Saturday, July 26, 2014

Poppit Sands

Poppit Sands!
Our cottage.  Swn-y-don...
Evening game of Monopoly.  Lisa is the banker...
Early morning surf for the girls...
The girl next door showed Lisa how to make some different types of loom band bracelets...
Me and Lisa went for an evening paddle round to the old lifeboat station.  It was dead calm...
We had a close encounter with a dolphin!!!!
Tuesday market in St Dogmeals.  Buying lunch...
Eating lunch at the Abbey....
Two smiling smilers...
The Welsh National Wildlife Centre just outside Cardigan...
I think Joe wants to go back to the beach :-)
The amazing 'Yum Yum' Sweet Shop in Cardigan...
Lisa and Joe drawing in the sand....
'Let's Go Surfin' Now.....'
Rock Pooling....
Playing on Second Beach....
Joe fishing for the big one....
Me and Lisa took a paddle down the River Teifi from Cilgerran to Cardigan...
We came across a lonely ducking.  Lisa wanted to take it home....
Lisa kite flying...
Lisa and Karen went for a pre-breakfast swim every day....brrrrrr...
Lisa Bonnington...
Joe still fishing....
Another great week at Poppit...
See you next year :-)

Saturday, July 19, 2014

Chagstock 2014

Chagstock Music Festival 2014


The festival is near Okehampton down in darkest Devon.... Setting up camp with the hills of Dartmoor as a backdrop...
The bands...
Josie Lloyd, finger picking blues.  With her friend Laura on the Cajon.   The dressing up theme is The Wild Wild West....
Jimmer chatting to fellow muso over the bar.  Dartmoor Beers...
That's me trying to ride a bike with opposite steering.   Impossible....
Simon on the Penalty Shootout...
Light refreshments...
Lightning Seeds...
Morning Tea.  That looks a bit precarious :-0
Great local band....Downfall...
Geoff catching up on some missing ZZZZs...
The Selecter....
The forecast was torrential rain....it didn't...
The Waterboys...
Brunch in Honiton on the way home....
Me and Sleepy stopped in at Jimmer's on the way home....
Great weekend :-)

Saturday, July 12, 2014

Will's 50th Birthday Party

It was Will's 50th Birthday Party today.  The theme was The Good Life...
Tom 'Danny' Good, Jerry 'Will' Ledbetter and Jerry 'Peter' Ledbetter...
The stage is set....
The staff are ready....Will and Freddy...
The amaaaaazing Mobile Pizza Oven is fired up.  Barbara 'Karen' Good and Margot 'Julia' Ledbetter enjoying a slice...
Name tags are written.  Guess what the numbers mean....(Click to get the large picture)...
The Isle of Wight Margot and Jerry.   I think Peter is converted to the cravat...
George 'Not the Good Life', Julia Margot, Mary Margot and Karen Good...
Damien...
Helen and Gareth...
Will's 50 speech.  V good....
And what a cake!
The bar....
Jerry 'Peter' Ledbetter seems to have a grown a remarkable head of hair......
The party goes onwards and upwards.  The concrete work top makes a great dance floor...
The staff joining in...
Dancing on the table at 50.....nice job :-)
What a brilliant party.  Thanks so much...loved it.