ummm Half Yearly Update!!

Well,

Here we are nearly at Summer Solstice and I've completed TWO posts this year; BAD to quote Donald T!

So, what occurred then?  Ive started investigating the family - hoping to create a timeline of Wood's, Pennocks, Youngs and Jones, with possibly a small dash of Bull added in.

Found Nan...:)Eliza May Jones

What else...been on 'holiday!  The Cam/Mal Arson 🔥🔥 Kingsmead Experience..good old Facebook...see it here

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Went to Scotland...walked up Cairngorm (can't say climbed!!).  Great few days to myself camping in a forest

The latest incarnation of The Veg Nest is going well...loads of pics here

The Veg Nest 2017

Ps...Retirement is grand...

After saying the blogs on my page all seem to have passed away, Brit Girl In USA has reappeared!  And I'm going to steal her idea ( magpie in my former trade) of recalling 'wots occurred'...

So here's a quick recap of the major events and changes in the past 6 months or so, to catch you up......but just headlines and I will follow-up with the back story to many of them over the next few weeks.

• I turned 60 this July..
• We celebrated our 8th wedding Anniversary this August..
• I retired from teaching...
• We visited wells Next To Sea...
• Found out I had Very High Blood Pressure!!
• I have re-read David Edison...am reading at least 3 genres at present!!
• I am completed a walking half marathon and a 10km run on The Isle Of Coll...
• I am learning to cook and eat in a much healthier way...
• I am addicted to Twitter...
• I have taken 2 pairs of grandchildren camping...not sure if that will happen again!!
• I have visited two wonderful, and very different, Scottish Islands...
• I have seen a FABULOUS production at The Globe...

I will expand on most of these in the coming weeks....

Autumn Update...Part Five!!!

And there's more...

Wanderings...Off To Europe We Go...With a (nearly) TEENAGER!!!

Well, we made a mistake, and I'll be the first to put up my hand and admit it...we should have asked a friend to come as well.  Sorry Alisha...but you were fairly patient with us/me...probably more patient than me!!

Anyway, we went off on an adventure, to Luxembourge...(somewhere diffrent, we thought!!).

To Camp Kengert..

Plan was to make it as much of an adventure as we could ( being a couple of fairly non-exciting people!)  Go on an overnight ferry, to experience a reasonable trip and a cabin, not to long a drive through Holland & Belgium to Luxembourg. Alisha had her own tent, we had electricity for the first time camping  (gone soft ...)

Anyway...here's another of those lovely Google Photo's Story thingies... you'll pick up on a theme...ice creams, plus the artistic pics taken by the young lady. :)

Our 'Oliday

However....

Think we more than made up for that error by taking her bestie shopping on her birthday :)

Well, it's nearly Christmas..again!!

It's been a couple of weeks off a year since I made any meaningful post on here...and here I am again, same place, same post :)

It's Rainworth time again, here to see this wonderful lady....

 Mnnt

So, what has happened in the year since our last visit? We're a year older, Suzie hit 50 in August and we had a wonderful holiday in Wales...ALL of Wales :)

Family are growing up...Alisha appears to be a teenager before her time...I got fat, and now am thinner, due mainly to changing diet and lots of walking, of which more later...

Suzie's sister Ann is not a well bunny, and that will shape our life for the coming months...:((

Walking...I've done loads since September! Round us at Bengeo, along the coast at Aberdeen, Sleights ( being towed by a dog), round an old pit in Rainworth...surprising how how often it ends at a pub :))

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Fazey Fest.....More of Molycie

Jubilee Day Sheep  - a wander up Molycie...

Suzie in the woods...

Hell0 Anglesy....

  

 

Proud Man - who said he wouldn't make it !!

Ahhhhhh!!!

 

 

 Followed By the 2012 Molycie Olympics Tug 'o War...

A man's Bar - B - Que!!

Yummmmy...

Sunset Rock.....

The Queen is in residence!!

An fun filled Easter for us....

It has been traditional for Suzie & Me to make the Easter pilgrimage to Weymouth to camp and contend with wind, rain, ice and, occasionally, sunshine...however this year it was a bit viccy verca...Claire et al came to brave the wilds of Hertfordshire and camp near us  http://www.westmillfarmcampsite.co.uk/.  

 First night camping in the nest....

Who's that sleeping in OUR bed....

 A walk in the bit of sun we had - Hartham Common...

 A bit of fishing...

 A McDONALDS !!!

 Hunting for the Eggs....(Suzie the great hider)

 Mnnnn - now where did I put them...:))

 Malik the climber finds his....

 Alisha is FAR too tall....

 Three happy bunnies...

 Fun at Knebworth

 Camlin's there...honest!!

 Go Suzie...

 A quick way through..if you're teeny..

 A bit harder if you're not!!

 Go girl...

 Choo Choo...

 FOOD

 Don't you just love it when they put a HORNET in the joust...

 My favourite piece of sculpture...

 Hiya...

 more FOOD...

It was fun... (okay the camping was cold & wet...!!)