Bank Holiday Weekend!

Despite the rubbish weather this weekend we were out and about supporting the Brighton Festival and other goings on.

The French market was great with all sorts of goodies on sale.



Not sure how French Paella is, but this is a man's portion!

These two girls put on a very funny dance routine which involved lots of rolling round on the floor - they were covered in bruises!

Callum loved the skateboarding and I thought it was pretty cool too....

These guys did not care that the weather, it's always sunny in their world.

What beautiful voices these three had (not sure what the fourth lady had to do with it!)

On Sunday we headed over to Middle Farm for the farmers market, and some fun in the hay.

Callum had someone in his sights when he picked up this handful.......

Yup, it was Mummy!!

There was a stand off between Callum and this chicken.

Charlotte loved the seesaw.

On Monday there was the annual Hove Lions Festival which is an annual event attracting some 10,000 visitors. Not this year!! It was wet, windy and freezing.

There were only about 100 people there when we arrived in the afternoon.

My favourite part of the afternoon was when an announcement was made over the loud speakers stating that the second demonstration by the Essex Dog Show was cancelled as the dogs were cold and wet and on their way home!! We did the same.

Early Morning Sail

I cycled in to work this morning along the seafront and was greeted by this amazing site. okay, so the picture does not really do it justice so you'll just have to believe me!.

There must have been about 30 boats in total.

PARTY!

On Sunday Callum had a great day at two birthday parties. The first one was his little friend Daisy's - it was not fancy dress, but you try telling Spiderman that!

This slide proved a roaring success with all the kids.

And some adults too!!!



A nice spread.



Will you stop taking pictures and let me eat!!

Yesterday I looked after the children and at the end of an exhausting day (for me anyway!) we hung out on the beach.

I did feed her I promise, but those stones are good........

Uncle Adam

Just found this on my phone - great photo!!

A Weekend in the Country

We spent the weekend in Hereford with Mum and Dad, Adam and Hannah, and Bee. We travelled up on Thursday night, and Vic and I worked during the day on Friday, but come five were ready to party!

Adam and Hannah arrived on Friday night having driven up from London.

The local farmer was busy all weekend planting potatoes in the field next door. I wanted to tell him that our potatoes at home are growing fantastically!!!




Adam lent some of his gear to Callum who loved the get up, or, is that get down??



Bee grabs a couple of minutes to read the paper and enjoy the sunshine.



Granny had discovered a perfect Cave of Wonders in the garden where Callum had lunch.




He spent quite a while in there!


Apparently there is no other way to travel......

Charlotte hanging out with her Dad and Uncle.

Callum helped overseeing the watering of the vegetable patch.

BUNDLE!!!

We had a short walk on Sunday as the clouds gathered.

At one point Adam and Hannah lost Callum - can you spot him??

Vic found him safe and well amongst some beautiful Bluebells.

The rest of the gang.

Mum and Bee enjoy a natter.

You Won't See This Very Often!

Yesterday we had to nip into McDonalds as Callum needed the bathroom. It seemed churlish not to have an ice cream! That is a chocolate milkshake that Vic is clearly enjoying. Me? Well I had a burger and chips of course!!!

More Camping

Here are a few more pictures from last weekend's camping trip.

Mmm....tasty burger.

I want one!!

We vistited a Lama farm..which was nice!

Charlotte had heard that Tottenham were 1-0 up against Arsenal. Shame it didn't finish that way!

My girls!

Is that a bottle of red wine in the corner of this shot? Surely not....

I promise, we didn't give any to Callum!!

Family Blog

Okay, so it might not have been the most popular idea in the world and we are no doubt all busy, but hats off to Adam for taking a leap and posting on the 'From The Four Corners' blog that I set up. You will find a link to it under Family Related Site on the right hand side.

It would be really cool to have as many of you posting pictures etc on this as possible. It does not have to be every week, rather when ever you can!

So come on. As Delia Smith would say 'Lets be 'aving you!!!'

Camping

This weekend we finally got to take out the new tent that I bought the summer before last. It took an hour to put up and has three sleeping compartments! It was by far the biggest tent at the camp site.



Callum and Charlotte slept well despite the cold nights! Here they are early on Sunday morning planning the day ahead.

We will be doing a lot of camping this year!!!

Low Tide

Wow its been a long time since the last post. Since then we have been on holiday and celabrated Vic's birthday. Pictures soon I promise!

In the meantime, these pictures were taken yesterday evening.

Boy, we love living by the sea!

And by the park too!

I'm All Made Up!

Callum actually requested that we put Elvis on the stereo so that we could all rock out to 'Guitar Man' How cool is that?!!!!!

Sk8 Park Update

Looking good..........

Pasta and the Palace

As Vic was working on Sunday I had a day with the children which was great fun. Callum is obsessed with all things Aladdin at the moment and pointed out a picture in his book of the palace. It struck me that there are great similarities with our own Royal Pavilion, so I took the two of them for a look round. Callum was very excited to be visiting a palace. We shot round in under half an hour as the children do not have a great interest in the history of it yet!!!

We then had a very civilised lunch at an italian in the lanes which was great fun!

Mothers Day

On Sunday we headed over to Wakehurst Place with a picnic. We also took Callum's friend Billy and the boys enjoyed hacking around the grounds...............

................ and playing in the trees.

Neither one was keen to try and climb up this one though!

When we got home we had a quick visit to the playground. It was absolutely freezing cold, but I think Charlotte was nice and toasty!

Charlotte & Cora

Charlotte had a friend over on Saturday and they hung out on at the beach. Looks like they had fun!

Still No Pot of Gold

Chris and I played a few holes of golf on Saturday which, for me, was the first time I had hit a golf ball for ages. In fact, early in the round I actually hit very few!!!!!

This is a picture, taken on my phone, is from the tee box of the 2nd (or 11th if you're going round again) looking down the fairway. In a truly mystical way, the rainbow is pointing down to almost exactly where my drive landed, never mind!!!!

On Sunday we walked down to Loch Leven and sat in the new bird hide and watched mainly swans flying into a very strong head wind.


More pictures from the weekend to follow......