Friday 27 February 2009

Some sort of Saurus



Made by one of our favourite non-gransons George

Thursday 26 February 2009

Uncle Leonard


Uncle leonard taught me to drink wine ( Especially Beaune) and also how to pronounce the word Rose without being rude

Uncle Edwin



Uncle Edwin was born on the day that the Titanic went down and eventually Married my favourite Aunty Raffaella

Getting Ready for the big day


Malcolm Elam busts the stumps

Pani Gharri



Pani Gharri is the Bengali word for

Water cart or Fire Engine

In this case a neighbour's cat was

stuck up the Chimney

Tuesday 24 February 2009

The Lovely Liz


Mother of My Granchildren

Rare Pleasure


Budding Artist

My Holiday


Andy and the Boys

Wednesday 18 February 2009

Monday 16 February 2009

First Flowers of the Year



Not quite open
SNOWDROPS

Friday 13 February 2009

Yet again


I was born on Friday the thirteenth of October and Friday the Thirteenth has always been one of my lucky days.
Picture here shows Fran, Roy, Sheila Rod and Anne Birch pruning the Muller Thurgau grapes on my allotment
Hopefully it will be a good Harvest

Pruning the Vines


Roy Birch with Rod

Tuesday 10 February 2009

Getting Ready



Going to Paper the Bedroom Stairs

Sunday 8 February 2009

Today Sunday is the sixth day that we have had snow arround the house and Garden. They say that it is the worst spell for 19 years. whatever happened to Global Warming ?

Friday 6 February 2009

Just shows that you should never count your chickens before they hatch.
We had five things planned for this week.
BBA Scandia circle had to be cancelled due to the inclement weather
The same applied to the meeting at Halifax where I was supposed to be judging the Rose Wine,
On Wednesday we did actually manage to get to Temple Gild and judge.
Hopkinson's was cancelled on Thursday and
Roy could not get up to prune my vines to-day

Wednesday 4 February 2009

They named ir after Andrew


These are Craven A, ther also used to be a brand called Craven Pliain.
CDan anyone think of any other brad names for cigarettes please email your answers to

Monday 2 February 2009

Yet More Snow



This time the houses on Jubilee Mount

It Snew



Highly unexpected, but due to the east wind