It wasn't raining when we got up this morning so we took the opportunity to walk into Ambleside. We stopped at Bridge House which is National Trust to have a snack which we took with us. The water wheel in The Glass House restaurant was working today. On the way home we stopped off at Hayes Garden Centre.
We came back to the apartment to make a picnic lunch and drove to Fellfoot Park (National Trust) at the foot of the lake. I LOVE Fellfoot Park, it is breathtakingly beautiful. Lots of happy memories here too - in Whitsun of 2009 and the summer of 2010 we came and spent the day here. The kids spent almost all day on the park while we sunbathed. We hired a rowboat one summer, Roman was only a toddler at the time and kept trying to stand up and take the oars off Mark "me do it, me row the boat!"
We tried to feed the duck's here today but got chased off by a very aggresive swan.
We tried to feed the duck's here today but got chased off by a very aggresive swan.
We then took a drive to The Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway. A train had just come in and we wanted to watch it steam off but it started raining so we went to the Engine Shed to see some of the trains in there. When we came out the train had gone. It gave Roman some idea's about what colour to paint his wooden model train.
On the way home we stopped off for a walk around Windermere which is such a pretty little village.
Ask no question's and I'll tell no lie's! All I will say is we did have permission to take this big chunk of tree trunk and it is coming home with us! Mark has been after one for a while to use as a chopping block to chop up the logs smaller to go on Fred. We saw it and Mark went to ask permission and got a very strange look but they did say yes so he was pleased with himself! Strange souvenir to take home but functional and a nice reminder of holiday!
We had some odd chocolate's left and piece's of shortbread so after tea we melted the chocolate and spread it on the shortbread. We made shavings of chocolate with an odd Cadbury's Rose that was left and made these for pudding, yummy!
This was Nicolette's idea, she asked me last night to make a crochet pouch for Lexi as she has a wobbly tooth. I thought it was a great idea and said I would make one for Roman too as he has had a wobbly tooth for week's now.
While the kids went swimming this afternoon Mark was surfing on his tablet, I took a ball of wool and different sized crochet hooks and just sat crocheting until it looked right. It is basically a crochet rectangle with the side's sewed together. I did it in single crochet to make it dense and make sure the tooth wouldn't fall out in between the stitch's. I brought the buttons from a charity shop in Windermere today for just 2p each as I knew I would make this my project for this afternoon/evening.
By coincidence before tea tonight Roman started crying and getting distressed, he said his tooth was wobbling "so much" and he didn't like it! Mark had a look and it just fell out - he lost his first tooth! He was pleased with the little pouch, put his tooth in there and went to bed hoping the tooth fairy is going to leave him 5p tonight - he made us all laugh!
This evening, I made Lexi a baby pink pouch too, hope she likes it!
While the kids went swimming this afternoon Mark was surfing on his tablet, I took a ball of wool and different sized crochet hooks and just sat crocheting until it looked right. It is basically a crochet rectangle with the side's sewed together. I did it in single crochet to make it dense and make sure the tooth wouldn't fall out in between the stitch's. I brought the buttons from a charity shop in Windermere today for just 2p each as I knew I would make this my project for this afternoon/evening.
By coincidence before tea tonight Roman started crying and getting distressed, he said his tooth was wobbling "so much" and he didn't like it! Mark had a look and it just fell out - he lost his first tooth! He was pleased with the little pouch, put his tooth in there and went to bed hoping the tooth fairy is going to leave him 5p tonight - he made us all laugh!
This evening, I made Lexi a baby pink pouch too, hope she likes it!
I brought these today - a giant silicone cupcake case from Lakeland which was reduced to £1.50.
When we were on our way back from Ambleside this morning and we stopped off at Hayes I picked this cupcake corer up for £3. It takes the centre out of cupcakes so you can fill them with surprises - fruit, sweet's, jam, chocolate spread, buttercream icing.......... I was intrigued but thought I could also use it to place "surprise's" inside larger birthday cake's too.
When we were on our way back from Ambleside this morning and we stopped off at Hayes I picked this cupcake corer up for £3. It takes the centre out of cupcakes so you can fill them with surprises - fruit, sweet's, jam, chocolate spread, buttercream icing.......... I was intrigued but thought I could also use it to place "surprise's" inside larger birthday cake's too.
Tonight we borrowed "Robot's" from the DVD library. I made Lexi's crochet tooth pouch and then blogged.
Anais started to make the last felt heart..................
Anais started to make the last felt heart..................
...........and Mark and Roman did more work to Roman's model train. Poor Mark, he brought a model car to make on holiday but has only had chance to look at it once, on Sunday. Every day he has been helping Roman to make the model train and with 140 piece's to assemble it is taking longer than he thought.
Tonight when the kids had gone to bed we watched "Vanilla Sky" DVD. Neither of us had seen it before and it was one of them films I didn't understand though Mark enjoyed it. xx
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