one dedicated Peregrine Falcon

The bird showing great determination is a Peregrine Falcon at Nottingham, England.
She must be sitting on her eggs to stay through such bad weather.
It is British Summer Time here , Next Week.................
Fingers crossed the weather improves for the Falcon, and we will eventually see some little ones.

new creations on website

Over the weekend I have added a couple of new creations to my website.
If you have a peek, I hope you like them.
Bearst wishes
Maureen

les Mis the film again, LOL

Just had to do it, go and see Les Miserables again, and it was even better the second time we saw it.
Really appreciated some of the smaller roles, and once again the time just flew by
Lincoln is next on my list of films to see, hope it is as good as Les Mis.
Just out of interest, does anyone in the UK go to Odeon cinemas, and have they had booking problems via the internet.
Bye for now, back to making my latest creation.
Bearst wishes

Les Miserables the film

Given tickets for our birthdays, myself and Keith trotted off to the local cinema and saw Les Mis.
We were both a little sceptical about its running time of over 2 and a half hours.
How silly were we, the film was brilliant, stunning, moving and so many more emotions, the time went so quickly we never once took a peek at out watches.
The time and obviously the money that went into just the opening scene showed what was to come.
We have never been to the theatre to see the show, but now that is on our list of things to do.
If you have not seen it, I would highly recommend it
Les Mis   -  Les Brilliant

how embarrassing

I don't know why but it always happens to me, LOL
Keith decided to take me to the local auction house, to have a look around for furniture for our spare bedroom.
All started fine, but we did miss bidding on a lot that would have been OK, just missed seeing it during the preview.
Then the fun started, Keith took a phone call from his son and went outside to answer it.
I decided to have a sit down, found a seat provided by the auction house, sat down, then Whhooooops, the chair broke into pieces and I ended up on the floor, just how embarrassing is that, luckily I don't think any harm was done, except my pride. All the staff were very helpful and showed concern for my welfare, more than can be said of Keith, LOL
He came back and said, what have you been up to, when I explained he said , shame I missed it, as it would have made a great photo. LOL
The photo is a card I made that represents a scent bottle.

what a game

Well it seemed like a good idea at the time.
We have decided to update our central heating, great you would think.
Well, not so good as we need to empty out the 2 bedroom so they can gain access to the floors.
That has led to a massive clear out, and I have told Keith we will get new carpets and he can redecorate the room, just to give him something to do, LOL.
This also led to Keith putting up some mohair packs on to Ebay.
Not what we had planned for the new year, but onwards and upwards, just a couple more trips to the recycling centre, hopefully.
Happy New Year

Phantom of the Opera, again, LOL

Yesterday, myself and Keith gave ourselves an early Xmas present.
We went up to London to see The Phantom Of the Opera at Her Majesty's Theatre.
We had originally brought front row tickets in the balcony, from previous experience of the show, the higher you are the better view of the special effects you get, yes we have seen it over a dozen times, mostly in Las Vegas.
We were moved by the theatre to what they said were better seats, I guess they did not need to open the balcony up as it was a matinee, and not fully sold out.
The seats we were given were in the second row of the Grand Circle, more expensive, but very disappointing, as you could not see the front of the stage, and with just one person in front of you, if they leaned forward, our view was nearly blocked completely.
So if you intend going, be careful where you actually purchase your seats.
The performance itself was as amazing as ever, thankfully the music overrides the need to actually see the performance.
2 roles were the best we have ever seen, Christine and Carlotta, and I have to mention the orchestra, they do not get as much praise as I think they deserve.
All in all a great day out, but such a shame such a great musical is in a theatre that does not do it justice, mind you it still regularly sells out, just wonder how many people would return if located in a better theatre.
We were obviously spoilt by the Las Vegas show and purpose built theatre, sorry to say the show has now closed in Vegas.
Keith has now got to put up with me singing some of the songs from the show, he says earplugs are needed, LOL.

Frankfurt Xmas market

Not everything you see can really be true, we had a wonderful day out at the Frankfurt Xmas Market, seeing young Jake so excited was great, so many stalls, nearly blew the diet, wonderful donuts, chocolates, cakes, and that was just the sweet items.

Many other stall selling savouries, but they were not as much fun, LOL.

Other stall were selling fancy items, very nice.

Now you might have wondered just how we managed Frankfurt in a day, well we cheated, this xmas market is now on in Birmingham, England, just over an hour from us on the train.

Jakes new hat also caused a few laughs, cheeky chappy.

Really good day out.

Storm Sandy

Our thoughts and prayers are with all our friends in the US and Canada that have been affected by the storm.
Maureen and Keith

Breast charity bears

A very big thank you to those who supported my charity auctions this year.
Both bears have now found loving homes in the USA.
The total raised was over £115, again, thank you very much.

Breast Cancer Charity bears

You are so kind and generous.
A BIG thank you to Deb who adopted Miles on Ebay and raised over £89 for the Charity.
Morgan, who is now on Ebay, finishes on Sunday, I hope she finds a lovely new home.
Thank you
Maureen

Miles, Breast Cancer Charity bear on ebay

Miles is now Ebay, as my Breats Cancer Charity bear.
item number 251163340937

Thank you for your support.

Bletchley Park, amazing place to visit

Myself and Keith have often said about visiting Bletchley Park, it is only around 20 miles from our home, but have never actually made it , that is until yesterday.
What an amazing place, so much more that just a secret location for code breakers during the 2nd world war. That part of the park was really mind blowing, the machines were so cumbersome, yet so very effective. Very interesting reading about some of the people who were at the park during the war, including Ian Fleming, 007's writer, so know we know where his ideas came from.
There is so much to see, including probably the world largest collection of Winston Churchill artifacts, truly vast.
The old Post Office was set up as it would have been, days in days gone bye.
So much to see and take in, another visit is now due soon, especially as when you buy your main entry ticket is lasts a year, for as many visits as you want, what a great idea.
A real thought provoking visit, can't recommend it highly enough.
Well done to everyone involved.

Jake - happy 4th birthday

All dressed up in his SWAT uniform Jake is still fascinated by bubbles, and the trip with him to the Natural History Museum was well worth it, although he did change back to normal clothes to go there, LOL

Olympic park, what a day

Firstly, sorry about the photo of Keith doing a "mobot", something a two time gold medalist GB runner does after his races, well done Mo Farrah.
What a day, we had arrived at the railway station just got all the tickets and were waiting for Keith's son, his partner and our grandson Jake to arrive.
Keith's phone went and his son said his car had just blown up and caught fire on the motorway, can I come and collect them.
Off we went and realized that the car was only half a mile from the exit junction, and we had to drive all the way up to the next junction, then come back on their side of the motorway, got there picked them up and went to the nearby service area to await the car recovery service.
They told us to go and enjoy the day at the Olympic Park and they would return home in a pick up truck.
Well, Jake thought it was great, a trip in a pick up truck all the way home, my son and I were not so happy as it meant him getting anew car...
Feeling a little guilty we went up to the park, what an experience, we have never seen so many people in one place, everywhere you looked there were thousands of other visitors.
We had a great time and although crowded there was plenty of room for everyone.
Really good seeing the park and all the now famous sights there including the Gloriana, which was used in the Queens celebration.

Now we are both busy getting ready for Hugglets, London teddy fair this weekend.
If you are going please come and say hello.

great day out at zoo

What a scorcher of a day, real fun taking Jake to the zoo, at nearly 4 years now he took everything in and completely wore out me and Keith.
From the top photo he was on his dads shoulders watching the penguins being fed. When he got down he came out with the saying that he had fizzys in his leg, he had in fact got pins and needles, LOL.
I loved seeing the bears, and they looked so healthy, a real chance for everyone to see them for real.
A great day out, rather expensive, but worth it.
Now for a day of rest to recover, a nearly 4 year old has far more energy than I have, LOL

barbara's collection

Thanks to Barbara from Coventry for sending this photo of her mawspaws creations

Olympic Torch Relay

What a very special time, Myself and Keith were so lucky to have witnessed the torch coming through our town of Aylesbury.
The crowds where we stood near Stoke Mandeville Hospital were amazing, so many had turned out, and all in great humour.
Well done to all the torch carriers including
Jessica Gibb nos.77 and to Neil Heslop nos.81 and his helper.
A very special thanks to everyone who has organised this and to all the police involved, a job really well done.
Bring on the Olympics now.

Smile

Hi, I have just added my latest creation on to my website, she is called, Smile, I hope you like her.
Bearst wishes, Maureen

back from break, wonderful old bridge

Whilst we had a short break in Newmarket, we came across this medieval bridge, which was to help pack horses across a ford when it was flooded.

After all the rain we have had recently we were surprised to find that there was no need to use the bridge.

Myself and Keith were up and out by 6am every day so that we could watch the race horses on the gallops, we spoke to many of the top trainers, who were all so friendly, and saw a few famous horses preparing for Royal Ascot, we even saw the Queens horse Carlton House, pictured above with Jamie Moore the top jockey, trained by Sir Micheal Stoute, who was himself in fine form, although slightly out of tune with his singing, LOL, the Queen was busy so she missed the early morning start.

We did miss Black Caviar, an Australian wonder horse, she came out at 430 in the morning, to early for us.