Mini Beasts in East London.

We put a variety of soil, leaves and sticks in the blue tray, then looked under every stone and pile of sticks in the garden. We only found 1 woodlouse, 1 slug, 3 small worms and 1 longer one, 1 empty snail shell and 1 live one. Later we found the spider who ate the green thing (shield insect?) and a butterfly.
There was one reddish centipede but it disappeared from the tray - could the slug be eating it? Oh and there was a ladybird but it flew away before CassCass could get it in the tray!

La maison des peupliers

Some views of Heather's new home.

A visit to the dentist.

Look what happened to LissaLou last week! She had to go to the dentist to get a filling. (The teacher in Guadeloupe gave the good children a sweetie every afternoon as they left school). The dentist notice a loose tooth and sought permission to remove it. With reminders of the tooth fairy, this was given.
The tooth fairy had no change to hand and left a 2 euro coin. Later it was changed and spent on.....nail varnish. And she's only 5!

Flowers for Grandma.

Last year - July 2008 - when we went to St Pancras to start the family off on their journey to Guadeloupe, we passed the flowers in the bottom photos at M&S in the station. Lissa Lou said 'Grandma , I want to buy a bunch of these flowers for you'. I choked back the tears and explained that since I was going on the train with them (as far as Paris), it wasn't really a very practical idea - although a very nice one.
Last night Lissa Lou rang my door bell and brought me this lovely bunch of flowers for which I thank her vey much!

Lissa Lou sings in French

Lissa learned this song at school, to sing to her mum on the French style Mother's Day in June.
My dear friend Marion filmed it for me.

The Return

These photos were chosen by LissaLou.

CassCass and Grandpa playing with the trains

JoJo and Grandpa doing the drum

Lissa Lou on the sofa

The Emirates Cup 2009

My first visit t0 the Emirates Stadium! Its just up the road from our house.

Look who else was there!

This was a belated birthday treat thanks to the men in my family.

The second match of the afternoon was between Arsenal and (Glasgow)Rangers. Arsenal won 3-0.