Some pre christmas photos

Georgia posed for a few photos in her Christmas Party dress......

Ben is showing off his new Thomas slippers.....

Armmm well...she couldn't resist!

A deep and meaningful pre teenager moment...spot the Justin Beaber sweater!!

Still only a kid at heart though, especially when it comes to visitng Santa.

Doe eyed girl

Love and the magic of Christmas

Ruth xxx

watch out designers guild!

Hi Mum and Brenda,

I started with this wall and worked around to my right. The patterned paper stops at the end and a honey coloured one starts for the long walls.

the paper frames the windows and makes the most of them as a feature, instead of a why are they there?

Since I took these photos we have bought new curtains and cleaned the carpets.

Love Ruth xxx

Butlins Beauties....

Hi Mum here is the old post that i never got around to finishing!!

A simple room with cold water only and no burners allowed. Washing facilities were at the end of the row. We also saw some quite old ones that ran in rows and looked to be single rooms.

If you can blow this picture up by clicking on it it makes for quite fascinating reading.
And this is how they are now........big and beautiful and rather American looking but apparently the colours are original Butlins colour schemes,

Mum, this is how it would have been when your relatives visited Butlins

Fun and games with G.I Georgia

Yesterday we went to the Hospital Carnival and had such a fun afternoon. Georgia who is normally petrifeid of rides actually went on them on her own!! OK so they were really baby rides but I didn't tell her that!

Ben admired her from a distance thinking how brave his big sister is ann wondering if anyone would notice if he played with the cables and generators!!

Sorry for the rubbish angles of the photos but I had the pushcair with me and it aint easy!

Georgia trying to figure out how to pull an old swing boat ride!

..and then it all went horribly wrong!!

Georgia receiving first aid treatment from the Grimsby TA Medics Division.


OK so you caught us out!! They are actually putting fake blood onto her!! The glass is broken clear jelly stuff!

This was our highlight of the day. The medics were so patient with the kids and adults who were clambering to get made up and it was completely free......I think my little GI would make a great medic..she took apart a heart and ripped open the ribcage and asked lots of questions....until one guy who started to talk about aorta valves until I put him straight with hosepipes!! One day when he has kids he'll get understand - keep it simple!

Then we stood next to the tent for a photo before she smeared it everywhere and my camera ran out of power!!

She came home and tricked all of her friends...most of whom thought it was a Dr Who fake one because the blood had dried by then!

Fun and games

Ruth and kids xxx

In Flanders fields.....photo heavy by mistake

This is an upside down post!!

You need to start a the bottom...I forget that blogger loads things back to front and the story should start with the yellow flowers and not the collapsing cartwheel!! oh well if Georgia can go wrong when upside down then so can I!!

The field that started it..........with only a few yellow flowers left at the edges now:(

I spied these fields full of rape flowers and knew that there was public access beside them, unfortunately when I returned with my camera 3 weeks later the flowers have nearly finished although you wouldn't know that by these photos because we focused on the last remaining yellow patch!

Check out the Blue Sky!!! No photoshop here!!

Then she did a few poses on the grass......

Until she got bored and started doing handstands......

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and finally fell asleep on the sofa worn out from a hard days work!!

oops..can see some of these are repeated..i did wonder where those photos went and had to re-load them!!

Love Ruth xxx