Our garden

The flowers are beginning to bloom and they are looking so beautiful I wanted to share them with you.

Carly's 30th birthday

Just a few photos of Carly's birthday do she had last week. She seemed to enjoy herself while we were there but we brought Maddie back here for the night so left about 22.00. Apparently the party continued at their house but Carly fell asleep on the settee at midnight whilst the others carried on until 4am!!! The neighbours love having them around them!!!

Notre Dame Cathedral - Lille

This church was left empty for years and in the last 10 years the people of Lille have had it completed with this fantastic stain glass window, not sure what the actual picture represents but it did look good with the sun shining in. Just thought you might like to see the church.

Break in Lille

We arrived back today earlier than we thought from Lille in France. We had taken Win and George there for there 61st Wedding Anniversary, after all, not many people can brag about being married for 61 years can they? Anyway, we had a good time although the weather was cold, windy and occasionally, wet, but this did not deter us 'Brits' from enjoying ourselves. It is very pretty in Lille and I loved all the tiny streets with their very very expensive clothe's shops, Colin being a little bit mean would not let me spend 199 euros on a pair of lovely black shoes which I really liked, why not I do not know. Needless to say in the enclosed pictures, we do seem to always have a glass of wine in our hands, this was just for show of course!!!!!!! We managed to get our return train time brought forward to 2pm instead of 8.30pm which meant we arrived back home at 4.30 compared to 11.30pm. The Eurostar is brilliant, it only took one and half hours to get from St. Pancras station in London to Lille, the ride is so smooth you could put a glass of water (or whatever else) on the little table and it does not move, pretty amazing I think seeing as the train is moving approx. 160 miles an hour. Anyway, hope you like the pictures.

Maddie

I had to take these photos of Maddie whilst she slept in her new cot for the first time when I had her on Monday. She is a thumb sucker just like Hayden and like Hayden, sucks the left thumb. Its funny because both Marisa and Adam are left handers----we will have to wait and see what hand the babies write with. Maddie is a joy to have and I look forward to her coming over to our house every week. She talks away and really is becoming a little chatterbox, her smiles are so cute as well.