Several weekends ago we went to visit my parents & went on a lovely walk along the canal & through country lanes. Our boys love animals & really enjoyed seeing the cows, horses & dogs that we met along the way. Luke seems to show no fear when it comes to animals, especially dogs, & will walk boldly up to any animal to stroke it. In contrast, Jordan will run a mile from any dog no matter how small or quiet & regardless of whether it is on a lead or not! We are having to teach Luke a little caution when approaching unknown dogs & teach Jordan a bit of boldness! Timmy is somewhere in between these two extremes.
It was wonderful to be able to walk along the country lanes worry very little about passing cars & let the boys have freedom to explore. We crossed over a ford half way through the walk which Luke thought was fantastic! He stood watching the water gushing under the little bridge for ages saying 'Swimming pool!'
We walked along the canal that is slowly being restored. The small section that we walked along was opened a little while ago by John Craven! Mr Swan followed us for a good stretch of the canal & was rather grumpy with us which made me nervous! He even tried to bite Luke's leg! Luckily Luke didn't notice & my mum stamped her foot on the bank to warn him off. (Mrs Swan was further up the canal looking after a nest which is why Mr Swan was overprotective of his canal).
This bridge is where the canal ends for now. The water is full of reeds & mud here but the boys loved going under the bridge. I tried hard to get a nice photo but no-one was really willing to oblige! We saw many tadpoles & frogspawn at the edge of the canal too. The boys loved those & it was extra fun for Jordan because he did all about the life cycle of the frog in his class assembly. One of his lines was 'Frogs start their lives as frogspawn.' which was quite an achievement for him to say as he struggles saying 'fr' & 's' sounds! He was a little star though!
Around the corner of the road there was a boatyard with lots of boats in various states of repair moored up. Jordan was delighted to find a boat named 'Joey' as he was known as Joey from about the age of 3 to nearly 5 years old. When asked his name he would reply 'I'm Joey Jordan Lee Davies'! Naturally, the boys had to pose for a photo here!
Luke, Jordan & Timmy loved looking at all the canal boats & peering into the ones that were moored up. (I hope we didn't disturb anyone inside!!) Luke & Timmy kept saying 'Look! A boat! And it's moving!' We ended our walk at a little tea room/B&B/Post Office/Internet Cafe place all rolled into one for a cuppa & an ice cream. It was lovely (although a little pricey)! There was a 'magic' bin in the toilets that fascinated us all! You waved your hand in front of it to open & close it without having to touch it at all!
Back at my parents house we played in the garden & had a picnic tea outside. The apple tree in their garden was in full bloom & looking gorgeous so I had to take some piccies! My sister, Helen, told me that you can eat apple blossom as part of salad so we both had a taste. It is surprisingly peppery & very like Lamb's lettuce!
Before heading off back to Liverpool my mum gave the boys a bath. Timmy loves playing at being a baby after his bath all wrapped up in his towel just generally being cute! Aaaaah how sweet!
Several weekends ago we went to visit my parents & went on a lovely walk along the canal & through country lanes. Our boys love animals & really enjoyed seeing the cows, horses & dogs that we met along the way. Luke seems to show no fear when it comes to animals, especially dogs, & will walk boldly up to any animal to stroke it. In contrast, Jordan will run a mile from any dog no matter how small or quiet & regardless of whether it is on a lead or not! We are having to teach Luke a little caution when approaching unknown dogs & teach Jordan a bit of boldness! Timmy is somewhere in between these two extremes.
It was wonderful to be able to walk along the country lanes worry very little about passing cars & let the boys have freedom to explore. We crossed over a ford half way through the walk which Luke thought was fantastic! He stood watching the water gushing under the little bridge for ages saying 'Swimming pool!'
We walked along the canal that is slowly being restored. The small section that we walked along was opened a little while ago by John Craven! Mr Swan followed us for a good stretch of the canal & was rather grumpy with us which made me nervous! He even tried to bite Luke's leg! Luckily Luke didn't notice & my mum stamped her foot on the bank to warn him off. (Mrs Swan was further up the canal looking after a nest which is why Mr Swan was overprotective of his canal).
This bridge is where the canal ends for now. The water is full of reeds & mud here but the boys loved going under the bridge. I tried hard to get a nice photo but no-one was really willing to oblige! We saw many tadpoles & frogspawn at the edge of the canal too. The boys loved those & it was extra fun for Jordan because he did all about the life cycle of the frog in his class assembly. One of his lines was 'Frogs start their lives as frogspawn.' which was quite an achievement for him to say as he struggles saying 'fr' & 's' sounds! He was a little star though!
Around the corner of the road there was a boatyard with lots of boats in various states of repair moored up. Jordan was delighted to find a boat named 'Joey' as he was known as Joey from about the age of 3 to nearly 5 years old. When asked his name he would reply 'I'm Joey Jordan Lee Davies'! Naturally, the boys had to pose for a photo here!
Luke, Jordan & Timmy loved looking at all the canal boats & peering into the ones that were moored up. (I hope we didn't disturb anyone inside!!) Luke & Timmy kept saying 'Look! A boat! And it's moving!' We ended our walk at a little tea room/B&B/Post Office/Internet Cafe place all rolled into one for a cuppa & an ice cream. It was lovely (although a little pricey)! There was a 'magic' bin in the toilets that fascinated us all! You waved your hand in front of it to open & close it without having to touch it at all!
Back at my parents house we played in the garden & had a picnic tea outside. The apple tree in their garden was in full bloom & looking gorgeous so I had to take some piccies! My sister, Helen, told me that you can eat apple blossom as part of salad so we both had a taste. It is surprisingly peppery & very like Lamb's lettuce!
Before heading off back to Liverpool my mum gave the boys a bath. Timmy loves playing at being a baby after his bath all wrapped up in his towel just generally being cute! Aaaaah how sweet!
3 comments:
Great blog Emily,see your enjoying your new camera,some brill pix,it looked like a lovely walk,its rain rain rain here all day,all the cubs camping were all sent home early its that bad!!hope you have better weather,take care X X X X
BANK HOLIDAY
It's been raining ALL day! just right for blogging and remembering sunny days in April.Lovely pics! They are getting on well with extending the canal- you wouldn't recognise it now!
We are having the usual fun with Jordan- playing all day. I fell asleep while we were watching Jimbo! He's still playing! This time with Ian and Helen......
Love Mum xx
yep it was lovely..baby is sooo cute.. i've got a little video of it, i'll have to post it on the blog later!
and....
ITS A GIRL!
too!
haha!
xxxx
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