Smile please!!! ;-)

Well on to much more uplifting things...!

Firstly...

This is my lovely daughter, Helen... and she is 28 today!!

How time flies!!

Happy Birthday Helen!

I know that she's having a fab day with her lovely hubby , Ben!

Since we last visited, the park in Exmouth had come alive!

So that was Saturday in Exmouth.

And then came Sunday ...and the great raiding of the photo box!


Here I am (dreaming of vintage and handmade things!! ;-)

I took my mum and dad on a little tour of Newton Abbot, driving them around to all of the houses where we once lived.

Goodness knows what people thought of us, all having a good snoop!;-)

(''Oh, what have they done to the garden...oh I don't like the colour they've painted it...oh what a mess...etc etc!! LOL )

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When we got back to my mum and dad's present house....

'We've been going through the photos!' said my mum!

So...here I am in the back yard of our tiny house in a road called 'Hilton Road' in Newton Abbot.

My great grandfather built some of these houses including the one that was to be my first home.

I was born in this house...number 38...if you want to , you can see it on Google Street View !

It's a tiny terraced house, two up two down, with a back yard.

I'd love to know who lives there now!!

If you know this area quite well then you can imagine what a pain it was for my mum to push the very large pram, up the hill.

She said it was very hairy coming down the hill too, as she had to hold on so tightly to the pram, for fear that it might run away from her!

Here I am, at about the age of three years old...practising for Wimbledon!

You might well laugh, but I did win the tennis cup when I was at Newton Abbot Grammar school!! ;-)

Here's my mum and dad pushing me through Courtenay Park....I wasn't the easiest of children!

My mum is expecting my sister, as you can just make out!

The first school photo!

Butter wouldn't....

And the next...

Me and my sis...

Growing up...

And then one of my faves...

I haven't changed much!!

Be it the park , the beach, the woods...you name it, I loved to play outside.

And moving on...

I suppose I was destined to become a teacher. Here I am in my mum's classroom.

I used to go in and help her a lot if I had the day off school. I'm about 16 years old here.

And finally...above is my mum .She's the tallest one, on the right.

My mum again...

And this cheeky little chap is my dad!!

That's it for now!

Hopefully, I'll get to see some more photos, soon.

;-)