The Water Horse

On Saturday A went round to his dad's to watch the rugby - so I took M and B to the cinema to see The Water Horse



Megan thought it was 'One of the best films ever' and B loved it for the second time. Meanwhile I wondered since when Loch Ness has been a sea lock, with the plot climax involving the cute monster escaping to the sea over a submarine net ( a Free Willie moment commented A)!

All the way through I was wondering why the scenery didn't look at all like the Great Glen (and yes - I was spotting the background rocks as usual) - and at the end all was revealed. It was filmed in New Zealand.... Ho hum - maybe Scotland isn't photogenic enough now?

Clear and cold

Yes - the weather today was beautiful - very cold, but fabulous blue sky. So we dashed off to Martin Mere to make the most of it.

M with Evie the Water Vole and B with Ultra Squirrel (where does he get these names?)

Facinated by the ice on the ponds

Feeding the ducks

And while we were playing, A was busy in the hides taking fab pictures like this!

Pol's Films

At last! I've worked out how to upload to You Tube and embed the video into the blog - expect a lot more video from now on...

February Half Term

Half term seems to have gone by awfully quickly.
Good stuff includes :-
a great afternoon at the Otterspool playground when M befriended a little toddler and was completmented for being so kind and helpful
a fab afternoon cropping at FMC with J and K while M and B ran riot with Miss E
a girls night out seeing Sweeny Todd with J and K - great film (though I had my eyes closed plenty of times) - fantastic visual and score, though Johnny Depp was comprehensively outsung by the 15 year old playing Toby!
a day trip out to Wales to see J and P at Penllyn - pics below...

Feeding William the lamb

M named this cutie Snowflake

There's always time for a ride on the quad with Uncle P!

First daffodils of the year!

Nutcracker

Today I took M to see her very first Ballet - The Nutcracker at Liverpool Empire. We went with my MiL on the train ( a new experience for Mil - though not for M - LOL)- and M was just entranced by the performance.

For me the orchestra were somewhat weak in the strings and the corps were a bit so so at times - but the Principals were fantastic, especially Kristina Terentieva as both Marie - just fabulous

Liver Birds

Ok, so not THESE Liver Birds - but a play based on the 70's sitcom. We went with J, R and a group of friends, to see it at the Brindley - and it was just hysterically funny.