Thai Festival & By-Gone Days

On Sunday I went to the Thai festival in Boscombe, where there was a lot of food, dancing, arts and crafts and a big, big lawn to run around on.  In fact I ran, ran, ran for nearly 3 hours!

People were very nice to me..... I sat on a woven water buffalo, was given a balloon and then a kind of peaked hat.

I looked very surprised when I let go of my first balloon and it whizzed away into the sky.  I kept pointing and calling out "balloon" but it didn't come back.  The very nice man gave me another one when he saw what had happened.

In the afternoon I fell asleep so Daddy went alone to the By-Gone Days show for a couple of hours and took some pictures of the lovely planes.  After seeing the planes on Saturday I wouldn't let go of my little plane that Mummy got from the car boot sale.

In the evening we had a lovely time at Nana and Granddad's with a yum dinner and the chance to watch some Olympics.

Down  now...time to get out of my pushchair!

Here I am looking a bit disappointed because Daddy said I wasn't allowed to ride the buffalo

That's better...a nice man said it would be fine so I did ride it.

After losing the first helium balloon this one got tied to my belt....I love balloons

Here I am looking a bit dapper, ready for action at Nana & Granddad's

Classic lines of a Spitfire IX that was actually in action over the D-Day beaches in 1944, 68 years ago!

By-Gone days, Ibsley

There is a little local show on every year near the site of the old RAF Ibsley airfield.  There are lots of old and interesting things and people show off all the unusual things they collect, like steam engines, lawn mowers and cars.  Its also good because they usually manage to draw in some interesting aeroplanes for displays.  Daddy says he wants me to recognise the sound of a RR Merlin engine by the time I'm 5!

I was at Nana and Granddad's house this morning, having a lovely time, when Mummy and Daddy did Tae Kwon-Do, so I was tired and fell asleep on the way to the show.  However, when I woke up I really enjoyed running about and watching all that was going on.  I even got a small bear to take home.  On the way back we stopped to look at the horses and donkeys...there were 21 donkeys!

This is me seeing an aeroplane

New Gate

Daddy has been meaning to buy or make a gate to isolate our pond (in the side garden) from the back garden, for quite a while.   He is worried that I may go exploring and fall in.  As usual, work and a multitude of things got in the way of him doing it.

Granddad very kindly sourced some scrap wood from a pallet and got some fittings from the faithful Johnny Junk shop.  He and Daddy built the gate and fitted it today.   It really is a great piece of garden engineering and I noticed it straight away when I came home from my childminder, Christina, today.  I call it a door rather than a gate, but hey, I'm not even two yet.  here are our nice sunflowers as well.  We have lots and they cheer up the garden.

Camping at Norden July 2012

This was my first camping trip and the first for all of us in our new tent.  It is an Outwell Oakland XL.

Uncle M booked to camp down here and so Daddy thought it would be a great idea to join him and get a bit familiar with our camping gear at the same time.

We did most things right but it would be really good to have a proper cooking table and we definitely need a bigger car or a roof box.  The tent is lovely and spacious and we even have a nice carpet inside.

The only downside was that Daddy had to go to work because there is a leave embargo during the Olympic Games.  It would have been ok but they called him out on two evenings so he was very tired!

Still, we had lots of fun and Mummy took me to the beach and a big castle with all the others.  I even played ball and chase games with Oliver and James on the camp site.

Daddy was very amused when I woke up at 5am making moo cow noises because all the animals were starting to wake up.

After the trip the National Trust probably reported a lot of sand missing from the beach at Studland..........Daddy said he found it in the back of Mummy's car!

Daddy's little helper gets stuck in.  The tent unfolds for the first time

I love my little folding chair

We had a lovely meal in the campsite restaurant

Here I am monkeying about in my bedroom.  We have lovely comfy mattresses and a big bedroom

Here is Ollie diving at Uncle M

We had a lovely run around and a beer outside the first evening we stayed at Norden Farm

Here everyone is thirsty

Nana and Granddad visited us every day which made it even better.  This is Uncle M's camp

This is my Nana at Corfe Castle

Here nana and Granddad are trying not to get blown away!

Daddy took this at night at ISO 25600!!!  He is warming my milk and making tea.  The moon was out too

July 2012

Its been a busy few weeks here so we haven't been out and about much...well I have been to my activities and the childminder, but we haven't had many days out.

The weather has been so bad its been difficult to even go out and kick a ball around!

We did go to Bere Regis open gardens when Daddy was off work.  the weather was not as nice as promised but it was a nice day.  We had coffee and cake at the Drax Hall then checked out the gardens.  The best one was by the Bere Stream...Granddad would love it!

Today we went to Mottisfont Abbey as we had missed our usual June trip there.  It was lovely and hot and I had a great time running around.  A kind lady gave me some bread so we fed the huge fish in the river.  They were so crazy they splashed us all!

Here I am eating cake in Drax Hall

This is the lovely garden by the Bere Stream

Monkeying on Mummy at Mottisfont

Lavender borders

I run everywhere!

Picking up stones and posting them in the hedge is great fun

Here are the big fish splashing after the bread

After a long run and play I was gone after a trip in the pushchair

I saw a brilliant wire horse sculpture and wouldn't leave it alone.  I got grumpy when I found out I wasn't allowed to ride on it but Daddy gave me a shoulder ride instead.