Walking

For those who have not been lucky enough to catch a performance on skype....

Fruity

I just love having a garden. It is so much fun, though Ben will tell you its a lot of work too, which is true. But the labour of our work has sweet returns. We are now enjoying the tastiest strawberries and raspberries I have ever eaten. We also have had a great deal of lettuce for our salads. The potato's, tomato's, cucumbers, pumpkins and beetroot have a while to go but the peas have been very sweet and tasty too. here a a few pics from the garden.

Singing on the River

I do so love this lots of light. It is so magically though they can keep the dark. I love the cold and winter but the dark is very hard to beat. Because this is so we are snapping up tickets and events that gets us out in the festival feeling of the season. On the weekend we went to a lovely local fete, so much fun. We got little sticky glasses, six for fifty pence. Ben got two books, a keyboard, a computer card and two plants for the grand total of six pounds. As a result we can watch tv on our laptops like we have a sky box. It will record, pause etc all the regular tv, Timothy is thrilled as we were missing Thomas the tank in the morning as we were preferring sleep over a ten minute show but now it is awaiting us on awaking.

But the highlight of our events has to be King's college choir singing from punts on the Cam on Sunday night. It was so beautiful and that was lucky as it had been blowing a gale all day.

In the second picture here, you will notice the sign I am standing in front of. This is a very special event as normally only the masters are allow to even touch the grass, let a lone walking it and here they have let all the pleb's picnic on it for this grand event. The songs sung were a mix of class and modern. We had Contrapunto Destiale Alle Mente - Banchieri, to When Jonny comes marching home - Noble, also the likes of Let's do it - Roberts.



The light in this place is very lovely at this time of year. It has a really soft quality to it though not as special as Scotland, its like liquid gold up there.




Here are a few pics of Timothy and I playing with the camera. The boy likes anything that has an action so of course the pop up flash was the highlight for him. Though he laughed every time the crowd clapped, he would clap along thinking it was a lovely game. Unless he though they were all applauding him, wouldn't put it pass him, he thinks his clever, and you know so do I :P



Just lovely



We also had some locals drop in though mummy duck wasn't to pleased to find she could not get down to the water. She flew and the ducklings, though rather big ducklings now didn't follow and so she called frantically from the water. This was not greeted with joy from those sitting near but they only had themselves to blame considering they kept feeding the critters so they wouldn't go away. Timothy thought they had arrived just for his entertainments so he couldn't be happier.

Gardening

Yes, another wonderful sunny day. In fact we had fairly good weather for the whole weekend. Saturday we got our exercise and walked along the public ways through wheat fields and people's backyards, etc etc to the lovely village of Bourn. It having the only cafe for miles that you don't have to get in the car to go to. They also have a very cool park with slides and swings that Timothy just loves. This day sadly doesn't have any pictorial evidence but the following day does. We are lucky enough to have very clever neighbours, one by the name of Peter who does beautiful landscaping.



One of his gardens that he designed was open this Sunday so we went to check it out with friend Terry. It was very fancy and such beautiful flowers, the smell what amazing. Laurence, I can hear the envy from here. One day you will have to do a trip to England just to look at gardens, its well worth it. The owners where very genteel and friendly, they had set up they lawn for tea and cake, just delightful.



Timothy of course was in his element, just lovely garden and the outdoor. He got to play with some doggies, he loves doggies (doesn't like cats much though :P)They even had a little cubby house which he had fun making tea.



We also did some of our own gardening and here is the young man showing how its done :)

Half Baked Baby

Yes its that time again, already half way through our second pregnancy. Baby is doing well, we had the scan on Tuesday and went through the normal check list. It really is quite amazing what they can tell and also show you. We asked lots more questions this time while we watched the little critter wriggle and kick. We saw the heart, brain, all organs and checked the bones, skin if you can believe it and the palette. All good and accounted for, ten little toes and eight fingers and two thumbs, all in the right place of course.

anyone here are some pics of the wee new foozle to be....

Strawberry Fair

Yes we had some sun shine and we were out to experience it. We went to the Strawberry fair which has been running for over 30 years. Its a very hip and happening event for all ages, with bands, stalls and heaps of crazy characters. The whole thing is run by volunteers.



We finished off the weekend with a visit to Burwash Manor which is a farm like place with a bunch of cool shops, cafe and super toy store. We had fun looking at all the baby animals. There were baby ferrets, ducks and even a baby reindeer. They also have all the big toy equipment out to try so we did.



There is nothing like a splash at the end of a hot day to cool day.



I thought I would put these other pics in from the previous weekend because there just cute...