An old drawing of Iris'

I found this old drawing of Iris' in a pile of papers in my office, i'm not sure who it is of and i think it must have been done a good six months ago, i just like the teeny tiny letgs, so sweet.

School Photographs

I didn't really like the school photographs that Tulip Photography did of the girls, so i did my own.



Grandparents be warned you will be receiving these soon, make room on a suitable surface.

A Cardboard Skeleton

Blimey, it's about time i updated this old thing.

My dad (Grandad Nick) gave us a 3d cardboard skeleton jigsaw kit thingy a while ago.
He'd been given it by Michelle i believe and he thought it would be much more interesting giving it to me to try to put together.

Well i can tell you it was a bloomin hard job to put together.

The instructions were worse than IKEA, and a little knowledge of the bones inside your body would be helpful, which was why i enrolled Andrea in to help me who rather helpfully is an orthopedic nurse.


Now i believe i'm allowed to put these photos up of the children in Daisy's school as long as i don't name them, so these children will remain unnamed.

Cross Country Running

Daisy is in a cross country running team at school and on Tuesday she ran in her first race with lots of other children.
She did really well, she ran faster than a couple of girls who are older and bigger than her.

Fairies

In my never ending quest to create the perfect flower fairy portraits, here is the latest experiment with Daisy, just before i chopped some of her hair off.


This is Iris posing in her birthday nightie (that i made) and her birthday wings, wand and crown that she bought from a toy shop in Wells with her birthday money.


oh and this is just a little extra photo.

Fish Stock

We went down to Devon on the 10th to go to 'Fish Stock' in Brixham and the TAF's production of "Bugsy Malone".
Fish Stock Link
Torbay Acting Factory
Fish stock was fun, it was a bit fishy, the paella was rather tasty, there were some rather strange people, the music was a laugh and Marc did compering for a ready steady cook off .
The cook off was with Andy Sewell, the head chef at the Quayside Hotel in Brixham, against Richard Hunt, the head chef at The Grand hotel in Torquay.
Andy won.

Here are the girls on a trawler, they loved going down under the deck and seeing the little bunks where the men would sleep and little galley where they would eat their dinners.

Here is a rather strange fishy creature.

Here the girls are having their feet cleaned by tiny little fish, they said it tickled rather a lot.

This is a lady crab.

 

Daisy doing the rabbit ears on Iris.

Bugsy Malone was brilliant, the children who were in it were fantastic, well done my sister Polly for putting on a brilliant show.

Charlie the Chimp

Iris apparently did some good writing today at school about her friend Peter.
Peter told me that he did good writing about his friend Iris.
Iris however got to take home 'THE CLASS CHIMP' for one night only.

Charlie the Chimp comes in a red bag and has a diary that has to be filled out by each child.
Iris is indescribably excited about this turn of events and Charlie the Chimp is currently in her bed with her now.

Posers

I snapped a couple of shots of these two after somebody else's shoot, and they were so blasé about the whole thing, barely even smiling for me.
I'm going to have to do some serious photoshoots with them over the next few months to get them trained up again.

Marc the glider

Marc went gliding today, it was a present from his sister for his 40th birthday back in November.
It was amazing.
I took lots of photos of this occasion, here are just a few

This is Marc about to get into the plane

This is Ron his pilot

Being strapped in

Waiting (note Paul, Emma and girls in the background)

Take off

Dropping the rope

Landing safe and sound

Posing

Race For Life

Today I ran 5 kilometers in 36 mins and 33 seconds.
Hoorah.

I had no intention of running it, but then i just sort of ended up running for 3k with Emma, and then i stopped and was a bit dizzy (note to self when running in any group kind of running exercise, don't stop running just keep going) so then i walked for about half a kilometer whilst Emma carried on running, and then i felt much better and a steward told me it was only 1.5k left to go so i ran again.
I could also see Emma ahead of me which pushed me on.

There is dodgy photo on facebook, which quite frankly can just stay on facebook.

Rock Chicks

It was our 11th wedding anniversary on Friday and Emma and Paul had the girls for the weekend for us and it was lovely having a lie in on both Sat and Sun.

Emma and Paul turned the girls into 'Rock Chicks'

Recent garden photos

Here are some recent photographs of our garden.

The girls in 'their cave', i bought this pink thing from a car boot in Devon.

Our allotment looking quite green
Cabbages all wrapped up with a CD for company.
The chicken house and run
Glinda strutting around looking for worms
A little frog


Iris looking for a prince

Glinda heard the word frog, frogs are tasty to a chicken.

Fairy girls

My girls posed for me with the huge mushroom that grandad made.
My work in progress is progressing.


Potential fairies come forward.

The girls and the twins after the wedding.

Iris and Daisy really love Frankie and Evie, Iris especially loves them.
Iris did mention to me that they looked like snow white, and can you imagine how exciting to a four year old it must be to have not only one beautiful snow white 'look-e-like-e' to talk to and play with, but two identical beautiful snow white's.

This is Iris crying because the Snow Whites are leaving very shortly.

This is Iris cheering up because Frankie (i think that's Frankie) gave her a last cuddle.

Thankfully she remained happy for one last photograph.

Tom & Lucy's wedding

Here are a few photographs from the wedding we went to recently up in Kent.

The happy couple.

Dancing with grandma and one of the twins (Frankie i think)


Iris quite liked her great uncle Chris.