Malbridge House

We’ve seen Mama Mia, I would thoroughly recommend it, I didn’t know what to expect, but we were laughing all the way through it, you’ve got to watch it just to say you’ve heard Pierce Brosnon sing! Or not sing! You decide!

This has brought a bit of an ABBA revival in our house, the children were going round singing the songs and we explained they were sung by ABBA first and gave then a bit of background, but the songs have made such an impression on them, so we looked up some ABBA songs on the computer and this evening we have sat and watched thirty videos of ABBA songs, the children dancing about and me saying " Oh I love this one" to just about all of them, Malc was telling us what sea he was under at the time of release as he was in the Navy on submarines. We could both remember all the words, I know I’m going to sound old but nowadays there aren’t many songs in the charts I can make out any words too! I know I sound like my Mother!

It was a lovely way to round off the day.

This morning we went over the backwaters armed with carriers and old marge tubs and we went blackberry picking, we had a couple of light showers but the children loved it, we found a couple of apple trees and Eden climbed up them, shook branches, the boys picked them off the floor, we filled five containers with blackberries and two carriers of apples.

The blackberries have been frozen as they are in their containers and Cal and I peeled all the apple and boiled them with some brown sugar, they’ve cooled and are also in the freezer.  We plan to go over the backwaters again sometime soon and pick some more.  Another blast from the past as I remember picking as a child, oh, I do love the gentle pursuits in life!!