She wasn't happy about me taking pictures of her in her uniform so I didn't get many. I can't believe how short her skirt is, it's meant to be no more than five inches above their knee! Any shorter it would be a pair of knickers! It doesn't help that she's got the longest legs!
We had a Chinese take-away as a treat for tea, she had her best friend come home with her from school who stayed the night.
She has a party tomorrow night, her friend is sixteen on Monday so they are having a shared party at her friends house.
Her friends parents will be upstairs and we are not invited! We're embarrassing apparently!
Today we went to see one my friends, Norma, she's 75 years of age, although you wouldn't know it, she looks like she's in her fifties and acts like she's in her thirties! She can hula hoop alongside my boys often beating them with the number of rotations she can do!
Her Mum died at the beginning of December at the grand old age of 97 years.
Norma has been clearing out her Mums house and found three knitting bags , some wool and needles which she kindly offered to us
She also found this lovely book on Dorset, I love books like this, I love living in this county, we have the best of both worlds, lovely beaches and great countryside,
She also gave me this spoon to remember her Mum by which I thought was a beautiful gesture
Can anyone tell me what bird they think this is?
I'm not sure if it as sparrow, a type of tit or one of the finch family! Any help gratefully received.
At Beavers before Christmas, Cody and Clark bought home a bulb in a vase they had decorated themselves which I'm very pleased to say have started to flower
Beautiful!
Love the photographs of your daughter, she is such a beauty, I suppose she takes after her Mum :-) how kind of your friend to gift those lovely knitting bags and their contents to you along with that pretty spoon. The hyacinths look stunning in those handcrafted vases, something lovely to brighten up a dull day! X
ReplyDeleteThanks karen :-) Norma is one of my best friends I've known her about 4yrs and she's just the nicest person x
DeleteThe hand decorated vases are so cute.
ReplyDeleteMy Mum always used to tell me about her school days where her teacher would take out a ruler to measure the height above knee level of skirts!
They have a crack down every now and then about the length of the skits but seeing as she has about 16 weeks of school left before she leaves I'm certainly not going to buy a new one!
DeleteWhat a beautiful daughter you have, hope the joint party goes well. I had a hyacinth in a vase for Christmas, it's doing nothing, think I need to move it somewhere warmer. My mum also told me about skirts being measured with a ruler, that would be just pre war. We go past a high school on the drive into Ipswich where the girls are not allowed trousers so there they all are in teeny weeny minis, long legs, black tights! Chilly I should think!
ReplyDeleteThank you, I think she's gorgeous but I am bias! Apparently their Deputy Head stops them every now and then and measures how high above the knee they are!
Deleteeden is beautiful!
ReplyDeletei'm glad she had such a wonderful birthday!!
-melissa
Thanks Melissa, she's extremely excited about her party! I'm going to sit and knit to stop me worrying!!
DeleteCould your little bird be a Marsh Warbler? Look here:-
ReplyDeletehttp://www.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/birdguide/name/m/marshwarbler/index.aspx
Happy belated birthday to Eden. I hope she enjoys her party tonight. The decorated vases are lovely, your house will smell beautiful with the gorgeous perfume from the hyacinths.
Cheers Jo, I will pop over and take a look. I rather prefer the smell of hyacinths to damp dogs!
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