Lakin Farm

Today the weather was fine and sunny, so Ruth decided we should go for a walk on the beach at Blackwaterfoot.

I took my camera along and took a lot of snaps of the family and the beautiful scenery.

Abby talked non stop the whole time to Ruth, and John Luke and I discussed plots for films we would like to see. These mostly involved robots, soldiers and the like.

We decided that most films made in Hollywood were pretty poor considering the vast budgets they have.

Then out of the blue John Luke decided to reveal to us, and the wider world, his true identity …. Jet Boy. He stood on a rock, raised one arm into the air and took off with a mighty woosh.

I managed to take this picture of him just as he set off.

Well what actually happened was, I asked John Luke to jump off a rock and he said he would try to do it like Superman.

I think he did pretty well.

A larger version of this image can be found on my Photographs page.

UPDATE

It seems that both our kids have flying super powers. Whilst sorting through photographs of our recent trip to Cambridge, I found this image of Abby secretly practicing her flying skills.

For some reason, possibly due to the arrival of autumn, one of our chickens is laying little eggs.

We now have a chicken that lays over sized eggs and another that lays mini eggs.

This picture shows the two differently sized eggs with a normal (shop bought) egg in the middle.

John Luke and his friend Cailan were on the telly today.

They were on the Cbeebies program, the Green Balloon Club. The clip showed them handling a buzzard and asking the birds handler some questions.

Fame has gone to their heads already, Cailan is charging £2 for an autograph and John Luke is waiting by the phone for the film offers to come rolling in.

I made a DVD of the program and the picture above is the cheesy cover image.

Abigail keeps asking Ruth, John Luke and I how old we are.

She thinks forty six (my age) is very old, and tells us that she is “Threety forty years old”. Not just three.

Not only is she creative with numbers, but spelling as well.

We are trying to explain spelling phonetically e.g. buh-ih-ruh-duh for bird. But whichever word we are spelling she corrects us by saying “No your saying it all wrong, it’s got a Tuh in it”.

It doesn’t matter what the word is, it always has a ‘Tuh’ in it. John Luke thinks it’s very funny.

A couple of months ago John Luke took part in a CBeebies program called The Green Balloon club.

He really enjoyed the filming process and says he could do it as a career, given the chance. The only bad thing was “Having to do things over and over again”.

The Green Balloon Club team went around Arran filming lots of kids and places of interest. John Luke and a friend from school got to visit a bird of prey centre and handle a buzzard.

When Ruth went to pick John Luke up from filming she took Abby along. The film crew invited Abby to join in the closing scene where the kids wave to an imaginary balloon in the sky. She ended up getting about half a second of screen time in the final edit. We were all excited to see her on the telly.

There are five Arran episodes in all. The fourth episode with John Luke in will be broadcast on the 21st of August at 7:30am.