Teaching Grandpa!

Harry, now aged 6 years,  has always enjoyed harvest time.

He and Grandpa spend hours watching

the activity in

 'our' barley field.

Harry has a great imagination (so does Grandpa) so the big yellow machines

are turned into enormous dragons

which turn barley into gold.

The stories are embroidered until they became

almost as large as the machines.

Grandpa loves to tell the tales

as much as Harry loves to hear and embellish them.

(old photograph from last year and old blog - but it does show a little of her character)

One afternoon, a week or so ago, 

'our' field was being harvested.

Grandpa spied Francesca

and began to spin her a tale about the big yellow dragon in the field...

Francesca (two and a half years old)  listened, then very firmly said

"It's a combine, Grandpa".

George (65)  felt well and truly told.

I am gradually working through my reading list, catching up with your blogs.

I have missed so much in these last few months,

time stands still for no one.

Jonny and Ming Ming are now in London for a couple of days

spending time with our son Tim and his wife

before flying back to China.

I miss them already.

They were kind enough to let me have some of the photographs

of the beautiful places they visited on their honeymoon.

For the sake of their friends back in China

I'll post some of them tomorrow,

time permitting.

This is a large sheet of canvas

the pink blossom is a finger-print from most of the guests

who attended the reception.

I thought it was a lovely idea.

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