Showing posts with label Isle of wight. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Isle of wight. Show all posts

Thursday, 4 April 2013

HOME AGAIN

Well , those few days passed in a flash.... but how lovely they were!

Our Easter weekend started with a few tears.... Charlie left for 4 months to travel around OZ,NZ and SE Asia. The build up to these long absences are dreadful, worrying about getting everything organised, things going wrong, saying goodbyes to various people in the run up,etc etc. Tensions were running high. To make matters worse,Charlie and I have , what you might call, a volatile relationship, ie we explode at each other at any available opportunity. We had a MONSTER row about a week before he left but on a good note we do patch it up pretty well. However saying goodbye to him was hard and I did have a few tears to shed. That got everyone going so we all had a little weep.

Ian and i set off to the Isle of Wight by ourselves with the remaining 3 coming the following day! what a treat that was...In the evening we went to a lovely pub and had a BLOW OUT meal of seafood platter...... YUM,YUM and YUM..... Lobster, squid, mussels crab , prawns, scallops... Are you getting the picture?? We could hardly move after.....

Although the wind was unbelievably cold it was bright and sunny and we had 3 lovely days with long walks on the beaches, card games in the pub, I had my 1st roast for 6 wks after giving up meat for Lent, lots and lots of chocolates and a lovely day with friends. we always stay in Seaview which has the most glorious beaches just a few minutes from the flat. It is sooo good for the soul to walk the dogs on the empty beaches and restore the mind and body with some sea air!!

Becca showed me how to do Instagram and i became mildly obsessed with it, hence some of the rather arty photos below













Wednesday, 5 September 2012

LAST DAY OF THE SUMMER HOLIDAYS

I cant believe its all over....... where did all that time go? What a lovely summer we have had, a beautiful week on the Isle of Wight in some hot sun......










Quite a few birthdays and celebrations


watching the Olympics but not quite getting there!!!



and of course Italy and exploding cars.......


Anyhow we all got home safely and now everyone off again, Sam to Glasgow this weekend, that feels strange, for all of us, I am making little boxes of food and useful stuff for him but also feel I should just let him get on with it and find his own way, its all very hard this flying the nest business!!
Becca back to Leeds in a couple of week and then its just the 4 of us left though i am expecting 2 lodgers, to fill up the place and also help with the ridiculous university fees!
It always feel like a really fresh start at this time of year , with all sorts of resolutions and plans, more so i feel than New year. Anyway to celebrate we all went out to lunch in Brixton Village to Franco manca, and had THE most delicious pizza, YUM followed by ice cream