Oh what a fantastic week we have just had.  It has been one of the most fun ones of the whole six weeks break I think.  

On Monday, Arwen & I spent the day with her friend Louise & her mum/my friend Liz at Cart Gap beach.  The girls had a whale of a time in the sea while Liz & I enjoyed just sitting on the sanding chatting & watching them have fun.






On Tuesday, we took a trip to Orford in Suffolk to visit the castle keep that is there.  We also walked round the village and went down to the quay.  It is such a pretty little village, very much a fishing village.  The keep was amazing and Billy treated Arwen to a longsword :)  

On the way back, we drove past the biggest field of sunflowers.  Sunflowers are my favourite flower of all so naturally I made Billy stop the car so I could take photo's :)

Wednesday, well Wednesday, as anyone who knows me will tell you isn't my favourite day of the week,  was spent in two halves.  In the morning, I will admit that I was a big grouch and that is how I usually am on Wednesday mornings as it's my designated housework day and I hate doing housework!  Well, that's not entirely true, I hate the thought of doing it which makes me a big grouch but once I am doing it and I can see the results, I start feeling ok again.  In the afternoon, I took our hound Marley to the local woods with Arwen, Asha and our friend Jen.  We love going here, such a beautiful place.  Arwen & Jen walked the entire way round sword fighting with sticks - well, when Marley wasn't trying to grab them that is :)

Thursday was spent at home relaxing, well for a little while anyway.  After lunch, I decided to take a trip to Redwings, a rescue centre for horses & donkeys.  It wasn't very big so we only spent a hour or so walking round, but it was lovely just to get out of the house.

And then yesterday, another fun filled day spent with friends.  Arwen & I went to the Hillside Animal & Shire Horse Sanctuary with Arwen's friend Savannah & her mum/my friend Jo.  Hillside is so much bigger than Redwings but every bit as lovely.  It's reasonably priced too, it cost £10 for Arwen & I, plus she got to adopt one of the animals there for free for a whole year as part of the admission price.  We went last year and she adopted William, the huge gentle giant of a shire horse.  This year she chose Katy the Pony.  We were there for hours and had such a fab time.  The girls loved every minute of it :)

 So, yes, definitely a really good week :)