Fab Birthday Weekend

Thank you for all of your Birthday wishes for yesterday, I has a lovely day at the crop with Abi & my crafting friends, I had a yummy Thorntons chocolate cake from Marie & Steph, I was sung too by Noah & Maddie which was lovely. I did an Easter card with the ladies so I didn't manage to finish any crafting of my own, but still had a great time.
Abi decorated the porch with Birthday Balloons & I have a helium Balloon that so far I have managed to keep the kittens away from.

On Sunday I had the choice of places to go & rather predictably I chose Southwold, for a walk around the town & then along the beach for a walk with my camera at the ready to catch some pictures of the beach Huts.

I would just love to own one of these.

But the one that we saw in the estate agents window was asking for OIRO £60k, I thing I had better remember to do the lottery on a regular basis.

Its sad that some of the beach Huts are in a poor state of repair, If I had one it would be Melon Mambo & Tangerine Tango stripes or maybe Pacific point & Pear pizzazz stripes, But whatever colour I chose I know I would cherish it.

The Beach Huts are just so English I cant imagine another country in the world where people would pay 60K for what is essentially a garden shed with a sea view.

One of the other things I love is the Piddling clock, However I hate Piers & the piddling clock is half way down the pier, so I can share this pictures with you I braved the pier.......Right to the very end.

On the hour & half hour the cheeky clock piddles on the unexpected crowds that gather to watch.

After we had had beautiful fish & chips al fresco watching life pass by on the promenade at Southwold, we drove to find the disappearing town of Dunwich, The coasts of the east coast are being eroded by the lack of sea defences & Dunwich has already given up much already to the sea.

When we couldn't find the road that just stops & the sea starts we went for a cup of tea in the beach car park & saw this row of classic Triumph cars.

 Not everyone wanted tea !! The Ice Cream is Abi's I did have a lick, but most ended up on my nose, Dont ask.

Thank you for a lovely Birthday weekend.

Welcome back Dan

Welcome back Dan
Dan has just come back from 10 days in Scotland with Allan, they certainly didn't sit around & made the most of their time.
The first picture is of the mirror people in the grounds of the David Marshall Lodge



Can you see the face in the second picture?

Aw & this one is so cute & I just have to share it with you.

Dan took over 400 pictures & has edited his favourite 60 & added them to his Flickr account, if you click on any of the above photo's you will be directed to the larger versions of the pictures, or click here to go to the Flickr set.

A piccie to share

I just wanted to share a lovely spring picture with you.
It's my magnolia Stellata, my sister in law bought it for me as a birthday present the first year that we moved to Norfolk that was nearly nine years ago, It flowers every year around my Birthday & this is its best year yet.

Crop day

The third Saturday of the month is crop day at Alisons crop.
In the morning Alison had arranged a photography workshop with Suzanne from Inspired Norfolk.
I now have my camera off the auto settings for probably the first time since paul bought it for me.Abi was our model & after she got over her initial shyness she did enjoy the experience.
Everyone took some beautiful pictures & Alison has put some on her blog.
Here are some of my favourites that I took.

Before photoshop

After photoshop with deep blue & split toning ( Thanks Dan )



Alisons Montage from yesterday
If you are interested in the next photography workshop, you can contact Alison via her blog for further information.

No layouts to show from yesterday as I didn't manage to finish anything during the crop, but the way the snow is coming down today I will probably be able to find some time today to sneak up to my craft room & play.

A day off !

This week being half term I have had a few days off to spend with Abi, Dan has been in Paris on a photography trip.
We decided to make a day trip to Cambridge, me to have a wander round as I love Cambridge, Abi on a mission to find the Jack Wills shop.The journey out too Cambridge was a little bit of pain as it was part train & part coach as we wanted to shop I didn't take my DSLR camera just my point & shoot.We left Norwich with the threat of snow & arrived in Cambridge to clear blue skies although it was very cold.

When you get off the train & on just about every spare railing in the town there are bikes hundreds & hundres of bikes everywhere, You have more chance of being run over by a bike than a car.



The amazing kings college.


I did manage to persuade Abi to pose for a couple of pictures for me outside kings college which is the most impressive looking college.

And finally outside the Jack Wills shop proudly sporting her purchase in its beautiful bag.

Seals at Horsey Gap on new years day

For the past few years we've been going to the beach on New Years Day as a family with flasks of soup to walk along the beach and see the seals. These are some of the photos of the seals at Horsey Gap that we saw this year. There were record amounts there this years, 263 in total.