Walking

I am trying to do more walking! It is not something that I could say I enjoy as I would much rather be scrapping but I know I need some exercise and need to get fitter.



I recently bought some new walking shoes and just over a week ago Frank and I decided to go for a walk! We did a circular walk that started and finished at Welford. We timed it so that we could walk and then finish at the pub in Welford for lunch.







The walk started along the canal bank - along a branch of the Grand Union that only went to the pub!

Then we walked along the main Grand Union towpath for a while before cutting across the fields to end up back at the village.






It was a little under 5 miles in total and a very nice walk.







We stopped at the pub for a lovely lunch. I had some absolutely delicious mushrooms and Frank had a ploughman's lunch that was big enough to feed a family. I chose cider to drink but the beer Frank chose was delicious. I would love to go back there so that I could have the beer. It tasted like butterscotch! Wonderful.




The following Tuesday (1st July) I went for another walk!

This time with Ron Annies (Biology teacher from work). Now he is a big walker and much fitter than me so when he told me we were to go a circular walk that was about 8 miles I was a little apprehensive. We started at Brigstock Country Park and then saw the sign that said the Lyveden Way walk, which was the one we were doing, was actually 9 and a half miles. I did have the option to turn around but after about 4 miles I was still feeling fine and we were nearly at Wadenhoe which is where we planned to stop for lunch, at the pub!

I was really pleased to find that the following day I didn't even ache! The next walk, weather permitting will be next Tuesday (15th July!).

16 week challenge

I finally decided not to carry on with this challenge. The opposites were not things that I would normally scrap and as I have hundreds of photos that need scrapping I decided I could better use my time working on other albums.

16 Week Challenge - City and Country

For this opposites challenge we had to use the words City and Country. I chose Bath and the two pictures show the huge differences that there are in one city. We can see the old streets of the centre of town and the rolling countryside from just outside the city centre.

Culture Day

Today was culture day at college. It is always an interesting day as we have displays from several countries represented at the college, national dress, traditional food and then a concert of music and entertainment from several different nationalities.

On the left are 3 girls from Eastern Europe - Russia or Ukraine. On the left is a group of Vietnamese students.





The picture on the left shows the Vietnamese student's table. There is information about their country behind them on the wall, a computer showing pictures of their country and there was some lovely pork and sticky rice to eat! On the right is a table from the Indian students.


In the afternoon there was a short concert. This consisted of 5 Vietnamese students singing a traditional song. From left to right they are Yun, Lynn, Christine, Helen and Chloe.


A chinese girl called Cindy sang a solo, another Chinese girl called Stephanie played the piano and a British student, Sunny, representing India played drums.








Sunny and Krishan then entertained us with their version of Signature - they were BRILLIANT! So funny and so entertaining. And they only decided to do this at lunchtime so they had 2 hours to rehearse!





After that we had some groups - Nigerians talking about their national dress and singing the National Anthem, followed by a group of Vietnamese singing their national anthem and finally the malaysian students sang together.


Overall a very entertaining afternoon.

Scrapping challenge

I have just completed the layout for week 4 which was to choose 2 words from Fire/Earth/Wind/Water. My chosen words were Fire and Water.

I am using this as part of my Disney scrapbook as the photographs are taken from the Backlot Tour at Walt Disney Studios Park in Disneyland Paris. They were from our visit in October 2006.

Saturday 14th June Barbecue

Isn't British weather a pain!

Saturday morning the weather was lovely! Hot and dry and ideal for a barbecue. And fine all day until about 6pm when Frank started cooking! About 10 minutes later it was pouring with rain. Here are a couple of photos of him finishing off the cooking!

Sunday 8th June 2008 - Tall Ship day

For Frank's birthday last year the three of us bought him a day on a tall ship. And Sunday was the day he chose to go.


Lizzie was already in Southampton as she had been visiting her grandmother and little cousins down there so Frank and I drove down on Saturday to join her. Sunday morning the three of us went to Portsmouth so that Frank could start his day on the tall ship. Thankfully the weather was lovely! Calm and hot so not much chance of their being anyone seasick on the boat.



The photo on the right is the ship that they went on! It is called Artemis.






It was 10am when the passengers got on the ship and it sailed at about 10.15. Frank soon got chatting to the other people who were enjoying the same experience. There were several ladies waving off their husbands and they planned to spend the day shopping. Lizzie and I did a little shopping but had a leasurely lunch and then sat with a glass of cider for a couple of hours and watched the activity in the harbour.


Frank's sister, Carolyn, her husband Peter and Frank's Mum came to Portsmouth to wait for Frank to come back, so that they could talk to him about his day out. He had caught a little bit of sun and had a really relaxing day I think. He said he thoroughtly enjoyed his day! I hope he did!