holiday picspam the third

Another week is upon us - and it is Tuesday already. How did that happen?

I had a fab day on Saturday with welshdreamer, bagpuss1966, salsk and a bunch of other lovely people from nf.com, eight of us in total for a day spent in the park, down the bay and in the Lego shop! I did have to abandon the group for a short time, though - my cousin Stephen was over from Japan and in Cardiff for one day only, so we had a very impromptu family get-together in his honour (I counted 14 adults, one teenager and four under-5s, which is a fairly small gathering by our standards but still a pretty good crowd!). Then after hanging out with the fam for a while, I left them to it and dashed back across town to rejoin the group, who all came back to my place for an evening spent eating chocolate and crisps in front of classic episodes of Neighbours. Cue lots of ohhhhh and awwwww over characters long gone, and as for our exploration of the musical stylings of former cast members...I can't remember when I've laughed so much! Emily#1 left sometime after 11 and the guys headed back to their hotel at about 1am, which left Janet, Gaynor, Sal and Emily#2 for a mass sleepover at my house!

In less good news, my Aunty Lel is back in hospital after having a fall on Sunday morning - she's grazed her leg badly and they think she has pneumonia again, just when she was doing so well. She's hoping to be allowed to go home again today, but we'll see. And then this morning I heard that my cousin Gavin (the one who had a kidney transplant a couple of years ago after years of dialysis) had to have an emergency operation yesterday to remove the shunt from his arm - it has needed to be removed for a while, but he's been putting it off, but then yesterday it burst, which kind of forced the issue! If he does have complications with the transplant and ends up back on dialysis, they'll have to use the other arm.

Time for some more holiday piccies - final instalment.

( Margam Castle and Country Park )

( the beach at Weston-super-Mare )

So that's it: holidays over, and summer is now definitely over, as well - it has gone very autumnal this week!

holiday picspam the third

Another week is upon us - and it is Tuesday already. How did that happen?

I had a fab day on Saturday with welshdreamer, bagpuss1966, salsk and a bunch of other lovely people from nf.com, eight of us in total for a day spent in the park, down the bay and in the Lego shop! I did have to abandon the group for a short time, though - my cousin Stephen was over from Japan and in Cardiff for one day only, so we had a very impromptu family get-together in his honour (I counted 14 adults, one teenager and four under-5s, which is a fairly small gathering by our standards but still a pretty good crowd!). Then after hanging out with the fam for a while, I left them to it and dashed back across town to rejoin the group, who all came back to my place for an evening spent eating chocolate and crisps in front of classic episodes of Neighbours. Cue lots of ohhhhh and awwwww over characters long gone, and as for our exploration of the musical stylings of former cast members...I can't remember when I've laughed so much! Emily#1 left sometime after 11 and the guys headed back to their hotel at about 1am, which left Janet, Gaynor, Sal and Emily#2 for a mass sleepover at my house!

In less good news, my Aunty Lel is back in hospital after having a fall on Sunday morning - she's grazed her leg badly and they think she has pneumonia again, just when she was doing so well. She's hoping to be allowed to go home again today, but we'll see. And then this morning I heard that my cousin Gavin (the one who had a kidney transplant a couple of years ago after years of dialysis) had to have an emergency operation yesterday to remove the shunt from his arm - it has needed to be removed for a while, but he's been putting it off, but then yesterday it burst, which kind of forced the issue! If he does have complications with the transplant and ends up back on dialysis, they'll have to use the other arm.

Time for some more holiday piccies - final instalment.

( Margam Castle and Country Park )

( the beach at Weston-super-Mare )

So that's it: holidays over, and summer is now definitely over, as well - it has gone very autumnal this week!