On the camera...

It's been a while! Here we are at the end of the month, and there's not really an awful lot to show for the last few weeks... nevertheless, here's what was on the camera...

Playdoh!... making 'ice cream'...

... and Mr & Mrs Potato...

... some pictures from our visit to ThinkTank in Birmingham with our Hartlebury Helpers history club, where the kids were doing some consultancy work for ThinkTank... always nice to get a free trip somewhere!

... on the bridge at the Severn Valley Country Park, and waiting patiently for our Pooh Sticks to emerge (it's a long way down so it takes a while!)...

... there's something hugely appealing about Teasels to me!

... steam train steaming into Highley in the distance...

... they are in there - can you see them?!

... kids + slopes = an opportunity to roll!

... end of term outing for Bubs and I, to a ceramics workshop in Bewdley. Bubs painted a handbag money box, and I painted a jug...

... celebrating the end of term (yes, that is to be celebrated - we LOVE the holidays!) AND me passing my exam (yay!) with a Pizza Hut meal and an ice cream at Bewdley...

... playing at a park we found, and watching a game of cricket...

... improving our teamwork skills by working on a Jigmap jigsaw together...

Camera crisis...

... a bottle of water in my bag... the camera in my bag... water emptied itself in my bag... need I say more?

Managed to retrieve some pics before it died, and now we are camera-less until next week sometime.

... outside Kidderminster Police Station... we went in to show our Cop Cards, all 25 of them, but the competition had ended :o( O well c'est la vie!

... a sunny afternoon at the park... we also played tag and had icecream...

... always picking up the many craft books I have around, Bubs decided to try out the making of Bobby Pins... here's the finished result of a daisy, very pretty!

... I love looking at this picture carved in the stone work in Sainsburys coffee shop... it depicts the carpet industry...

... Bubs and I actually saw a canal boat coming up the lochs outside Sainsburys, the first time we've got there in time to see it!

On the camera...

Here's what's been on the camera from the last couple of weeks...

... shrub at the front of the house... it's been lovely - it didn't bloom last year... 

... garden of poppies at Spike's school... I really love poppies!

... a field of buttercups at the Severn Valley Country Park... I really love buttercups too!!

... hot days = playing in the sprinkler, running in and out!

... drinking from Ethelfleda's well...

... and icecream and rolling down hills at the Severn Valley Country Park...

... the weather turned... heavy rain and thunder (hence Spike's earmuffs!)... blocked drains = swimming pool in the drive and wellies in order to get to the car!

... what we see from the kitchen window... a train passing!! (it was on a lorry!) and an army ambulance...

... a bit of spare time work for a card... it was fun, and I was pleased with the finished result...

... Bubs went off to bowling with a friend on their birthday, so Spike and I went bowling too... the camera never seems to take good photos in the bowling alley. Spike beat me! But it was a set-up... when it was his turn the bumper bars came up; the instant it was my go, the bumpers went down - so unfair!

... helping out at Hartlebury Castle with the History Club...