Barnes Pond

Mummy and Lucy are visiting the duck on Barnes Pond

Lucy likes Barnes Pond

Lucy's turned into a Dalek!

Mummy and Lucy have a Drink

Mummy and Lucy are playing by Barnes Pond. Throwing bread to the ducks and swans.

Lucy has had enough of Charity. She wants a drink.

Lucy cracks on with her Orange juice.

As soon as Lucy's back is turned Mummy cracks on with her "juice".

Ducks

Mummy and Lucy are by Barnes Pond.

But where are all the Ducks?

Here they are!

Piggy Back

Mummy gives Lucy a piggy back ride

I could get used to this.

Mummy Gets Her Chips

Lucy thinks that it is very funny to feed chips to Mummy.

Just to be sure she pushes it halfway down Mummies throat.

Ice Lolly

Mummy and Lucy enjoy an Ice Cream and Ice Lolly looking at Barnes Pond.

And very lovely it is

As indeed are the two ladies.

Barnes Pond

Lucy has gone for a trip to Barnes pond where she can say hello to her friends the ducks.

Time for a sit down.

It's nice here.

Barnes in the Snow

Mummy takes Lucy for a stroll in the snow.

Barnes Pond is almost completely frozen. Good job that Lucy's trike has 3 wheel drive (when being pushed by Mummy).

Lucy's duck hat is worth it's weight in this sort of weather. Not that it weighs much.

This snow saves us a fortune in ice pops

Ice Queen.

Barnes Pond

Mummy takes Lucy to Barnes Pond to see the Ducks, Swans and Canada Geese. From this angle all looks pretty normal.

It is only when you look a little to the right that you realise that apart from this little bit - the whole of the pond is frozen solid. (If you click on the picture to see the bigger version you will see that the wildlife is walking on rather than in the water!)

Autumn Leaves

The leaf fall in Autumn fascinates Lucy. This is by Barnes Pond.

What better game can their be then kicking up all the leaves?

Well there is always eating the bread that was meant to be for the ducks!

Ducks

One of Lucy's favorite things is to go down to Barnes Pond and look at the ducks.

Share Sprocket's point of view. They are very friendly ducks.

You're Booked

Yeah! My prodigal sister Tiss is the last member of my immediate family to travel down to see Lucy. I say prodigal. She is some sort of Vicar* thing so I suppose it is excusable that her weekends aren't normally free. (*Lay reader). She normally evangelises lives in Birmingham. So it was nice for her to see some green.

It is difficult to go to Barnes pond without bumping into Aunty Pink.

Ali, Pink, Sprock and Aunty Tiss enjoy Barnes Pond. Judging by the fact that Aunty Tiss is holding two pints of Hoegarden, can we assume that her Vicar* days are over? (*No).

Daddy has yet to graduate from the playground. In fact he hasn't bothered to apply.

Later on we move the the The Coach and Horses. Lucy displays her new gift from Aunty Tiss. Remember that Tissy is famous as the giver of Muji Rabbit? Well to give Muji's ears a rest he has been augmented by Mujiphant! Clever Aunty Tissy.

Aunty Tiss is seldom seen holding babies. This may go a long way to explaining why.

Daddy and baby. It's a beautiful thing.

In her day job Tiss doesn't just bring sinners to Christ. Saving people is just her hobby. She looks after books for a living* in a collage in Birmingham. "The UK's top rated Higher Education Collage" apparently. (*Head of Library and Learning Services).

Tiss has incredibly generously enhanced Lucy's Library with the following tomes;
My First Animal Numbers - learn to count by counting animals
First Picture Action Rhymes - learn the actions to I'm a little tea pot etc.
Smart Aunties - A some what self serving book
Just Like My Dad - Funny Lions
Say Hello to the Baby Animals - Zebras and Hippos for beginners
We love bunk beds - Shirley and Doris Elephant share a bed
Delilah Darling is in the Library - Tiss (BA. MLIB MCLIP) tries to influence Lucy's career.
Baby Bible - ha ha, Nice try.

Lucy meets Grandad Holmes

We took Lucy down to Barnes Pond to see the ducks. Here are Ali and Lucy.

Here she meets Grandad Holmes for the first time.

Ali and Grandad by the Pond

Lucy's first teddy is called Herbert's Bear. Ali bought it just after Lucy's second scan and it has been a hard job persuading her to keep it for Sprock rather than keeping him for herself.

Clearly it was worth the fight. Lucy loves Herbert's Bear big time.

Our friends Bren and Dawn popped over to see the Sprocket last night. Dawn wanted to take Lucy with her :-)