Our Garden

We have been in this new house for nearly 3 years and we have nearly finished the garden, well I say finished what I mean is got it nearly how we wanted it, I guess being a garden it will never be finished

I did fancy re-modelling the shed to make it look like a beach hut, I just love the beach huts but as they sell for more than a small house in Yarmouth that's a no no. I had this image of a lovely white & pale blue beach hut in my mind with blue & white gingham curtains & a fake pointed roof on the front, but nobody else could see in my mind to get a clear picture of my vision & as I cant draw that was that, a plain old shed it stayed.

My Lavender tub, the soil is great my Lavenders just thrive.

The tub with the trellis has 2 blueberry plants in, I bought them last year and they both had good crops.

Paul hates this water feature he thinks it looks like a tombstone, but it looks very effective as it is surrounded by lights.

In my wall trough just outside the backdoor

The raised bed is one of my favourite areas, we made this out of some old railway sleepers, cut them into chunks and sunk them into the ground like groynes at the beach. The copper tree in the middleis another water feature I love it but it does make the surrounding soil very wet but everything seems to be thriving .

All we need now is a few more blue pots to make it look more mediteranean and then we can start working on the front garden.

On Sunday

Emma and Matt have been in Yarmouth for the week with the girls so we popped over to see them on Sunday morning.

Larissa at 11 weeks old

It's hard to believe how time flies that Eloise is 2 and Larissa is now 11 weeks old.

The Many faces of Eloise







Having seen pictures of Emma at the same age I am amazed at how alike they look, even down to the facial expressions they make.

It's so quiet here

It's so quiet as Abi has gone to London for the week with the school for activities week. They travelled up yesterday morning on the 9am train arriving around lunchtime they fropped there bags at the hotel and went straight to the Natural History museum at 4pm they went back to the hotel to unpack and have dinner before heading out for an evening of Bowling. Today they are going to the Houses of parliament, the house of commons, Westminster abbey & past Buckingham palace on route to Trafalgar square & that's all before lunch. After lunch they are off to the National gallery, then onto St Paul's where they climb the 259 steps into the whispering gallery and then a further 530 steps to the outside of the top of the dome. Then back to her hotel for dinner and out again at 8pm to the Imax cinema to see Kung fu panda & back to the hotel for lights out at 12.30

Royal Norfolk Show 2008

on Thursday we all went of to the Royal Norfolk Show, for those of you that don't know this is the county's major agricultural show. We thought it was about time we went as we have lived in Norfolk 7 years next week & have never been.

Abi posing with the radio Broadland Lotus

Lavender from the garden of the lavender-stamper

Join the stampede

A promised I have been out & about with my camera before work to add some of the fabulous elephants to my blog.

This is just 17 out of the 53 lifesize baby elephants that are currently out on the streets of Norwich. When I find more I will add there pictures.

A family night in Great Yarmouth

Castle Carvery Caister A family night out

Jimbo & Harvey in the arcades at Great Yarmouth

Harvey in the ball pool at the castle carvery Caister.

Harvey had just woken up & wondered if Daddy had left him any dinner

I love this picture of Harvey in the ball pond, it's a bit arty.

Abi can spend hours on the 2p machines in the arcade with just a couple of pounds.

Dan on the other hand can spend £'s on the time crisis machine in just minutes.