Rebekah, Rebekah, Toby, Anna and Caleb decided to join the youth scratch choir.  They had three rehearsals and then performed on the mainstage.  Toby even did the male solo in Oh Happy Day. So this seems to be another Greenbelt tradition, selling off the Divine chocolate very very cheaply – it’s not all ours honestly! I made [Continue]

This years Greenbelt gave us the experience of camping in the coldest weather we have ever experienced.  The temperature went down to 0 on Saturday night, Nerissa woke up on Sunday morning to ice on the tent.  I think I slept for about 2 hours in total and don’t think I have ever felt so [Continue]

Jonathan was at the kids activities, the girls were off terrorising the rest of the camp-site with their friends there was finally time for martin and I to catch our breath and look at the program.  We did this in the essential to visit venue.  Now at the Isle of Wight Festival that would be the Solace Tent [Continue]

So ridiculously early on Friday morning we set off to Greenbelt.  We were on the 6:30 Red Funnel from Cowes, joining with The Oustons and the Murphys.  I felt sorry for the barely awake passengers on the ferry who were hoping for a quiet peaceful crossing. We managed to meet up with everyone in our group [Continue]

As part of our no plans week the children decided they wanted to do some more cooking.  They decided to make a 3 course meal doing a course each. They started off in the morning – Rebekah made bread and Ruth started off the Banoffee pie. We thought we’d head out to the beach in the afternoon [Continue]

So since getting up at 6.30 I have had a rather productive day (apart from not being bothered to go out to Newport) So I got up and went on my paper round Got back back just after 7.00 Ate breakfast washed up (three times) Then made bread and coffee cake. The cake needed a cup to stop the layers sliding [Continue]

I’d had a couple of conversations with some friends about visiting some of our favourite secret beaches together.  The idea didn’t come to fruition but we did hear of a beach we hadn’t discovered before. Yesterday my sister paid us an impromptu visit.  This was largely so the two Jonathan’s could visit the tank museum [Continue]

So today was the first day with nothing in the diary.  We had seen in the Fizz booklet that there was a reasonably priced 1640s re-enactment at Northcourt Manor in Shorwell titled Ring of Steel and decided that we would give it a go today.  This was influenced partly by my tight side – they give free readmission for the rest [Continue]

This is what my diary for next week looks like: Ha, I’ve achieved it.  There is absolutely nothing, I repeat nothing in the diary for next week. It wasn’t without difficulties (I’ve had to turn down an invite to a party and convince the children that it will not be hell to have no plans) but there [Continue]

We’ve been meaning to walk in the evenings a bit more now that Martin has finished his ECDL teaching for the year and we have some more evenings free to us.  We had planned a walk this week but were feeling a bit like we couldn’t be bothered.  When we heard the Oyster Girls were going to [Continue]