Birthday and Balloons

What was nana thinking giving me clothes........?

It was our grand-daughter's fifth birthday yesterday, but other arrangements for both her and us had been made so went the week before.  
She carefully unpacked al her goodies from the Peppa Pig bag carefully avoiding two dresses which were put on the top of the goodies.

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This weekend Alex and I went to stay with our eldest son and daughter-in-law in Bristol.
I have always wanted to see the balloons, not necessarily go to see the take off but just to see them fly, but because they are weather dependent it is actually fifty-fifty whether you get to see them.  But Saturday morning we saw them in the distant, so hurriedly dressing and getting the car at 6.30 am Michael drove us to a vantage point to see the balloons ascending over Bristol, we thought we may go back to see them in the evening but the weather had other ideas!

Moon tonight

It went very dark, then we had hail, then it brightened up a bit, and then I looked out of the window and saw a clear sky and the moon

This week

Wednesday

The Red Arrows came to town!

It was a really hot afternoon. The weather was dull Monday

and it rained on Tuesday so wasn't sure if we were going to see them but we did.

The display was spectacular as always.

There were lots of different stalls to see but only one craft stall.

FRIDAY

The sky over our house about 9pm on Friday evening

Saturday

I have a few pegs on my washing line that are left out all year round.

I moved one of the pegs and this white spider fell out!

Two snails doing a trapeze act in the rain on Saturday morning

I entered the local Flower and produce show with five items

Photograph, this Flower Display

Lavender, Rosemary, Mint, Thyme, Bay

Five Varieties of Herbs

Caitlins new jumper and some Lemon Curd

I only came second with the jumper

Its the first time I have entered in about seven years!

Everything is back to normal!

The second weekend in January and everything is back to normal! The usual Tesco trip was done yesterday. No getting away from it we have to eat! We woke up this morning to this pinkish sky!

Today I was going to prune the shrubs but decided it was actually too early in the year to start doing that, I'll leave it for a couple of weeks and hope the rain doesn't stop me before the buds start shooting! I don't gently prune I destroy! I take the shrubs down to ground level and then hope they grow again...............they usually do!

This evening after late lunch, early dinner we watched this.................

I wasn't sure if I was going to enjoy it after all the hipe! But I actually put my glasses on and enjoyed every possible moment of it. I would normally knit, crochet or even sew whilst watching a film so I didn't drop off to sleep but this film lived up to all the hipe, it was very very good, excellent in fact!

Sunset

Looking through the kitchen window

I saw this beautiful red sky

at 16.40 pm

Morning has broken

Sunrise from my garden

Sunset

Sunset on the way home from visiting dad in Okehampton

Very dramatic!

The sky at 6pm this evenng!

Very dramatic - blue and shades of grey

I wonder what the weather will bring?

A Nothing Day!

The sky at 6.15pm!

I haven't done much today!

Worked this morning!

Shopped this afternoon!

The sky over Hankridge - Taunton this afternoon about 2pm

Today we thought we would go and see the film "Indiana Jones"! Well that as the intention! We arrived at the cinema to find the doors locked, and saw that the time of the film was 4.30pm, the time we arrived at the cinema was just after mid-day! We took ourselves off for lunch at Pizza Hut and we also looked in the five stores over at Hankridge, then decided to go to Sainsburys for another cup of tea and decided we would go an see another film as we there "Hancock" with Will Smith. Although I like action movies, this film had quite a bit of action, a bit of violence (didn't like that but I suppose it was integral to the film) and was very loud because this particular cinema was one of the very small ones in the complex!

Sky at 4.14pm!

Well..........today was as exciting as yesterday! Mind you thinking on it most week-ends are boring at our house! We cut the grass, took the grass cuttings and other rubbish to the recycling centre, took a late DVD rental back........mental note: must speak to son re-fine of said DVD!

Sky

The skyline from my back garden at 12.15pm

This time last week..........

............there were gale warnings, flood warnings
and ships were warned to take shelter in the nearest safe harbours.
I wonder what this summer will bring weatherwise?

How the weather changes!

These clouds were in the sky at 7.30am this morning.

Now it is icy cold, grey and trying to rain and may even snow

and it is only 12.45pm

Bird Nesting

Hmmmm!...................now let me see..........

where's the best view for my new nest!

More Sky

I opened my front door at 8.30am to THIS!

But.........it didn't rain at all!

Cloudy Sky

It was very rainy and windy this morning,

now the sun is trying to peep through

Literally two second after taking this.........

......... at 8am the grey clouds came over and it rained and rained!