Today we went to Whitley Bay's annual Kite Festival. It is a lot of fun and Alice seemed to enjoy looking at all the kites. She was pointing and saying "ite" a lot. Just a 10 min walk from the house. The festival normally has a teddy bear parachute jump. You bring along your favourite teddy and it goes into the amateur parachute jump, it is hoisted up in the air and then it let go to float gracefully to the ground. Unlike the one we saw a couple of years ago when it plummeted to the ground and they brought on the paramedics to give it mouth to mouth resuscitation!! Honest. Today we missed that part of the proceedings.
Whitley Bay is going through a massive regeneration. They've already built a skate park on the front, which was well used today when we passed it. Whitley Bay swimming pool is also undergoing a massive re-build. The most famous landmark in WB is Spanish City (I think Chris Rea mentions it in one of his songs, can't remember which one and can't be bothered to look it up) and it is undergoing a clean up and refurb, not quite sure what will be happening in there yet, but hopefully it will look spendid when complete. They're also rebuilding the Whitley Bay Playhouse, in some senses I think it only needed a bit of refurb rather than a total make-over, it is losing some of it's original charm and character. I guess that's progress!!!
This is Stuart trying to stop Alice eating sand. She's very determined though and we had to end up putting her in the pram with sand all over her hands and all over her face. Oh well she was having fun!!
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Love the new look! But if you want the same one that I have, go ahead and use it....I don´t mind! haha. I thought if you changed your blog design that you lost all the posts and pictures....but you haven´t so maybe I should give mine a make over some day.
Love this blogging thing! great fun.
Anyway looks like you have had a great day at the sea front. I remember Andrew used to love to eat the sand too when we went to the beach. (oh the joys of having children!!)
OK I need to get to bed, it´s like really, really late here, talk again soon
Laura, thanks, you're alright, I'll make do with this one ;-} Well I certainly didn't lose all the blogs. I did use a different initially and it made me feel so queasy that I had to change it again.
Yeah we had a lot of fun and Stuart bumped into an old house mate from years ago too.
Bye for now
Love the pics but where are you?
Looking forward to seeing you too!
Oh Lorraine, you really don't want to see too many pics of me. I'm generally the one taking the photos.
Hi Pauline
Great new look! It's great being able to keep up to date with everyone's kids - looking forward to hearing about Lorraine's!
Charlene,
I totally agree, after 20 odd years for some of us, it's great to keep in touch like this. As you have said, it's great because we don't actually have to speak to each other!!! Isn't that what you meant?
Looking forward to more goings on in Lorraine's household.
No that is not what I meant. Don't try and palm off your thoughts to me!!!!!! But it is great, because I'm sure like me everyone is run ragged and really busy! This way we can fit each other in at a time that suits us all. It really is as good (nearly) as talking to each other.
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