Thursday, June 30, 2011

Lulworth Cove June 2010

I am very thankful to the striking teachers today as it gave me an extra day with the children. I thought we ought to do some home schooling really, so we went on a field trip to Lulworth Cove. We had maths when we added up the car park money, home ec when we had a picnic, PE when they climbed on the rocks, geology when looking at the pebbles, biology when we looked at the crabs and sea anemones and art when the children found some clay and made lots of models. All angles covered so we got on with enjoying a fantastic day out in the sunshine!


Very interesting. Men lugging bags onto beach from a boat. Could it be pirate treasure?
Their haul was piled up and the camera zoom not quite strong enough to get a good look, so we meandered up the beach to find out if there was any gold going spare.
Only if you like scallops! A days catch, going straight to London to make someone else some gold. Oliver did check to make sure they hadn't left any bags behind!
Bethany's catch of some sea anemones. Endlessly fascinating.


Oliver's favourite...one of many crabs. This being one of the smallest.


Jacob with his most favourite thing in the whole world...rocks. Lots and lots of rocks. Thankfully this one has not made it back to sit in our garden with half of Weymouth beach which is already there.
Oliver on a mission to collect water for his crab castle. The crabs moved in to the sand castle Rebecca and I made and was then filled with water in an attempt to keep the crabs in one place. It didn't work. We forgot they have lots of legs and move really fast. No animals were harmed in the making of this experiment. They were released back into the sea.
Lots of synchronised playtime going on today!






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Nothe Fort June 2010

A picnic with Jacob and Rebecca at Nothe Fort. Very entertaining I can tell you! We had quite a bit of company from various feathered friends. Jacob and Rebecca loved that the birds came so close and both enjoyed feeding them. However, Rebecca fed them pretty much most of her lunch and was quite happy lobbing half a muffin at them, but Jacob was a little more sparing of his lunch and had other ideas...



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Dessert


Jacob and Rebecca burnt off their hearty lunch with some kite flying, only the wind dropped and we only got it in the air a couple of times. They were both happy running around with it behind them though. Rebecca giving Jacob strict instructions.

Jacob decided it was mans work and he was far better off doing it himself!

Thursday, June 23, 2011

Wedding in Wales

At the weekend our friend Kate and her partner finally tied the knot in a small local village in Wales. We managed to find the church with minutes to spare. After the service just as the rain set in we set off to find our B&B in Penylan which was only 20 minutes away but took us 1 hour to find, but once found it was a great relief to find the place was as beautiful as described on the website. In the evening we were collected by minibus and taken to the barn dance & hog roast reception. The dancing was fun and the hog was fantastic, I had to have 4 pork baps to make sure!

A double rainbow to celebrate the wedding, my gift to the couple

Upstairs at out B&B Mill cottage accommodation.


Downstairs which also had an en suite and a small patio overlooking the valleys.

The New Porch

At last we have a new porch, the old development had to be replaced due to the cracked glass, rotten woodwork and a door that only locked when it felt like it. So thanks to local window company we now have a shiny new one! with a home made house number courtesy of the sea!!


Amazing what you can do with sea glass!

One occupant who lives in the house is a very sick feeling spiderman

A ferocious Rebecca

Sunday, June 5, 2011

Monkey World

Thank you to Granny and Granddad for a great Christmas present which we decided to use today, tickets to Monkey World! Monkeys galore, including chimpanzees, orangutans, lemurs, capucins, woolley gibbons to name a few. All of them have been rescued from the international pet trade, medical research facilities or have been rescued from ill treatment. They are now fantastically cared for at Monkey World and we all had a wonderful day watching them all feeding, playing and even saw a chimpanzee pick his nose. Much to the children's disgust (thankfully) he ate it!!
Highly recommended for everyone. Helps if you like monkeys though!



Bethany baboon

This grumpy little fella was rescued from a science lab in Chile where he and 87 others were kept for years in single cages and had never seen daylight. Now he spends all day playing with his friends, inside or out as he wishes. He was busy eating couscous and monkey nuts! What's there to be grumpy about?
From one set of monkeys to another!

King of the castle.. and I am the dirty ... what?

The biggest see saw I have ever seen.

Stunt practice. When they could stop laughing for long enough!
Now I have her caged, no running away now!


Its all in the bounce


Who says the UK does not have talent.

Body boarding

Sunny day in half term, means sand and sea is needed.
Two surf dudes

Look mummy I am in the water this time

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Abbotsbury Circus

Half term activities are once again upon us. First stop Abbotsbury barn to introduce the flying Hammonds and the ferocious goat taming.

Oliver the great leaper

Rebecca the flying jelly bean.

Bethany the daredevil

Jacob the animal hypnotist


Rebecca showing off her ability to walk....drag an animal to where she wants to go, I am already feeling sorry for the future husband.