Showing posts with label Surrey. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Surrey. Show all posts

22.8.12

Where?

I've (almost) finished decorating my room! A few posts back I was explaining my colour choices - I've gone for a pale yellow, well 'Orchid White' - and on Pinterest I've been constantly pinning my interior inspiration. What to put up on the wall above my bed has been the most recent quandary, but I'm pretty stuck on a map. I love maps. My great aunt Joan used to go on a lot of walking holidays so we have inherited her collection of maps. The front covers, let alone the maps themselves, are beautiful. After a good old rummage I have found the one for me. It's has basically fallen apart from much use, but it's of my home county, Surrey, and it will soon have pride of place on my wall.

8.8.12

Polesden Lacey

On Monday we visited Polesden Lacey and met up with family. It's a National Trust property, where the Queen Mother had her honeymoon no less, and I have visited it since I was a little girl with my grandparents. We explored the gardens and found the colourful hens and cartwheeled over the grass (no me!)

3.8.12

London 2012

One week has passed since that magnificent opening ceremony at the Olympic stadium in Stratford - what a display of British eccentricity! Since then we have been attached to our TV screens, Olympic apps and even been out to watch. Last Saturday we went out to Kingston to watch the men's road race pass by and today we went along to BT London Live at Hyde Park and watched the track cycling, and at both the atmosphere was fantastic. Team GB brought in two golds and we also saw the women's team pursuit (with Jo Rowsell, who was in my class at school) smash the world record. Roll on the final tomorrow - GO TEAM GB!

21.12.11

Home Lands

 
I'm back at home for Christmas. As much as I enjoy being in Manchester, it's so good to be back on familiar territory. I did some searching on Digimap recently and found some old historic maps of the estate where I live here in Surrey. From top to bottom, 1860s, 1930s and 1950s, you can see how the land has been developed and our house pop up during the 30s!
Images from Digimap