Kay Carvery

There is definitely a face on this top.

 

OCT/NOV half term 2023

My little helpers at Square One.

Ch'Oaks for some Lululemon shorts and a roundabout ride.

And Drake took Soph to see TROLLS.

WE PARKRAN!!

Cub's fastest time ever haha

In case you can't read it, it says I WON THE OLD LADY AGE GROUP!

Chester Northgate Street

Craft and dressyuppy morning at The Storyhouse.

Chester Market (Food Hall)

Chester Eastgate Clock

Finishing with fireworks at the racecourse!

Fabulous.

 

Jersey. Oct 2023

It was Manchester to Heathrow, Heathrow to Jersey, seat belt on and straight back off again, a pitch black walk down a steep hill with our cabin bags to our hotel and YAY we made it to Jersey.

As the hotel was closing for the winter in 4 days time we were upgraded to a posh room with a balcony sea view, we were basically right on the beach.

After a ridiculously fabulously tasty breakfast of all things Waitrose, we went into St Helier for a mooch around the shops...

(£3 Lululemon top bargain from the charity shop!) 

The Jersey toad, the crapaud, native to Jersey...

Took the bus to ORGUEIL CASTLE where we had a lot of fun with the kiddies' dressing up box and  planking the cannon, there were lots of nooks and crannies, interactive bits, a dungeon, the injured man...

...and John from Coventry!

and then got the bus across to PLEMONT to see the 4m high puffins.

It would have been a perfect day but the hotel chef  had the nerve to GARLIC the mushy peas with my f'n'ch (HOW DARE THEY?) ...a little matter which needed dealing with.

but yes, it was a lovely day.

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We were up next morning for yet another superb breakfast and we travelled by bus again to CORBIERE LIGHTHOUSE.

It looks so impressive atop all those rugged rocks and after getting absolutely DRENCHED we were rewarded with a huge and beautiful rainbow.

Back to St Helier for an hour in town then out on the ferrybus 

to ELIZABETH CASTLE after a bit of #kitesaroundtheworld flying.

The gunner did a brilliant job of firing the cannon and later the musket...very loud.

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Day 3 and I was up before breakfast for a quick dip, I couldn't not have a dip when we were more or less ON THE BEACH..and it was fab. Way too much seaweed but not cold at all (lol)

The Glass House St Matthew's Church at St Lawrence was both underwhelming and very impressive, by nature of the glass it wasn't remotely bright and colourful, I like stained glass windows, it almost felt more like a hospital than a church.

BUT...

it has the only full sized font in the world.

The walls are lined with Bath stone.

The glass in the windows are decorated with Jersey lilies.

The communion table is made of frosted glass.

The tallest glass cross is 4m high and all look impressive when lit from inside.

St Matthew's Church was first consecrated in 1840 as a chapel of ease... to save the Millbrook inhabitants a walk up the hill...but the glass for which it is famous wasn't installed until later.

The interior of the church was entirely renewed in 1934 by Florence Lady Trent. 

She commissioned Rene Lalique of Paris to refurbish the church in memory of her late husband, the founder of Boots The Chemist, Jesse Boot.

As the war tunnels were closed due to flooding we opted to go to the zoo that afternoon.

It had silverback gorillas!

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DAY 4....Another day another dip.

A lot less seaweed and still not too cold (lol)

Jersey Pearl!! I now own my own Jersey Pearl!

How exciting to select a shell and watch it being opened!

This was followed by a mooch around the military barracks while waiting for the bus back to base and 

we just had time for a windswept stroll along the beach with more #kitesaroundtheworld before getting back to the airport for home, what a fab few days.

Our hotel

GOLDEN SANDS

in St Brelade.

Right on the beach!

FANTASTIC!

This was the nearest reg we saw to Bergerac's Triumph (J1610)

This was invaluable!

OUR BUS TIMETABLE.