I am pleased to announce that Mr B is back to normal, the final total Mr B and his two friends raised for Children in Need is not in yet but he thinks it will be somewhere around 1,300 pounds.
Happy Children in Need Day and good luck Mr B
Mr B has a confession, once a year (yes I can assure you it's ONLY once) he dresses up for Children in Need. This involves a 5.30am start to get ready, then he catches the train to Southampton, walks up and down the train collecting money, then proceeds to spend the rest of the day extracting money from whoever will give it to him
No place like home.
I'm back in body if not in spirit, well actually I'm not too sure about the body being back if I'm honest.Coming back from holiday is very abrupt I find, one minute you are on holiday the next minute boom, your into three weeks of dirty washing, sorting out mail, friends and relatives visiting with their news, (which is nice don't get me wrong).
Halloween in Stowe
Happy Halloween from Stowe Vermont USA
Cold Hollow Cider Mill
You just have to visit Cold Hollow Cider Mill near Stowe if you are in the area.There are three reasons for this: 1: They make amazing hot cider donuts, thats apple to all of you in the U.K
The old school house
Mount Mansfield 1,340 m above sea level.
Stowe Vermont USA
We arrived in the pretty little town of Stowe today, we thought maybe the mountains would have some snow on the tops of them, this is a popular ski area in the winter. Instead of that we have been walking about in 69 degrees!The man on reception did warn us that a weather front is coming in about tuesday, if it hits the warm air it could dump significant amounts of snow on this little town, we wait and see.
Good finds of the day and an 'oh my god' moment.
The sights today.
Bit of a rest day today, so much to see and do that sometimes you just have to sit back and have a bit of a catch up.We are at The Kedron Valley Inn in southern Vermont, which is famous for it's Budweiser Advert.
A kindred spirit in Vermont
Country Stores.
Nice things on our travels today.
Goodbye Meredith
Our last day in Meredith New Hampshire USA saw early mist but then turned into a beautiful warm day.The local heron was waiting for a trip on Clara the boat, an Otter was having a swim and its lunch on the Lake, sorry but a photograph of the Otter was tricky to catch, did manage to sneak one of the chipmunk having his breakfast though!
Canterbury Shaker Museum.
Today was once more like a summers day, so we set off for the Canterbury shaker Museum in Canterbury New Hampshire New England USA.The houses and paint colours are amazing, and the whole place exudes calm and tranquility, sadly no shakers live there now and only four shakers exist in Maine.
Part 2 of our boat trip on the lake.
O.K so I have sorted the photograph problem.Our boat trip was amazing yesterday and we were fortunate to have great sunshine and warm temperatures. This is Rusty McClear the owner of The Inns at Mill Fall's, we were very lucky to have hime take some time out of his busy day to show us around the lake in the beautiful boat Clara.
Boat ride on Lake Winnipesaukee
Beacon Hill Boston
The first two pictures are of the Back Bay Hotel in Boston that used to be the local police station, it is also home to some rather nice sculptures.Mr B was more than happy today shopping in the 'Life is Good' store in Newbury Street Boston, even on a saturday Newbury Street is a calm wide paved beautiful place to stroll along and take in all the sights.