CAMPING WEEKEND AND STAR STRUCK

Hiya

Well we decided to take the kids on a camping trip to Shropshire.......

We arrived, pitched the tent, cooked on the BBQ, then froze to death... it was bloody freezing, it is June, unbelieveably it felt like the middle of winter.

I wasn't going to moan though, even the dog was shivering. After a night squished by a snoring hubby, 3 knackered kids and a dog that sounded like a freight train, I felt like I had been dragged through a hedge backwards and looked like it.

The day brightened up though and was pleasently warm. The first England Match was on in the onsite pub. Full of larger louts and lunatics, I avoided it like the plague. Sitting with my friend we noticed a rather dishy man walk past and enter his motorhome next to us. We both looked at each other and said "God I know him from somewhere". Then it dawned on us, he was off the telly.

Well we were pathetic, trying to think who he was. It took us ages, we worked out that he had had an affair with KIM TATE on Emmerdale, but do you think we could work out his name. By this point he knew that we knew he was famous.

We even tried to bribe one of the kids into asking him if he had been in Emmerdale. Then from nowhere this drunk couple decided to pose with him and have their picture taken. God we looked like 12 year olds...... anyway it was him and then we were trying to think what else he had been in. Sad or what, when the hubby's came back from watching the footy... they said he had been in the pub next to them......and they knew who he was.

Anyway, he must have thought we were a right bunch of Chav's, there was us in our tents and him in a gorgeous motorhome..... that's what you get for being famous I suppose.

That was the highlight of my weekend anyway, because it decided to pee down then on Sunday, so we had fish and chips in the rain and went home.

Now I am left with hoards of washing and a car that looks like a skip on wheels.... kids have gone to school thank God the dog is comatised and I look like I have been in the ring with Mike Tyson, due to the fact that I had hayfever all weekend too.

Nevermind, we had a laugh and this is all that matters really............ can't wait for the next time.

Laurie x

MADE IT (JUST)

Well thank the Lord for that, all back at school today. That sounds terrible, but I couldn't wait for the three horrors to go to school.

All I have heard for a week is "I am bored", "it is so boring here", "there is nothing to do". I have through a few packets of paracetamol with the headaches they have caused me and don't mention the money they seem to think I grow on a tree.

And as usual they come home on the first day back with yet more money to pay out. I will be glad when they break up for the summer holidays and get the hell out of here!!

God, I am moaning again. I am counting the days now. I have tweeted like mad this week about my website at www.creativestores.co.uk. I am tweeted out. It is good for traffic though, so cannot complain.

I have been making some fab art for our bare walls at home and offered the limited edition prints for sale.

My Dad started his Chemo today too, so I have not been sleeping too good, thinking about that. He is fine though, and I am glad that they have finally started to do something for him.

To cheer me up, my husband is taking us camping on Friday, bit of fresh air and change of scenery will work wonders.

Right, got to get 3 uniforms ready for school tomorrow and get some shut eye!!

Laurie x