Life!

17 - 24th August 2018 Butlin's Bognor Regis Two 2-bedroomed "Seaside" apartments John, Carolyn, Me, Lorraine, Amanda, Leanne, Ollie, Bethany, Harrison, Aidan Photos I drove down to Bognor in the morning and arrived about 1 pm.  I got myself a sandwich and a coffee in the pavilion (and watched the Teletubbies show!) and then I walked to the station to meet the train with John, Carolyn, Leanne, Ollie and Aidan on board.  They weren't expecting me - and it was such a nice surprise we decided to go and meet the later train with the Majorca contingent on board. Waiting at the station for the train We had a lovely week doing all the usual things - it was nice for us all to be together again and spend some time together.  I tried to keep my step total up each day - and found pushing a pram to put either Aidan or Harrison (or both!) to sleep was a useful way of doing this.  I also walked into Bognor almost every day!  I also spent a lot of time at the soft p

Wednesday 8th August with Jayne, Mike and Suki Photos We arrived nice and early and easily got a parking space on the cricket field.   First we took Suki for a walk on The Byes- which was a parkland walk along by the River Sid which Jayne knew about from early family holidays.  We didn't have time to explore all of it and it would definitely be worth a return visit for a proper walk sometime - particularly over on the Salcombe side. Typically the weather changed during the day - from this to this! Notwithstanding getting soaked sitting in the car park of The Anchor in the afternoon, we had a really good day out.  We sat in the gardens and listened to the acts while we had a humus salad lunch from one of the stalls, and we watched lots of morris dancing, before heading off to The Anchor.  We were struck by how much smaller the festival seemed than in previous years, and the pubs didn't seem to be heaving with people in quite the same way. Suki got a bit fed up

28th July - 4th August 2018 Photos     Itinerary Mike was based with Rovers at the YHA in Leominster , while Suki and I stayed in a cottage a few minutes drive away -  The Owl Barn  near Kimbolton. Just a few days after the Barnes Summer Trip we were off on the Roving Ringers week.  At the last minute it seemed that no-one was going to be organising the catering, so I ended up taking this on - with the help of a suggested menu and shopping list from Becky, who would be providing the meat.  I cooked a vegetable pasta sauce for the first night, and then did a huge online Sainsbury order to be delivered direct to the hostel on the Saturday night.  This worked extremely well - and it was certainly much more pleasant to sit in the garden on my computer than pushing two trolleys around a supermarket and then packing/unpacking the car.  It was just as well we did it like that as there wasn't much room in the car for shopping once we had got all our stuff and the handbike and