More Hamilton photos

Here are more photographs from our walk with The Hamiltons.

A visit with the Hamiltons

This is lovely little Tom Hamilton, Iris, and two other little friends of the Hamiltons who came on a walk with us.
(Daisy, Freya & Pippa had run off up the hill at this point)

Iris quite liked Tom, despite him scratching her a couple of times, she still quite liked him.
He was very sweet.

Nana's birthday

This was my mums birthday cake.
She likes knitting.
Those needles were edible.
Yum.

The cake may have been in focus, but my mum is definitely all blurry and i promise i wasn't drunk.

Merry Christmas from very hairy girls

This post will sit at the top until Christmas happens, because i've set it's date for Boxing Day

Scroll below to see if there are any new posts.

Christmas Day

This photo was taken on Marc's old iphone first thing this morning when i ventured into the kitchen, we still have snow in our back garden.

Here the girls are modeling for H&M their new Christmas dresses from Grandma Bonjour out in France, who we will see very shortly.
Due to a poorly Bentley Dog, and some icy roads, they couldn't come over.

A Christmas Eve 'Peter Pan' story

Marc told the girls a Christmas Eve Peter Pan story.
Marc's 'Peter Pan' stories are stories loosely based around J M Barrie's popular 'Peter Pan' book, only they are a little bit different.

This story i believe involved Wendy getting married to someone, but i was busy in the other room and didn't listen, so i don't know who she married, but i would guess at the groom being Peter Pan.
I would also guess that Captain Jame Hook featured in it probably causing trouble at the church.


We hung their stockings on the back of their door, for Father Christmas to fill.

They are actually sitting on Iris' bed whilst having their story and as you might be able to spot on the bed, the girls have chosen to sleep in their pink sleeping bags for the last two nights.
The girls are strange.

Angry Bird

This is Daisy playing Angry Bird on Marc's old iphone
(which is now deemed my iphone, though i only use it on wireless in the house)
Daisy is better at it than me, which is obviously a sign of things to come, the young are such sponges.
She will probably be teaching me how to operate my new touch screen cooker in 10 years time.

Mary had a little lamb

Marc has taught the girls a new version of this popular nursery rhyme.

Mary had a little lamb
she also had a goat
she also had a chicken
but the bone stuck in her throat

Out with Issy the dog

We took Issy (Daryl's dog) out for a walk t'other day

Ooh the cheek of it

and we found a hollow tree.


When you find a hollow tree, you have to investigate it from every angle.


and then pose next to it.

When I grow up...

I asked the girls what they wanted to be when they grew up.
Daisy said a popstar which is highly predictable seeing as she watched the Factor X last night.
Iris said she wanted to be Hello Kitty.

Halloween (old photos)

I have neglected to put up photos of late, so over the next week or so, random strange photographs will be going up.

Sorry for any confusion this may cause.

This was the girls' halloween outfits before we went to a Halloween party and trick or treating.



Oh and by the way, this was taken in the back room right at the top of our house before we finished decorating.

Birthday Flowers

These are the flowers my mum sent me on my birthday.
They were so pretty.
They are now dry and hanging upside down, in the shop, i will take photographs of them.

The Zoo, The Zoo

Back in October, we went to PaigntonZoo.
(remember that Vicky?)

Here are some photographs from that trip.

A lovely little goat.

The amazing tunnel that this year, Iris was brave enought to enter.

Daisy in the amazing tunnel.

Daisy making the most of the wobbly bridge.


Cute Parrot



'Gay' the Elephant, who's partner died recently(ish)

She was so close, i could almost touch her. (well if i accidentally fell into the shrubbery and then took about three steps)

Grandad Nick's birthday

It was Grandad's birthday yesterday.
He was one year older than he was the day before.

My present was ordered early last week via some fella on ebay and is still on it's way, typically.
Hopefully it will turn up tomorrow.

Here are two photographs of my dad in front of the 'James Caird' (pronounced Care'd) which is now moored on dry land in Dulwich College.


(My dad borrowed one of those stones, which allegedly came from South Georgia.)

For those that don't know, the 'James Caird' was the tiny little boat that Ernest Shackleton, Frank Worsley and four other men sailed from Elephant Island down in the Antarctica to South Georgia which is around 900 miles across the roaring forty's (the strip of water at the bottom of Cape Horn).
These six men risked their lives in order to get help for the remaining 22 men who were left behind, because frankly, nobody else was going to come looking for them at the very bottom of the world.

Dad's words
"When we look at the situation from our comfy modern homes it is hard to get your head around some of the decisions that Shackleton had to make for the benefit of the whole crew.
I was on HMS Protector the ice patrol ship 50 years ago (that long) which spent the Antarctica summers going around the various island where people from the UK were based. They were working for FIDS the Falkland Island Dependencies Surveys and they were mapping Antarctica.
The ship had two helicopters on board and I was one of the engine fitters for the helicopters.
The helicopters were used to move surveyors around Antarctica so they could map the land, and the dog teams that the surveyors used, we had to chuck in the choppers with the sledge slung underneath, to get them away as there was no way the dogs would get in a helicopter for the first time.
Grytviken was a working whaling station with a large work force permanently stationed there
...
The men have all gone now and the Salvesons base at Grytviken is now a ghost base with visits from yachts who post pictures on the web, all the equipment is left there rusting
It is now 50 year since I was there but Shackleton's grave is there in the grave yard, well photographed by every yacht that visits ."

If you want to find out more about Shackleton, then do a google search, or click this Wiki link. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Shackleton
Or ask my dad, he knows as much as anyone.

This by the way is Daisy aged 13 months sitting on the tiller of the James Caird whilst nobody else was looking.

William & St Pauls

These photos were taken back in August when we were in London.
Yes i know that was some time ago, but they just sort of got forgotten about until now.

The girls always love a bit of jumping, especially with the St Paul's backdrop.



But fun wouldn't be fun unless it was followed by a little squabble over who is on which side.

Daisy took this photograph.

This is my old friend William, from my university days, and his lovely boy Milo.


Here's Daisy getting a bit cozy with Milo, she liked Milo, or rather she liked the gadget he was playing.

Fancy Dress

Back in Sept, the girls borrowed some costumes from Polly's theater company and entered the fancy dress competition at our village show.
They didn't win, but they were photographed by an official photographer and ended up in the local paper.
I was on face painting duties that day, so i of course painted their faces.
Iris insisted on being a 'pink' bear/lion.

Other new posts that i've slipped in

Previous posts that i've just slipped in now.

Princess Leia fancy dress party, on the 31st July.

Missing tooth

This photo was actually taken on the 5th August not long after Daisy and Iris came back from staying with Aunti Emma and Uncle Paul and Daisy had lost her first tooth.
Apparently one minute it was wobbly, then she bit on her cardigan and the next minute it was out.
No string tying and slamming doors and all that malarky.