Martin had been saying for a couple of weeks that he needed a holiday so at the end of November I decided that even though we didn’t have time to have an actual holiday we could manage a night away. We could do the Saturday night, we have no duties at church the next morning, there were no kids [Continue]
We recently took Brian on his first camping trip with us. Ruth wanted to go to Brighton and do seaside type things (because living on the Isle of Wight we have no access to beaches piers, ice-creams and kiss-me-quick hats of course) and we wanted a short jaunt to acquaint ourselves with our new home-from-home. Brian performed admirably, [Continue]
I haven’t posted any thing about our October boat trip – there was really far too much and so I didn’t get round to posting anything but while I was thinking about food for my last blog post I thought I’d post some of our foodie pics from our trip. A stack of pancakes with home-made apple [Continue]
We’ve just returned from out 5th Camping trip this year! This is possibly a little excessive and Ruth will be doing a further 2 camps with expedition club. I don’t even like camping! We started with church camp, then Corfe, then Parkhurst then Greenbelt and finally Appuldurcombe. The campsite at Appuldurcombe has a number [Continue]
Rebekah, Rebekah, Toby, Anna and Caleb decided to join the youth scratch choir. They had three rehearsals and then performed on the mainstage. Toby even did the male solo in Oh Happy Day. So this seems to be another Greenbelt tradition, selling off the Divine chocolate very very cheaply – it’s not all ours honestly! I made [Continue]
This years Greenbelt gave us the experience of camping in the coldest weather we have ever experienced. The temperature went down to 0 on Saturday night, Nerissa woke up on Sunday morning to ice on the tent. I think I slept for about 2 hours in total and don’t think I have ever felt so [Continue]
Jonathan was at the kids activities, the girls were off terrorising the rest of the camp-site with their friends there was finally time for martin and I to catch our breath and look at the program. We did this in the essential to visit venue. Now at the Isle of Wight Festival that would be the Solace Tent at [Continue]
It’s been a busy year thus far. Fortunately we booked ourselves a holiday in May. I had the bright idea of hiring a boat for the week. The family thought I was bonkers, as the last time we tried this we sunk he boat (I use the term “we” slightly loosely, but moving on…) but it was very [Continue]
On our recent holiday to the Broads we arrived at the boatyard two hours early, so thought we would pootle off somewhere for a couple of hours, have some lunch and then return. We ended up at the Hickling Broad Nature reserve where we bought some books but decided against going in as it was [Continue]
Rebekah had her RS exams just over a week ago. We went to Oxford so she could take an O level. She sat it at the lovely Montessori school set in the grounds of an old farm. She was the only one there and her main distraction must have been the peacock looking through the glass door [Continue]
