Adventures

We've just got back from a couple of days camping at a rather lovely campsite in Sussex. The great thing about this place is that the farmer is happy for you to light proper fires, and even provides firewood. In fact he is a jolly nice chap, happy to sit for a few minutes by the fire with a beer and tell a few stories, offer local advice etc. The kids ran amok, with very little parental supervision and got covered in filth, cow shit, soot and sausage fat. They swam in a lake, climbed trees, chased pea-hens, toasted marshmallows, poked sticks in fires, got stung and prickled and ran through wheat fields. About 9 of them got to sit in the front and drive my taxi around the campsite... - all in all they had a brilliant time. Before leaving, we visited Pooh Corner, which is a bit of wilderness popularised by a chap called A. A. Milne.

Oh one other thing, there's a cider shop next door.

Wallpaper

Remember that advert for IKEA a few years ago? The one with a bunch of housewives singing "Chuck out your Chintz" whilst throwing floral duvet covers out of their two bedroom semi's? Well we are doing the exact opposite, and buying the stuff in as fast as we can. Hooray for Chintz. Long live Chintz. Viva la Chintziness. Well, for the time being anyway.

School Photos

The other day I put an old school photo up on this blog, and strangely, just a few days later, I heard that they were doing school photos at Ellies school. I was expecting a class photo as per usual, but for some reason they don't do those anymore. The school photographer just does individual portraits, no class photos whatsoever. Well of course I complained, I mean, who wants a portrait of their own kids... most of us have plenty anyway. No, what you want is a proper class photo, so that in years to come you can look at all your classmates and take the piss out of their haircuts. Anyway, the longshot of all this is that I was 'volunteered' into taking a photo of the class myself. Actually, quite a terrifying business. Especially if you are not a photographer, just a bloke with a camera. What came out was a bit out of focus, with strange lighting and a funny colour cast, but otherwise ok.

Its arrived...

And they knocked £400 off in the sale... Hurrah!