Here are a few photos of my niece - Elaine's wedding to Rob took place on New Year's Eve. She looked beautiful and it was a lovely day - we all enjoyed it very much. They were married at Torteval Parish church. The bridesmaids looked stunning.
My brother, James, with Elaine at the reception which was held at the Jerbourg Hotel.

Elaine's sister, Bev, with her husband Ty and son Ethan.

Bev and James.

Rob and Elaine - the first dance - to the music of I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas.

Cutting the delicious cake!!

Chatting to Mum amd Dad ( Grandma and Grandad!).

A few photos taken during our stay with Gemma, Tim and Rosie at Christmas. We had a lovely time and enjoyed Rosie's first Christmas - and seeing Antoinette and Gareth for a few days as they came up to Belper to spend a few days with us!! The photo below was taken at 'The Hanging Gate' - a local pub/restaurant. Rosie had her lunch first and played with her new toys whilst we ate ours - she's sat here between Tim and Sam - waiting for her pint! Hre hair is looking a bit curly and is still as red as ever!!

Opening presents - eating the paper!!

Antoinette enjoyed playing with Rosie - as well as nappy changing and feeding her - gave Gemma a real break!

Eating the spatula!

I had many cuddles - Sam and I looked after Rosie for 3 days in mid december whilst Gemma went back to work at the end of term. We had great fun and Rosie was as good as gold - saved up dirty nappies until Gemma came home - clever girl!

Gemma used to sit Rosie in bed with us when she woke up at 8am whilst she went back to bed for an hour before Rosie's breakfast at 9 - Rosie was quite happy looking at her books with us and laying with toys - Gemma missed us when we went home (and so must Rosie!!!).

It snowed the day after we arrived in Derbyshire (16Dec) and thawed the day before we left after Christmas - very pretty and we enjoyed our first white christmas!! Antoinette and Gareth found it very cold after the high temperatures in Vietnam!

This is the quilt i made for Jane and Mark - they had an early christmas present as we were going away for christmas and i knew they were decorating their room now - they love it - thank goodness!!

Jane with the quilt!! I made it to match a lampshade she had asked me to make back in the autumn.


This is George - Sam's grandson - and I'm a token grandma - he's lovely - quite a character and has inherited Sam's competative streak - which none of the rest of the family can understand - we're all quite relaxed - but they have to win at everything!!

The lampshade!!! Mark found the lamp stand in an antique shop in Mill street and it has been 'renovated'!!!

Just three photos of the completed Provencal landscape I made for Liz's birthday. She seemed to like it and I'm sure it will brighten up a corner of their house! This is just to prove I did do some sewing in France this autumn!!

Photos taken by Grandma last sunday - it was Elaine's 30th birthday and I met Alana for the first time!! Very cute!!!

Sam and I treated Grandad to one of his favourite meringues from France - even better - it was in the shape of an elephant!!! Seemed a shame to eat it!

Hope you like the photos, Ant.

A few photos from our recent trip around France. We went to Provence for my sister-in-law's birthday party and stopped along the way. The photo below was taken on a trip on le canal du midi - at Carcassonne. The weather was so hot for mid october - made the summer seem longer!!! View from the top of the old part of Carcassonne castle.


View walking towards the castle - Kate Mosse describes it perfectly in her book - the labyrinthe- which i re-read whilst in france (in french of course)!

Night time view from near our hotel.

I love looking at roof tops - inspiration coming on for more textile work!!!

This was taken whilst on a river trip - we stopped overnight at a town called Vers

- in the gorges just below the Dordogne. This is a hilltop village nearby.


These are a few pictures of Rosie - I took a ryan air flight from Dinard to East Midlands to visit for a few days - she's so cute!! A very serious baby,- but takes everything in - Gemma put her pants on her head for this photo - poor little thing!! No wonder she looks worried!!

Back to near Vers ( sorry - not very good with downloading photos on blog). We had to drive across this bridge before going on our river trip - this is about 4 kilometers from Vers (forgotten name)!

Another view of bridge - the volvo just squeezed through!

Don't know why this photo is here - a view of our local village - St Esprit du Bois!!

Our hotel in Vers - our room overlooked the river you could watch

the trout swimming in the river - the hotel is called La truite dore!








More photos of Gemma and Rosie - Tim was away in Scotland for a few days with work colleagues.

Next post - Liz's party!