Summer hols :: Sea and Sky

Sat 23rd August :: Day 1 :: Craster (looking out from the cottage) :: 6:24pm

Sun 24th August :: Day 2 :: Driftwood cottage (from bedroom window) :: 7:14am

Sun 24th August :: Day 2 :: Craster (view to Dunstanburgh Castle) :: 7:42am

Sun 24th August :: Day 2 :: Alnmouth beach (laid on back sunbathing) :: 3:03pm

Monday 25th August :: Day 3 :: Boulmer beach (shell-finders paradise) :: 2.38pm

 

Monday 25th August :: Day 3 :: Driftwood Cottage (rainbow) :: 5:24pm

 

Tuesday 26th August :: Day 4 :: Driftwood Cottage (sunrise from bedroom) :: 6:15am

 

Tuesday 26th August :: Day 4 :: Spittal beach (strolling on the prom) :: 3:06pm

 

Wednesday 27th August :: Day 5 :: Holy Island (walking to the cafe) :: 1:36pm

 

Wednesday 27th August :: Day 5 :: Craster (back from the pub) :: 7.34pm

 

Thursday 28th August :: Day 6 :: Rocks near Craster (cloud watching) :: 3:48pm

Friday 29th August :: Day 7 :: Driftwood Cottage (sunrise part 1) :: 5:21am

Friday 29th August :: Day 7 :: Driftwood Cottage (sunrise part 2) :: 5:33am

Friday 29th August :: Day 7 :: Driftwood Cottage (sunrise part 3) :: 5:41am

 

Friday 29th August :: Day 7 :: Driftwood Cottage (sunrise part 4) :: 6:10am

Friday 29th August :: Day 7 :: Driftwood Cottage (yacht) :: 6:30pm

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So. It has taken five looooooong posts (87 photographs) to tell you about my Summer hols, and I hope it has been ok for me to take up five days of your visits to the Attic doing this, that you didn't mind too much. I've had the most marvellous time remembering and writing and reviewing, it has been like having the holiday all over again.

And the truth of the matter is, that as much as I adore you visiting Attic24, and make no mistake I DO adore it, I pretty much write this blog to please myself. I love being a part of such a fabulous on-line community :: I know I said last week how much I am loving being a Blogger, and how much I enjoy your visits up to the Attic. Love that you come along with me and take pleasure from my words and pictures, take time to comment and give feedback. But amongst all this community and sharing and creating and commenting, Attic24 has become an important web-log of my family life. A way to record and remember how much love and fun there is under this roof, how much pleasure can be found in the day-to-day, how the little details that make up the whole deserve to be  remembered and appreciated.

I keep thinking about my own childhood and how little I can actually recall from those early years of my life. We have very few family photos. I consider "Childhood" to be such a humongously important part of ones life. I feel that as a Mother I have this huge, delicious, exciting, wonderful responsibility to help create a worthwhile childhood for my children, and by recording it, I can in later years present them with something priceless :: a window into their childhood years, a way to recall and remember not only themselves, but me too.

I so wish I had the same window into my own childhood, I would love to have an idea of myself at four years old, five years old, six years old. And an idea of my parents too, because I don't really feel I know them very well, if that makes sense. I would love to know what my Mum and Dad were like when I was young, how their lives took shape as parents and individuals, the ups and downs, the creativity, the things that made them tick back then.
It would be magical and precious beyond belief, don't you think?

Comments

[driftwood]

I love to come and visit your childrens childhoods!

and wow those skies are amazing - every photo we have from our trip to scotland has a grey sky...

[Yvonne]

Abbsolutely stunning photos especially the sunrise ones, it makes sense to get up early to see that view.
I decided to blog so my children would have something to look back on rather than just photos.
Yvonne

[Natalie]

Gorgeous photos as always Lucy - I have tagged you (6 quirky facts) but don't worry if you have already done it/don't want to do it! - Natalie x

[Forgjengelige ting]

I've looked through all your blog - almost - and it brings back so many good memories from our time in England, that I,m almost in tears!! The scenery, books, toys, narrowboats, activities, flowers, everything!!
Thank you for sharing! I would like to link your blog to mine. Is that ok?

[Rosepetaljam]

I totally agree re: the blogging thing. I use mine like an online recipe book cum set of happy memories about the food I have made, discovered and eaten.

Your little ones will have such fun reading the blog when they are older.

Love S x

[Joanna]

I know what you mean about your own childhood. I look at the old photos of my mum and dad and they looks happy and sooo cool. I was there in the photos but I don't remember any of it and I want to.

[Maddy]

Thank you for sharing your holiday, I loved it too.

I understand what you mean about recording your childrens early years. I think that's what first drew me to scrapbooking, I can record every detail for them to look back on. I have added CD's to their albums with music from that year too.

[Jen]

Lucy, you should TOTALLY frame, in a 4-picture matted frame, those 4 sunrise photos! BEAUTIFUL. It would look so cool.

[Lisa]

Hi Lucy.
Thanks for sharing all your holiday memories with us this week. The photos of the sunset from today's post are stunning.
I'm with you wholeheartedly about why it's important to record the day to day happenings of family life.
I'm lucky in that there are lots of photos of my family when we were younger, always someone around with a camera and I got my first one when I was 10 and have loved taking photos of everyone and everything ever since, you'd think I'd better better at it after 30 years practise!
Also my wonderful dad had a cine camera so we've got another way to relive those childhood memories. Unfortunately the next time we do watch them it'll be without dad there to enjoy them too.
Another reason I feel so strongly about recording as much as possible is that my two children are adopted and they have very little from their first few years so I want to preserve as much as our family life for them as I can.
Take care
Lisa x

[Alice C]

You have exactly the same rationale as me for blogging. The difference is that you have started ten years earlier in their lives. Keep writing Lucy - it is indeed a precious gift to them.

[Kali @ Poppy Lane]

It's been fun seeing your holiday snaps and hearing about your summer break.
Thanks for sharing.
I too wish I could have the opportunity to look back on those childhood years that have flashed by way too quickly and 'see' my parents for how they were back then.
Magical and precious beyond belief, indeed!!!
xo, Kali

[Helen]

Thank you Lucy, those photos, all of them, the whole weeks worth, have been just fabulous. And you are right about your blog really essentially being just for you and a memory box for your family. We that come by and peek through the window of your life and who you allow through the front door are visitors and very grateful ones too, but it is good for us to keep at the fore-front of our minds that we are doing this just for us because then we write what we want to, instead of playing to an audience which tends to become false and not who we really are or what we are about, what we believe. Thank you for sharing your holiday with us this week - God bless.

[Janet]

Hi Lucy
Thanks for delurking, great to hear from you and for the lovely comment that has made my day today. I sure will let you know more about the cross stitch kits as soon as they are available. Its lovely to hear positive comments about them.
I loved your seaside photos, its an area I don't know at all, but I have seen photos of the castle before and been mesmerised. Thanks for stopping by, hope to hear from you again.x

[eliane]

Well said! You have lucky children.

[Nicola]

Lucy, as always what gorgeous pictures you have posted. I particularly LOVE and I mean LOVE to the extent that I was nearly crying at the sunrise part 1! I think that it is inspiring what you are doing with the blog. The LP are so very lucky to have this and I'm sure in years to come will appreciate it so much. You give them such wonderfully fun filled days. Thank you for sharing your family life with us it is always a joy to read. Nicola xx