Categories: to-be-categorised
Tags: Greenbelt, Guiding, Brownies, holidays, IVF, France, camping, marriage, Manchester, summer
Date: 11 September 2009 12:39:45
Thank you for all of your comments on the last couple of blogs, and yes, I'm taking your advice and having a lovely long relaxed summer. We managed to go to France with one wiblogger, and catch up with another one while we were there. It was a fantastic break, just all too short, so we're making plans for next year!
Unfortunately I managed to come back from the holiday having done something painful to my coccyx on the longest bumpy slide in France. It's mostly better now, but did involve sitting on a special cushion for a fortnight!
We celebrated our first decade of marriage in style with a nights stay at the most exclusive hotel we could find in the area, cost an arm and a leg, but worth it completely. We've agreed when we've made our 20th anniversary we'll go back for the weekend :)
We also had a great party the day after, although a word of advice - table confetti gets everywhere!
Then Greenbelt, where I caught up with some other wibloggers, far too briefly in many cases. I thoroughly enjoyed it this year, managed to avoid queueing excessively and in that way got to some of the more interesting, offbeat things. There are plenty of talks I missed, but that means that Greenbelt can last a little longer as I download the podcasts. We finally caved in to becoming Angels this year, something we've been wondering about for a while.
Last weekend I went to Manchester for the very first time to meet up with a few friends, it's actually a really lovely city, and I plan to go back again.
About half an hour after my train got in I went along to the Girlguiding Centenary Launch Party which was a great afternoon, it did involve supervising 15 of our Brownies in the new Leisure Centre swimming pool for nearly an hour, but everything went to plan, and we all really enjoyed it. My Brownie unit is now full with a waiting list, which makes it slightly exhausting at times, but great fun.
Tomorrow we're going to make the most of the sunshine and head out to the park with kites and spacehoppers and anything else that we can find. So the summer continues, and long may it do so!