Dave's 70th Birthday Party July 2016

We were delighted to be invited to Dave's party. Unfortunately it clashed with Madelyn's "half"birthday party. We just saw some of her friends arriving and then we had to leave. She had lots of lovely presents

 Pat made her this gorgeous throw. Would have liked it myself.

Vic , I think you had a fluffy toy like this one. 

DAVE'S PARTY

All the boys. The chap on the end is Jon's mate from school

 Vic and Tom enjoying the sunshine

 Tom enjoying the freedom

 The setting was beautiful and luckily warm enough to be outside

 Pre dinner nap zzzzz

 Dave adopting the stance of a chap who's heard it all before

 He got told off for that!

 cutting the cake

 More of the gardens

 Trying to get every one looking at the camera was impossible

 Family Gill.

 Nanny and Grandad and Jon's brother Simon

 Playing with balloons is always fun

 Ah, that tablecloth is within easy reach.

 Tommy with his uncle Simon, Jon's brother

First visit to the Aldrich clan.

It was a pretty eventful summer. Vic and Tommy came to stay, it was Jo's birthday, we had a few trips away and little baby George came into the world. I've got loads of gorgeous photos so its going to be hard to pick the good ones.

The first thing we had to do was baby proof the house . He looked like a little prisoner!

 Jon had to go back to work, which was a shame so he did not get to see the lovely Aldrich clan who all adored Tommy. Most of my gorgeous family.xx

 Phoebe and Tommy

 He had a whale of a time

 The trampoline was his absolute favourite

 Taking a break

 We discovered another use for the kids paddling pool, it was excellent as a playpen for little wriggle pants

 Not sure what Nick is up to here, probably feeding him chocolate or maybe a lolly.

Pembrokeshire May 2016

So here we are again, this time in not so sunny Wales. It did brighten up though and the awful hat I'm wearing was because it was windy rather than cold. This is on Saturday, we walked around Dinas Head,near Fishguard.

At the trig point all looking a bit windswept

The beach in the background is where we are heading for

Taking a breather on the beach at Cwm yr Eglwys.

This is all that's left of the little  church. It was destroyed in a storm in 1858. Must have been quite a storm.

The walk finished with a drink at the pub. It was a shame it was so windy.

We've been to Little Haven several times but have never managed to get to Skoma Island, famous for nesting sea birds, especially Puffins. Waiting for the boat, Skoma in the background. Only 250 people are allowed on the island each day. The boats hold 50 people and run hourly, so the island never feels crowded. Your time on Skoma is limited to 5 hours,which sounds a lot but the time just flew by.

Waiting for the boat with Skoma in the back ground

Skoma Island

 As you can see, I'm wearing another manky hat. The weather was glorious but still windy. It looks very spacious but we were really crammed on.

 

  So here it is our first sight of a Puffin.

It's a different one, honest!

 There are no facilities on Skoma, so you have to take everything you might need with you. They are mega strict about where you can walk. Puffin and Shearwaters are ground burrowing birds so if you wander too far from the path you run the risk of crushing the poor things.

Lunch time.

 Not a bad view for lunch time

These buggers keep popping up!!

 What we weren't expecting were all these bluebells. The whole island was just covered in them

 There was some pink campion mixed in with these bluebells.

 

You can just see two little birds here.







I'm not sure what these are but they were beautiful

 Having a bit of a chinwag.

You can just seethe other bird in the burrow.

 Just dancing beak to beak.

The main land from the wardens accommodation.

Something had made us all laugh, probably me in that hat!!

 
This is the view from the bottom of the road where the house is. Not too shabby eh?