Goodbye, Berry!

This is my last picture of Berry who died yesterday. It was taken very recently. We had a lot of fun and joy with him, and some lovely photos!

Sunday Lunch

Every so often my church has an event called 'Guess Who's Coming to Lunch.' You can sign up to be either a host or a guest. If you are a host you say how many people you can cater for and whether you can accommodate children. Today I was a guest and these are the lovely people I shared my lunch with.

and this is the delicious meal...

The Christmas Cake.

This year CassCass was old enough to help.

It looks tasty already!

You've got to test the mixture haven't you!

There was enough left to put in the oven and we rounded off the afternoon with a tune on Grandpa's piano.

The Christmas Cake.

First of all a picnic lunch in the garden.

Lissa Lou at 5 1/2 yrs is able to do so much more this year.

Cream the butter and sugar. All going well until...

Uncle Alistair tries to add in some left over peas!

Mini Beasts in East London.

We put a variety of soil, leaves and sticks in the blue tray, then looked under every stone and pile of sticks in the garden. We only found 1 woodlouse, 1 slug, 3 small worms and 1 longer one, 1 empty snail shell and 1 live one. Later we found the spider who ate the green thing (shield insect?) and a butterfly.
There was one reddish centipede but it disappeared from the tray - could the slug be eating it? Oh and there was a ladybird but it flew away before CassCass could get it in the tray!

La maison des peupliers

Some views of Heather's new home.

A visit to the dentist.

Look what happened to LissaLou last week! She had to go to the dentist to get a filling. (The teacher in Guadeloupe gave the good children a sweetie every afternoon as they left school). The dentist notice a loose tooth and sought permission to remove it. With reminders of the tooth fairy, this was given.
The tooth fairy had no change to hand and left a 2 euro coin. Later it was changed and spent on.....nail varnish. And she's only 5!