Monday, March 23, 2009

Wales - March 2009 - its Spring Time

Nothing goes well if its not planned properly, this was Ria's task and here she is in her element.

Where to go and how long for, well the choice was easy after looking at the web-sites of beautiful WALES.

After much soul searching it was over and done, bags were packed and we were on our way.
We had picked a lovely cottage overlooking a small river with a lake, viewed from our wooden
deck.
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We are off to SNOWDONIA - NORTH WALES

To see the photos just CLICK HERE, The Welsh countryside is to beautiful and the stone work is awesome, with all the walls in the roads and fields, with sheep dotted all over the place.
But first we had to get a good nights sleep, hopefully with pleasant dreams of what was to come.

Now there are plenty of videos as well to be added, so keep watching.
And Ria will type in a shortened version of her holiday diary.

Thursday, March 12, 2009

I am sailing - Tjonkie


Well who would believe it, its me again, but here I am in Sunny South Africa with mom and dad visiting Ouma Zet & Oupa Danie Retief. We are all spending 2 weeks soaking up some sea, sand and sun. We don't get much in the UK. Wow but Margate and the south coast is a great place to be. Mom & Dad bought me this sailing car to have fun in and sail the world. Check me out and watch me sailing.

Pity Ouma and Oupa Cowle are going to Wales for the whole of next week because I wanted to send some more pictures of our holiday, but I suppose it can wait till they get back.


Ouma Ria and Oupa Peanut, Enjoy your trip to Wales and see you when we get back from SA

Sunday, March 01, 2009

Come on Summer

Yip its spring in the air, time to start getting the garden ready for the summer of 2009.
It's amazing how weeds don't need fertilizer or water to grow in abundance and flourish.
We moved in to our house in August 2008, and I had to start the garden as there was not much time left before the winter set in. So it was lifting the slab paving blocks and the base concrete - whoops overdid it and gave myself a hernia.




Well that's all done and dusted now and time to get back to work. The days are getting longer every day and soon we will be setting the clocks back by one hour. So here is a preview of what the garden looked like and where it is today. Can't wait to get back from our outing in Wales to get the seedlings and shrubs planted.



video to be added here