Skuds’ Sister’s Brother

There is still a week to go before the end, but I am going to assume nothing much will happen in that time - or should that be hope that nothing will happen (bearing in mind the terrorist fears in today’s Observer)?
It has been a mixed year really.
Music
As far as music is concerned, I […]

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I know this sort of behaviour is wrong and should not be condoned and all that, but isn’t there just a little part of everyone that hopes they are still capable of committing such an offence at the age of 95? Must be something in the water down there.
I wonder what the warning was…

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The end of the trip, and a continuation of the plan to exhaust the children.
After a much-needed Dorset cream tea at Studlands to help us recover from the damp of Kimmeridge Bay, we were going to go into Corfe Castle village to see the model village and let Charlie climb a few huge hills which […]

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We didn’t see any dolphins…

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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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Another holiday snap for the benefit of Kerron and his obsession with beavers.

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Or… another chance for me to inflict my holiday snaps on the world
Anyway, the original plan on Tuesday was for the kids to go swimming at Lulworth Cove afterwards, but the weather was a little miserable for that.
The revised plan was that Jayne would drop us off at Lulworth Cove and then go off […]

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On Tuesday we went back to Bovington tank museum. Again.  It was my 4th visit to the place this year.  Its ironic really as I am basically anti-war, but I do like the hardware and both the kids want to join up when they are old enough.
There were a couple of reasons why we went […]

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One last photo from Tyneham village.
I do hope that whoever put up the modern sign appreciated the irony of the juxtaposition.

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After all that rock-climbing and kite-flying on Portland we decided to visit Tyneham village. But first we had to find some shops so that Jayne could buy a fleece or jumper - somehow she forgot to pack one and it was getting quite nippy in the evenings.
On the way through Weymouth we had noticed a […]

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