Galleries – Habershons.com

The wedding

October 29th, 2010, at Robberg Beach, Plettenberg Bay, South Africa.

Go to http://annemari.co.za/plett-beach-wedding to see some of the professional photographer’s photos.

View from David’s and Libby’s B&B. This is the first picture Habershons.com received from South Africa.

Robberg Beach

Jim, Charlie and Jonathan

Ed and Candice

I have NO idea!

Charlie, Jim, Tamsin (Candice’s sister), Pam (Candice’s mum), Candice, Ed, Libby, David

Charlie, Jim, Candice, Ed, Libby, David

Steph, Charlie, Jim, Candice, Ed, Libby, David

with bridesmaids, best man (Jonathan) and ushers

David the Engine Driver

David’s 60th birthday present from Libby. See http://www.habershons.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1362

David’s allotment

See http://www.habershons.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1317

July 2010. Seeds provided by Pam. Foreground are beans just planted, broad beans, courgettes and runner beans on the right.

Cabbages under wire because the pigeons keep eating them, brussel sprouts and sweetcorn.

July 2010. Cabbages and potatoes in the foreground.

vegetables

and more vegetables

Jamie’s birds and veggies

July 2010. Jamie’s chickens at The Stables

July 2010. Jamie’s veggies at The Stables

July 2010. More veggies.

Still July, and still more veggies

and more . . . veggies

quail eggs

London

View from our Bayswater hotel

Kew Gardens. We went on Monday and almost had the place to ourselves.

The daffodils had peaked, and the tulips were on their way out

Information on the world’s oldest potted plant

Yes. The world’s oldest potted plant.

The lily pond house

Cherry blossoms everywhere

Peacock underneath the treetop walkway

Xstrata Treetop Walkway

Glastonbury

We stayed at a 15th Century B&B – Lottisham Manor

Ricky on his way to the tennis court at Lottisham Manor.

Lottisham Manor flowers

We were served an amazing breakfast in this room.

On Sunday morning we walked up Glastonbury Tor

Blurb on Glastonbury Tor

Jamie with his and Gina’s new puppy

Stables birds

Discussion around the vegetable patch

Ricky and me on Glastonbury Tor

Lake District

We rented a cottage in Ambleside for one week

John on another bridge

and another bridge. Greta River below

another bridge

We took a bus to Keswick one morning and went on a seven-mile hike down a disused railway track along the Greta River, up to Castlerigg Stone Circle and back to Keswick. This is the marketplace where we started.

John and me on one of the many bridges

Greta Bridge (voted best concrete engineering structure of the century in September 1999)

We went hiking every day. This is the river at the bottom of Ambleside.

View from our cottage (Angela’s Cottage) in Ambleside. We were close to the town centre, up a very steep hill. Oh, my shins!

stepping stones

Rydal Water

Rydal Water

John and me at the top of Loughrigg. We had about five minutes of rain and hail on the way up. Then it never rained again our entire trip.

Loughrigg

Loughrigg

Scenery on the way back down to Ambleside

Stock Beck in Ambleside

Paul and Pam visited us from Blackpool the second day. We drove to Grasmere and walked a circuit of Grasmere and Rydal Water via Wordsworth’s House. He is buried in this church’s graveyard.

River near Grasmere

Heron

Path leading towards Rydal Water

Pam and Paul

Grasmere

Daffodils. Daffodils everywhere.

Coffee stop at Ambleside Dock while waiting for a boat to Wray Castle. Mini next door!

The “easy ramble” was quite tough!

John on the boat to Wray Castle

We walked from Wray Castle to Bowness on Windermere. Another “easy ramble”.

Plenty of sheep on the route

We didn’t stop long in Bowness. Too many people. Took a ferry back to Ambleside. This is me outside “Lucy’s on a Plate” (John’s favourite restaurant in Ambleside).

Lots of good stopping places. We set the camera on timer to take this picture. John had ten seconds to scramble back over the stones.

We had a good guidebook, but signs are always welcome.

sheep

more sheep

dipper

just lots of nice views

Kissing gate. Note the political sign in the background. I wonder how many extra votes that pulled in?

another nice view. Wish I knew the names of all the peaks.

Castlerigg Stone Circle

after the stone circle we walked over several fields and saw lots of sheep

John in Ambleside

view of Derwent Water and Catbells

this farm was serving tea, but we decided to keep walking to Keswick and have a late lunch

St. John’s Parish Church. About 100 yards after this we stopped at the Keswick Lodge for lunch. Along with some excellent local beer, John had Cumberland Sausage and I had a baked potato with prawns.

More daffodils (Ambleside)

We planned a walk to Lily Tarn on the last day but got lost and ended up in Grasmere.

Final Lake District picture. Glastonbury next.

Canals

We spent four nights on David’s and Libby’s boat. They own a one-twelfth interest in the Aylestone and use it four weeks a year.

John is at his happiest when he’s sitting in the First Class compartment of a train in England with free wi-fi.

We took a bus from Stafford railway station to Gnosall. This was our first sight of the Aylestone, moored near the Navigation Arms.

Aylestone and ducks. We saw a lot of these.

This is a map of the Four Counties Ring. Actually, it’s really a tea towel, but it shows the big picture.

Unlike a cruise, where you do nothing but eat, on a canal holiday you can walk along the towpath and keep up with the boat. Then you can jump back on at a bridge when you’ve had enough.

Daffodils, John V and John L. Six of David’s and Libby’s friends visited us on the boat on the second day.

Group photo on a bridge in Church Stretton. Back row L-R: Patrick, Howard, Jilly, Libby, Dawn, John. Front L-R: Marion, David, me, John

Me and John on the same bridge

Working a lock

David teaching me to steer. KEEP THE BOW IN THE MIDDLE!

a bridge

On the third day, Charlie visited the boat and took us to lunch at his girlfriend’s house. On the way we took a walk up Long Mynd.

While filling the boat up with water, David and Libby discuss the route.

Lunch at Nikki’s. Lovely house and garden. Horses, sheep, chickens, geese, dog, etc. . . .

John woke up early one morning and took this picture of the boat.

Interior of the boat

This part of the canal is called the “Narrows” because . . . it’s narrow.

Another bridge. All bridges are numbered, which is good, because it’s useful to know where you are on the map.

The Aylestone entering a lock. Working the locks was fun.

Libby and I handle a gate each while David keeps the boat in the middle.

Lock emptied. Ready to go.

Scenic evening view

Lock walls are slimy.

We stopped for a beer here.

The residential areas along the canals have picturesque gardens.

David and Libby enjoying some sunshine at the Cross Keys.

I definitely got my daffodil fix during the trip.

Another lock. There were plenty of locks.

One evening we walked to a pub, and what should be on the way but a Mini dealership!

Elevenses

More ducks

David and me

John steering the boat

Me steering the boat. David wasn’t far away.

Libby, me, David

Tixall Lock sign

Someone’s country house

This is the book the boaters use to navigate the canal system.

residential area

another lock

leaving another lock

more daffodils

Libby, David and me. Later that day John and I packed our bags and walked up to the railway station at Rugely. Had a beer at the Railway Inn, then left for the Lake District.

Party at Emsworth – August 23rd, 2009

Habershons gathered at the Horndean Road residence for food and drink. Ed was home from Australia for a while and had just got engaged to Candice.

Group picture.

Paul and Pam

David, Nick, and Paul

Sarah and Martha

Martha and Jamie

Steph and Ed

Food and drink

Libby and Ricky

Helen

Jamie and Charlie

Down the road for some tennis

Joe looks for a ping-pong partner

Ed and Candice

Ed and Candice became engaged in August 2009.

Engagement day, August 2009