Flower power?

Two little girls and a slide

Kitty was obviously impressed by Uncle O'Neil's full arm tattoos. Last weekend we awoke to discover she had got out of bed, selected herself a nice black marker from my pen pot and decorated both her arms up to the elbow!

Whilst we slept on, she also decided to decorate the edge of the sheet on our bed. Rather than being mad, we both agreed that the result was actually quite impressive and I have since decided to try and embroider Kitty's design onto the sheet as a permanent record of her work!

After 45 long years of service, my friend John at work retired last week. He is one of the nicest people I know and we will all miss him. To mark his last day, we went on a five mile walk across the West Pennine Moors before enjoying a curry and a couple of pints of Thwaites Wainwright (which is really nice) at one of his favourite pubs. I took this picture of a cow on the way. I quite like it.

Uncle Steven, Auntie Suzie and cousin Olive Pih have been visiting from London. We went up to Grandma Pih's house on Sunday to see them. It was really lovely to see the two little girls playing together. They are thinking about a move back to the North West, which would be great for everyone.

Grandma has a fantastic slide, which Kit is still talking about now.

Steven took these lovely pictures of Kit. Family only can see pictures of the pair of them playing here. (I don't post pictures of other peoples kids on this blog, unless they specifically say it's ok).

Kitty meets Uncle David

But in May, Kitty had the pleasure of meeting Uncle David Pih (centre). He was visiting all the way from Australia and we had a lovely day playing with him and in the garden at Grandma Pih's house. Uncle Robbie and Auntie Carla came too and later on, Auntie Sue Pih (right) and great cousins Lisa and Iain joined us for a lovely meal. A real family get together. Grandad Pih was disappointed with the way his food turned out, but we all enjoyed it.

I only just discovered this picture that Peahead took using his Hipstamastic app on his iphone. I wish we had taken a better one of everyone.