Ella in England, Sep 9-30
When she was five months old, we took Ella Julia on her first tour of England.
Ella with Grandpa & Auntie Charlie at the Lounge in Bury St Edmunds.
Harrison introduces Ella to the Teletubbies.
Matching rain hats with Grandma.
Meeting Isabella & Benjamin at the Regent's Park Marriott.
This one was taken by Isabella.
In the Chesworths' lovely garden.
Ice creams on Primrose Hill.
Ella (in Isabella's dolls' clothes!) meets her Uncle David over a glass of Calvados.
Isabella sets off for school.
Benjamin serves me some tea at his nursery.
A trip with Mum & Dad to the Suffolk village of Moulton to see the four-arched, late medieval packhorse bridge, spanning the River Kennett on the old route from Cambridge to Bury.
And then on to Wicken Fen, a wetland nature reserve near Soham in Cambridgeshire. In the picture above, you can just make out the only working wooden windpump remaining in the Fens.
Harrison waits excitedly for the toy train.
Ella with the Kings.
We had lunch with some of my former work colleagues at The Maypole in Cambridge, and then took Ella to Jesus Green and our old house in Hale Street.
We spent Saturday afternoon with Steve & Juliette at Tittesworth Reservoir near Leek in the Staffordshire Moorlands, overlooked by the Roaches (which can be seen in the top photo).
When we returned to Worcester Close, we were met by Rebecca and Clare who were eager to meet their little cousin.
One for the Dunne family album.
Another day, another road trip.....this time to visit Aunt Liz, Uncle Mog, Amber & Holly at their lovely homes near Woking, Surrey.
Then we continued down the M3 and past Stonehenge to South Devon.
A lovely view on the way from Sherford to Chillington...
...where Ella met her Great-Grandma Day.
A little red-cheeked, as she was teething.
We loved Prawle Point, the southernmost point of Devon, and would have stayed longer had it not been for the strong wind high up on those cliffs.
We made our way back along the single-track road to East Prawle, Devon's most southerly village, and also where my mum and dad went for their honeymoon. Unfortunately, the Pig's Nose, which I remembered from years ago, was closed.
Next stop, Start Point Lighthouse (somewhere over my right shoulder!) and then northwards along the coast to Hallsands, a village which fell into the sea during a storm in 1917 after shingle was dredged offshore in the 1890s to provide material for the expansion of a local naval dockyard.
We ended our day with a pint at Day & Tom's old pub, The Queens' Arms, in Slapton.
Back to Jill & Howard's for dinner.
Goodbye, Hill Farm!
We returned to the Home Counties for a visit with Noel & Samantha in Wokingham.
Then stayed the night in Didcot with my old university friend Anna, her boyfriend Dan and lovely daughters, Lydia and Anya.
The next day we had lunch with Jon, Katherine, Joseph, "bump" and, of course, Oscar at their new home just outside Cambridge.
One at the Spread with Jay and Harrison during our last weekend in Bury.
Sunday lunch with the Bunyans at the Red Lion in Whittlesford.
