Check Mate

We had a visit from MG and Kath today. The kids had fun playing all sorts of games but MG's favourite was a chess game with Grandpa :-) 

 

Film Fun

Quite unusually for us we have managed two trips to the cinema in the past fortnight.  Dave and I went to see this film:

I must admit I am a David Suchet 'Poirot' fan and so it was interesting to see Kenneth Branagh portray his interpretation of the detective.  It was a stellar cast and we were not disappointed.  The cinematography was astounding and Dave had loads of fun viewing it all from a railway civil engineering perspective :-)

Today we took the kids to see this film:

   We enjoyed the first film and were not disappointed second time round.  This film is a real family winner and raised loads of laughs, Pip is quite raucous once she gets going ;-)

Both films are worthy of a viewing.

A Picture Post

Visiting Sara and Tom:

Black And White

Garden Work

Field Trip

 Searching for clues.

 Waving in the breeze.

 "You can't find me!"

A red robbin bobbing along :-)

 An unusual sight ~ the lesser spotted siblings actually working on an art project as a result of said field trip!

Finally Catching Up

We were doing quite well until my Dad had another heart attack just over three weeks ago!  It all ended well and with the help from a pacemaker he seems to be doing just fine :-)

Dad being in hospital did mean some extra running around in the first few days and so for once, I decided to be eminently sensible and rest for the remainder of the week.

We have managed to keep on with basic homeschooling of English and Maths, thanks to Dave pretty much running the show at this end!  My health has not been great and with that and my job, I'm often run ragged by the end of the day :-) 

It has been a half term break in these parts, so we celebrated All Hallows Eve with some friends, had a visit from another family on the Wednesday and then pootled around at home in between. I managed to catch up with some outstanding work this morning and have rejigged my work hours to prevent having to work on a weekend.  Home schooling and content writing naturally use a lot of brain energy, so I'm grateful for the knitting projects that sit by my chair.  

As always I'm ever hopeful that I can pop by here on a more regular basis.  Whatever you are doing and wherever you may be, I hope you have a lovely weekend xx

 Little Miss Happy!  After years of buying milk in plastic cartons we have finally found a replacement milkman.  Pip was so excited to collect the milk from the doorstep, she has never seen milk in glass bottles :-)

 Dave has been taking part in a black and white photography project and uploading his pictures on faceache.  This is one of my favourites :-)

All Hallows' Eve

 Saint Paschal Baylon helping in the kitchen ;-)

 St Michael watching over the proceedings.

 A Saintly Tea.

 St Kateri Tekewitha

 Son and Mum

Back Row: St John The Baptist, St Paschal Baylon, St Brigid

Middle Row:  St Nicholas, St Michael, St Olaf, St Elizabeth of Hungary, St Kateri

Front Row:  The Infant of Prague

 St Paschal and St Brigid