Island of Wight

Thought you might like a couple of links to some more photos of our trip the the Island of Wight last weekend, that my hubby took of the garden railways we visited...

You have the Ryde here

and the Bembridge ones here

Hope you enjoy looking at them as much as I did...

Sorry not been round, it's a little hectic with it being school holidays and also had my daughter's birthday, so have been card making, present buying, banner hanging, out for a meal etc....

WOW what a scorcher....

...the weekend was, we spent Saturday over the Island of Wight, we set off for the bus at 9am and got down to The Hard to get the fast cat over to the IOW...




Where we were collected by a friend who had taken he's car over earlier in the day, as we were there to visit a couple of garden railways...

The first was on the outskirts of Ryde, it was a lovely layout, every time you walked round you would see something you had missed the time before, it had lots of little details in the scenery..








and the other was in Bembridge, this layout was a little different as was based on the American line, which to be honest, I'm not a lover of... but WOW it was a different type of layout and they did have a couple of 'cute' engines, lol...








also that's the fun of going and seeing other garden railways, even though they are all 'G' scale based, they can be so different, everyone I've seen over the years have a different personality to it....

We then got the 5.45pm fast cat back and the number 21 bus home, with hubby getting off the bus a stop early to pop in the chippy, as we were all too shattered to stop off for a pub tea, which we had planned to do, but still a perfect end to a lovely but tiring day....

but still no crafting these summer holidays, but I really need to get my act together as have my daughters birthday card to do for Thursday and a couple of secret projects which have to be done by the 15 August.....

What is that yellow ball in the sky?.....

Oh sorry, I think it's called the 'sun', long time no see...

As it was a lovely sunny day today, I thought we would venture out for a bus ride, something I don't normally do, especially with Steven, why you may ask, well....

Steven is such a friendly young lad, that he has to say hallo and goodbye to everyone that he sees and that includes everyone getting on and off the bus, so by the time we've gone a couple of stops, my head is already aching, lol...

I do try to take him on a bus or two every school holiday, as I feel the only way he's going to learn to not talk to everyone in his high pitched voice is by actually taking him on a bus and keep saying to him to 'no' or 'stop' (talking to strangers) when he goes to say hallo..... it's very wearing, but thought as we had to go into town today to collect he's new glasses and it's a lovely dry sunny day, we would give it a go...

So we walked down to the end of our road (not a good start as he kept stopping and saying hallo to everyone on the way)... got the bus into town, he was not too bad... (only slight headache)... we then went and sorted out he's glasses (again saying hallo to all the customers coming and going, it wouldn't be so bad if they could understand what he was saying, but he's hallo sounds like a lot of 'iiii' and it's always in a very high pitched voice)...

Anyway he looked very smart in he's new glasses, (slightly different style this time) we then went for a walk round Victoria Park, fed some of the animals there (guinea pigs, ducks, rabbits, birds etc.) played in the new swing park, on the hammock and dish swing and treated ourselves to an ice cream, well it was hard work with all that walking and swinging, lol...







I did take some photo's of steven feeding the animals, but as he kept putting the food through the fencing at above head height, wasn't a good picture, lol the animals were not too please either, I think they thought he was teasing them, lol....

When it was time to come home, we got another bus back, but went the long way round this time, Steven was a lot better going home, not sure if it was because he was tired with the walking and swinging, but for me it was nice being able to look out the windows at some of the places I used to work at or visit, lol bought back quite a few memoires...

After getting off the bus, we stopped off at the co-op and bought a pack of 3 pecan and toffee cookies, well we thought we would treat hubby to a cookie too, as he's been stuck in doors working all day... and seeing he missed out on the ice cream too...

My great nephew....

Here's a couple of photos of my great nephew Orlando James... when he was nearly 2 days old...

The first one is of me holding him and the 2nd is with he's great nana....

Lovely day out.....

Had a lovely day out with mum and Steven today, we went to The Range and came away with a tub of garlic chips which I call granules, (hubby likes to use them when cooking, I prefer to use fresh garlic, lol)... some labels for the business and a date stamp for me, which was just 99p...

I know, I know, the last of the big spenders, lol.... but I had ordered the QVC TSV earlier, the 360 sheets of K & Company papers (hush.... don't tell hubby)....

We then went to Lee-on-the-solent for a walk along the beach, which was very windy, so windy in fact that Steven's baseball cap blew right off, I did manage to chase after it though.... Steven had great fun throwing stones in the sea...







we also visited a little bakery and an old fashion sweet shop (coming away with some sherbet crystals, sweet coconut, shrimps, liquorish pipes with hundred and thousand at the end)... I could have spent a lot more than £2.10, lol...

After that we went for lunch out at Port Solent and a walk round...

Then finished up back at home for coffee and the cakes/biscuit we bought from the little bakery...

Later in the evening, Steven and I went along to Russetts, as they had a drumming night, (could have done without the drumming, as I had a bit of a headache before I even got there, lol)...

Steven seemed to enjoy himself having a go on one of the drums...



In fact everyone there were let loose, all at the same time for 2 hours...

...and yes surprise, surprise, still have a headache, lol....

Am now chilling out, eating my sweet tobacco and drinking a hot mug of dream tea, while waiting for hubby to phone (as working away again this week)...


But all in all, a good fun day out....

yeah I'm a great aunt again....

Yep, my niece had a baby boy a couple of days ago, so I've now got 2 great nieces in Bristol and 2 great nephews in Portsmouth...

They've called him Orlando, and he weighed in at 9lbs 14oz, (OUCH)...

mum, dad and baby are all doing fine...

We went round for a visit today, and I was lucky enough to get a cuddle... I don't believe in picking a baby up or playing pass the parcel with them, but he was a little ratty in he's crib, so my niece let me have a cuddle, he feel asleep in my arms...

...he's so cute, trouble is they grow up, lol...

now the fun and games start....

YEAH it's the school holidays...

We've got a few things we HAVE to do like the Doctors, the dentist, the opticians and a hospital appointment.....

but that still leave us 42 days to have fun....

Steven's lucky enough be going on the special needs playscheme for a few days each week, which is run for the first 4 weeks of the school holidays.... which means I can get the housework and shopping done in peace, and if I get the time, a quick trip to the gym and a go on the 'power plate' (or 'vibrating plate' as I call it, lol)..... I also hope to meet up with some other mums for a pub lunch.


...but then the fun starts as I've a list of things I hope to do with Steven depending on the weather..... like taking a bus ride to Bognor Regis, hovercraft over to the Isle of Wight, ferry to Gosport, walks, drives and picnics, train ride, bowling, boat trip round the harbour, pub lunches, Marwell zoo and making cookies, cakes and pizza etc....

...I'm looking forward to not clock watching too....

I hope that whatever you are doing over the next 6 weeks, you enjoy it, as I plan too....