Osborne House and bluebells

Hello there - The sun was shining and it was Sunday so we packed a picnic and set off in the car to Osborne House as we had the boys for the day.  We got our entrance tickets and started to walk down the path heading to the beach.

 



 

I spotted this bit of trimming that had been done in the garden

 

 

Walking on and seeing this stunning rhododendron

 



 

Round the corner to see the scaffold up around the house

 as there is some renovation going on, even on a Sunday

 

 

 

Before

 

 

And after

 

 

Looking quite calm when we got down to the beach

 

 

Some waves

 

 

Really quite choppy

 

 

The boys ventured in

 

 

 

Ships passing through down the Solent

 

 

 

Paradise here on the Isle of Wight

 

 

We wandered back up towards the house and this is what

is growing alongside the path as you walk - wild garlic 

 

Four different flowers in that one little patch

primroses, daisies, milk maids and a dandelion

 

 

 

An old branch has fallen with fir cones still attached

 

 

A long eared bat wood carving along the path

 

 

Red squirrel wood carving

 

 

 

A peek over the gate once I had read the sign

 

 

 

 

 

A quick walk around Swiss Cottage and a look

at the kitchen with this original recipe

(I've not made it yet, but will do one day)

 



 

A walk around the royal children's gardens

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A rickety old bench - you daren't sit on it!!

 

 

A beautiful bluebell walk through the woods

 

 

Carrying on up the main path towards the house

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

One last look back at the sea

 

 

Nearly at the house and gardens

 

 

 

 

Around the gardens

 

 

Up the steps

 

 

Down over the wall - oooohhh look - shadows

 

 

 

 

OOOOooohhh - the gardens, the colours, the flowers

the neatness of them all - is just stunning

 

One last path to walk along to the walled garden

 

 

 

 

 

Tulips

 

 

Getting the plots ready for planting

 

 

 

 

Can you see the V and A intertwined

on the back of the bench?

Victoria and Albert

 

 

V and A also on the flower pots

 

 

Back out of the walled garden heading towards

the exit and our afternnon at Osborne House is nearly over

 

 

 

I've never spotted this statue before

I see something different ever time I visit

 

This time the inscription is VR

Victoria Regina on the post box

 

 

The post box is situated in the entrance/exit area to post your

cards back home telling all what a fantastic day you have had at

Osborne House

 

We will be back soon

 

Thanks for popping by

 

Xx Joy xX

 

PS

 

 

I made a few little notelets and mini envelopes

 

 

We had a 118 fun run at our parkrun

so I made some moustaches

 

 

Something interesting on the needles

 

 

 

 

Something interesting on the crochet hook

 

 

More on the crochet hook - Guess what?

 

 

You remember the knit n natter ladies made a blanket to raffle at

our local parkrun?  The draw took place last weekend and our resident

photographer Peter won it - we sold tickets at £1 each and raised

£595.80 and a friend of parkrun gave us £4.20 which made our total £600

for Medina IOW parkrun funds!

 

A W E S O M E - we have started another project - so

Watch This Space

 

 

What a lovely sight to wake up to out of your bedroom window

 

ttfn

 

Xx Joy xX