Harmony in Gloucester.

Half term was a right old mixed bag! More about that later but the highlight was to go and visit a lovely lady.
We call her GG, why? well she is at the ripe old age of 95 my boys Great Granny, a mouthful for little ones to say hence calling her GG!
This fine lady, drives, grows her own veg and plays Bridge with her young friends! She has seen and lived through so many changes, loosing her husband early and bringing up 2 children on her own.
Her secret....... well independence, good food, tea at 4, drinks at 6 (two good measures of whisky!) and laughter!
She is good example of how to live your life and someone who I will always look up to. Even though she is my husbands grandmother, she has always treated me as a grandchild and we share so much in common its quite spooky!

She lives in a really sweet village in Gloucestershire, whilst we were there I took the boys out for a couple of walks. This was mine and my eldest favourite, would you like to come with us......?


First we leave her old barn and walk down the lane........

We come to the snicket, look at those Cotswold dry stone walls...................................

Skip down the snicket, scrunching on the leaves..........pick up a few stones to repair a gap............

Find a little step to peer over the wall.......................................................

We reach the end of the snicket, look at the HUGE stone........................

Past the allotments, darn fine ones too................................

around the corner to the top of the high street. This is the old meeting house....................

back to the crossroads admiring the old buildings and finding secret doorways.

Well we hope you enjoyed the walk, we most certainly do every time we come to this little bit of England.



BOO!

Remember that pumpkin my mother grew, he's watching you!

Of course we all managed to enjoy Halloween.....................

creepy hands and feet everywhere!

After a week of all coming down with a bug we did manage to enjoy part of the Half Term. What was going to be a time of seeing friends, visiting places and making all sorts was spent stuck in doors under strict quarantine!

I did enjoy spending time at home with my boys though, just us, no routine. Its back to school again and a little boy was not too happy. I find it hard to let go, knowing that they have years to go being stuck in classroom environment but life goes on and Christmas is just round the corner. Sew sew sew.............................