How cool was that?
Saturday was a day of odd jobs, cool drinks and knitting in the shade. Here is some of what I have been working on over the past week. See you get lots done when you have no internet connection!
Now on to Sunday. Exciting day, not only did Andy Murray win Wimbledon (thanks Tim for the blow by blow commentary), but we went to see Michael Buble at the O2 with the girls. I can't tell you how great it was. So I will let the smiling faces say it all. Bonus for the girls was that Bryan Adams came on for the encore....... only downer on the day was the nearly 2 hour wait to get out of the car park.
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| Do you think someone is excited? |
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| Shame the light got in to this one |
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| The girls! |
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| O2 |
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| Merchandise stand |
Thank you Peter for driving us, but I know you enjoyed it too! xx
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