** Osborne House 3 **

Hello there - it is a horrible wet day outside today and it reminded me of a wet Saturday we had over the August bank holiday weekend.  The family all did their Saturday morning parkrun before my son and daughter in law went off to London for the weekend, leaving our two grandsons with us.  What do you do with a 13 year old and 15 year old when it is raining! Well you get them occupied in the kitchen and this is what we came up with

 

Between us we made sausage rolls, scotch eggs and apple crumble - some of our cooking got eaten on the Saturday and the rest got taken to Osborne House with us on Sunday as the weather was like a summers day, so off we went.

 

 

As usual when we arrived hubby and O took the bus to the beach while H and I strolled down to Swiss Cottage on our way to the beach

 

 

We spotted this sign on the way which made us smile because there isn't any traffic in the grounds of Osborne House (there are the little buses that ferry the visitors about) but that is all

 

 

So we followed this sign

 

 

The Royal children's garden tool shed and their wheelbarrows are still in the shed all neatly lined up 158 years later!

 

 

 

I love the neatness of the way the flower and vegetable beds are cut into the grass

 

 

The children had their own name posts to show which was their garden

 

 

Can you see Swiss Cottage over in the background on the left?

 

 

 As we wandered towards Swiss Cottage we spotted pumpkins growing

 

We saw this little sign in the side border

 

 

We saw the W a s p  A l e r t !!!

 

 

 

 

Swiss Cottage is a museum of bits and pieces that the royal children collected on their travels around the world, but you are not allowed to take any photographs in there so H and I didn't go in. It was getting close to lunch time and the other two had our picnic so we carried on down to the beach to meet up with them.

 

 

H insisted I get the flag in the picture to show it was British!

 

 

 

 

I love this little alleyway

 

 

A great natural way to say "keep out"

 

These carvings have been done on old trees by a local guy - aren't they great?

 

O on the beach!!

 

 

Punch and Judy on the grass

 "That's the way to do it"

 

 

This boat headed in from the mainland to the beach

 

 

Tim the warden got on his megaphone "this is a private beach and you are not allowed to land"

How exciting - we have only ever seen him keep people off the grass before!!

 

 

The boat put his anchor down and there they sat for about half an hour -

Tim stood his ground and watched their every move

 

 

I wandered down to the little walk way to see what the sign said from the sea side of the beach

 

 

Quite clearly it says NO LANDING - perhaps they couldn't read English!

Tim had to speak to four people again that day for climbing over the rope and walking on the sacred land

 

 

With swimming, boating excitement, Punch and Judy show over and picnic consumed hubby and O went back up to the main house on the bus while H and I walked up and found the Ice House

 

 

The photo is not too good as the sun was very bright, the date on the top of the door way is 1853 - exactly 100 years older than me.

 

 

Through the door

 

 

and look down

 

and look up

and look behind you

 

and here is it's history

 



 

Another lovely walkway

 

 

When we got home O got the washing in for me and couldn't find the peg bag!!!!

 

Thanks for popping by

 

Xx Joy Xx

 

PS

 

 

The knit and natter ladies have been busy and the joining into blankets has begun

 

 

 I marked up a map of where parkrun scanner pockets/cosies have gone - 56 sets

1 set has gone to South Africa and another set have gone to Copenhagen

 

 

 

 

the runner beans are growing thick and fast

 

 

10 bags of beans have been picked and prepared and popped in the freezer

 

 

another dishful prepared and eaten - yummy!!

 

ttfn xx