Monthly Archives: July 2011

It’s a knockout

The sun was out, the sky was blue, there’s not a cloud to spoil the view and the kids were out on thw running track taking part in a big “It’s a knockout” event. After 45mins of messing about and patiently sitting in the late evening sun, the time came to represent their house in… Read More »

Near death experience in the Royal Oak

I had been at work for over 12 hours and desperate to get home but reliant on one of the drivers to take me and Joe and Phil, we didn’t arrive back at our boarding house until 8:45pm. It had been a hard day so I decided to join Terry and Nikki who were having… Read More »

The class of 2011

For those of you who are interested inwhat I am doing down in Somerset I will give you the low-down on today’s trip to the National Trust gardens at Stourhead. I’m not sure where Stourhead is but it took 40 minutes or thereabouts to get there. My class were really hacked off because they wanted… Read More »

Heathrow security lapse

I had a ticket from Heathrow to Edinburgh and arrived in plenty of time. Entering security I had to take all my make-up out of the spongebag and put it in a clear bag. They conviscated my deoderant, made me take my belt off, remove my shoes, take out my laptop and iPod from my… Read More »

Candy Floss

The Millfield “village fete” had to take place in the tennis centre as rain was forecast. The duties were posted up and I found myself assigned to the candy floss and popcorn stall with Laura, one of the activity staff. Getting there a bit early I had an intensive training session which lasted about 1… Read More »

Somerset peace and quiet

Seeking some solitude from my hyperactive house mates I decided to go for a walk along the road and see what was around the village. Dipping up a back lane the hedges were bursting with summer flowers, rabbits were out in force nibbling on the grass in the warm glow of the setting sun casting… Read More »

Trip to Wells

I knew there was a cathedral in Wells and on my day off I got a bus from Street and 40 minutes later I was in Wells. Walking up the High Street I turn the corner and was presented with the magnificence of the cathedral. Inside, the cathedral begged 6 pounds from each visitor as… Read More »

Arrival at Millfield

After my hospitalisation on Wednesday, Thursday saw me much strenghtened and en-route to Street in Somerset for the Millfield summer school. The taxi picked me up at Castle Cary train station and by the time I had arrived at the school I knew all about my driver. A summary would be… he had been adopted… Read More »

My hospital visit

I hadn’t slept at all well and had broken out into a sweat during the night. In the morning I thought I felt ill because I had not had enough sleep. I got into town and to the Shrewsbury Coffeehouse near the station where I met up with Steve and had a coffee. I was… Read More »

I am now a professional artist

Polly persauded me that I should take my plaster of paris sculptures that I did a couple of years ago to the art gallery in Caersws to see whether they would like to exhibit them. I was very reluctant because I had not shown them to anyone other than my family and they are always… Read More »