Tuesday 21 November 2017

Ireland....

I've always wanted to visit Ireland - home of the leprechaun, clover and Guinness.  So the weekend just gone, I took everyone with me and we flew out from Southend to Dublin!
 Ed Sheeran eat your heart out - Graffen Street!
 Hop on Hop off bus ride
 We didn't stop, but no tour would be complete without visiting the Guinness factory..
 Christchurch Cathedral
 Mr Simms sweet shop - even in Ireland!!
 Saturday evening, we went to Dublin Zoo for the Chinese inspired light show, it was just amazing!!



On Sunday, we hired a car and Lee drove us all up to Belfast to spend the day going around the Titanic Quarter.  I was SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO excited!!
I've had an interest in the Titanic for years and to go to where she was built was just fabby...
The exhibition was great, even the ride!

We then visited SS Nomadic - the only WhiteStar tender left that had been refurbished as a tourist attraction.
Cassandra and I even dressed up as 2nd class passengers...
I had to of course ensure that each of the beasties wouldn't have drowned (froze maybe, but not drowned).
 We then all sat down for tea - posh class of course
 One of the small funnels on the tender
 I got to steer the boat!!!

The best bit of the whole weekend had to be when Alex and I went to visit the dry dock that Titanic was actually built in...

It was just MASSIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Although not very wide..  I can't believe that we were actually standing where she was built.  The actual supports are still there.. I touched one, where her huge hull once sat...
To me, that was the highlight of our trip.

Oh, and spending time with the family (of course)!

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Sunday 12 November 2017

Least we forget..

For the first time in about 6 years I found myself on the other side of Remembrance in that my children were showing their respect and support for the fallen, whilst in uniform and I was not.  I felt quite sad about that, but I was at least still in attendance.

Lee and I split ourselves today, as there was no football match, he went with Nicholas to see Cassandra parade with 4th Rochford Cubs in Rochford and at their service at St Andrews.

 
Whilst my Mum and I went with Alexander to see him parade in the Royal British Legion's parade in Rayleigh as part of his scout group 1st Rayleigh.  The actual church service held at Holy Trinity was lovely, just what a remembrance service should be and I even got to sit next to the bugler!

Proud of both my beasties, especially as Alex got to be escort to the Flag Bearer (the other Alex)!

"At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them" 
Laurence Binyon

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Thursday 9 November 2017

Creative learning..

Cassandra's theme this term is Crazy Climates.  So for her creative homework this week we froze some water in different shapes and she made an Arctic scene complete with penguins and seals!
Hopefully she was awarded a Dojo for her work :)

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Friday 3 November 2017

One photo, 20 words...

Dam my boys are gorgeous!
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