Travelling around Kent.

Today i have added one of a very few pictures of my Grandad Tom as a boy,
he is travelling with his parents and brothers and sisters and cousins in their wooden caravan,My Grandad Tom was a Romany Gypsy,he is wearing the dark waistcoat, next to the boy in the white shirt.
He always wore one of those caps and handkerchiefs tied round his neck.
He told me hundreds of stories from his time as boy travelling round Kent ,fruit picking, hop picking and all the different things they did to get by,they had a hard but good life.

Orange ones today

Today i made a some orange roses they turned out ok.

Long Ago Roses

Today i am going to make some roses , because I'm feeling nostalgic,

I have always loved roses ever since i was a little girl, i remember my grandparents garden all kinds of roses rambling over the fences and a big climbing rose that always seemed to be in flower.
I remember a big old apple tree that my Grandad made me a swing on.
He used some old rope and a plank of wood.
I remember standing in his shed watching him make holes in the plank and then tie the rope into a knot underneath we walked out to the tree and he used a rickety ladder to climb and tie the rope on to a high branch, i must have spent hours and hours on that swing , happy memories of long ago....

I.ll make yellow roses and think of my lovely Grandad Tom ,who was a wonderful person and a very special man, i miss him so much.....

Pretty Paper Roses.