Abbotsbury Gardens FEB 2010

The view from the top of Magnolia Hill, of The Fleet and Chesil beach.

Picnic lunch in February? Its always sunny and warm on the south coast.

It may be sunny, but we still needed gloves on! (Actually it wasn't very sunny either).

Trying to escape now they've had their lunch.

My lovely tree picture. I nearly hugged this one.

Trekking through the jungle looking for trolls under the boardwalk.

A Chinese Golden Pheasant . Native to Abbotsbury of course.

Bethany & Becky

We were given the great honour this week of being the first people to babysit baby Becky. High excitement all round and we told her Mum Vanessa to take a very long time and not to hurry back! Becky was fine and it was reassuring to know that we havn't lost our touch! Bethany had forgotton how tiring it is having a baby in the house!

Baby asleep and Bethany happy with a good afternoons work.

A new Beginning

If only I would have known it was that easy to make my wife happy, I would have done it years ago! After my disaster last week with defrosting the freezer, we now have a monster of a fridge-freezer and a very happy wife. I also understand now that yes size does matter, I feel so lucky that the goods I chose actually fits the gap.

Beach - January 2010

Today started with sunshine, so what could go wrong!!!! ..... well, defrosting the freezer is what went wrong. A little tip to all my male blog followers, never defrost the freezer with a meat cleaver you could easily burst a pipe!. To help solve my dilemma a trip to Currys was needed, this is where I discovered that this is quite a common problem. After a visit from Leanne and Jasmine and after lunch we went to Weymouth beach for some gymnastic run around time.

Jacob on the beam

Oliver falling on the floor exercise

Next on to the floor is Bethany

Rebecca warming up for the vault

The trophy is a sea horse carcass

Jacob changing events to pole vault

Daddy trying to race out of the starting blocks

Jacob and the stone shot put

Closing ceremonies

When we arrived home we had time to do some paint stamping and practice some drawing techniques.

Daddy's Birthday

On the 11th January I celebrated my 36th birthday, by going to work and coming home to gifts and lots & lots of lovely chocolate, chocolate slabs, chocolate cake and a range of hotel chocolat. This has now been eaten, it has been a chore but I succeeded and I am now on chocolate come down so any donations are welcome :0D.

"Cake, cake, cake cake, cake"...... sing it with me David!!

January Catch UP

This week we had delivery of our extending dining table. We have all fallen in love with this piece of furniture, it now means we can all sit together at meal time without the booster seat trays. It also gives Katharine a good reason to put on huge meals, this is not a complaint! as long as there is meat I am happy !

Celebrating the tables arrival

Brothers playing a kind of twister wrestling

New Year 2010

This years, New Year day walk was at Tynham Village. The drive to the village was eventful as driving up the smallest of hills we ended up stuck in an ice patch with cars behind and in front, after about 10min some kind person helped me to push our vehicle free. Once we arrived at Tynham we realised that a lot of people had the same idea for a walk at this location. We took a nice walk down to Worbarrow Bay, and ate mince pies!

Worbarrow Bay

Eating mince pies