Holiday!!

Its taken me a while to get round to posting about our week in Derbyshire. So much to sort out when we got home on Wednesday and then we were off to County Scout Camp on Friday!!!
I'm totally exhausted but loved every minute of it. William and David came too and Tom was there as an Explorer rather than his Young Leader role.
It was unbelievably hot and sunny, with loads of different activities for the kids including many different crafts, archery, inflatable slide and Zorbs (human hamster balls!),water sports and a Back to Basics section. Tremendous fun. Something for everyone!
I had a great time as part of the leader team and made some great new friends.
Now its home for a few days befroe we are off to HESFES so I thought I'd better get around to posting some of the pics from holiday.
We stayed at an old familiar campsite. A small one with no facilities to speak of a few miles from Matlock Bath.
It is owned by different people than when we last stayed 5 years ago, and they were lovely. They brought the place alive for me. It was an old couple before and they kept themselves very much to themselves, but Helen was a real feature of the holiday, especially for me! We seemed to hit it off and spent quite a bit of time chatting about things (more about that another time) and it felt as if I had known for years!
The campsite has beautiful views and is one of the reasons why I love it so much.....


























And I came home to pick these....
starwberries, potatoes, some broad beans and even a couple of pea pods despite the sparrow population doing all the they can to prevent there being a pea harvest at all!!!




One giant strawberry ....
And a pot of home made strawberry jam!!! YUMMY!


Right, off to do the washing and such like before it decides to rain xx