fringe furniture and the birthday girl

Just one more photo of the birthday girl.
In the amazing- shooting out of a canon- costume.
Whipped up by the equally amazing Amy.


We have been to see the Fringe Furniture Exhibition at the Abbotsford convent.
And who was the star of the show "Sally Mill"
and her amazing bed spring lamp shades.
Noel must be happy with all the hard rubbish workouts they have done.
They are so lovely and work truly well.
Very worthy of the awards they won on the day.

HOORAY ITS CIRCUS TIME

WE ARE READY TO GO.
21 AND SO FULL OF IDEAS FOR A CIRCUS THEMED PARTY



The sisters standing in front of the "big top"
somehow it doesnt look so exciting in the photos,
In the dark it is hard to see the details but it was so full of colour and beautiful lights.
On the far left you can see a screen showing an old Charlie Chaplin circus movie.
With two red curtains making the entrance
and a frame out of bamboo with tiny bud lights over it


Balloons....
and Lena in her- shooting out of a canon- Costume including a "BANG" sign attached..

. Here is the circus cake . Delicious choc mud cake with icing and animals and a hidden stash of golden chocolate coins.
We also had chicken and carrot and coriander sausage rolls and beef and Thai red curry sausage rolls and mini burgers with lamb,cucumber ,spinach and tzatziki and chicken and satay burgers with cos lettuce and popcorn in striped boxes served in Match -Girl boxes with straps over the shoulders.
Four different punches to drink and a fire stick twirler and a band!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Eri and Ash early party goers on the dance floor. With the band." Sarah and the King Bees" setting up their equipment. Hooray they were amazing.

" Miss Turning 21" up the ladder setting up the tent and curtains and bamboo frame
It all went so well it was a great night and we all had an amazing night . The last to turn 21. no more parties for a while but it really was lots of fun

Vale Richard

(oops and big oops. I did spell the name wrong.It is Richard Kenley Ludbrook)
Our dearest Richard,
We miss you.
Our family has been touched by you and your warmth and fun.
We are locked into Yarnuff for ever and ever.
We love you for that.

here are some pictures of my trip to Kent . South of London to visit a friends, mother-in-law. A very sprightly 83 year old in her flash car. Narrow english roads are no barrier in a car like this.

Also some images of her garden and her house. there was a bird feeder with young blue tits and a woodpecker who came to visit just outside the breakfast window.


You can see me as a ghostly image in the window

Then off for some stately home action. This is the home of the young Anne Bolyn including a bed of Henry the 8th

A giant Yew hedge for us girls to wonder about

Inside the kitchen of Blickling Hall just near Norfolk. I love the details of the kitchen without the theme park looks of some of the rooms with on over abundance of antiques etc.

I want the job of polishing these beautiful copper pots.

My trip to England was full of highs and lows. I miss my sister already and Richard in his frail condition. I am back home now and the weather is very wintery and cold. I have cooked for the masses,sewed up a storm, visited a very unwell Matcham, dug my garden and weeded and whipper snipped to get the sweeping therapy really going. It is also good to be home with my family again

so.... to pics of england

We are on our way to London.
It is quite expensive to travel on the train from East Harling
but if you book your ticket ahead it brings the price down a lot.

This is as we arrive at Liverpool street station.
It is the main station to arrive at from Norwich.
Then we had to proceed to the underground,
to find the train to buckingham palace.

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On the way to the palace we spotted deck chairs
and wondered why not many were being sat on ..
.Then came along the man with the machine to take our money
for the privilege of sitting on the chairs so we immediately sat on the grass!


SQUIRREL!!!!
OH so cute and English. The little squirrel was so tame
he was very used to being fed by the tourists.

The walk through Hyde park,.
The weather was sunny and warm lots of people visiting
as it is the summer holidays for all of England, and then the beginning of a new school year.



This is the Princess Dianna memorial in Hyde park.
A water feature for all to enjoy . A favourite place to play in the summer
with little pale children in bathers having fun.

A special place for Joey the Macaron shop near Picadilly circus.
Very expensive but so beautiful.

Us inside the "Queens Theatre" .
We are ready for the performance of "Les Miserables"
which has been going for twenty five years in the same theatre.
A very special treat thanks to Roxi for finding a two for one ticket deal

Then after a three hour performance we were off to Carmody street
for some window shopping. These pictures are for Lena

We even found shoes with tape measures on this one is for Amy xxx


This is honesuckle in the garden of Ickworth, a stately home we found

Roxi and I out the front of Ickworth.

Some serious sock knitting has also been done. Second pair on the way

Diss auctions a world of the unexpected .
And england on a good day to prove that there IS blue sky in the UK..

a ruinous day

Roxi and I headed off for a small adventure to Bury St Edmonds. A big town nearby, with a big cathedral. We also found ruins from the 13th century.So hard for us to even slightly comprehend.
This building was actually built within the ruins, adding windows and doors in the ancient rock walls.This area of the UK...(Norfolk) is known for its buildings made from flint.
This building also shows how it was built on the ruins and stone columns of the 13th century.

We walked and walked and found areas of true ancient ruins
with families picnicing all around.
There were also amazing gardens very finely manicured and tended.
I did find in the flower beds, beautiful grevilea robustas
.I wonder if they realise how big they could grow.




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a mid summer walk

We are off in the car for our morning walk
. The roads are so narrow that going in the car to the woods is the best way to go.This is school lane which is the back of jo's hous .
At the end of this road we head to the left and on down the road. Past the gypsy camp with horses and a true wooden gypsy wagon.

We then walk on the Harling Heath. With the occasional sheep and such an abundance of wildflowers.
These flowers are a common knapweed.
Amongst the other flowers we have seen are....
Wild carrot,Yarrow,Perforate St Johns Wort,Field Bindweed,Harebell,
Vipers Bugloss,Ragwort,White Campion,and Scabious.What a bunch of wierd English names..