September 2nd

Well that's been a long break between posts - School holidays are very disrupting.

At the beginning of the holday Dave found out he'd got the job he'd applied for - fab - but a bit of a double edged sword as it meant he couldn't come on holiday with us to South Wales

Haven't done much this holiday, the beginning of it we didn't know about his job so we were careful.  Took the kids to see the Lorax which was good.

My Studio was finished (sort of) at the beginning of the hols but due to kids being home I have hardly been able to get down there to do anything.  When I have got there I'm still tweeking where things go and trying to get things labelled.

Drove down to South Wales with the kids and Dave joined us after work for the first weekend, he went back on the Sunday ready for work on Monday.  We drove down the Porthcawl and spent some time on the beach and had lunch in our favourite Ice cream shop.

 

 

 

On the Saturday I hurt my thumb and ended up in A&E on the Sunday morning where I was told I had Tendonitis and ended up with my left arm in a sling, I also have it in my right shoulder but can't put that in a sling too or I'll look ridiculous.  I then had three days where I had to totally rest my arm so no crafts (I took my knitting and hand quilting with me) and no cooking, so had to eat out for lunch and dinner every day.  It was really frustrating.  Spent the time talking and walking over to Porthcawl.

By the Thursday I managed to drive and took the kids to the Chocolate Farm - yum.  We had a really good day but the Sat Nav was playing up and we only just got there before the charge ran out.  Managed to fix it for the way back so we didn't get lost.

 

 

Mike was picked by Lawrence the demonstrator to show how quickly the chocolate sets in the moulds, lucky it worked.

We had the most amazing thunderstorm on the Friday which was also our 15th wedding anniversary.  Dave drove down and got to us just before 8pm

Mike collected big jewels through the holiday and ended up with quite a collection by the end of the week.

We spent about an hour per day in the arcades and collected the tokens and saved enough to have a Welsh mug by the end of the holiday - only cost about £25.  I also managed to get a Talking Tom toy from the grabby machine - much to the annoyance of all the kids around us - it's the must have toy and there was only one in the machine.  We had a bit of fun photographing it around the site.