How green was my valley?

Very Green! We're just back from a spectacular week in North Wales. Lots of mountains, forests, lakes - such a great getaway and I found some great monster forest inspiration! There's so many photos, it'll be weeks before I search through them, but here's a few for your morning coffee! p.s. extra special mention for the cartoon mushroom in the last photo (red top, white base and spots... I thought they were fictional until we stumbled upon this little fellow and the rest of his family in the forest!).

Postcard from Snowdon

Snowdon (Yr Wyddfa) is incredible. We took the last photo from our iPhone and it looks just like a postcard ...but we were there, honest!

It's my party....

It was my birthday yesterday, and my mum and dad sent me this amazing card with all these old photos of me on it (in this example, I'm the one on the right). Check out my socks, sandals, my amazing outfit and my personal favourite, the blue "Care Bears" watch. My sister is the rather unhappy looking one on the left. I don't think she took well to my lesson on the importance of picture books and reading and all that....

Cream Tea

Yum.

The aforementioned fiance...

This is him hobbling away after I hit him with a snowball (giggle). You can see how pleased I am with myself.

no, it's not Narnia...

...or iceland even! We found this icy landscape high up in the brecon beacons.

Worn

Work in progress... complete with gloriously sunny day.

More Bank Holiday Adventures

A very enjoyable trip to the V&A Museum of Childhood, London. It's free, and all very well presented so definitely worth a visit. We bought ourselves a charming mechanical penguin (this weeks' 'credit-crunch friendly' under £5 purchase) and ended a great afternoon enjoying a very nice beer in a very nice glass from a bar in Hyde Park with our friends.

Bank Holiday Rambling

Beautiful day. We took a picnic and headed out into the thick of Chislehurst... and guess what - we live right in front of a massive nature reserve. How we've never noticed this before I don't know, but what a great treat! Topped it all off with a fine BBQ too. The perfect bank holiday.