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| June
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| This month was busy with numerous
birthdays (including Raffy's 4th) and parties to go to every weekend.
We also travelled to Devon for a week's holiday in Woolacombe - we
stayed in a lovely apartment overlooking the beach and the boys had
a great time. The weather was very changeable with a hot summer afternoon
on Exmoor (just like I used to enjoy as a child) and torrential cloudbursts
while on the beach in Woolacombe - the boys loved this, and they were
wet already so didn't mind the rain... |
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Raffy and his friend Michael dressed as pirates before going to Harry's
birthday party in Ashford.
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Monty munches a pear at the Woodruffs' during an afternoon barbeque... |
On Woolacombe beach the day we arrived in Devon. Monty clearly enjoyed
being buried in the sand... |
Monty potters about in my study...
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Rafferty enjoys a cuddle from Vanessa during a picnic on Exmoor -
this is high moorland near Dunkery Beacon overlooking the Bristol
Channel. |
How many small boys get to take their first picture on a Canon 1Ds
Mk II?
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Rafferty and Monty enjoy a cup of hot chocolate during our picnic
on the windy moorland... |
Later the weather improved and we had a sunny afternoon in Cloutsham
valley, in a lovely meadow by the stream. Monty pinches Grandpa's
nose...
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Vanessa gives Monty a piggyback. |
More piggybacks... Raffy and Monty re-enact the Grand National but
on slightly slower horses.
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Grandpa and Raffy having a serious discussion.
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Being swung around by Grandpa... great fun! |
Me and Monty.
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Dad and Raffy. |
Rafferty had just been bought his new bike (without stabilisers) and
enjoyed practising in the meadow. He was able to ride without stabilisers
straight away - just got on and off he went. It took him about a week
to master starting off by himself though...
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Monty in the meadow with Cherry - a little dog who we assume lives
on one of the nearby farms. The strangest thing is that two years
before, when we had come for a picnic in Cloutsham when Monty was
a baby, the same little dog had come to visit us then!
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Rafferty with his new bike. |
On an early morning walk along the beach to Putsborough - me and my
two boys...
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A trip to Braunton Burrows, a nature reserve in the sandy dunelands
very close to where I grew up. Here are the four Horton-Szar men...
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Monty comes for a cuddle and a warm towel after running around the
beach and splashing in rockpools.
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Raffy enjoys an ice-cream - a rainy afternoon on his birthday. |
Vanessa and Monty on a nice morning overlooking the sea in Woolacombe.
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We stopped into The Red Barn, a big family pub on the sea front in
Woolacombe for a bite to eat.
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Back in Canterbury, Monty tries on his new firemans outfit...
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Raffy on his 4th birthday, at Eddie's house (stopped in on the way
back from Devon) after getting his new skateboard. |
The four of us at Eddie's on Rafferty's 4th birthday.
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