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.

A week with Daddy

This week has been quite different because Daddy had a week off work which was meant to be for a holiday where we were to go camping.  However, Mummy got a large interpreting job that seems to be going on for 2 or 3 weeks and so Daddy has been looking after me instead.  He has taken me to all my usual toddler groups and for other trips out to Nana and Granddad and Moors Valley.

Yesterday I had a very busy day and after Twinkle Toes, Messy Play, lunch and a runaround at The Hub and then some cooking at home....we went to Moors Valley.  I went running like crazy around the whole lake, finding sticks and leaves to play with and there was a big herd of cows to see.

Here I am pointing out the cows

And again!

I did lots of running

I got very hot and took my hat off to cool down

Here I am looking for motorcars on the road to the golf club

Heavy Horse Farm Park

Today I was a lucky boy as I went to Nana and Granddad's for a while and had some lunch there when Mummy and Daddy came back from Tae Kwon-Do.

I then went to the Heavy Horse Farm Park.  As soon as I went in I got very excited by a shetland pony with a small carriage and I went for a ride.  There were huge horses there too and all sorts of other animals, including donkeys and goats.  To be honest some of them were a bit scary and the goats started fighting, which was exciting.  I went in another carriage drawn by a heavy horse and then on a cool tractor ride .  By that time I was really zonked and so tired that I fell asleep almost straight away in the car.  What a lovely day!

Very scary goats!

This is me in the mini carriage

...and the big carriage

This is the big horse that towed us along

Here I am brushing a shetland pony

Donkeys

I had a go on a trampoline

Kune Kune piggy

Me driving an old Land Rover

These horses were a bit too friendly sometimes

Here I am running out of battery power on the tractor ride!