The Keezees in the UK: Place in Kent

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Thursday, 31 December 2009

..... And a Happy New 'Ear

Today's blog title is thanks to Caitlin, taken from her recent rousing renditions of "We Wish You a Merry Christmas".

So a happy new 'ear to everyone. We hope 2010 is good to you all.

These occasions give us an excuse to post photos from the "unclassifiable" folder, or in other words, let you see a few of the things we've been up to here and there in Blighty. Hope you enjoy.

First day at school. Caiti looked pretty excited (before leaving home at least).

But she didn't seem so cheerful once we arrived at school itself and took a couple of family shots....

.....if looks could kill - is she trying to tell us something here?

Here we are at Winkworth Arboretum. We've been here before in early spring, but it's also a spectacular place to visit in autumn when the trees turn very colourful.

Lots of reds and yellows.

The vista from the hill.

Ready for trick or treating on Halloween.
In our old street the local urchins used to knock on the door all evening, but we were wondering why we didn't have any visitors at our new place. After we ventured out into the street ourselves, it soon became apparent that you need to have a pumpkin (preferably hollowed out with a candle) on your doorstep if you're offering "sweeties" for trick or treaters. We'll try and remember that for next time.

A spot of baking

Less talking more mixing

Yummo!

Lucy at Tonbridge Castle, in Tonbridge (funnily enough), which is in Kent. A nice town, but a bit of a drive to be honest.

OK, everyone say "cheese"

Tonbridge shops can be very Tudor

Tonbridge Pizza Express - Jo loves Pizza Express. She took the photo.

And here's the gang at Lucy's 7th birthday party. We had an afternoon tea with a few friends.
Note it's dark outside at 4.30pm - you gotta love winter.

Friday, 29 May 2009

Canterbury Tales

Well, we've finally downloaded from the camera again, so to start with, here's some pictures of the historic town of Canterbury in Kent, home of Canterbury Cathedral. We decided to visit one day back in March when the weather was still a bit chilly. That explains why we're all rugged up - it's a lot warmer now, honest.

It took about 90 minutes to drive from our place (inclusive of gross navigational error by driver not obeying GPS technology). That's a bit of an improvement on several weeks that it used to take the pilgrims from London back in the 1200's.

This is just outside the city walls (where it's cheaper to park your car), and that's the West Gate gatehouse next to the bridge at the back there

Flowers start to pop up in March

More of us outside the city walls

Shops = happy girls

Old pub by canal (= happy boy, if he was allowed to go in)

This is Canterbury Cathedral - one of the main attractions of Canterbury, funnily enough

Inside the cathedral - it seems as if you're OK to take pics inside Canterbury Cathedral, which is comforting, but we still didn't use the flash just in case the big man upstairs was watching

Tuesday, 22 July 2008

Chartwell House

Here's some pics from the day we stumbled upon Chartwell House - Winston Churchill's old house - after getting slightly lost driving around the Surrey-Kent border with Nanny Dawn. We were on our way back from a spot of shopping at Royal Tunbridge Wells (which, in case you didn't know, is pronounced "Royal Tunbridge Wells Daaaarling").

We saw the trusty National Trust tourist attraction sign by the side of the road, so thought we'd take a side trip and pop in for a look. It was actually quite interesting, and has a very lovely garden. Wouldn't be a bad place to live actually so long as you don't mind hundreds of visitors wandering through your place everyday.

Here's the pics....