Usually cold, damp, grey and miserable, November is not my favourite month. This year, however, we have been so busy that it has flown by and we haven’t even noticed the weather!
Suzie had a trade stand for her high visibility dog products (see http://www.glo-balls.com/)
at the “Discover Dogs” show at Earls Court on the 12 and 13 November. Preparation and packing everything up kept us busy at the beginning of the month. This is the stand just before the show opened ...
at the “Discover Dogs” show at Earls Court on the 12 and 13 November. Preparation and packing everything up kept us busy at the beginning of the month. This is the stand just before the show opened ...
... and this is a few minutes later!
The show itself was excellent and although it was quite exhausting it was well worth doing.
On the Monday after the show I had a quick visit to The National Gallery and then went on to Ramsgate to spend some time with my two sisters, Marilyn and Christine. (This is Marilyn beside the "Great Wall of Ramsgate").
The following day we visited our long lost half brother, Chuck – the first time we have all been together for over 50 years. He is writing a book about his worldwide animal training exploits. I can't wait to read it!
The rest of the week passed far too quickly. We had an enjoyable evening with Angie (my niece) and her husband Tim. We enjoyed drinking coffee overlooking the sea at Broadstairs and visited the new Turner Contemporary art Gallery in Margate where we admired Rodin’s famous sculpture “The Kiss.”
This is the three of us reflected in the mirror!
It was lovely for us all to visit our artistic cousin Jacqui who prepared a wonderful lunch for us.
That evening I returned home to Devon.
On 26th November we were invited to attend the opening of the Heritage Photographic exhibition at the North Devon Museum.
Hundreds of photos were submitted so I was delighted to discover that 6 of mine had actually been included in the exhibition.
Even more amazing - I was awarded 1st prize in the “Towns andVillages” category (the central one with the black mount) and 2nd (the top left picture of Ben) and also highly commended in the “Characters” category. I now have a medal and more certificates to add to the collection!
We have a new family member at the moment - four month old Caspar, one of Bella's kittens.
He has completely taken over the house!
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