life with nelly: week twenty eight

Nelly and I joined my sister on holiday for a week in Anglesey - she assured me there are lots of things to do even if it rained! We were lucky only to have rain for one afternoon, the day that they had predicted gales across the country and the day we had planned to visit the Anglesey Show but most of the day was dry so we had a good time. The week was spent rockpooling, flying kites, two warm days on the beach - sun protection required! long walk around the site of an old copper mine. Nelly had an absolutely stinking cold and slept really badly. On the way up to Cheshire she slept most of the journey not even managing to watch Kipper The Dog on the DVD player. I then picked up the cold, which nearly three weeks later I am just shaking off! SO I now feel for how she must have been feeling while we dragged her out in her back carrier! Poor Beth and Anna really took the brunt of her bad feeling on the end of her hand for hair pulling, pushing and scratching....Sorry girls she did not mean it ....Here is a selection of the pics from that week....

ANglesey is a pretty little island - spoilt only by the houses! all low level, pebbledashed in drab grey with bottle green or nast brown woodwork! I am sure the place would be more popular if they painted some of the houses white - would do a whole lot for tourism!!! The Windturbines are v impressive too! It is also very very Welsh! At the Show I have never heard so much Welsh being spoken I can say that as I went to school in Wales for five years!

Nelly making a sandcastle on the beach at Red Wharf Bay

THree little cousins getting to grips with the sand castle making ...Grandma watches over - she came over for one night...

Stuart and the girls watching the showjumping - due to the foot and mouth scare there were no farm animals - only horses and hens!

Nelly and Aunty Clare out rockpooling...

Uncle Stuart bags a crab - not the largest we caught that week

Me prepared for wet weather gear ( wearing a rather fetching 12 year olds anorak!!! ) with Nelly in the Back Pack Carrier...very handy but telling on the shoulders! Checking out the Hens!