Cider pressing 2008

Another year, another cider pressing at the Foley's house. Really good weather and loads of people turned out. It almost seems like it's such an enjoyable event that the attendance is going to increase exponentially. Lovely food, good company, tonnes of apples and hard (ish) labour - perfect.

Sloe gin

It's Blackberry, apple and sloe season, so we've been hitting the cliffs on a regular basis to go foraging for stuff. Worryingly we seem to have collected alot more sloes than blackberries and seeing as sloes aren't much good for anything other than making gin. Perhaps more worrying is the fact that we have children making it. How immoral!

Nook and Cranny

The cats have taken to sleeping next to each other all the time (when they're not sleeping alone somewhere else). It's very sweet, perhaps it's because they're getting old.

White board

Meriel bought Cara a white board - it'll probably help save on paper. Cara draws alot, so it only seems fair that she has the resources available.



This one's a person "in" a butterfly.

Watch

There's no reason to deny it, the cbeebies website is awesome.

Gran and Pampa

An end of summer visit for the Yates' wa gifted with good weather. Lovely day on Petit Bot and perfect conditions for dribble castles to be built and demolished by the tide. Captured, of course, by time lapse:

The third and final wedding of the year was Sarah and Russell's. Really great wedding, we couldn't have had a better time. The kids loved it, we loved it, the weather was perfect, the sea was warm (ish) and the people were superb. The wedding was in Southwold in Suffolk - an almost too perfect town on the shores of the North sea. Beautiful.

Nice one, Sarah and Russell and congratulations.

Cara's class

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Originally uploaded by Lenny&Meriel

Cara started school last week and this is one half of her class. These guys and the other half of the class are taking it in turns to do morning s and afternoons at school - they're breaking them in gently until they start full time after half term.

Aerobatics

With the Battle of Britain air display coming over we got a preview of the Blades (a four man aerobatic display team) doing their thing right over and around the house. They came so close at times that we all admitted feeling a little scared. At one point we had one of the planes heading vertically downwards directly towards the garden where we were standing, shortly before pulling out of the dive at very low level.

Gulp.

A couple of days after that we took the kids out of school to spend their lunch hour watching the red arrows, always value for money (but of course it is free):

Back to school

Jonah is already back at school and Cara is about to begin in reception next Monday.

I can't remember Jonah being this excited about his uniform. Cara just had to try on all of the different combinations. "Vive la difference", I guess: