Young at heart

We went and stayed at Rebecca and Rick's on the weekend of the 17th May and gave Nanny Baldwin a bit of a surprise by turning up en masse on her birthday. We all got fish and chips for lunch and went to Blakeney Straights to eat them.



Lunch could only keep the children's interest for so long when there was the competing attraction of a stream to play in.



Thomas found a rock



It didn't always go entirely to plan but no one got really wet



Grace found something to amuse her, she's still a bit little for streams!



After the stream we walked up to some different woods where the last of the bluebells for which the Forest is justly famous were still in bloom.

Let it snow

Easter weekend was partly spent in the company of Rick, Rebecca, Amelia and Grace who had braved the arctic conditions to drive all the way from Wales (although white Easters are more common the white Christmases apparently). If it snows, you've got to go out in the garden and make a snowman, it's the law. Of course, it didn't take long before everything degenerated into a snowball fight and no prizes for guessing who started that!







The next day we went for a rather long (3 and a bit miles, it's Rachel's new running route) and muddy walk, as you can see here.



Thanks to Rebecca for the photos

Strike a pose, there's nothing to it!

Rick, Rebecca, Amelia & Grace came to visit on the weekend of November 3rd. Although it was a bit late for Halloween all the children made lanterns out of some of Grandad's home grown pumpkins. Here are the results.



We also went for a walk up to Doreward's Hall farm and fed some of the animals. Amelia wasn't too keen on the goats but Thomas and Martha have been there several times before and seemed OK with them.



For some reason the children decided to go all Freemans catalogue on us for some photos taken on the walk back.



We had fireworks on Saturday evening, complete with sparklers for everyone





All in all a very pleasant weekend.

Flying visit

We had a visit from Kate over the weekend of 5th /6th May, a weekend break from her RAF basic training. Thomas and Martha were naturally delighted to see her and the general excitement level went up a further notch with the simultaneous arrival of Rebecca and Amelia (no Grace sadly, she wasn't feeling very well). Everyone went to Boydells Farm in the afternoon (does anyone detect a pattern emerging?) and spent the rest of the afternoon in the garden. Here's a picture of Kate and three of her nieces and nephews on the hammock in the garden.



On Sunday Kate ironed her RAF greens, sadly the camera was charging at that point so there's no photographic proof, you'll just have to take our word for it.