Family Fun At The Seaside For Drive-it Day 2016 !

Yesterday Rocky, the girls, and I, had a lovely day out in our Mini-Moke doll car, winding our way through the scenic East Anglian countryside, accompanying HAMOC – Huntingdon Area Mini Owners Club – www.HAMOC.co.uk on their day trip to the sandy beach of Hunstanton, as part of Drive-it Day 2016.

Here we are in this piccy, having just arrived at our destination too !

Considering it’s the end of April now, you’d think we’d have a reasonable chance of some nice weather for this excursion of ours too. However it was rather more chilly and blustery than we anticipated when we arrived at the seaside. In fact, with the northerly winds etc it was supposed to only feel about 1 degree … Brrrrr !!

As much as Ruby and Emma had been looking forward to playing on the beach, once we parked up we quickly decided that it would be better to pursue some indoor activities rather than brave the near frosty conditions outside. So we spent our day in the amusement arcade instead, mainly on the 2 penny shover machines … Which I must admit amused the girls no end, thank heavens. Our efforts were not in vain either, as with many 2p’s invested, Rocky skillfully managed to win a dinosaur toy for our sweet little daughters, making him the hero of the day in their eyes … Bless !

After a few very enjoyable hours of family fun though, it was time to get back in the car again and head back home in convoy with the other Mini’s.

We had a wonderful day out despite the weather, and it was a great way to spend Drive-it Day with family and friends, which I hope to repeat again next year as well.

Perhaps next time we go to the beach the temperatures might be a touch warmer though … Fingers crossed 

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Supporting Football Shirt Friday !

Today is Football Shirt Friday in the UK, which is a charity event encouraging people to wear their footy shirts to work etc, and donate £2 for the privilege. The money goes to the Bobby Moore fund at Cancer Research UK, which helps beat bowel cancer. All money raised goes towards funding world class research that has the potential for the greatest impact in ensuring more people survive bowel cancer.

Us dolls are always up for mucking in with a good cause, and seeing as so many of the menfolk in our community are footy fans themselves they were eager to take part in this very worthwhile event … They even convinced ME to join in and wear a borrowed football shirt too ! Shocking, hey. But seeing as it’s for charity, how could I ever refuse.

If you’d like to know more about the event, or the work of the Booby Moore foundation with Cancer Research UK, you can find out more on their website here … www.footballshirtfriday.org

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My tribute to the Queen - 

Celebrating her 90th birthday today !

I just wanted to pass on my esteemed best wishes to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on the occasion of her 90th Birthday.

Her Majesty has served her people with grace, dignity, honour, and respect, and I’m sure will do so for many more years to come. She is an amazing woman who has always put her royal duties and the best interests of her country before her own. She is an example to us all !

Happy Birthday Your Majesty – Long live the QUEEN !!

Love from your humble subject,

Ella xx

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Happy Easter !

Have the happiest of Easters,

And the springiest of Springs !

Love from,

Ella, Rocky, Ruby & Emma x

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♣♣♣ Happy St.Patrick's Day ! ♣♣♣

I just wanted to wish a happy St.Patrick’s day to all my Irish fans, followers, and friends.

“May your blessings outnumber

The shamrocks that grow,

And may trouble avoid you

Wherever you go.

May your pockets be heavy 

and your heart be light,

May good luck pursue you

each morning and night”.

May the luck O’ the Irish be with you!

♣♣♣ Happy St.Patrick's Day ! ♣♣♣

Love from,

Ella x

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** Yorkshire Dales Family Vacation - 2016 **

Family sled races and ski fun in the snow !

On our last day of this family holiday, we were woken to the unexpected sight of SNOW everywhere ... What fun, hey !

Of course, Ruby and Emma were dying to go out and play in it. Plus their father was equally keen now that I think about it ... Hmmmm ? But anyway, after a few squabbles between the girls about how to enjoy this unanticipated snow-day (Ruby wanted to build a snowman like Anna in Frozen, whereas Emma wanted a snowball fight), in the end it was Rocky who settled the debate, by suggesting that we should take this opportunity to have a little friendly family competition of sled racing !

Oooh-errrr, hey !

Naturally the girls thought it sounded like great fun, and all thoughts of snowmen and snowballs went straight out the window from there ... Phew !! Although, seeing as we only had two sleds, Emma decided she was too big to share ... Deary me, kids, hey. So the cheeky monkey opted to race us on her own using the ski's we found stowed away with the other winter gear ... I was admittedly a tad worried about the idea to begin with, however Munchkin number 2 seemingly took to skiiing like a duck to water, and once she was in the ski's and on the slope there was NO stopping my little Emmy either. Bless her.

As you can no doubt see here though, our keen little sport's-woman has certainly inherited not only her fathers fearless spirit, but his fierce competitive streak an'all ... I was certainly somewhat startled when I noticed my little girl whizzing past us on her way down the slope. Cutting in front of our sled's to secure her most desired victory, might I add ... Honestly !!

Emmy was chuffed to bit's, and Rocky was incredibly proud as well, so I decided to save the lecture about recklessness until ANOTHER time instead (insert despairing eye-roll here), hehehe.

After a few hours of fun though, we were absolutely frozen and soaked through. So we returned to the cottage with big smiles all round, despite the fact we were so numb that we could no longer feel our faces !

It was a wonderful last day of our vacation, and we spent the evening drying off and warming up in front of a lovely open fire, before finally packing up to return home again.

What a perfect family holiday we had in the Yorkshire Dales 2016 !


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** Yorkshire Dales Family Vacation - 2016 **

Soaking-up the history, whilst exploring the grounds of a local castle !

Bolton Castle is a 14th century fortification, which is located less than 12 miles from our holiday cottage in the Yorkshire Dales. The castle is a grade 1 listed building which was damaged during the English Civil war, however much of the structure still remains intact to this day. We certainly had fun exploring both inside and out during our visit too. Although we were rather surprised to discover that the castle was actually colder INSIDE than out ... How odd, hey.

But anyway ...

Bolton Castle's most famous former-resident was probably Mary, Queen of Scots, who was imprisoned here for 6 months in the year 1568. So it seems the castle has seen it's share of royalty throughout the years. But then, I guess that's hardly surprising, considering it's a castle after all !

Rocky, the girls, and I enjoyed our little adventure a great deal. It was amazing to see how the wealthy elite lived hundreds of years ago. But even though I'm technically a princess, and as such supposed to feel at home in such grand historic structures as this, I have to say that I think I rather prefer the cosy and relatively modern comforts of my little dolls-house home, to a drafty, cold, damp, stone castle.

Mind you, apparently Ruby and Emma decided they wouldn't mind moving in and living like 'Proper' Princess's. Bless 'em, I'm sure they'd change their minds as soon as night fell though, and they discovered there was no heating, electricity, nor lights. Castle life was NOT as glamorous as we'd like to think, that's for sure !

However it's nice to look back and get a glimpse into those days of old none the less.

More holiday piccys to follow another day ...

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