Friday 15th finally arrived and Tom & Lily started their school holidays so I packed them into the car and we started our holiday. I drove until around 8pm and then we pulled into services and booked into a hotel for the night. Saturday so us complete the first part of our journey as we arrived in Bournemouth around lunchtime to catch up with John. I haven't seen my brother for 3 years so it was good to catch up with him. We also got the chance to see Gary & Jack in Bournemouth for a quick catch up as they were playing a gig in one of the pubs in town. On Sunday we spent the day with John, Conor & Nathan which was great fun. The children all got on well even after not having seen each other for 3 years.
After dropping the boys off home and having a very quick catch up with Lisa it was back to our hotel for bed before setting off on to the camping part of our holiday. Yes, you heard right, Tom, Lily and I were going camping...in October...in England! Alabama it was definitely not and our holiday coincided with an unfortunate cold snap and by god it was cold.
Thankfully my parents arrived on Tuesday afternoon with extra blankets and firewood (having been forewarned by me in the morning about how cold it was). The worst part was in the morning before we got the stove warmed up and blazing away. Apart from that we all had a fine time and went for nice walks in and around Church Stretton and Ludlow, including Ludlow Castle.
A scenic view from atop Ludlow Castle.
Tom and I braved the cold and had a shower, this is me pulling a barrel filled with toasty hot water back to our little camp where I hooked it up to a hosepipe and pump system and stood under a tin bucket with holes in it.
All great fun, but perhaps better in warmer weather. It was back in the car on Friday to drive home. At our first stop it felt like such a luxury washing my hands in warm water. We got home around 4pm and found Nick at home with the heating on and the fire roaring in the fireplace, food in the fridge and no laundry to catch up with. It was a lovely surprise as I hadn't realised Nick had organised to take the Friday off work and I had been preparing myself to come back to a bit of a bachelor pad. 3 loads of our dirty laundry later and I am all caught up with our clothes too.
After dropping the boys off home and having a very quick catch up with Lisa it was back to our hotel for bed before setting off on to the camping part of our holiday. Yes, you heard right, Tom, Lily and I were going camping...in October...in England! Alabama it was definitely not and our holiday coincided with an unfortunate cold snap and by god it was cold.
Thankfully my parents arrived on Tuesday afternoon with extra blankets and firewood (having been forewarned by me in the morning about how cold it was). The worst part was in the morning before we got the stove warmed up and blazing away. Apart from that we all had a fine time and went for nice walks in and around Church Stretton and Ludlow, including Ludlow Castle.
A scenic view from atop Ludlow Castle.
Tom and I braved the cold and had a shower, this is me pulling a barrel filled with toasty hot water back to our little camp where I hooked it up to a hosepipe and pump system and stood under a tin bucket with holes in it. 
All great fun, but perhaps better in warmer weather. It was back in the car on Friday to drive home. At our first stop it felt like such a luxury washing my hands in warm water. We got home around 4pm and found Nick at home with the heating on and the fire roaring in the fireplace, food in the fridge and no laundry to catch up with. It was a lovely surprise as I hadn't realised Nick had organised to take the Friday off work and I had been preparing myself to come back to a bit of a bachelor pad. 3 loads of our dirty laundry later and I am all caught up with our clothes too.
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