Penniedarling

These beautiful plants came from my Mama who got the cuttings from her sister Nancy aka Cranky, I love the memories when they start to flower each year, just beautiful.

 

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Not only am I grateful for all these people in our wonderful family, I'm also grateful to have so many extended family members and lots of lovely friends as well.

 

Labels: 6/2022PAD, Friends, Griffiths Family, Rodd Island

 I did notice them but had no idea what they were.

These pretty little green thingies are Elk Horn's... Wow!
I have been ordered to water them regularly and I will obey Gwilym, I promise I will... 

Labels: Garden

1968 - we were so lucky to be able to drive around the UK and Europe while sleeping in this beautiful very comfortable Austin Taxi.

We are very fortunate that during almost 3 years we were able to visit so many wonderfully historic places when there was hardly another person around.

Roman Military Station on Hadrians Wall.

Buckland Abbey sitting in Sir Francis Drake's chair.

Snow on Christmas Day.

David on the Rampants at Angouleme France.

South of France.

On top of the Leaning Tower of Pizza.

On our own viewing The Last Supper in Milan, Italy.

Stonehenge well before people were kept well away from the actual stone.  They have built a sort of Moat around the stones now.

 Stratford upon Avon.

If you would like to see more check out this blog of mine... https://europebylondontaxi.blogspot.com/

Labels: David and Pennie, London Taxi

My brother Nick has a lot of letters written to our mum Rosie from our dad Rip starting from 1943 before they were married, Nick has lent them to me and I will put them into a book for us all and in the letter folder was this little treasure that has nothing to do with those letters....

 Rosie wrote - 

Spoon whittled out of a twig by my grandfather Samuel Alexander Long for my Grandmother Edith Christina Higgin before they were married .

The story goes that they were having a picnic and he didn't have a spoon for whatever.

Must have been around 1894.      

(they were married in 1895)

Our Great Grandfather Samuel Alexander Long, wife Edith Christina Higgin, with children from left...

Labels: Long Family

'Why don't you come over and we'll get married or something....'  54 years ago in Guildford, Surrey.
 

Labels: 6/2022PAD, David and Pennie

David did a great job of propping it up months ago, I took these two photos back in February when the tree loppers came to cut all the branches back that leaned over our home and which a possum may climb up, jump on our roof then down the chimney.
Yesterday Gwilym came around to help David replace some of the rotting timber with new planks.

Remy lent a hand keeping the leveller at the right position.
Elodie was playing at Supervisor!
All the planks back in place.
What a difference!
Well done Team!  Great Job, just a bit of a tidy up today and all done!
 

Labels: David, Elodie, Gwilym, Pergola, Remy

1944 - gosh they look so young!  Rosie was 21 and Ripley was 28!

 

Labels: 6/2022PAD, Rip'n'Rosie

This little person has a wobbly tooth, the top front on the right... she's looking forward to it coming out and hoping the Tooth Fairy finds it.
I found these old stamps in my sewing room a few weeks ago and were they a hit with these two.
Elodie made a card for her Mum Emily because she was home with another broken foot.

 Mumma is going to love this beautiful card and her bunch of Lavender.

Labels: Elodie, Remy

The first thing I knitted with Carol's guidance was a jumper for my Teddy, I had it for many years but when I was in my teens, moths got to it and Rosie threw it out 😞  I have been knitting ever since and have many photos of jumpers I've knitted for family and friends over those years but the jumpers I will show you today are an Aran pattern I bought in 1967, with Tony Bonner as the model, the first one I knitted was for David when he headed overseas in late 1967... I also knitted his pattern for my self and several other family members, 9 times I've knitted this pattern!  Wow!  I wonder how many more times I will knit it?? 

Jackson.
Second one for David.

Second one for Gwilym.Tomos with my Cousin Simon and cousin in law Monica on Rodd Island.

Labels: 6/2022PAD, Knitting

This is the first quilt I made back in June 1992 for Tim and Nerys... it's a Double Irish Chain pattern and it was taught to me by ...  Poopootoshirley I can't remember her name, haven't heard anything about her since... if I remember I will be back!
All hand quilted!  Yay!

Maybe I should try and count all the quilts I've made over these 30 years!  Whaaaatttt... 30 years Quilting, Wow!   and 72 years knitting!  Fantasmorgorigal!!  
 

Labels: 6/2022PAD, Quilts

The first flower on our Great Aunt Ella Camellia and below a very similar coloured Rose, how lovely are these two!

 

Labels: Flowers

Michelle and Shin visit us each month and do a wonderful job cleaning.
Niall visits every couple of weeks to attend to our garden.

 Alan visits each year to clean our windows and fly screen's.

Oh Yes indeed we are very Grateful to all these people

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