Holiday Pictures

We had a wonderful time visiting family in Devon a couple of weeks ago.  One day the Engineer and I went out for lunch by ourselves, leaving the Teen behind to bake and help C in the garden.

We went to the pretty town of Tavistock and after a very nice lunch we walked through the town, explored the market and walked along the canal.   The canal runs through a park which was full of children playing on the play equipment, feeding the ducks or riding bikes and scooters.  As we continued along the canal tow path we went into a quieter area of the town and were very privileged to see a kingfisher flying from tree to tree (sorry no photos); every time we reached the area where it had landed, it flew on, meaning we saw it at least 9 times.  Wow!



Some views of Tavistock

That evening C,D, the Teen, the Enginer and I went to the theatre to see Shrek the musical

Before the performance began

It was brilliant, such a lot of fun.  There were all the crucial lines from the film which we knew very well as when the Teen was the Toddler she watched it again and again, usually at six in the morning with either me or the Engineer sitting sleepily on the sofa with her.  I have such admiration for those who can sing, dance, act and burp on cue (you need to see the film).

The following day it rained and rained so we did something indoors: we went to the aquarium.  Unfortunaly everyone else who was on holiday in the area had the same idea so the place was full of damp adults and wound up children.  There was a lot to see including sharks and glow in the dark jelly fish.  However, my favourite bit was just as we had decided to leave: I walked on ahead and was called back by the Engineer and we watched an enormous turtle swim across a tank that filled a whole wall, he (or she) was magnificent.    We didn't get many good photos as much of the aquarium is in subdued lighting.


One of the tanks of the aquarium

The next day we went to the Eden Project in Cornwall, we have been there several times but it changes on a regular basis.  Again it was full of people, but this was only really evident in the eating areas. 

There were so many georgeous plants to see I can't incude them all in the blog, so below are two collages of some of them.

On our way back home from Devon we stopped off at Monkey World.  Of all the places we visited this was the cheapest and I have to say the best.  Although there were a lot of people there and a lot of children it was quite peaceful; I think this is because the animals don't like a lot of noise.  As you can tell below the lemurs were our favourite, they were so chilled out.  The other primates seemed to enjoy looking at us as much as we liked looking at them. 

All in all it was a good week away.

I even managed to carry on with my rose whilst we were away.  As you can see from the photo below I was sitting in C & D's conservatory.  I am surrounded by flowers from the garden show that C was helping to organise. 

We have been back at home a week or two and I have been painting the shed while the Engineer has been putting on the roof. 
We have been stopped frequently by the rain, but finally the roof is on all except the felt so its not yet watertight and at present is covered by a tarpaulin.