#Wicked Wednesdays

Oh no I've been caught on the computer quick act like a rabbit in head lights.

Childhood Dream Fulfilled

When I was growing up I loved watching Disney cartoons and animated films, to be honest I still do. Through watching cartoons and films I would sit and draw cartoon characters like Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Goofy. No one taught me how to draw the characters one day I just started doodling and walla I drew my first characters.

Well jump a few years forward to me taking my GCSE's, I decided as I liked drawing I'd take GCSE Art, to be honest I really didn't enjoy it at all, I loved drawing and doodling but the things I wanted and how I wanted not to a set theme and time frame.

Any how's one parents evening my dad spoke to my art teacher to see how I was getting on and he mentioned how I liked drawing cartoons but his response slightly annoyed my dad to be honest, he basically told my dad that no one has every got anywhere drawing cartoons to which my dad replied "have you never heard of Walt Disney". Off the back of that I still didn't enjoy my art classes and wasn't encouraged to carry on drawing cartoons.

I kinda wish I'd stuck firm with the cartoons to be honest, as we all know the animation industry is massive today, with the likes of Walt Disney Animation & Pixar and DreamWorks who produce like likes of Shrek, Frozen, Brave, Monsters Inc and the amazing Toy Story, yes I know its all computer generated on screen but all animation films start on a artists storyboard/sketch board somewhere.

Well my childhood cartoon drawing enjoyment was brought back to life when we took JR to Euro Disney six years ago now. I was able to participate in a proper cartoon drawing class lead by a real life Disney artist, it was fantastic, I felt like a big kid, I couldn't tell you what was going on around me to be honest I was so engrossed in making sure I concentrated on drawing my Donald Duck correctly.

Well that was my childhood dream fulfilled to be able to properly draw a cartoon character under the guidance of a proper artist.

Do you have any childhood dream or childhood dream jobs you have been able to fulfill in anyway?

Z Is For....... Zooming

I am linking this post up with the lovely Charly Dove and her 

wonderful Alphabet Project.

Z Is For ...... Zooming.

In the summer we took the children to Lego Land, where they went on many different rides and attractions.

This visit both boys were old enough and tall enough to do the driving licence challenges and as you can see they both had lots of fun doing so and were zooming round in their cars like crazy lol.

Well that's my Z Is For ........

Stay tuned for my ..... oh wait that's the journey over.

The new journey starts again in January see you there.

#Wicked Wednesdays

Stick your tongue out TP I said not lick the step lol.

Halloween Fun At Coombe Mill

The last full day of our holiday at Coombe Mill was Friday and as it was Halloween we stayed on the farm and participated in a fun filled day of activities.

It started with a fancy dress animal feed run. The animals are normally greeted by a excited group of kids but on this particular feed run the excited kids were in fancy dress which probably confused the animals completely lol.

 

Farmer Nick was dressed up and so was his tractor and trailer.

As L-A hadn't driven the tractor all week she had the honour of taking the first leg on this particular feed run.

 

It was fantastic sight to see all the kids on the feed run dressed up and ready to feed the animals.

Even dressed up TP wasn't to be hindered in anyway from his daily catching of the chickens and ducks. By now he was a chicken chaser/catcher expert and he even had a little dance to assist in his chicken catching, I kid you not lol.

At lunch time we made our way to Fiona's garden where the children sat in the lovely afternoon sun and made ghosts out of tin cans, kitchen roll and string and bats out of loo roll, black bin linners and string, all the kids enjoyed it and couldn't wait to decorate their holiday homes with their creations.

In the middle of the afternoon mummy and JR went on a potion ingredients finding trek ready for the witches cauldron at the train ride later that night.

At 4pm we all met up at the nearly Halloween decorated log storage hut where the kids bobbed for apples, played pin the arm on the skeleton, played musical zombies aka music statues then went over to the field and played zombie in the middle.

Once all that fun was over the children participated in the last train ride of the week, this one was a bit special as it became a ghost train ride.

The very last activity of the day was of course trick or treating, which was fantastic to be honest all the children and adults alike enjoyed participating in this activity.

Well that was our halloween fun down at Coombe Mill, hope
you had fun wherever and whatever you got up to on
Halloween.

Our Days Out In Cornwall

Whilst on holiday at Coombe Mill during half term holiday we aimed to get out and about each day and add a bit of variety to each day.

We made our way over to Newquay on Sunday and met up with our friends as they were staying in their caravan in Newquay for the week, well we met up in a cliff top pub and spent a few hours there chatting whilst the kids played nicely.

Monday we made our way over to Padstow, we like Padstow it's a lovely quite little fishing village, well i say quite obviously everyone has decided to visit Padstow on Monday as it was totally heaving.

We had a lovely walk round the shops and brought the kids a Padstow lifeguards jumper each. We brought some chips for lunch and mummy tried her first ever 'miners pastie' she's still not too sure if she liked it or not a week later lol. We made our way back to the farm ready for the evening train ride.

Tuesday found us going to the Eden Project. The journey itself was very interesting shall we say with all the low lying fog on the moors it made driving difficult but we got there safe and sound.

We love the Eden Project it's full of so much to do and see. The boys love it especially going round the rainforest bio and pointing out all the plants and various things like the huts you would find in the rainforest and telling us how different they are to our house.

This visit they also got to participate in some witches and wizardry activities based around the children's book Room on the Broom (read more about it here).

On Wednesday we made our way over to Mevagissey, somewhere we hadn't visited before but where my wife wanted to visit this holiday.

We parked up and walked down into the town and went into the RNLI charity shop, where the phase "it's a small world" certainly came to pass as the customer talking to the sales assistant lives about 5 minutes from us and about two roads round the corner from my wifes grandparents house.

We had a wonder round the the shops and had some lunch in a little fish and chip restaurant then went to the Mevagissey museum where the boys did a little treasure hunt finding teddy bears and pirates.

We then went to the Mevagissey aquarium, where the kids were in awe of all the different fish and sea creatures on view. They pointed at them and tried to call them to the front of the tanks for better views which was pretty cute to be honest.

Thursday was our last day out as Friday was full of Halloween fun on the farm. So we made our way over to Newquay to have a proper look round. Well we parked up and made our way into the town centre. we had a wonder round and looked in various shops, brought the boys school teachers some fudge and grandparents some Cornish biscuits and even met Olaf from frozen, then we made our way to the beach.

The kids loved going on the beach, come to think of it we all did to be honest. The whether was nice, it was clear blue skies with a slight sea breeze. We walked all along the beach, we explored rock pools, wrote our names in the sand and even explored some fabulous caves.

Some of the caves were very deep with dark parts which u couldn't see without a torch or a flash on the camera and the others were very big and high but not very deep.

In one particular cave JR gave me a heart attack (as u can see below), he wasn't scared one bit he just climbed up the rock face and slid straight back down it lol.

Well that was our week in a nutshell, well all apart from Friday which was full of Halloween fun on the farm which I'll leave for another post, another day as we did so much.(read all about it here)