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CHRISTMAS
DAY WITH DANNY AND KAREN - 25 December
2013
Jean and I were
invited round to Danny and Karen's for Christmas
dinner expertly prepared by Karen followed by Jean's
pudding and then the traditional present opening.
Helen and Gareth were also there. Here are a few snaps
from the day.
Pulling
crackers before the meal
Cheers
to Karen, the cook
Danny
cutting the pudding made by Jean and fired by me!
Joe
looked good in his Man City shirt (pygama top
actually)
Jean
with her WI book
and
Danny's Nutella tower
Best
present of all is yet to be revealed. What can it
be?
Wow!
DANNY'S
BONFIRE PARTY - 9 November 2013
There was a good turn
out of family and friends for the annual bonfire party
at 23 Church Path. Danny cooked his ever popular
chillis of varying hotnesses and organised a fine
display of fireworks.
The
kids loved the sparklers
and
everyone loved the fireworks - ooooh
Finally,
a nostalgic chat around the bonfire
LOLA
RIDES IN EMSWORTH - 3 November 2013
Mary, George and Lola
came over for the day and Lola brought her bike which
she can now ride very proficiently indeed.
Here
she is demonstrating her skills on the lads'
skateboard park in the local park.
Lola
also helped Danny to light the candles on his birthday
cake (a day early)
ANOTHER
VISIT TO COWES - 25 October 2013
Jean and I went over
to the island for the second time in a week, this time
to look after Lily and Iris as their school had an
inset day. Julia was at school and Pete had a meeting
in London. Lisa who was also off school for the day,
came with us.
On
the car ferry to Fishbourne passing Southsea
beach
Pete
cooked Lisa pancakes which were good. Note Bob the
owl.
They
spent some time assembling 13 jigsaws
Lunch
time for fairies in the kitchen
Come
fly with me!
VISIT
TO COWES - 20 October 2013
Jean and I went over
to the island for the day to take Peter's birthday
presents for Wednesday. The rain stopped, so we went
for a nice walk in the morning through the allotments
where we were amazed at the amount of work Pete and
Julia had done on the new section of allotment. We
returned for Pete's carrot soup followed by a splendid
fish pie and spinach.
Iris
and Lily enjoyed blowing bubbles in the garden
Here
is a view of the new allotment. The posts and wires
are for vines
Pete
explaining to Jean what he will be planting
Pete,
Julia and the girls walking through Northwood Park
Lily
and Iris with the newly cleaned road sign
MARY'S
NEW SHOP IN LEWES - 12 October 2013
Jean and I went over
to Lewes for the first day of the opening of Mary's
new ceramics and sweet shop in the Needlemaker's in
Lewes. A big venture for Mary, but what a beautiful
shop with all her old and new products on show plus a
selection of scrumptious sweets. Lola was also there.
Mary will be helped in the shop by Alice. There were
plenty of customers while we were there.
The
entrance to the shop is via the Needlemaker's outside
cafe
Can
you spot Lola peeping under the counter?
One of
Mary's wonderful displays
The
sweet display which Jean and I could not resist
sampling!
Corner
display
JEAN'S
BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS - 13-15 September
2013
Jean celebrated her
77th birthday by blowing out the candles (all four of
them in one go) on a delicious chocolate cake made by
Karen. Lisa and Joe were on hand to share it with her.
Very good it was too.
Will came
down to Emsworth on Saturday Sept 14 with Freddy,
Nell and Reggie with a great fish pie for Sunday
lunch which Desperate Dan would have enjoyed. They
all stayed the night at Danny and Karen's. On the
Sunday morning Will, Freddy and Reggie joined in
the regular kids football practice in the park from
10-11am. Here they are limbering up under the
watchful eyes of coach Simon Oiler. Note the Gareth
Bale look-alike showing his ball skills in the
background.
Now it's time for
something a bit different, lads.
Back
at home Joe and Reggie got down to constructing the
marble race game
Nell and Lisa spent
much of Sunday afternoon rehearsing a show for
Grandma's birthday.
Here they are performing it in the garden
The show ends with a
final flourish!
Finally, Freddy pats
his uncle Danny on the head with a "hallo titch"!
For
earlier photos go to . . . Family
photos 2013 January to August