Holidays!

It's been a long time coming but finally school has closed for the summer and I am officially on holiday - lovely!

So this morning I went to France and bought some lovely cheeses, pate, wine, croissants, bread, apple tarts and olives.

Oh, alright, so I wasn't in France..... I was at the French market in Hungerford but I may as well have been.  The sun was shining, everyone was smiling and chatting in French, the smell of peaches was in the air and I was strolling up and down trying to encourage membership of the Hungerford Twinning Association - everyone was so friendly.

Then, because I have so much free time ahead of me, we called in on our friends to see their 9 German Shepherd pups before 8 of them go to new homes - they were absolutely adorable:

Earlier in the week we felt it was time to say goodbye to some visitors.  Every morning when I open the curtains I've been greeted by a load of wasps, so, a quick phone call to John Sage and literally an hour later he was up his ladder and sending them on their way.

 

I sent George up into the loft to get a picture of the nest but he said he couldn't find it.  He did say there was a man up there but not to worry because he was dead.  I wouldn't go up there - it's a scary place.

Then the local cubs visited on Thursday evening and had great fun grass-sledding down Lorne Hill.

I think I'd like to have a go!