The countdown begins

Well it's only 6 days until our holiday and we are all getting very excited !! I have 17 days left of being in my 30's until I venture onto the dark side.

This week has been quite a busy one - Malc has been away in the depths of North Wales on business. As per usual it was an eventful trip!

He arrived at the hotel which was situated along the beach front with his work colleague. They parked the car and carried in their bags. Malc thought that the building looked slightly different from when he had stayed there before as the hotel sign was not clearly visible.

As they made their way into the lobby area there was no one at the reception desk so they wandered around the corridor and up some stairs looking for a staff member to book them in. They thought it strange that there was no one there - but the lay out also seemed to have changed from last year - new decoration perhaps??

No , apparently the "duo" had decided to brazenly walk into a residential care home for old folk - having mistaken it for their hotel - which was further down the street !! They had to make a quick retreat !

Sam & Georgina have been attending a weeks drama summer school and were in a version of "The Wiz" - I must say that it as absolutely brilliant ! Sam played the Tin Man and Georgina seemed to have a variety of different parts with quick changes- they really enjoyed it and so did we.

Our good friends Liz and Tom along with Carl and Beth came over for a pre holiday meet and lunch on Sunday - it was lovely to see them again and made us look forward to our holiday even more.

On Monday Sam's friend came over for the day and the rest of the week has been a mixture of household chores, shopping, trips to the library, the glaze box so that the kids could decorate more plates (!) and also the buying of Malc's permanent blond hair dye in order to turn him into Dolph lungren or something similar!!

He had decided - for a laugh - and before all his hair finally drops out that he wanted to dye his hair ( he was never allowed to do so as a youth and seems to be having his mid life crisis now!). We had intended to do it on holiday but as he needs to have a 48 hour skin test before hand to avoid turning into the human peroxide prince - Tuesday is going to be the day. He said that this will allow him the day to seek medical help should he need it before we set sail on Thursday !!!

Liz and I have said that Tom needs a couple of blond bits too - may have to get another pack of dye to take with us.

I have advised Malc that this is permanent dye and will have to grow out, be re dyed or shaved off - but he seems completely unfazed by this - what the hell will the neighbours think !!! And work !!!

Georgina - the Queen of questions at tea time still has the unanswered question of " Who was God's father ?" This has been ongoing since last week until Malc finally announced that it was " Arthur Negus"

Arthur Negus used to be a very old presenter on the "Antiques Road show" on the BBC in the early 80's !!!

But Georgina seemed completely happy with this answer so peace at last at tea time - until last night when she announced that she had decided to check Daddy's answer with Canon Eddie at Church on Sunday!!!!!!!!!!!!