Fun outside Nan and Pop's house

Here are some photos from the last week in Martock.

First, a set of pics from a walk we took around the village and out behind the field behind Nan and Pop's back fence.

A Public Footpath runs through the field with the cows, and we're using the stile gate to access the path. Yes, I made it through with Violet strapped to my chest.

Cora fell at one point, and hurt her hand on a stinging nettle. She later found a stick and beat up a set of nettles. Take that!

Then, we have Pop and Cora checking out the fish, and Nan and Cora doing some planting.

Finally, some pictures from our blackberry-picking adventure.

OK, it wasn't much of an adventure. We just noticed that the bushes in Nan and Pop's neighborhood were ripe for the picking. Nan and Stace made a yummy blackberry crumble tonight, which we enjoyed with custard.

What else have we been up to?

Well, a couple of trips to the seaside - more on that later.

Stace, Cora, Violet and I spent Saturday night at Dean and Jen's house, and on Sunday we - the whole family, including Stacey's Nan - went to get some professional photos taken.

The end result was good, and we'll all appreciate these photos when we get them.

But the process! One strong-willed three-year-old and two little babies (plus seven adults) makes for a long two hours. And, to Euan's credit, he was very, very well-behaved.

Violet needed feeding, and so was fussy for a lot of it, and Cora... We can just say that Cora was being Cora. She insisted on having her fingers in her mouth. (Sigh.)
Thankfully, we did get enough for us to get the shots we wanted.

Cora's mood improved later, and on the drive back to Martock, she was making up songs and asking me to sing along, as she created them. It was pretty fun. One line she taught me - it must have been the chorus because she kept repeating it - went "Let me to the offeray, let me to the offeray."