Thank you Ma'am

The weather wouldn't cooperate this week, but it would have been hard not to be a Royalist wouldn't it?...think we all appreciated the extra bank holiday too...who knows, it may have been a canny plan to kickstart this ailing economy of ours!! The roads certainly suggested there was one or two of us 'stay-cationing'.

So we've just returned from a week away in 'Whe-yelles'...with no phone or internet connection what.so.ever...a whole week without it...in fact it is only today on returning to England that my mobile signal returned!  We, being thirteen, stayed in what can only be described as a handsome country residence, surrounded by 100 acres of woodland. A stunning, picturesque property set in a steep sided valley that reminded me very much of the Langdale Valley here in the Lakes. From a sea of snapshots capturing all manner of combinations of family members at the beach, eating a burger, playing volleyball, there are one or two that I hoped would show the slightly humourous incongruity of contemporary, informal living within the ostentatious and somewhat grandiose surroundings that became our home for the week.

Ps. Feedback from assignment one has arrived while I have been away. I've quickly scanned through it...and I'm not ready to talk about it yet. Read in to that what you will!!