Birthday and Easter

Hello there - I hope you have had a lovely Easter weekend.  Our Easter started with my son celebrating his 40th birthday on Thursday (I don't know how my youngest child can be that age) as the time and years have flown by.  We had a family meal earlier in the week that was rounded off with some birthday cake and candles



 

 

The day finally arrived and he had lots of surprises throughout the day

 

 

 

 

Balloons, presents and another cake

 

 

 

My friend Sarah made his cake as I asked her

and Sean made some badges for us to wear out -

Great minds thinking alike there!!

 

 

I wonder what he had to open here

 

 

Well I had this book for Christmas - so maybe he had some of these

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here they all are and I absolutely loved making them

I have since made another ten different ones for friends children

and friends alike.  I am certain there are going to be more made.

So the birthday was over and we moved onto Easter.

 

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I made Easter cards

 

 

I made bunnies for my Easter tree

 

I made a tea cosy for an Easter gift

 

 

I ate one of these

 

 

Today has been a button day

 

 

Love, love, loving these buttons on cards

 

 

These are now coming off my hook

Watch this space!

 

Thanks for popping by

 

Xx Joy Xx

 

PS

 

We held the raffle for Mary's blanket last week at the running Club and we raised £96

with the Club making this amount up to £100 for

Parkinson UK which is the Charity Mary chose

 

 

84 year old Mary is still knitting her lovely squares!!

More blankets to come

 

ttfn xx

Scotland Trip

Hello there - We have recently returned from a trip to Scotland.  We went on a coach tour which was a long journey and we had several stops on the way to eventually arrive, after a very early start, at our hotel which is situated on Loch Achray in the Trossachs

 

 

It was around a fourteen hour journey because of a couple of accidents on the motorway on our way up.  We left Cosham at 05.40 am and arrived at Loch Achray at 7 pm.  We had our evening meal and then had an early night. 

 

 

The next day after breakfast we headed off out towards Stirling and did a tour of the local distillery

 

 

 

 

 

 

Towser the famous cat who kept the distillery mouse free for 24 years

 

 

Hubby with his wee dram next to the largest bottle of whiskey in the world

 

 

 

 

 

We passed Gleneagles golf course on a day trip out

 

 

 

 

Heading towards Stirling Castle for a walk about to stretch our legs

 

 

Statue of Robert the Bruce

 

 

War Memorial of past Battles

 

 

 

View from the top of Stirling Castle

 

 

A trip to Largs and a stroll along the promenade

 

 

 

 

Recognising their Viking past

 

 

Railway Bridge built over the River Forth in 1890

 

 

Forth road bridge - finished in 1964

 

 

New bridge under construction and hopefully to be opened later this year

 

 

A wander around Edinburgh

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



 

 

 

 

 

A damp dreary day - just the day for a boat trip on Loch Lomond

 

 

 

Rob Roy used to hide in the caves on the banks of Loch Lomond from the

red coats and this is where his hide out was - the place marked

'CAVE' - hilarious!!

 

 

 

 

The Kelpies Statues in Scotland

 

 

 

 

 

I hope you have enjoyed our trip around parts of Scotland on our coach tour

and of course there was a bit of knitting and crocheting going

on whilst travelling around

 

 

Day 1 - Cosham to Loch Achray

 

 

Day 2

 

 

Day 3

 

 

Day 4

 

 

Day 5

 

So we got back home at the weekend after having a lovely week away and this week has found me tidying and finishing off some of the bits that I had knitted and crocheted whilst away

 

 

These needed pom poms making

 

 

 

 



 

 

These need the buttons sewing on

 

 

Buttons done

and the

next few to do

Can't wait!!

 

 

 

At the end of the week we have these!!

 

Thanks for popping by

 

Xx Joy Xx

 

PS

 

Before going on holiday I left this little something to be given to Liz when she completed her 100th parkrun, which unfortunately I missed as I was away - yay she did her 100th run - brilliant

 

 

 

I made this for Abigail

 

 

Julie has been selling her raffle tickets at £1 a go at parkrun for

four weeks and so far she has raised £224 - brilliant

 

 

Mary's (first) blanket squares have been sewn together

and the border has been done and we are going

to raffle this for Parkinson UK on Tuesday

Mary is still knitting squares and I will be starting on her (second) blanket soon

 

xx ttfn xx