Hello!!

Today I received my holiday tickets, always a reason to rejoice and start to think that the holidays are getting closer and two weeks off is just around the corner, phew!! We have travelled with Canvas Holidays for the past 25 years and every year they send the tickets in a 'nice' document wallet, usually blue and orange in colour with a pen, GB sticker, maps, tickets etc. Some years they have been radical and have changed the colour, one year it was grey, and one year it was an awful clear plastic job which cracked and was plain cheap. Well this year they have moved away from wallets and have sent a whopping big shopping bag 'thingy'. The bag will be fine for the beach but its too big to store tickets safely. I will have to dig out one of my 15 or so previous wallets!! Getting excited now!!!!

While we are on holiday we are having a new bathroom fitted, I am so pleased that its happening while we are away, hopefully it will be beautiful by the time we come home and I won't have to live through it all.

Tonight I have been busy helping Carl prepare for Cub and Scout camp starting on Friday. He has decided to have a jungle theme and re enact 'I'm a Celebrity' . So I have spent time laminating leaf shapes, making score boards, badges, stars etc. I hope the weather stays fine for them they deserve a break!!

I love to read but this week I have started on a set of books by Charlie Owen all about policing in the 70's, its just like Ashes to Ashes and its based on a local town, its one of those books where I have found myself laughing out loud, people must think I'm a head case. I can't wait to read the next two books.

Tower of London.

Today Beth was on day Three of activities week, a trip to look around the Tower of London and a trip on the river Thames. It was another hum dinger of a day with the temperatures in the 30's again. So off she went armed with loads of drinks and bottle of ice. It seems some of her friends weren't so well prepared so she sold some of her drinks to them!!!!
Last night she decided that she wanted to take a camera with her, I discovered my very first ever digital camera, a Fuji fine pix 1300. The original point and shoot, low resolution and no zoom (Beth text me to ask where the zoom button was!!) It was perfect for a school trip and Beth made the most of it and took 200 shots! (mainly of her friends and the back of strangers heads, she'll learn!)Here are a couple of her better ones, I hope she takes up photography,


These poor guys must have been at melting point.

Beth looks exhausted in this photo.