Creative Endeavors: Tuesday August 5, 2008

Gaye had to work today and so Alice, Jake and Josh were spending the whole day with us at their Granny and granddad's. Alice brought her craft box and she and I spent all morning making a "room" on a sheet of paper that turned our quite nice. We also played "madlibs" and wrote stories and drew pictures. It was actually quite a lot of fun - Alice is really nice to play with.

After lunch, Graham, Alice, Jake and I all went for a circular walk from the house. Despite a brief shower and more cars on the lanes than we would have liked, we had a great walk. Jake is fun to talk to and as you can see from the photo, Alice and Graham had a "skipping" good time.

This evening, Graham and Jake caught a ferry to the Mainland to watch a Southampton Football pre-season "friendly." While they were gone, Graham's brother Brian and his children Brendan and Georgina arrived from the Mainland. They will be staying here at the house also for a few days.

Brian offered for me to join him and the kids to go somewhere in the evening. Somewhere turned out to be the beach. The sun was going down and it was windy and I thought it would be too cold for me to swim, but I went along and took photos and filmed them diving into the cold sea. Afterwards, we had a drink at a pub before returning home.

Tomorrow the plan is to try again for a picnic with the famous fish and chips we have been anxiously awaiting.