The Royal Wedding

Who would have thought that a trip to London would have resulted in an invitation to a Royal Wedding!

The bride to be

No turning back now! Still to this day I remember those nerves

Sit back and take in the moment

Congratulations to the Duke & Duchess of Cambridge.

Trip down the Mall

The Beautiful Duchess.

Amazing how we got so close.

Stepping out on to the balcony

The long awaited kiss

To the happy couple have a lovely day.

Easter Play

Spotty swinging

This one is for Ruth ( Katharine ) and Rachel (shoes)

Bethany in her love heart dress

Who ate all the chocolate!

Easter Pirates

Sunny game time at Easter was interrupted by the Easter pirates.

Jacob just hanging around.

Rebecca tied down, but for how long!

Argh! Pirates

Resigned to do the ships cooking.

Easter Egg Hunt 2011

Another year and again the Hammonds and Pearsons tackle the Great bug Easter egg hunt at Abbotsbury gardens. The weather was great and the gardens have never been busier. The aim is to collect a golf tea which guarantees you a cream egg, but the ultimate is to find one of the collectables which is either a gold piggy, gold horseshoe which wins you a giant egg. Over the years we have never found one, but we have seen one.

Hammonds & Pearsons ready to go! Adult to child ration 1:2

War paint on!

Easter egg hunting is a nasty business ( fake wound provided by St Johns Ambulance )

Ken keeping a close eye on the children.

Still no piggy! but I can see four

Looks like we will have to try again next year.

Below are katharine's artistic pictures

Wetsuit Warmers

Another sunny day, so off to the beach we go! Wetsuits on and in we go!!

Oliver teaching the youngsters how to body board

Jacob returning the favour.

Water skiing is along way off yet Bethany!!

Just because you have a wetsuit, does not mean you have to go in to the water!

Moors Valley Easter Holiday 2011

Meeting up with Sue & Victoria is a school holiday ritual, because the weather was nice where else to go except to join the hoards of people at Moors Valley.

All aboard the Moors Express

Flying down the slide.

Even Princesses can fly.

Relax with a teddy bear cornet.

Weymouth Beach at Easter

A trip down to Weymouth Beach. Making sand sculptures was the theme of the day

Rebecca covering her treasure.

Oliver trying to think of no place like home but he has not go his ruby shoes on.

Bethany making her turtle sculpture

First Hammonds at Oxford

Who would have thought it a Hammond at Oxford University! well hopefully this taster is enough to encourage the children to become the best they can be. We managed to arrive at Oxford without any hiccups, well almost! Rachel received big hugs and kisses and then showed us her quarters and the campus grounds, apparently according to the children there are 50 steps to Rachel's room. After the lovely picnic lunch we took a stroll through the Oxford University Park to feed some ducks then on to the Pitt Rivers Museum.

Room with a view

Sisters in the Park

Feeding the duck, trying to re-enact the scene from "About A boy"

Skeleton Stampede

Mummy teaching History!! Jacob is just wondering where has all the meat gone!

An old dinosaur!!!!

Rebecca and her fixation on treasure & bling

Nice civilised photo

Nice silly photo