Poppit Sands 2011

Poppit Sands 2011 : Iris, Mum, Dad, Lisa, Joe, Karen, Lily and Peter... Day 1 : Saturday - Lisa is happy to be back at Poppit. Cartwheels outside the cottage. Cardigan Island in the distance...

Day 2 - Sunday - Lisa and Joe flying the kites that Helen gave them yesterday...

Drawing pictures in the sand...

Joe's first time in a canoe. He's a natural...

Me and Joe on the water....

Me and Peter off for a trip round to the old life boat station...

Day 3 - Monday - Colouring pebbles. Joe, Lisa and Spotty Lily...

Joe enjoying the beach. "Will you play football with me?"

A view from the other side of the estuary. Our cottage is one of the white ones on the right. Peter is camping in the field above the orange life boat station...

A great old photo, found by Dad, showing how much the beach and the cottages have changed...BBQ outside the cottage...

Day 4 - Tuesday - Lisa and Lily off to the rock pools to catch some dinner...

Lisa and Peter trying to catch the biggest tiddler. Joe seems to be having a bath!

Lisa the fisherman...

Fish and chips on the green outside the Net Pool...

Day 5 - Wednesday - Me, Karen, Lisa & Joe went to the Nevern Agricultural Show. Me and Joe with Woolly the sheep. Joe is not sure!

We sat and had lunch a little bit too close to the bull ring! This is Dafydd's prize bull, he's the old fella in the flat cap with the winner's rosette on the right...

Lisa loved watching the horses...

Joe's favourite was of course the tractors...

Day 6 - Thursday - Me and Pete did a canoe trip down the Teifi River from Cilgerran to Poppit Sands...

Peter leading the way...

The Teifi River from Cilgerran is in a gorge and completely untouched. It's a very tanquil place...

Down towards the estuary. Canoeing past St Dogmaels...

Our triumphant return to Poppit...

Day 7 - Friday - Our last full day at Poppit and the surfs up...

Joe trying his hand in the surf!

We bought a bass from the backstreet fishmonger in St Dogmaels for dinner...

Day 8 - Saturday - Lisa saying goodbye to Poppit Sands with a final handstand!

Barry Island - On the way home we stopped at Barry Island of 'Gavin & Stacey' fame. Lisa on the mega trampolines...

This Marco's cafe where Stacey worked in 'Gavin & Stacey'. Ice lollies all round...

Fireman Joe...

What a great week...hopefully we'll be back next year...

Carrot Harvest

Joe and Lisa harvesting some of the produce of their veg patch...

Hole in One

Lisa Fellows was competing in the Church Path Open today and recorded an amazing Hole-In-One on the long fifth hole. Check out the video evidence...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiI-X-O3vpI

Lisa's Piano Performance

Lisa made her concert debut today as the children of Emsworth Primary School showed off the results of their music lessons...

Joe's Nursery Show

It was Joe's last day at Nursery today. They put on a show followed by a picnic in the garden...

Staunton Water Festival

The rain stopped for just about long enough for us to visit the Water Festival at Staunton Park this afternoon. Here's Joe driving a bus... And Lisa showing Mummy how to do the Hoola Hoop...

Liverpool - Gymnastics

SATURDAY 9TH JULY - LIVERPOOL
This weekend me and Lisa went up to Liverpool for the British Gymnastics Championships... We stayed in Birkenhead across the Mersey from Liverpool. Here's Lisa on the famous Mersey Ferry....

Lisa and the Liver Building. Attention! The Albert Dock and the sea front has been developed and there was plenty going on....

Liverpool Tate Gallery. Lisa's feeling a bit small.

Lisa checking out the Weeping Woman...

This is the Echo Arena, where the Gymnastics is taking place, and the Liverpool Eye (big wheel). It's all part of the Docklands development...

The Women's British Gymnastics Championships. Lisa was very excited at the prospect of seeing Beth Tweddle...

Here she is. The star of the show. Beth Tweddle, three time World Champion, on the floor...

Here are the Gymnasts receiving their medals. Beth Tweddle had the best scores on floor and uneven bars. The overall champion was Hanah Whelan...

Outside we bumped into the one and only Beth Tweddle. Here is Lisa rather star-struck...We had a ride on the Liverpool Eye, the big wheel. Great view west towards the mouth of the Mersey. The Albert Dock is below, with the Liver Building in the distance...

Lisa on the Liverpool Eye...SUNDAY 10th JULY - MORE GYMNASTICS

The Gymnastics Aparatus Finals. The seniors lining up for the uneven bars...

The medal winners on the uneven bars...

Afterwards Lisa met the Senior GB Team, they all signed her programme... I think someone is happy....maybe a future GB gymnast!

On the way home we stopped at Tarporley. This is where Karen grew up. We had dinner in Karen's old local, the Rising Sun. Excellent food too!

What a brilliant weekend :-)