28th May 2011

Time to leave Cornwall today but our holiday is not quite over yet as we're staying overnight with my parents in Dorset to break the journey. We arrived early afternoon and later on we were treated to some of Mum's homemade lemon cake - yum!

21st May 2011

Today we drove down to Cornwall for the start of a week's holiday. We stopped to see some friends on the way down so we didn't get to our cottage until late afternoon, but rather nicely we were greeted with a cream tea to tuck in to.

9th February 2011

Another postcard from my parents arrived today - we've got quite a collection now. They've been away for less than a month and already we've got cards from Singapore, Perth, Sydney and Ayers Rock.

5th February 2011

Today we drove down to Dorset to catch-up with our friend, Liz, who is house-sitting for my parents whilst they're on their round-the-world jaunt. In lazy mode we opted for Chinese takeaway for tea tonight, including duck which Mr W offered to shred for us - it seems though he was more intent on eating it all himself!

20th January 2011

It's always nice to catch up with friends and this evening we went out for dinner with Juliet and Lindsey, who we met whilst on holiday in Turkey last summer. Sadly the weather wasn't quite as warm and sunny in London this evening as it was when we were in Turkey, but the company was still good!

11th September 2010

The holiday is definitely over - this is our huge pile of washing to be done...

1st September 2010

Years ago when I went to Florida with my parents it seemed that we ate breakfast at Denny's nearly every day. So this morning I took Stephen to the South Lake Tahoe one to relieve the experience and see whether it was as good as I remembered. I didn't have the pancakes but they do do a pretty good omelette.

28th August 2010

After a couple of weeks of miserable weather, the sky has finally turned blue again on the day we're leaving the country...

Rather cheating on the picture a day thing, but thought these sea lions lounging about on the dock by Pier 39 in San Francisco were rather cute and so decided to break the rules...

26th August 2010

This is another rare sight in our house - still over a day until we go on holiday and my suitcase is packed, in fact it has been packed since last weekend. Normally I have a last minute panic the night before we're due to leave so feeling very proud of myself this time round!

1st August 2010

It's summer, we're on holiday, we're in England so of course the sun isn't shining, but who cares we're going to the beach and we're going to have fun! 

29th July 2010

It's definitely rather geeky but one of my favourite places for lunchtime browsing is the map shop just round the corner from my office. It's especially good when you actually have a holiday coming up and want to find a good map or travel guide to take with you.  Today was one of those days and I came home with this road map of California for our upcoming American adventure.

27th July 2010

These are my new shoes. I bought them today to take on our California holiday so that I have some sensible footwear for walking in Yosemite without having to lug my heavy walking boots all the way there. Only trouble is my Mum already has her eyes on them and wants me to take them when we go down at the weekend so she can try them on!

14th July 2010

When I came home from work the other day I got a letter saying I'd won on the Premium Bonds.  Not enough to pay for our holiday but a nice surprise anyhow.  I finally got round to paying my winnings into the bank today and unusually rather than a cheque you get sent a warrant which you have to sign before banking.  If I was astute I'd probably re-invest it, however it's far more fun to go shopping!

10th July 2010

We've been talking about doing a fly-drive holiday to California for ages. Today we finally went and booked it.  I'm so excited!