SALUTE TO THE 40s CHATHAM DOCK YARD KENT

LAST WEEK I TOOK THE GRANDSON'S TO A ANNUAL EVENT AT CHATHAM DOCK YARD MAIDSTONE KENT .IT WAS A BRILLIANT DAY .WE WERE TRANSPORTED BACK INTO WAR TIME BRITAIN .SIRENS WERE GOING THROUGH THE DAY AND AIR RAID SHELTERS WERE AVAILABLE FOR US TO RUN TO ,THE FINALLY WAS A AIR RAID ON THE DOCKS WHICH WAS BRILLIANT AND ENDING WITH THE QUEEN ELIZABETH AND HER DAUGHTER PRINCESS ELIZABETH COMING TO THE DOCKS TO SPEAK TO THE TROOPS

TROOPERS RYAN AND TYLER

THE TROOPS ARE HERE

A BOMB DAMAGE HOUSE

THE COMICS OF THE DAY

THE RATIONED THINGS

LOTS OF PEOPLE CAME DRESSED UP

OLD SHELTER

TEAROOMS

THE KITCHEN

THE WI DARNING SOCKS

THE LAUNDRY

FOOD WAS SERVED FROM MOBIL CANTEENS AND FIELD KITCHENS

SHE WAS A DUCKS AND DARLING PERSON LOL

THE QUEEN WHO BECAME THE QUEEN MOTHER TOTALLY CONFUSED THE GRANDCHILDREN

AND THE BOYS FOUND THE TARDIS

THE QUEEN AND PRINCESS ELIZABETH

just one photo

altogether now ahhhhhh

CATCH UP TIME

BEEN VERY BUSY HAD SIS IN LAW STAYING WITH ME SO NO TIME FOR CRAFTING. WENT TO The Kelvedon Hatch Secret Nuclear Bunker  DECIDED RATHER THAN STAY DOWN THERE ,WILL TAKE MY CHANCE AT GROUND LEVEL IT WAS CREEPY

ENTRANCE LOOKS LIKE ENTERING A BUNGALOW

                                                       SO WEIRD AND UNCANNY

WHILE WE WERE IN THE BUNKER, THE FOUR GRANDCHILDREN WERE HIGH UP IN THE TREE TOPS,THIS WAS AT THE ROPERUNNERS NEXT DOOR TO THE BUNKER

                                                                      

YES HE IS IN THE TREE TOPS

THIS CALLED FOR TEAM WORK

THE YOUNGEST IS LEADING

                                                           THIS ONE WAS TRICKY

       RATHER BE UP HERE, THAN IN THAT BUNKER WHICH WAS 85 FT BELOW GROUND

ON MY TRAVELS

 TOWER OF FLOWERS WAS AT THE GATE TO THOMPSON AND MORGANS SHOW GROUNDS

A BEAUTIFUL DISPLAY OF VEGGIES

FLOWER  CALLED INFERNO WELL NAMED

THIS SCULPTURE IS CALLED MOTHERS IT IS IN HYDE HALL RHS GARDENS

 FUCHSIA

BACKDATED PHOTOS

MY FRIEND MARGARET GAVE ME SOME TRINKETS THAT WERE HER MOTHERS, SHE DID NT KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH THEM AND DID 'NT WANT TO BIN THEM,SO I MADE HER THIS BOX AS A SURPRISE FOR HER BIRTHDAY  

DOLLS HOUSES AND TALENT

MY  FRIEND KATHLEEN IS VERY MUCH INTO COLLECTING  AND DESIGNING PERIOD DOLLS HOUSES, SHE ALSO MAKES THE FIGURES,  BEDDING,  CURTAINS, FOOD, RUGS ,CARPETS. SHE CAN SEW, KNIT, CROCHET, TATTING, MODELING ,PAINTING NOW THATS WHAT I CALLED TALENTED!!

                HERE KATHLEEN HAS CREATED HER MOTHERS KITCHEN  AS SHE REMEMBERS FROM HER EARLY CHILDHOOD 

                                                   

                                                                               

SCRUFFY

SCRUFFY S BATH TIME

HE MAY LOOK SAD BUT HE ACTUALLY LOVES A BATH