17th July photo - wow look what we are having for tea!

Don't look if you are on a diet - because I think it will be very bad for you. My diet starts again tomorrow!

Whilst we were waiting for loads of yesterday's photos to upload to Photobox - so that I can make Jess a lovely photo book - Eleanor & I made this - a pineapple & passion fruit cheesecake. It has been baked in the oven and pineapple & passion fruit added to the top. I have never had fresh passion fruits before - you get just a tiny little bit of pulp and seeds inside the shell - but it smells divine. I can't wait to tuck in at tea time!!

just some graduation photos

Eleanor, Jess and her boyfriend Aaron

The proud big sister

She looks so pleased to be shaking hands with the Vice Chancellor

Me & my girls.

Apparently mortar board throwing is banned on health & safety grounds ( falling hats may do someone an injury!!) but Jess wasn't going to let that stop her from doing it.

I think this may become the Official graduation photo.

Having fun with the silly tassel - which would not stay in the right position.

Proud parents

She actually managed to get the green part of the robe to stay up on her shoulders for this shot!It spent most of the day falling off.

Eleanor was so proud of her little sister

The University was built in the 1960's, when concrete was the favoured building material, so we had to have some of the photos taken with the beloved concrete in!

We went down the night before and stayed in our favourite Premier Travel Inn at the Norwich Showground. The boys did not want to come so Dad was stuck with all us girls for 2 days!! He bore it very well.

15th & 16th July photos -

We have had a lovely time visiting Norwich for Jessica's graduation. As expected I took hundreds of photos which will take me a while to edit. But after a quick look through, I think these 2 will be POTD for the last 2 days.

Obviously the one of Jess & her friend Lianne will be for today and this one of Steven & Eleanor in a cornfield taken yesterday - well we had to stop for a couple of geocaches on the way there didn't we!

14th July 2009 - July shop watch - Taste juice bar

I don't drink tea or coffee so never feel the need to stop in a cafe for a drink when I pop into town, but occasionally I do like to call in here for a take-away juice drink. They are all freshly made on the premises and as the shop is called are very 'tasty'! This shop is found in Mardol opposite my favourite shop - Lakeland.

13th July photo - my cookery books

Not very exciting today - but these are what I see each time I go into my kitchen - my cookery books. They sit on the worktop next to the cooker and tempt me every day to open them. Unfortunately I am not very good at experimenting with new recipes - I tend to stick to the old faithful ones. My most used cookbook is a very old Good Housekeeping one (covered in the brown flowered sticky back plastic!) that I had when I was a child and still comes out each week for baking recipes or for pancake mixture etc.

I think the above close up photo will be my POTD - but I like the one below because it reminds me that we still have not yet got the kitchen tiled - 12 months later!!

Taking these photos prompted me to have a look through them and I have found a lovely recipe for a cheesecake - so I may try that tomorrow, which will give the family a treat and me a photo for the day!

12th July photo - 'Life is just a bowlful of cherries'

I love the song 'Life is just a bowlful of cherries' which is meant to mean life is pleasant. My life is going fairly well at the moment - with a few hiccups here and there - so what better way to show it than with a bowlful of cherries!!

We found them at the market for £1.50 lb or would that be a kg? They seem to be £6 - £7 at the supermarket - so we tend not to buy them - but at this price we could not resist them. They were ripe & delicious so did not last long. Oh dear I think my blog has turned into a fruit blog!

11th July photo - still no ospreys!

Steven & I tackled another geocache this afternoon which took us down on a long river walk to see the osprey nest from a different direction. We were really hopeful of spotting them today after our disappointment yesterday - but still no luck! We could see the nest quite clearly but it remained stubbornly empty.

This is a photo of the nest in the background - along with the monitoring cameras. Sorry its rather distant.

However the surroundings were quite beautiful. We had a very long walk because the ospreys nest cannot be sited in a populated area - so it was nice & remote and the hills looked gorgeous. This may be my photo of the day.

But I am also tempted by this cheeky one of Steven. He felt a sugar craving half way though our walk and he was not surprised to find a bag of sweets in my walking bag!