Back to civilisation

We've survived our first camping/festival trip as a family. We went to The End of the Road Festival this year http://www.endoftheroadfestival.com/ ..taking Amie out of school a few hours early, and bringing Barnaby Bear with us into the bargain. (This bear belongs to her class and gets taken on days out and photographed at various places.. luckily he had space in his diary to come with us)

Unfortunately I couldn't find the camera, so we had to go old school with a disposable one. I will scan in some pictures if they are worth looking at. I couldn't get out of the habit of staring at the back of the camera after I took the shot to see what it looked like.

Whats to be said of doing festivals with small kids.. well in general the kids really seemed to enjoy it. And at this one there was a lot of entertainment laid on for them.. puppet shows (they sat through 2 a day), cinema in the morning, circus workshops, craft make and take, face painting.,.not to mention the freedom and pleasure of just running about in a field all day playing with random other children.There were some really nice bands (for us )playing for grown ups. . not that we got near enough to them to really enjoy it. BUT we did pitch our tent right beside the main stage, so we got to enjoy the later bands even as we were tucked up in our tent from 8pm at night.

I've just spent 2 days in wellies, my body refuses to do all but the most basic of functions in portaloos, and we had to queue for 20 minutes in the rain to have a shower in the morning. Add to that the joy of waking up this morning to a wet tent, INSIDE, due to condensation and you can be pretty sure that as nice as the weekend was.. I'm sure happy to be back, so are my bowels. But lets not discuss that in great detail. There's only so much a body on a veggie diet consisting mostly of beans and chilli can take.