I do like to be beside the seaside!

Yesterday we went to visit Nanny and Grandad by the sea. We went for a very nice lunch, then sailed Grandad's boat on the lagoon.
Three generations of Black boys playing with their toys!

Then, off to the beach;



The dark clouds came.......and then went again!




Very tired children by the end of the day!

What's going on in the house right now;

Daddy's doing bedtime. It goes something like this:

Happy Days!

Well, this half-term we've been to Waddesdon Manor
to meet up with Sacha, Peter, Clare, and Alice. Here are Tabby-Kat and Alice snoozing in the shade.
Clare and Tabby
Tabby, Phoebe and Guy getting ready for yet another picnic!
This doesn't look like much, but this is a strawberry milkshake made with fresh strawberries that were picked from the fields behind the cafe an hour or two ago, and it's the best and most delicious cold drink on a hot day in the whole, wide world!

Here's the sand pit and play area at Blackberry Farm.


As you can imagine the Country Cafe at Blackberry (Pick your own) Farm gets pretty busy over half term.

And, just for a change from endless picnics, we bought a cucumber and picked some strawberries at Blackberry Farm, and made strawberry ice-cream and cucumber sandwiches.
And Barbara came to tea!

Summer in Oxford!

This picture tells you all you need to know about summer in the UK.
Shorts and snow boots!Here are a couple of pictures of butterflies that Phoebe took;

Guy: Daddy, you're a tiger!
Ken: Am I? Why's that then?
Guy: Because you have stripes on your forehead.
Ken: Hmmmm....

Phoebe was asking who the bronze busts were in the restaurant this evening. We explained they were the owners and founders of the restaurant. 'Did they have arms and bodies?' she asked. 'Yes,' we replied. 'And was their skin brown like K, and N, and R (naming some of her friends)?'
We had to admit we didn't know.
I hadn't realised that Phoebe thought that all bronzes were representations of people of colour!

Busy, Busy Bee!

This past week has been hot and busy!
The Tabby-Kat continues to delight her adoring public!
We went to the splash park with our lovely friends. And Guy had the time of his life running around with the big boys!


And the horses continue to benefit from the apples and carrot sticks from Phoebe's lunch box.

We're all enjoying the walk to and from school. There's something new each day! Aren't these pretty?

Happiness is.......

When you're a three year old boy, a chocolate ice-cream and a train ride through the palace gardens are just about as good as life gets!





'Nuff said!

The newly illumined Tabitha Kathryn!