Had a really nice time in Edinburgh, doing things I remember from when I was little and other stuff too! Had a really tasty key lime pie ice cream and the compulsory mainland Starbucks frapachino The iceberg inside Dynamic Earth(we went for revision purposes, was pretty interesting) We went to a 3D thing about Biomes [Continue]

From Greenbelt we made our way to Darlington for an overnight stop with Liese and Nath (sleeping inside a house, very strange) then on to Edinburgh.  Brian performed very well, though he doesn’t really like to combine hills and speed.  We did see the dizzy heights of 71 mph for a brief time, but cruising [Continue]

I had a lovely time at Greenbelt this year, seeing  loads of music, Rob Bell, a few movies, Last Orders, did some babysitting, went to a church service and just generally had a great time with some wonderful people Gungor, who we saw twice and were fantastic, sound kinda like a Christian Muse with a [Continue]

Sunday was my favourite day at Greenbelt.  The Rebekah was having Jonathan for a chunk of the afternoon.  She and Jamie could see a film and then get very cheap hot chocolate and cake from the kids area if they had a small child with them which seemed to provide enough of an incentive to [Continue]

The second part of Greenbelt was almost as good as the first, though nothing topped Show of Hands’ fantastic performance on the first night. We got into the performance cafe well before Beth Rowley’s set as we had been introduced to her stunning voice at a previous Greenbelt (on mainstage that time) and knew she [Continue]

The plan was to go to Greenbelt every 2 years, but this year’s line-up was just too tempting, so we tacked on a long weekend at Cheltenham Racecourse to our grand tour of Scotland.  I’m blogging on Sunday afternoon, so there may yet be another post.  It’s been a great weekend so far.  The rain [Continue]

Much preparation has been going on for the big trip.  The back end of the van has been reconfigured to give a table and side facing seats.  The table folds down to fill in the gap between the seats to form a large double bed.  Water and gas bottles have moved under the seats.  It’s [Continue]

We recently took Brian on his first camping trip with us.  Ruth wanted to go to Brighton and do seaside type things (because living on the Isle of Wight we have no access to beaches piers, ice-creams and kiss-me-quick hats of course) and we wanted a short jaunt to acquaint ourselves with our new home-from-home.  Brian performed admirably, [Continue]