The Brickwall Hotel Sedlescombe

As this is my first ever entry that my background is of someone who has travelled the United Kingdom an awful lot and has travelled to a lot of Europe, Australia and New Zealand. I will have a lot more to contribute in the coming months, but that is it for now and I hope that I shall enjoy meeting many new people and share your thoughts and experiences.

this week i was caught crawling. obvioulsy i've been secretly manoevering around without them knowing - but today they spotted me. i enjoyed the oohs and ahhs and their obvious pride in my new-found talent was quite sweet - but they now watch me like hawks so i'm going to have to learn better stealth manoevres.

been out and about doing christmas shopping - don't know what the fuss is about- santa does the hard work and surely i can't be expected ...

... s house in Maidstone, with a mug of tea reflecting on an amazing 5 days. I have met old friends and lots of new ones. I have never laughed so much or been so impressed by the generosity of complete strangers...a big THANK YOU from us all.

Well I know it's a Friday night & I should be out celebrating but I think I might just have another cuppa & early night!

... believed me.

We now have all the accomodation for the trip sorted thanks to some generous family members and one of the cheapest Motel deals in the UK!

Today we got a call from the local newspaper, confirming that they will be running Colin's story next week and Colin's justgiving site reached over £1600 which is great. Well I better sign off for now as Jackie is trying to watch the "X Factor" and the Jam Doughnuts are calling me!

... reading ‘No Popery’ are displayed with pride. Later on in the evening, at one of the seven bonfire sites, a giant effigy of the Pope will be obliterated with explosives to the sound of cheers and laughs. The anti-Catholicism is entwined tightly with a sense of national pride and identity. At the war memorial the societies took it in turns to hold a remembrance service for those who fell in the World Wars. Giant placards of poppies, studded with fizzing fireworks, were held ...

... to fly business class again if that's what happens when the drinks are free. This time I was smart and pulled out my UK passport in Gatwick. Customs didn't even talk to me, they just swiped my passport and gave me the nod. I collected my luggage and dragged it to the meeting area, where Auntie Anne arrived shortly. It was only about 8:30am so I had a long day ahead of me having not slept since Friday night. I chatted with Anne and Gary and Carol ...

... and suddenly calls for me with a voice-of-someone-being-in-an-urgent-sit uation. I hurry down, to see that he cut is hand badly with a sharp cutter. We need to go to the hospital for stitches! We were quite surprised, we had not to pay anything!
Of course, we will not leave until Frank's hand is healed, since I am certainly not capable to handle the sailboat by myself.

... Now the waves are pushing us, we do not feel the wind (since we go as fast as it is), the tide is with us too, the big sail is wide open and we go almost 7 Kts. At 6 PM we are back in Dover!! 7 hrs to go and only 3 to come back!
Tomorrow we will climb up the hill to visit the Dover Castle, and I will have a swim in the sea. Brrrr :-)

... hauling us off the ground and releasing the glider when it reached 2000 ft. Thank god we were flying with an instructor. We picked Ed to go first as he seemed the most eager to get going. He had a smile stamped on his face all throughout the fitting of his parachute, whilst entering the aircraft, while fastening the seat belts. As a matter of fact, he was smiling all the way up until he was airborne and ...

... year on their travels through Africa. A few lines about Claire & Jamie... Not wanting to find ourselves stuck in the rut of working all our lives, with 40 approaching all too quickly and, spurred on even more after getting caught in the tsunami in Sri Lanka, we knew we had to take some drastic action. So, having both packed in our jobs in IT, rented out our house near Brighton, lent our 3 cats to friends and family (thanks to Lyndsey and Andy for looking after Bob ...