Llandudno Festival Of Transport

The Llandudno Festival of Transport is set on a hill on a farm overlooking the town. This show was quite big but well spaced out so we could look around at leisure. There was plenty to see and many stalls to browse around. From the vintage farm vehicles to vintage buses. There was lots to see for all enthusiasts scooters, motorbikes, tractors, classic cars, wagons and buses. We all really enjoyed wandering around. Below are some of the photographs we took during our trip.

Aaron & Callum Scuba Diving

Below are some of the fantastic photographs and video footage of the boys Scuba Diving.  

Larry`s Facelift

Bank Holiday weekend saw Larry receiving a facelift. Armed with polish Aaron and I set off outside to tackle a job that has taken me over 3 years to do ! Flat paintwork will never do. The bonnet was just so dull I never thought for a minute by the end of the afternoon we would have a mirror finish fit to see you face in. Larry`s paintwork came up well we scrubbed buffed and put alot of elbow grease into our work. The result made our day one clean old Landrover she says with a smile.

Llandudno Victorian Fayre

Bank Holiday Monday saw us heading to LLandudno for the Victorian Fair. On arrival the whole town was packed and cars in near enough grid lock. After quite a while we managed to get a parking space. Heading off we walked along the front of the promenade towards the peer. 

I have special memories of Llandudno from my childhood. As a youngster along with my family we used to catch the boat from Liverpool Pier Head. 

The boat which was one of the old Isle of Mann ferry's who then take us on a mini cruise along the River Mersey passed the shipwreck and out into the open Irish Sea heading to Llandudno. The boat would dock at the end of the pier once it reached the destination of the seaside town. Myself and my family mum, dad, aunts and uncles along with Nanie and Granddad it was a real family affair. I still remember the sea being choppy one day on the way back. My Nana was in the look trying to piddle, all we could hear from outside the cubicle was Nana`s little heels clip clopping to and from the loo to the door as the waves tossed the boat about. She was at this point along with all of us too busy laughing as she hovered above the toilet seat trying to have a wee. I am afraid most of our family see the funny side of things. Lets face it you have to sometimes in this life or you will go mad. Once the boat had docked we spent the afternoon wandering around Llandudno. I can also remember the rude funny postcards which used to be on display these entertained my Granddad for hours. Llandudno was a great place to spend those glorious sunny afternoons we had in the 1970`s.

Back to our tale. It for once was a lovely sunny day for a bank holiday. After reaching the pier we headed into the town as the fair was running parallel to the seafront road. The whole town centre was packed it was like sardines in a can. I can not say I overly enjoyed being pushed along pillar to post. We made the most of the day by looking in the shops long the way again these were just far to jam packed. It was time to leave far to stressful to stay any longer.  Below are some of the photographs  we took. 

Army Cadet Force The Cambrian Patrol

Aaron has trained over a number of weekends with the British Army. He has worked extremely hard , even training every night after school. He has trained by running around the lanes and across the fields with a large burgan on his back. He has also used webbing and had a weapon with him at times.

He has earned the nick name Forest Gump due to his non stop running. " Run Forest Run ".

THE CAMBRIAN is a big Army Cadet Patrol Operation. The cadets have to complete tasks as a section ( team ). The tasks the cadets have to do relate to the real life incidents an army soldier would find himself in.

These tasks include tackling mine fields, tending to badly injured casualties, some of which are shell shocked and hysterical.

Other tasks they have to complete are shooting targets mostly moving, completing grilling combat courses, cleaning kits and working out navigation tasks and working on their mapping skills. At times when mapping the section would have to memorise the route and destroy the evidence.

Aaron had a wonderful time and learnt so much over the weekends away. He came home the proud owner of a successful completion certificate and a gold medal.

THE CAMBRIAN TASK

Firstly Captain Mchugh ( yes Captain ) and his section had to patrol up.
Explosions were set off and his section came under fire from enemy forces.
The enemy fled has the group moved forward. They then had to negotiate a mine field to try to get to the casualties of the explosion attack.
The casualties had a number of injuries. Some were unconscious, some dead. One casualty was not breathing so CPR had to be done.
The worst was the female casualty with the supernal injury, burns to her face and a nasty cut to the leg. The injuries looked so realistic with metal sticking out of the wound.

There was lots of other different stands which the group had to tackle. The section marched over 40 K  which is approx 28 - 30 miles. 

The Cambrian was an excellent learning experience. Aaron came home very tired and very mucky. The gold medal Aaron came home with was defiantly well earned.