Thursday, April 28, 2011

Showing off Our Great "City of Birmingham".

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The Hall Of Memory, Birmingham.



Brindley Place



A little known fact outside of Birmingham,........there are more navigable miles of canals in Birmingham, England, than in Venice, Italy

The "New" and the "Old"
Selfriges Department Store and St Martins Church in the Bull Ring .







It's too sunny to see the photos... What, in April,?in England? Whats that all about?????



Chris loved the narrow boats. She would love to spend time on one. Maybe on your next visit Chris.


The pictures above and below show an area known as The Gas Street Basin. Many of the narrow boats in the picture are full time residences, much like RV'ers.

Just like on an RV you have repairs to do, but if you drop that hammer you may never see it again.





Shirley Aquatics
I took Chris for a foot fish bath. We couldn't stop laughing as the fish ate all the dry skin off our feet. This was a first for the both of us.








It did feel strange, having fish nibbling at you feet











Monday, April 25, 2011

Friends arrive from accross the pond

Mark and Chris arrived yesterday from Canada. It was so great to see them again. We last saw them in January last year, in San Diego, California. As with all great friends, it didn't take us long to catch up, and soon it felt like we had never been apart.
We intend to show them as much of our part of England as we can in the short time they are with us.


Mark Chris and Jim on a day out to Stratford upon Avon




The weather was great, we even managed to show them some
typical English Morris Dancers




Outside the Swan Theatre, Stratford.




An English postbox and telephone kiosk

with a "Canadian Rose" standing in the middle.




Mark and Chris outside the Birthpalce of William Shakespeare,

Stratford.



Another great favourite, an English Cream Tea.

Sunday, April 24, 2011

Friday, April 15, 2011

Grace & Edward for the day.

The Bluebells are coming up, they are my favorite flowers, as they bring back happy memories of my childhood . Grace love's them too. The bag has the bread for the ducks. .

Time went so fast. We went to the park, going through the woods to feed the ducks first. We met friends from school in the park, so we had a great time.

Monday, April 11, 2011

First BBQ of 2011

April 10th and the Sun is "HOT". This time last year, we are told, there was lots of snow. What is happening with this mad weather???????????


It was too hot to sit in the conservatory, so outside we went. The little people played a few good games of bowls. They all took it very seriously. You can see the concentration on their faces.



Good foot work Joe....




Darren & Dan keep an eye on the footy results comming through




A rest with an ice cream


Emma made me a daisy chain. Its in the flower press as I type.



A rest after they all go home ...........

Sunday, April 3, 2011

Mothers day at home.

Today is "Mothering Sunday" here in the UK. I was so happy to have both my girls and their family's home for lunch. I started the day by going to see my Mum, as today was also her birthday. We had a good visit with her and Jack. She is so good for 84yrs old. I hope I'm that good if and when I reach that age. I have so many aches & pains already at only 56. Whats with that? LOL.



My Girl's. I'm so proud of them. I hope they had a nice mothers day too.Thank you both for my "Troll Bead" xx


Joe & Ed play games


Nick used to be so shy. Grace is playing the game now.



I find if you freeze the drinks they don't spill them, and they last longer......


Emma still thinks we may disappear again....




Emma & Grace. "Girl talk"...



And our girls did all the washing up "thanks" xxxxxx

Saturday, April 2, 2011

A Little Update

We have a site meter attached to our blog, and have had for some years. It counts our visitors, and tells us where they are when viewing our blog. However, we seldom look at it in any great detail. This week though, I was looking at how many visitors we have had, and what part of the world they are in when they visit. As one would expect, most are from the UK, US/Canada, Europe, Australia and New Zealand, and even South Africa. Some we know and some we don't, but just now and again one pops up that surprises us, like the visitor we had recently from Saudi Arabia. I am pretty sure we don't know anyone from that part of the world, but whilst we welcome anyone who visits us on our blog, I would like to say a special "Hi" to whoever that may be. Please feel free to leave any comments you may have. Of course that applies to anyone who visits our blog. All are welcome. . On a different note, our regular readers will have noted we have been a little quiet recently on the blog front. I guess that is because we have not got up to much of any note just lately. We have of course been seeing a lot of our family and friends, and enjoying the grand children. We had Georgina and Dans three stay with us while they went to a concert in London last weekend, involving an overnight stay for them. That was great fun for us, (and hopefully for them) though I will admit to feeling a tad exhausted when they left. They do keep you feeling young though, that's for sure. . We are also getting excited for the the arrival of the first of our visitors from across the pond. Our friends Chris and Mark arrive later this month from Canada. We haven't seen them since we left California for Florida in January last year, so loads of catching up to do. Have a safe trip you two, cant wait to see you at Manchester airport. . Jane's been doing more shifts than perhaps she wanted to at the care home, but they are so short staffed, they keep calling her to come and help. Those of you that know her. know she wont refuse someone her help. . Jim now has a week or so to himself, as our friends Stewart and Fiona have returned to their home in Portugal, and his help on their house refurb in Solihull is put on hold until Stewart's return. . I suppose about now most of our "Snow Birding" R.V. friends will be heading north for their summer homes. Have a safe and pleasant trip everyone. I trust your winter went well, whether you were in Florida, California or any other warmer part of the world. . Its warming up here at last, we had 18c yesterday, (68'ish F) Not bad at all. Stay safe everyone, and have fun.