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I don’t want a holiday in the sun

June 1st, 2008 · 1 Comment · Life

Its always a pleasure to use an old Sex Pistols lyric for a title… anyway, the Skuds family recently returned from a short camping holiday in West Yorkshire, and one thing you can say for certain is that it was no holiday in the sun. We were up there for the half-term break, and travelled […]

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End of the holidays

April 20th, 2008 · Comments Off on End of the holidays · Life

The school holidays are over now, not that it makes much difference to me because I don’t work in a school, but the rest of the house have been off for two weeks.  Last week they all went off camping, leaving me to my own devices for a while.  I had a couple of evenings […]

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Isle of Wight highlights

August 1st, 2007 · Comments Off on Isle of Wight highlights · Life

The weather was a bit poor, but our week under canvas still had plenty of highlights. For a start there was the campsite itself. The showers and toilets were quite civilised and there was even a bath. We only have a shower at home so I enjoyed the novelty of lounging in a bath one […]

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Holidays

July 31st, 2007 · 2 Comments · Life

The reason for the total lack of activity here (apart from Richard and Danivon bashing their heads together in the comments) is that I have been away on holiday. In a fit of misplaced optimism about the weather prospects we booked a week camping on the Isle of Wight and just got back yesterday. We […]

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Under Canvas

June 8th, 2007 · Comments Off on Under Canvas · Life

Jayne is away with the kids and her sister and her sister’s family. All together there are 3 adults, 5 teens, 3 children and a baby. Camping. I declined on the grounds that thirteen is an unlucky number and I don’t do screaming babies in fields, and felt vindicated in my decision when we woke […]

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What I did on my holidays – Wednesday morning

August 26th, 2006 · 2 Comments · Life

Wednesday morning I was woken by torrential rain. Having no clock or watch in the sleeping part of the tent I got up and Jayne and I sat outside under the gazebo and had a coffee, wondering if it would ever stop raining. Then we dug out a watch and found out that it was […]

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What I did on my holidays…

August 26th, 2006 · 4 Comments · Life

Holidays were a bit weird this year. Instead of going away for a long time we went away for four days, then came back home for a week, then went away for another four days. The first time we went away, Chrystal did not come with us as she was on her two-week annual camp […]

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Dorset again

August 25th, 2006 · 1 Comment · Life

One reason I could not get to the B4L meet-up in London this evening was that we only returned from another trip to Dorset today. After spending 90 minutes wrestling 3 wet tents into the car along with all the other paraphernalia, 3 hours driving home, and then re-erecting the tents in the back garden […]

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Time Travel

August 14th, 2006 · 2 Comments · Life

There were times last week when it felt like my holiday destination was actually 1950 rather than Dorset, although to be fair there were some things which were more late 70s. This is not necessarily a bad thing. Don’t we all sometimes look fondly back to simpler times?

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Absence

August 10th, 2006 · Comments Off on Absence · Life

Eagle-eyed regular visitors, if there are any, will have noticed an absence of activity here recently. For a change this is not a result of idleness or ennui, but a result of me spending the last few nights in a tent in a field in Dorset. Camping is not my idea of a good time, […]

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