Not the Royal Wedding ....

This evening we're taking off to the hills for the weekend and so will be avoiding the madness of it all ...

I'm sure it will all be lovely ... my class are very excited about it ... with lots of interesting questions as usual

Is the queen dead bossy!( We're in Liverpool here remember!)

Is she dead mean with all her money?
"If I was the queen I'd share all the money out" said Megan

How many houses does she have?

Does the queen drive herself around? Or does she go in a limo?

Why do we have a queen anyway if she's not in charge of the country? Hard to answer that one!

Will Prince Philip die before the Queen because he's going to be ninety?

How do you get to be a King or Queen?

Megan (again) really wants to be a princess, and has her own wedding already planned already.
( She's 7) Her bridemaids will be pink ... and her dress might have lights on it. And she'll have a dead big cake! Big Fat Gypsy Weddings was a very popular show here!

William fancies being Prince William for a day so he can have servants ... no-one else thought that was a good idea!!!

In school today there will be a Royal Wedding Party and the children are coming dressed up in red, white and blue ... or as princes and princesses. I'm going to miss out because I've got hospital appointments and I won't get back in time to join in the fun.

I hope everyone enjoys the special day .... whatever you choose to do!

We'll be hopefully walking somewhere round Borrowdale in the Lake District.

Scavenger Hunt ~ April

April has been very strange, with the incredibly hot days and no April showers!!!
Plus, I've only had seven working days in the whole month! Not that I'm complaining!

So here's my offering for April .... not particularly exciting pics this month. I found some of them really hard to find.

Don't forget, you can add your photographs to the linky tool at the top of my blog, or post them over at Flickr.

I'll post the new list for May as soon as I can!

A Church

St. Peter's ~ our village church

A Cross

The ancient cross in the centre of Cheddar

A Sculpture

An ornate sculptured wooden seat in Coombe Hill Woods, Somerset

A Set of Keys

My car keys

An Unusual Shop Name

It could only be in Glastonbury!

My Camera

I can't find a way of flipping this round!

April Showers

Inca's morning walk in Somerset

Breakfast

My normal weekday breakfast ~ cereal, berries and fruit tea

Eggs

Something to do with Shakespeare

As the great bard might say :
"Much Ado about Nothing"
cynical, I know, but I really am grateful to them for the extra Bank Holiday!!!!

Something to mark St. George's Day

Something Yellow

Erddig on Easter Saturday

This is my second attempt at this post .... I had it almost ready to go last night, but it was late, so I thought I'd finish it today. Wouldn't you know it, one random click and I lost the lot! So this post is going to be much quicker than the first one!

On Saturday afternoon we went to Erddig near Wrexham. This lovely old house dates from the 17th Century...

and gives you the full 'Upstairs, Downstairs' experience, as there is so much to see above and below stairs.

There is a wonderful collection of photographs of the staff who worked here at the end of the 19th Century ... and lots of written information too.

The whole place is like a time capsule ... every item so faithfully preserved. It has never had electricity either, even though it was occupied until the 1970's.

Our favourite room upstairs was the nursery.... my lovely girl complaining yet again, that she had a deprived childhood because she never had a real doll's house!!!!

(Photographs aren't allowed indoors, so the last three are pinched from Google!)

The courtyard was full of bicycles and motor cars...

... and carriages.

The gardens and grounds are lovely, and extensive ... so I'm just going to show you what caught our eye as we wandered around in the Spring sunshine ...

.... and of course no country garden in springtime would be complete without bluebells ....

Erddig, a National Trust property near Wrexham, North Wales .... well worth a visit!

A Happy Easter Birthday!

It wasn't just Easter Sunday in our house this year, but my mum's 77th birthday too!

So we celebrated by having a proper afternoon tea .... I got all my pretty china out, and made some cupcakes.... and my dad drove across to our house. (Truth be told, we're a little nervous about him driving far these days.)

We had a lovely family afternoon ... it's not often we get a chance for all of us to get together!

Happy Birthday Mum!

Project 365 ~ Week 16

A very strange week .... back at work for just four days. We've been doing all the Easter activities we missed before the Spring Break.
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To let .... one empty birdhouse going cheep

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We've booked the ferry to France for the summer holidays!!!! Hooray!!!!

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Making Easter biscuits ... we've covered the new carpet to protect it from stray flour!

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A camera upgrade ... thanks to Mr Tesco and his wonderful double points promotion 

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Today we had our Easter Bonnet parade... as always the children pulled out all the stops and we had some wonderful creations!

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I couldn't believe the temperature recorded on my car at 3.45 Thursday afternoon. It's quite incredible for April in the UK!

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New activity at the badger sett on the Wirral Way ... this hole has been much extended recently, and the earth is freshly dug. We haven't seen a badger though for a while. I think they come out much later now that the evenings are so much lighter!

Hope everyone is enjoying the Easter weekend!