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week 2

Julie (little Cotton Rabbits)

The summer hols are continuing happily here with everyone still in good humour! The highlights of our second week have again been water-based with a lovely day at the seaside (West Wittering in West Sussex) with Grandparents, Cousins and Auntie.

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Amyswim

There has also been some splashing back at home in the paddling pool – not quite as exciting but still fun, especially with a garden hose!

Splash

 

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We've also had some rain this week which has been great for the garden and everything is growing fabulously. I'm still enjoying getting to grips with the camera which has resulted in far too many photos being taken around here!

Grapes

 

Courgette

 

Picked

 

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We're quite enjoying the relaxed pace of summer, with a few days out and about thrown in to prevent bordeom setting in. I'm at my happiest though when I get to grab a little time in the garden with my knitting or crochet and have a new favourite corner by the shed where I've been sitting on my newly-finished cushions and an old chair that was my Grandparent's.

Chair

With any luck I'll be spending a little of my weekend there – hope you get the chance to do something you like to do this weekend x

23 thoughts on “week 2”

  4. Oh another Lloyd Loom – lovely cushions. Great photos of the produce and the children. I went to West Wittering in November – it was very beautiful then also. Glad you are enjoying the summer. It’s starting to feel a little Autumnal here on my early morning beach walks with Alfie. My fav season. Love Zoe x

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  5. So glad everyone is still having fun, including Mum!!
    I’ve grown my own corgettes his year too and it’s amazing the difference in taste to shop bought ones.
    Your crochet cushions are lovely. 🙂
    Vivienne x

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  6. Hi Julie,
    Im growing patty pan squashes too. Now ive got alot of flowers, will i get any patty pans? Do i have to do anything to the flowers, because i can`t see anything developing yet? Maybe i will just have to be more patient!
    Love Carole from Rossendale , Lancashire
    xxxxxx

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  8. So nice, isn’t it, when everyone is still in good humor? May it last a month for you, my dear. And LOL about far too many photos. I have been a camera jockey since I was lucky enough (though I didn’t see it that way then) to move to a place where they offered a photography class in the high school. I learned to handle film in a dark room then. And over the years, I ran a lot of film through my camera. Once the children were grown (some 45 huge volumes of photo books later), I had slowed down. I was frustrated with the vagaries of color film and film store processing. Then came digital. And in the last five years or so, I’ve probably shot near 50K images. Yes, a good tool frees the soul, and digital only costs memory – which, almost ironically, it also feeds.
    You have a very good eye, not surprisingly, and have given me much joy on a very dark, thundering day – looking at your beautiful growing things and children. And you have inspired me to rescue my grandmother’s wicker from the attic of the garage. Perhaps I will find someone who can restore them, and make pillows for them and let them breathe as part of a family once again.

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  9. Hi Julie, glad to hear you are having a good summer. The sun is actually shining here in Scotland! Long may it last. I have added the Lumix DMC-F38 to my wish list as I am very impressed with your photography, will have to save some pennies first though. It’s my 40th birthday tomorrow and Alex is taking me to London on Saturday to go and see ‘Wicked’ which I am so excited about, then we have Sunday to do some sightseeing to. Hope you have a good time with your family and get some knitting/crocheting time too.xx

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  12. Lovely photos, lovely cushions and lovely courgette plants! I agree, taking photos is very addictive with a new camera! So glad to see you are having fun and hope you get some time on that inviting looking chair for a spot of knitting! :0)

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  14. Your courgette flowers are the most perfectly sunny shade of yellow, the cushions are perfect, and West Wittering is the bestest town name ever. I almost wish you’d made it up.

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  15. No such thing as too many photos, especially when they are as good as yours. They have really brightened a dreary winter’s day here in Melbourne!

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  16. Lovely photos of the children together especially when we know that life for your family can’t always be easy under the circumstances. Wonderful that you can catch their true happiness in the moment for eternity. Wishing you many more of those moments and a camera at hand to catch them!!

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