so its the middle of August! Nearly a month of the school break gone..and nothing is quite frankly as pitiful as hearing your beloved man cry 'only two weeks till school starts!"…. A cry echoed by many a teacher i am sure….
and for what its worth..im NOT knocking the length of time they get off…this isnt really where i was going with this post so i wont get on the old soapie…but teachers do hours and hours and hours of unpaid overtime people….take that off the holiday that everyone thinks is so cushy and you might just find they get about the same holiday entitlement as the average…
although prolly not if you are reading this from America…where i think you might get about 3 or 4 days holiday a year!!!???
So anyway we camped this summer, first time for that..and being honest with you it is incredible what you can fit in a meagre 7 seater (6 seats of which are full of human). We packed all we could think of and a few things we couldn't and headed to New Wine, which is a church event run by lots of different churches in the Northeast.
They do a fabulous kids programme and our kids thrived in it…of course it is an impromtu camp site..as in its a bunch of portaloos and porta-shower type things on an agricultural showground……and so the washing/cleaning/personal hygiene thing sorta slipped slightly but…..hey….clearly God was not bothered by sand and grime otherwise he wouldn't have sent his people into the desert for such a long time…right?
So we grubbed along and when it got too much we toted the kids to a local swimming baths and let the chlorine do its job……
….you know im kidding….
…we showered them first….
…er…..didn't we?……
and so to some pictures, we actually didnt have too much bad weather…..although i did notice that what i thought were delightful 'out all summer' tan lines on my kids seemed to disappear a bit after they had a loooong bath once we returned home…
um……
yeah….
Maisie and the bear thingy that was in her group..i forget her/his name…..we had to go and have a picture taken with it. Maisie insisted..Isaac wanted nothing to do with it. I have no idea what the bear does…but it was the darkest corner of the their shed thing and i had no flash and so used an ISO of 6000!!!…holy orangeyglow batman!
that first morning look out the tent….weird things happen to the concept of time when you are under canvas. I think our awake time got longer…by about 9.30am on the first couple of days it felt like lunch time 'cos i'd been up so long.
yeah a happy little 'its light therefore it must be getting up time right' face…
yes…there was much face rubbing and scratching…i think just because of the stubble not the spiritual?
we were on such a small pitch for the amount of people there we thought it might just be possible to walk around then entire pitch staying undercover of canvas…new wine people…WE NEED MORE SPACE!
Although have to say it did give us some pretty impressive 'fly over the guy rope' moments *snigger*
as typepad is on a go slow this evening im going to post this and head to bed….part two tomorrow, hopefully but if you want to check out more pictures from the week..they are up on flickr….
Happy camping :)