Happy 21st Maddie!

Our niece celebrated her 21st Birthday on the 9th but was away on holiday in Germany. Today we had a family meal to celebrate her birthday! Congratulations Maddie, we're very proud of you!

Titanic, the Musical

For quite some time my best friend, Kathryn and I have mentioned having a night out. We have been friends since we were at playschool together so for 34 of our 37 years!! We both have 2 children now and our social lives together revolve around them. Have you ever tried holding a conversation with 4 children aged 6,4,3 and 2 around you??? LOL!
We decided to go and watch an amateur dramatics production about Titanic at the Grand theatre in Blackpool. We made a real time of it by shopping in the afternoon, we both ended up buying only treats for our children! and then we ate tea at Frankie and Benny's!

The production was being portrayed by the Blackpool Operatic Players. Today is the 100th Anniversary of her sinking and whilst we were driving home last night was the time she actually struck the iceberg. Very poignant. The production was excellent, you would have never thought they were amateurs. It told of the story from her leaving Southampton with the passenger who was left behind and went all the way through the 5 days she was at sea giving facts and figures as it went through. The end was extremely emotive, the survivors were on the banking with blankets wrapped around them whilst the names of the victims were projected onto a screen.

Happy Easter

We're having a lovely Easter Sunday. We attended the Easter service at St. Peter's this morning. Rvnd. Tickner gave a lovely service which included a Christening. After the service we joined in the Easter Egg hunt in the church gardens. Pieces of wool had been tied to plants and bushes. (we think they'd used wool as it wouldn't matter if they weren't found and it would eventually perish!) We found a few strands and went back to church to exchange them with Rvnd. Tickner for chocolate eggs! We got quite a haul, LOL!

Charlie and Courtney are very lucky and received some nice eggs and gifts from our families and friends so when we got home I photographed them in the garden, as they get so many eggs Mark and I bought them the circus tent this year!

We're spending the afternoon at home playing, relaxing and watching the TV together.♥

Preston North End Corporate Day

In celebration of Sir Tom Finney's 90th Birthday a themed corporation day was held at P.N.E. We all attended with Chris, it's his 17th Birthday on Monday so we treated him. We were playing MK Dons (Milton Keynes) and drew 1-1, not a bad score considering Preston's recent run!

Mrs Brown's Boys!

Mrs Brown's Boys is a sitcom created by and starring Irish writer and performer Brendan O'Carroll. It features him playing Agnes Brown, an interfering mother of 6! It's played in front of a live audience and filmed to create the series. We have enjoyed watching the series together and tried to get tickets to see it live in Newcastle last year but it was fully sold out. Not long after new tour dates were announced and it was coming to Manchester. We booked the tickets as soon as we could and waited the whole year for it! It was well worth the wait, I've never laughed so much in a theatre before!! After the show we did the whole 'groupie' thing and waited by the stage door. We got to meet most of the cast and had our programme signed! All the actors and actresses were very friendly and made time for each person. It was a great Good Friday night out!

Red Bank Farm

This is a lovely little farm in Bolton-le-Sands, it has quite a few animals you can visit and it's all free! We were very lucky, we saw lots of babies! I love spring and all it's newness! Whilst we were there we treated ourselves to lunch in the cafe.

Made me chuckle!

Angry Birds fans would understand!! LOL! Saw this whilst surfing the net!