Black Boxes, Puppets and Iced Coffee

In between various showers we managed to get some photos taken for the Black Boxes Competition on Caroline Smailes blog. My two kids are puppet crazy so it seemed fitting to start with these!

Clyde!

Connor with Dec

Dec

Family photo!

We have a puppet ministry at our church and Connor has just started performing with the team, so we are constantly surrounded by puppets!

Had a great day today, went pottery painting with the kids and had a lovely time - followed by an iced coffee in a fav local cafe. The iced coffee is a special favourite of mine as it contains cream and ice cream...totally GI friendly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Keen to try and write up some of the work I did on holiday and formulate it into chapters as it was one long piece of narrative that needs structuring.

Also now got to cook hubby food and evict broody chicken from the nest again to make sure she eats...such a shame we have no cockerel so the eggs she is sitting on will never hatch...we know this but clearly she remains unconvinced, even when we remove them each day. Hopefully better weather awaits tomorrow for a trip out, otherwise I might just have to go and see Mamma Mia again, just for the scenery and the sunshine!!

Camping, Rain and Landlubbers Ahoy!!

Apologies for lack of posting but I have been under canvas for the past week, allegedly on holiday!! I really like our tent and enjoy camping and for the first two days of our week in Looe it was hot and sunny, we went to the beach and jumped waves and rockpooled, then it rained and rained and rained and...rained some more. then it got windy, and more windy and more windy! On Tuesday night A and I lay there wondering if we would even have a tent over our heads in the morning it was blowing such a hooley!! We were camping only 20 miles from home as every August we are involved with our church's annual bible week and I have been involved with kid's work for the past five years. This year it was pirate themed so every morning I left our campsite dutifully decked out in skull and crossbones bandana, sash, red and black stripy socks with skull and crossbones motif on and face painted beard in place...what the other campers thought I have no idea!

Despite the truly lousy weather we had a great time with the kids, ending in a cannon fight with water bombs in pouring rain...a quality youth camp is really only measured by how wet you get and how little sleep you get too! On both accounts we did well I think.

One great evening, A had to lead an evening service so once C and H were asleep I was able to write till I could no longer see by the camping light, I wrote at least one chapter and a bit in an hour and a half. It is such a good feeling when I get an opportunity and can write on a roll. I read it to my kids who turned out not to be asleep and were restless. I was edified that they wanted me to write more and asked me every night for the rest of the holiday if I had written any more of the story about the girls in the mine.

Nice to be home and appreciate the every day wonders of soft seats, sprung mattresses and dry towels! Still it was worth it and will look forward to next year...Avast me hearties! Arrrrhhh!!