What do you think of when you see the words family holidays? For me, it’s memories of the seaside at North Yorkshire (usually Scarborough, Filey, that bit of coastline) and staying in a static caravan with my parents and my younger sister. It’s cheesy cabaret and costumed entertainers. It’s swimming pools with slides and flying…
Viva Las Vegas!
When Dan’s sister Sara announced that she was thinking about getting married in the USA way back in January, I just knew we had to be there. Wedding! America! Las Vegas! Holiday! The chance to bundle all those things together in one convenient trip! August seemed so far away when we booked the flights and…
Summer Stress
I’ve been a very, very busy Batlady over the past few weeks… My current time-eaters are BlytheCon UK, preparing for Las Vegas, chasing Dan’s passport application (so much stress with this one!) and some other fiddly bits and pieces. The humid awful heat is NOT on my side either – I cannot tolerate being stressed…
Winter Weekend in Scotland
Hello! It really must look like all I do is go on holiday this year… every time I come to write anything here it ends up being about some weekend jaunt I’ve been on, and this time is no exception. Catherine and I used up our remaining holiday days from work to go on a…