Walking in the fields

Went for a stroll this afternoon down the road from our house and found some bits of broken pottery.   I wonder why there would be bits of broken pots strewn amongst the topsoil in the middle of a South Norfolk field?  I'm sure the bits I found aren't old but it would be interesting to find out - wonder how you can do that?

Toilet paper roll crafting with the kiddies

Castle Desk organiser for Faye's pens and pencils

WHY do shops sell cheap felt-tip pen sets in multi-colours that are probably ten years old?  I'm so sick and tired of having to buy an entire set of colours because the local village shop didn't have stock of just ONE black koki or marker pen - then to get the set of felt tips home and find that they are all dried out. Does anyone know a trick to make them liquid again?  I heard you could put them in vinegar but don't want to try that if it won't work ... any suggestions ?

Caister on Sea

Kevin went back to work today.  It seemed like really nice weather earlier on, even though the wind is a bit chilly.  So trying to make the most of it, I decided to take the kids and Ally to Caister-on-Sea, which is about 45 minutes drive away.  I saw these big clouds building up as we got closer to Yarmouth and was hoping that they were blowing away but nope.   They waited until I'd paid for two hours parking and then decided to start spitting on us.  Undeterred, we opted to eat our picnic lunch in the car, which was perfectly acceptable to all and sundry.   Once we'd filled up on some nosh, it was off up the dunes in the spitting rain and out onto the beach.

I really like this beach at Caister-on-Sea, it's unspoilt and devoid of touristy stuff. You can walk for miles along it - something I plan on doing one of these days.   Hey, I'd even put my cozzie on under my clothes, so I was really game for a spot of swimming or paddling with style.  I got my toes wet and picked up a few cute stones that I might wire wrap later but that was about it.

By the time Faye had managed to get herself wet (she had her cozzie on and shorts), it was coming over really black and dismal.  So we reluctantly had to hot-foot it back to the car.  Typical, by the time we were on the outskirts of Yarmouth coming home, the sun was out with a vengeance again.    But it's going to be short-lived, there is a thick blanket of cloud cover over Long Stratton, sure the rain will start coming down later.  Pity, I am clinging on to the last vestiges of summer for as long as I can!







Stills from the little movie:

Congratulations to Andrew for making a post ... although why he had to put stuff in Welsh there I don't know.   Each to his own, I guess.   Dude, please try and put pictures of dinky Daniel and news about what you guys are doing in future - I'm expecting you to post some photos taken this weekend when you guys go to Jo'burg for Dan's official 1st birthday party. :)

Guess what i said

gadewch i ni weld os allwch chi ddyfalu beth i ddweud yma neu hyd yn oed pa iaith

mom hyjacked this before i posted it so err she smarter than me

let's see if you can guess what to say here or even what language (English)

Faye can ride a bike!

Faye has now passed one of the childhood milestones - she can now ride a bike.

It has been awhile since she got the bike for her birthday and we didn't have much time to teach her how to ride (big kids bikes don't come with training wheels).

After a not very good time trying last weekend trying to teach her to ride, I changed methods and a week later on 18 August 2014 she wobbly pedaled away from her nervous parents.

Problem is, now she wants to go out and ride her bike all the time...

Arrr ....

Couldn't scan the whole picture in -it's chopped off the left hand side where he's written his name "Ewan and Dad").   Ewan is the pirate on the left with the spotty kerchief hat (I have to buy spotty material and make him one he keeps telling me). Ewan has a lot of teeth.  Dad is the pirate on the right with the stubbly beard.   They both have eye-patches and it's the ship's mast between and behind them.   The thingie on the right is the figurehead that goes onto the front of the ship (it's a skull).
I'm really impressed with Ewan's drawings and art that he's doing these days, he uses the entire paper and puts a lot of detail into his pictures.  


Faye is now riding her bike properly!  I think Kevin has done a video, so that will be up shortly.

Caistor St. Edmund - Roman Town

Sorry about the quality, it was a bit of a rush job taken with my camera phone.    We stopped off here this morning for a wander around with the sheep.