Pony riding with The Hamiltons

Here are lots of photographs of girls (mostly Daisy) riding a rather rotund pony called ... hmmmm i can't remember his name, but he was a boy pony and very placid.

What on earth was his name, hopefully it will come to me soon.

Rachel leading the pony with Freya on his back.

Iris didn't want to go on the ponies back at all, she was a bit scared of the pony.
Iris keeping a safe distance away from the pony, with Josh.
Pretty Freya with a crusty nose.
This is only about 15 mins walk from their house.
It's amazing isn't it.
Back up the hill away from the lovely little beach and river.
Daisy very pleased with herself on a pony.


For some reason i have no pictures of Pippa on the pony even though she rode it just as much as Freya and Daisy, Pippa loved riding the pony and basically cried all the time that she was off the pony, Pippa really loves riding ponies.

Thank god Daisy hasn't really mentioned it since, even though she really loved it too.

Visiting The Hamiltons

We went a visiting The Hamiltons last weekend (26th & 27th Sept) and had a lovely time, well most of us had a lovely time, Marc came down with a nasty sickness bug that had him up in the night and in bed for most of the day on Sunday, poor Marc.
He's only just recovering now.
Subsequently, Iris was sick once in the night both on Sunday & Monday and then Daisy was sick last night four times.
Sickness bugs are a pain in the bottom, the washing that goes with it really sets you back. Dreadful i tell you.
I've been ok, fingers crossed and all that.

Anyway the girls had a fabulous time with The Hamiltons, Daisy gets on very well with Freya and Iris is just starting to play with Pippa now that they are both 3.

Here are some photographs of them all playing in the lanes, Rachel and Josh's lanes are virtually empty so it's great for us all to walk up and down picking blackberries and sloes at our leisure.
Which reminds me i must find a recipe for Sloe Gin... oh here is one i just found.
http://www.sloe.biz/

(More photos to follow tomorrow of Daisy on a pony.)

Daisy is the eldest, she is 5 months older than Freya, Pippa and Iris are only about 10 days apart in age.

Iris' birthday

Oh i forgot to mention that it was Iris' birthday whilst we were away in London.
She was 3.
Happy birthday to big girl Iris.

Here she is reading her favourite book which we bought just before we left the big smoke under the promise that we would probably get a dog.
We haven't gotten a dog, yet.
Probably won't get a dog for a while.

This book is one of those little Collins books of 130 popular breeds of dogs.
Both girls love this book, Iris especially loves this book at the moment.
She likes to find Tilly and Bentley dogs in there, and then show me her favourite dog, which changes quite often. Barney dog isn't in there for some reason.

Monster at the bottom of our garden

Daisy and Iris were allowed to play with mud at the bottom of our garden.
Iris remained clean, and Daisy did not.





For your information Dad, that huge pile of twigs & branches & brambles & suitable bonfire material that you can see below on the right is no more.
We have had a lovely big bonfire and we thought of you.

Playing with a bit of polystyrene

These photographs were taken a little while ago when we had some sunny weather.
I can confirm the weather in Somerset is yuk at the moment, it's cold, dull, and rain is imminent.

I think this bit of polystyrene must have come with the play house, it looks like it had something to do with the windows.
Talking of which we took out one of the panes of glass (plastic) whilst it was very hot, and now we can't find that last pane of glass. bum.

The girls found this in the shop somewhere and enjoyed playing and posing with the polystyrene window. The polystyrene window has now been broken up and chucked away.

Here is Iris with a mucky face.
This is the girls interpretation of something yuk.
This is the girls interpretation of something happy.
This is the girls interpretation of something very sad.
This is the girls interpretation of something very shocking.
And this is just Daisy.

Wow where has the time gone?

Such a lot has been happening and i had temporarily forgotten all about this little blog, but i have now returned.

What have we done these last three weeks you ask?
* We visited London and saw some lovely friends.
* We visited Kent and saw more lovely friends.
* We traveled back to Somerset to allow Daisy to start her new year as a 1st Year and Iris to start at nursery for the first time. Big girls now
* We dumped the big/small girls off at Auntie Emma's and traveled back up to London to stay one night at Gordon & Lucy's on route to Nick & Helen's wedding in Suffolk.
* We went to a marvelous wedding in Suffolk.
* We drove all the way from Suffolk to Somerset, and it wasn't too bad, i guess it was about 4 and a half hours, maybe a smidge more.
* Nana and Grandad came to stay and blitzed the back of our garden. (i really should have done a before and after shot, and i forgot, i damn well forgot.)

That seems quite a lot to have done in three weeks.

Here are a couple of photographs of the girls on their first day back at school/nursery.

We're back

photos to come soon, i promise.

We're going to London to visit the queen

tomorrow...
for about a week, then we're over for a quick trip to Kent to visit Run & Lisa.

I will miss our little home whilst we are away, though i won't miss our cooker, which is very slowly packing up.
Mum, the top oven doesn't really work anymore, and the grill only works on one side, so on our return i will have to investigate a new, second hand one, before you come to stay otherwise you can only fry or boil.

I'm not totally sure London will let us back in, by the way.

Pirate Thursdays in Brixham

Every Thursday in the summer is Pirate Thursday in Brixham, thanks to the Brixham Buccaneers, i think i blogged about it last summer, hang on i'll go and have a look...

... yes here is a link to last year with a Captain Jack Sparrow.

But look-e-like-e-Depp wasn't there this time, though i'm told he does still come down sometimes, he's probably all famous like now and doesn't get out of bed for less than £2.95 and a packet of mints.
But a lady with a parrot on her shoulder was there, however when we finally managed to make our way through the crowds, she answered her mobile phone, and then stayed on her phone chatting away for ages, i mean it was probably about 8 mins.
There were loads of people waiting to pet the parrot.
Somehow i don't think she was in character.


But we did manage to pet the parrot, even if Daisy was quite unsure about the whole thing.
We did however meet a real live mermaid, who read us a story, she said she was a friend of Ariel's which was all very exciting.

Love is like a butterfly

Does anyone else, apart from my mum and dad and my sister Vicky remember the UK series Butterflies?
I used to love it for some reason especially her inability to cook, and the strange concoctions she brought out of the oven.
Here are two links to it if you have no idea what i am on about.
Wikipedia/Butterflies and www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/butterflies/

Here are also some little girl butterflies from our recent trip to Brixham/Devon last week. Daisy went first, cos she's had it done lots of times before, Iris at first said she didn't want it done.


Then she changed her mind and sat extremely still with her eyes closed, clutching her bottle of water, whilst her face was made up.

And then afterwards she kept asking us if the picture was still on her face.

They were both very happy little butterflies.

Daisy's lovely big snail

Daisy made a lovely big snail in PlayDoh, a couple of days ago.
I meant to take a photograph of it immediately, but i got distracted and instead took it about 20 mins later, in this short amount of time it had been squished quite a bit.
ie: it looked 10 times better 20 minutes earlier.





The photograph on her t-shirt is of : an adult lion doing a poo in a cat litter tray.
Daddy bought it for her and she likes to wear it cos it makes her laugh.

A new project - Our Visitors

I have started a new photography project, it is called "Our Visitors".
It is linked from my main Charlotte Photography website, but if your too darn lazy to find that link which is somewhere down the left hand side of this blog, then this link just here will take you straight to the new sparkly "Our Visitors" project website.

Any willing victims who walk through my door will be photographed.

This project started on August 1st and will continue until i run out of people to photograph.

If you want to be photographed then come and visit us.
If you don't want to be photographed then stay away, or ask me very nicely not to.

Cindy & Anaya & a large flower

Today we had visitors, (yesterday we had quite a few visitors too, but that is another story)
Today we had visitors in the form of Cindy and her daughter Anaya, here they are:


Anaya brought a lovely flower for Daisy, which Daisy loves, she even wanted to take it to bed with her.

Anaya brought some "In the night garden" mini books for Iris, but Iris isn't that bothered about I.T.N.G. anymore, she is over her love of Iggle Piggle, but i think she appreciated the gift anyway.